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US To Step Up Deportation Flights For Migrants Stranded At Texas Bridge
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The migrants who poured into the city, many of them Haitian, were being held in an area controlled by US Customs and Border Protection (CBP) beneath the Del Rio International Bridge.
The United States said Saturday it would ramp up deportation flights for thousands of migrants who flooded into the Texas border city of Del Rio, as authorities scramble to alleviate a burgeoning crisis for President Joe Biden's administration.
The migrants who poured into the city, many of them Haitian, were being held in an area controlled by US Customs and Border Protection (CBP) beneath the Del Rio International Bridge, which carries traffic across the Rio Grande river into Mexico.
Video footage showed thousands of people under and around the bridge and more walking across the river, clutching their belongings.
Del Rio Mayor Bruno Lozano told reporters there were over 14,000 migrants "waiting to be detained." He added that both local and federal authorities were dispatching personnel, buses and aircraft as part of the operation.
