DEL RIO, Texas—The United States has deported over 1,000 Haitians who streamed into this small border city, but officials are refusing to say how many others have been released into America’s interior. The number of illegal immigrants, primarily from Haiti, rapidly built up under the international bridge near the border last week, at one point topping 14,000. The quick jump sparked the deployment of over 600 agents and officers and repatriation flights to Haiti. U.S. officials have since moved over 6,500 from Del Rio to other parts of the border in an attempt to alleviate pressure. Approximately 1,083 have been deported back to Haiti on nine flights through Sept. 21, a Department of Homeland Security (DHS) spokesperson told The Epoch Times in an email. Others are being released into the interior. How many is unclear, because DHS officials aren’t saying. The same spokesperson refused to answer questions about those being released, …
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