Officials using steel barrier of vehicles to keep out Haitian migrants

Contributing sentiments towards policy:

51% : They bought tickets for a bus ride to the Gulf coast state of Veracruz, planning to continue to Tapachula where they had already applied for asylum.
50% : The second official said the plan was to move to Tapachula all Haitians who already solicited asylum in Mexico.
48% : Republicans say administration policies led Haitians to believe they would get asylum.
48% : The Haitian migrants who are already in Mexico's detention centers and have not requested asylum will be the first to be flown directly to Haiti once Mexico begins those flights, according to the official.
47% : Under Title 42, migrants can be repatriated to their home nations without the possibility of requesting asylum due to the COVID-19 pandemic.
45% : Abbott has also flooded Del Rio with law enforcement officials to stem the flow of migrants, with both he and Department of Homeland Security Secretary Alejandro Mayorkas claiming Tuesday that the border area has been successfully sealed-off.
45% : The releases were occurring despite the signaling of a massive effort to expel the migrants on flights to Haiti under pandemic-related authority that denies them an opportunity to seek asylum.
44% : This overhead photo shows some of the hundreds of Texas state SUVs used to form a de-facto steel barrier along the United States-Mexico border in Del Rio, Texas
42% : But since these nations have been ravaged by the COVID-19 pandemic, many Haitians have traveled up through South America and Mexico to seek asylum in the US.
40% : Deportation flights to Haiti begin, with 327 people flown out of the USSeptember 20: Border Patrol officials continue bussing Haitians away from Del Rio, with a further 233 deported.
38% : Republicans blame the pause on deportation flights on the surge in Haitians crossing into the US, arguing that this led Haitians to believe they would get asylum in America - when in fact it only applies to Haitians already residing in the US.
34% : The governor also criticized the Biden administration for not doing enough to secure the border and said the state of Texas would step up and add $2 billion toward border security funding, the Washington Post reported.

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