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Was a letter that just recently retired u.s. border patrol chief rodney scott wrote to our committee, to the heads of the committee and leadership of the senate that says secretary mayorkas and other appointees in dhs have provided incorrect information to congressional representatives and the american public. they are lying to us. to say that our border is closed is a lie. it is a fantasy land. they are denying reality. if they are denying reality to the point its dangerous for this nation. chi...

Details. and certainly i dont have additional context. i dont think nunanyone that s that footage thinks its acceptable or appropriate. >> somebody did, right? because thats how they decided to deal with the situation. the question becomes get to the bottom of it. find out who said it was okay. why was it okay? tell us. the statement from dhs says they dont quote or tolerate the abuse of migrants in our custody and we take these allegations very serious. they also say theyre investigating and wi...

Reflections, this is a case of an officer losing his temper, losing his control. the secretary of homeland security spoke with our colleague, brianna keilar, this morning on "new day," providing his reflections about what he saw in that video. take a listen. >> any mistreatment or abuse of a migrant is unacceptable. it is against border patrol policy, training and our departments values. we are very troubled by what we have seen. we are going to let the investigation unfold very, very quickly, d...

Of more than 20,000 haitians that have all amassed in northern colombia who may be the next group to come here. there are also more than 1,000 in panama, more than 1,000 in perú. they are also monitoring these groups to see if they may come. a big reason theyre monitoring, stephanie, is because as the secretary told morgan yesterday, this group of 15,000, largely took this country, this dhs, by surprise and how quickly they came here. usually when you have a large group its something that the a...

Men, women and children still waiting beneath that bridge with a very uncertain future. dhs is focusing on single haitian adults and families who dont claim asylum. any unaccompanied child or family claiming asylum should be able to stay in the united states. were seeing an incredible presence from state troopers on the banks of the rio grande river. it is still very much a dynamic situation with more ahead than whats already been done. >> julie, you have been reporting on the new group of migra...

9,000 migrants are still living in the shade of that border bridge not too far away from where im standing. we know that flights are expected to pick up today, both back to haiti, but also what theyre calling lateral flights and that is flying migrants to other processing centers that are currently not dealing with the overwhelmed nature that del rio is. in the meantime we are still seeing that massive law enforcement presence here, state troopers continuing to essentially park on the banks of t...

Bridge in del rio, roughly 12,000 of them. now were learning that thousands more could be on their way from colombia, from panama, from perú that could triple the number of migrants in south texas. nbcs morgan chesky is in del rio, julia ainsley covers the dhs, she broke the story about the new group of migrants that may be headed here. what can you tell us? when you think about what has happened in haiti in the last few weeks and last few years its a dire situation at home for them. >> reporte...

Group. even after dhs handles that group that morgan is reporting on, there could be others coming, primarily because of the unrest in haiti and a lot of the economic opportunities that have dried up for these migrants who left haiti some year ago to go to central and south america. now theyre left with little work and no place to call home. this might not be the end of this haitian immigration crisis were seeing. its something we know dhs is carefully monitoring, because this group right here r...

Weekend and prevent more from coming in. you also hear some verbal harassment there. theres a lot of terrible things theyre saying about haitians, about their country, about the way they treat women. theres a lot to be investigated here. the office of professional responsibility, the internal watchdog in dhs, is taking a look at this footage to see what might have happened here and if any of these officers do need to be reprimanded or taken out of their jobs. >> as were having this conversation,...

Lets go to correspondent julia ainsley. julia, you have new reporting that there is a new group of 20,000 migrants gathering in columbia that may make a similar trip to the border. what do you know about this group? >> they are monitoring this group. they have a massed in columbia with the intent to potentially come to the united states. thats normally what happens when we see a large group. there is a caravan in the past in places like central america, and then it can take a long time to come t...