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Migration wont end until more is done. >> reporter: ive been here in tell rio, texas for more than a week. i saw the first tents of this migrant camp go up. and then the numbers in that migrant camp, at times, swelled to about 15,000 people. now, once those numbers started to drop, we started seeing heavy machinery roll in, that happened on thursday. by friday, the entire migrant camp had been leveled. according to dhs secretary alejandro mayorkas, about 2,000 haitians were returned to their hom...

Immigration system and that is why president biden on day one sent a bill to congress to once and for all fix what everyone agrees is a broken system. >> so, mr. secretary, did i just hear you say if title 42 i believe its called, which is the health initiative, health imperative, that allows dhs to expel individuals because of covid, did i hear -- you said you wouldnt welcome that. so if the biden administration rescinded it, hhs or whoevers in charge of issuing that, that would be fine with yo...

There tracking a group of 20000 people who crossed into southern mexico in their heading north and they could arrive sometime in the next month right here anywhere on the us-mexico border. >> thank you. meanwhile an investigation is underway into the controversial images of border patrol agents on horseback chasing migrants as they try to cross into the country. president biden says those involved will pay dhs secretary mayorkas is promising an independent probe. >> what the images suggest horri...

Imperative, that allows dhs to expel individuals because of covid, did i hear you said you wouldnt welcome that. so if the biden administration rescinded it, hhs or whoevers in charge of issuing that, that would be fine with you? >> what is fine -- >> cdc. >> that, yes. so the cdc makes its determination as experts on behalf of the publics well-being from a health perspective. if they determine that the public health imperative no longer exists, and title 42, which is a statute, is a law. >> rig...

Theyre awaiting immigration hearings. this morning, dhs secretary told nbcs chuck todd u.s. laws need to change. >> i think we meet the challenges but were working in a completely broken system. and as to that, there is unanimity in washington and in the country. ive never heard anyone say that the laws in immigration are well-structured. >> nbcs guad venegas is in del rio today. >> reporter: alex, this was something that was needed, the mayor of del rio was saying they were losing $35 million a...

Responders on the ground. also amtrak says theyve got a team at the scene to fully support the ntsb as they investigate the cause of this derailment. mike? mike mike christina coleman, thanks very much. ♪ ♪ mike: so the dhs secretary revealing close to 12,000 haitian migrants are being released into the united states as president biden slams border patrol agents who confronted migrants at the border. youre looking live at our fox flight team in del rio, texas. joining us now to discuss is de...

Haitians gathered in northern colombia. 1,500 in panama and 3,000 in peru. all of them in search of the kind of life and freedoms that america sells on the world stage. its a big reason they come to the united states in the first place. and now in thousands of cases, dhs is sending them back to the place they fled, where even more natural disasters have devastated their country, where their president has been assassinated. for those two reasons alone, its clear why so many haitians are trying to...

Vice president harris was taxed with examining the route causes at the u.s./mexico border was asked if all the deportations of haitians should be halted. >> i feel strongly. the president feels strongly. weve got to do more. >> reporter: and immigration processing facilities over capacity. >> just officer 5,000 have been processed by dhs to determine whether they will be expelled or placed in immigration removal proceedings. >> reporter: our cameras capturing in the past week a free-flow of migr...

At the del rio international bridge including the photos of law enforcement on horseback using what the dhs secretary called aggressive tactics against migrants. vice president kamala harris said this. take a listen. >> human beings should not be treated that way and as we all know, it also evoked images of some of the worst moments of our history. where that kind of behavior has been used against the indigenous people of our country has been used against african-americans during times of slaver...

What they were doing was protecting those people. this administration and people within this agency cant give a honest answer and i have the president of the united states seeing these agents will pay. pay for what? they did nothing and he should look at that. he should actually speak to leadership from this agency and ask them to see the training so he knows what really happened. its all a witch hunt and its disgusting great im sick and tired of agents getting attacke for doing their job. and n...