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>> reporter: tonight, the u.s. moving quickly to process thousands of migrants being held under the del rio international bridge on the texas border. >> weve never seen anything like this. this is completely and totally out of the norm of anything weve ever seen. >> reporter: dhs stepping up flights expelling migrants to haiti and other home countries. today video from our abc affiliate wplg on the ground in texas showing this deportation plane leaving del rio airport. that flight reportedly bou...

Be pandemic border is not open and people should not take the perilous journey here. we are returning people who other countries. steve: yeah, thats what he said. dhs secretary mayorkas pressed on the thousands of migrants camped under that bridge in del rio, texas he, the secretary, prepares to visit the area himself for a firsthand look. hes not going to like it. texas attorney general ken paxton joins us right now from texas. mr. attorney general, good morning. >> good morning. steve: so we j...

Of domestic and international law. this needs a course correction and the issuing of a clear directive how to humanely process asylum seekers at or borders. i want to read what the homeland of security released. we do not tolerate the abuse of migrants in our custody and we take these allegations seriously and u.s. customs and border protection responsibility is investigating the matter and has alerted the dhs office of inspector general. secretary directed personnel from the opr be on site to e...

I want to share some of the steps were taking to address the current situation here in del rio. cbp surged 600 agents, officers and volunteer force personnel to the del rio sector to enhance our operational capabilities. if additional staff is needed, more will be sent. border patrol is coordinating with ice and the u.s. coast guard to move individuals from del rio to other processing locations including approximately 3500 over the last few days and 3,000 today. in ord ir to ensure that migrants...

Border officials are overwhelmed. agents on horseback were struggling to turn away the surge of people crossing the rio grande. you might imagine president biden would be working overtime to deal with this catastrophe, and the magnitude and the scope and reach it has all over the country. but he, in fact, spent his weekend at his home in delaware taking a leisurely bike rides and hanging out at the beach. its not just him showing no sense of urgency. vice president kamala harris was at their alm...

Look how hot it is. this is usually not the month they come in. they have to deal with everything else on top of this. if there are people that should be allowed to stay -- and im not saying all 15,000 of them under the bridge are -- but they have a right to a play at that point. we cant even take the application. >> emily: of course not, and our system is already so overwhelmed that the waiting list for legitimate asylum claims are over a year. we are absolutely overburdened, and something need...

Its 200,000. that is typically a month or it is very low. those kinds of numbers and the images you just showed your audience sap and overwhelm the ability of dhs and border patrol, i.c.e., to cope with the incoming. it saps the communities on the border, the charities. we have to be something to enhance enforcement. >> harris: i want to hold out the best of thoughts that people are doing things for other reasons. maybe at the beach house of the president there is some sort of situation room whe...

They havent found it coming in nature. all of that put together is very disturbing. genetic engineering on the table. will: all very disturbing. dr. siegel, great to talk to you this morning. >> thanks will as always. will: dhs left scrambling after hundreds of migrants unindate our southern border. our next guest says the president was warned about the situation months ago the but he did nothing. his message to the administration. ast. my husband, sam, weve been married 53 years. we love to wal...

Bridge tonight a surge of federal agents are heading in, and we now know more about the administrations new strategy to get the migrants back home morgan chesky reports from del rio, texas >> reporter: beneath this border bridge in del rio, texas, a group of migrants grows by the hour the men, women, and children mostly from haiti. tonight, they number nearly 15,000, tripling in size since wednesday. all waiting in near 100-degree heat, washing clothes in the rio grande, sleeping outside for a c...

The border to alleviate this surge in migrants thats tripled since wednesday. at last count 14,000 people, mostly haitian migrants, currently living underneath the bridge behind me, and there could be more coming this way. the concern from authorities, how many more are coming, and also how quickly can they get these people to either processing centers that are not having to deal with the overcrowding like del rio is, or potentially fly them back to haiti. and what makes that interesting is that...