Nearly 10,000 illegal immigrants gather at the U.S.-Mexico Border Bridge (Twitter)
According to the Us "New York Times" reported that on the 16th local time, nearly 10,000 illegal immigrants from Haiti and other countries are stranded and gathered near the US-Mexico border bridge, due to the sharp rise in the number of local refugees this week, the local government has been overwhelmed, this wave of refugees is rare in the western part of the US-Mexico border for 20 years.
On the 16th, more than 9,000 illegal immigrants gathered under the U.S.-Mexico border bridge, people were trapped in temporary refugee camps, and the open space under the bridge was covered with clothes and sheets for rest, and there were only a few tents in the crowd. Located between del Rio, Texas, and the Mexican city of Acuña, the bridge is home to refugees mainly from Latin American countries such as Haiti. Del Rio Mayor Lozano said the camp was in terrible condition, like a shantytown with a lack of drinking water and food, and only a few simple toilets.
People wading the river ashore to enter the U.S. (Twitter)
The camp's refugee population has skyrocketed in the last week, with just a few hundred at the start of the week and nearly 10,000 on Thursday. Local U.S. officials say thousands more people are expected to cross the U.S.-Mexico border river into the U.S. in the coming days. The video shows that the border river is only knee-deep, and dark-skinned refugees carrying packages and dragging their families ashore.
The governor of Texas criticized the federal government for being slow to respond to the surge in refugee flows at the border, and "the federal government was completely in a panic, dealing with border issues as badly as evacuating Afghanistan." In recent months, there have been rare waves of refugees in nearly 20 years along the western U.S.-Mexico border, with more than 200,000 illegal immigrants trying to cross the border into the United States in August alone. Haitians make up the vast majority of these, and the country experienced a presidential assassination coup and a magnitude 7.3 earthquake in July.
Column Editor-in-Chief: Gu Wanquan Text Editor: Song Hui Caption Source: Xinhua News Agency Photo Editor: Yong Kai
Source: Author: Overseas Network