Thousands of predominantly Haitian migrants remained camped under a bridge in southern Texas on Saturday, as hundreds more headed toward the border a day after U.S. authorities moved some 2,000 of them to immigration processing stations.
The Department of Homeland Security said on Saturday that U.S. Customs and Border Protection would send 400 additional agents to the area by Monday morning to help speed the removal of migrants who have overwhelmed border officials in the town of Del Rio, Texas.
Such transfers will continue “in order to ensure that irregular migrants are swiftly taken into custody, processed, and removed from the United States consistent with our laws and policy,” DHS said
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