Vice President Kamala Harris and the Biden administration have largely shutdown drone flights over the illegal immigrant encampment that has overwhelmed a bridge in Del Rio, Texas.
But there’s one video that’s circulating they can’t stop.
And it’s making waves because it’s by MSNBC, a cable news channel that strongly support of Democratic Party politicians.
Even the liberal media can’t help but question why Kamala has lost control of the U.S. Southern border, which she was tasked with taking charge of months ago.
“Where is she?” Stephanie Ruhle asked on Monday. “She was supposed to be in charge!”
The segment is brutal —
"How about the message from our Vice President? Where is she? She was supposed to be in charge…" – MSNBC's Stephanie Ruhle on how Kamala Harris has gone missing at our southern border. pic.twitter.com/0yRp4x0zvc
— House Republicans (@HouseGOP) September 20, 2021
For the thousands of Haitian illegal immigrants straddling the Mexico-Texas border, options have narrowed. The United States government has ramped up expulsion flights to Haiti on Tuesday and Mexico began flying and busing some away from the border.
More than 6,000 Haitians and other migrants had been removed from an encampment at Del Rio, Texas, U.S. officials said Monday.
That was enough for some Haitian migrants to return to Mexico, while others struggled to decide on which side of the border to take their chances.
Jean Claudio Charles, 34, his wife and their 1-year-old son were stretching at dawn on Tuesday after sleeping on cardboard in a park by the river with 300 others who chose to return to Mexico from the U.S. side, some for fear of being deported and others because of a lack of food.
Charles said he did not want to leave the area, which is gradually becoming a new camp on the Mexican side, for fear of arrests.
On Monday, U.S. Department of Homeland Security Secretary Alejandro Mayorkas conceded it was a “challenging and heartbreaking situation,” but he issued a stark warning: “If you come to the United States illegally, you will be returned. Your journey will not succeed, and you will be endangering your life and your family’s life.”
Mexico’s Foreign Relations Secretary, Marcelo Ebrard, said Tuesday he had spoken with his U.S. counterpart, Secretary of State Antony Blinken, about the Haitians’ situation. Ebrard said most of the Haitians already had refugee status in Chile or Brazil and most weren’t seeking it in Mexico.
“What they are asking for is to be allowed to pass freely through Mexico to the United States,” Ebrard said.
The rapid expulsions were made possible by a pandemic-related authority adopted by former President Donald Trump in March 2020 that allows for migrants to be immediately removed from the country without an opportunity to seek asylum. President Joe Biden exempted unaccompanied children from the order but let the rest stand.
Any Haitians not expelled are subject to immigration laws, which include rights to seek asylum and other forms of humanitarian protection.
Families are quickly released in the U.S. because the government cannot generally hold children, the Biden administration has admitted.
The Associated Press contributed to this article