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Without basic conditions: Thousands of immigrants are stuck under a bridge in Texas

The U.S. will begin flying immigrants back to their countries of origin after more than 10,000 people, mostly from Haiti, crowded into an makeshift camp on a bridge connecting a border town to Mexico. Hundreds of agents will be sent to the border

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Sunday, 19 September 2021, 12:32 Updated: 12:48

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In video: More than 10,000 immigrants stranded on Texas bridge (Photo: Reuters)

Authorities in the United States began evacuating thousands of migrants over the weekend under the bridge that connects the Texas-Mexico border town, following the difficulty of providing them with proper food and hygiene conditions.

More than ten thousand people, many of them immigrants from Haiti, have gathered in recent days under a bridge connecting the town of Del Rio, Texas, to the city of Ciudad Aconia in Mexico. On Friday, about 2,000 of them were transferred to immigration and absorption centers, and the U.S. administration plans to return the migrants on flights to their countries of origin. First flight is expected to take off today (Sunday), while Washington is in talks with the relevant states.

Haitian Prime Minister Ariel Henry yesterday expressed his support for the immigrants, saying "arrangements have been made" to get them back. However, some immigrants say they are afraid to return to their country, which has been suffering from a severe political crisis since the assassination of the president last month.

"In Haiti, there is no security," Fabricio Jean, 38, who is in the camp with his wife and two daughters, told the Associated Press.

"The country is in a political crisis."

"People are killing each other in Haiti, there is no justice," said another immigrant, 29-year-old Stalin Jean, a father of two.

"I want to live a calm life without problems, I want to live in a place where I know there is justice," he told the Texas Tribune.

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Authorities are having a hard time providing them with food.

Immigrants under a bridge in Texas (Photo: Reuters)

The United States Department of Homeland Security said in a statement that the transfer of immigrants would continue "to ensure that illegal immigrants are quickly transferred to detention, absorbed and expelled from the United States in accordance with our law and policies." It was also reported that the Customs and Border Police would send 400 more agents to Del Rio, where about 35,000 residents live.

Del Rio Mayor Bruno Luzano declared a state of emergency and described the situation as "unprecedented" and "surrealistic." According to him, the Border Guard does not cope with the load and the "agitated" immigrants live in impossible conditions.

The makeshift camp in Del Rio has few basic services, and migrants who waited in 37-degree heat crossed the river back to Mexico to get supplies. The migrants are mostly from Haiti, and many left their country after the devastating earthquake that destroyed the island in 2010. A large proportion of them lived in Brazil or other countries in South America and traveled north after failing to obtain work or legal status.

In addition to them, immigrants from Cuba, Peru, Venezuela and Nicaragua are staying in the camp.

Many of the immigrants passed through butchers to reach the United States, when they were forced to cross on foot the thick jungle that separates Panama and Colombia.

Immigrants live in impossible conditions (Photo: Reuters)

More than 200,000 immigrants arrested on Mexican border in July, for the first time in 21 years (Photo: Reuters)

The United States government has reported an increase in the number of immigrants crossing the border with Mexico since the beginning of the year.

This coincides with the change of administration in Washington and the attempt by Democratic President Joe Biden to differentiate parts of his predecessor's rigid immigration policy in the role of Donald Trump.

According to official figures, the number of immigrants arrested at the border in July exceeded 200,000, for the first time in 21 years.

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