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The number as dropped considerably in the last 24 hours. there are at last check about 9,000 migrants beneath that border bridge. that number has dropped from a combination of things. 24/7 bussing to other processing centers by the border patrol in addition to those flights that will only ramp up in the coming days going from san antonio, texas, to port-au-prince, haiti. we know over the weekend about 300 migrants were flown back home. each of these planes only carries about 135 people at a time. you still have this massive task that's equal parts humanitarian and equal parts immigration, tryi...

Exactly what is going on there. but human beings should never be treated that way. and i'm deeply troubled about it and i'll also be talking to secretary mayorkas today. >> morgan chesky is at the border for us in del rio. >> reporter: good afternoon. and we are experiencing just a brief break from the triple digit temperatures that have been plaguing this area for the better part of the past week making it even tougher beneath that border bridge not too far away from where i'm standing. but it is still very much a fluid and dire situation. at last check about 9,000 migrants, mostly haitian me...

Camp where about 15,000 migrants, mostly haitian, are staying. nbc's morgan is near the camp. >> reporter: craig, progress is coming here in del rio, but it is taking time that is incredibly valuable, especially in conditions like this with temperatures soon to approach 100 degrees today. 9,000 migrants still huddling in the shade beneath that border bridge not too far away from where i'm standing. dhs stressing not everyone is being deported here despite flights ramping up from del rio from san antonio back to port-au-prince, haiti. they're also pointing to the fact that thousands have alread...

Haitians and some haitian families for deportation. joining me now from del rio, nbc news correspondent morgan chesky. morgan, look, the deportation flights started sunday. but in the meantime, is there any improvement on the ground in those conditions? >> reporter: that will depend on who you ask, chris. we have seen drastic changes in the last 48 hours. the first starting with the shutting down of that border bridge from del rio, texas, into ciudad akunya right across the river. they said they did that to get better control of what was under the bridge. that crowd tripling in size in just a ...

Bridge tonight a surge of federal agents are heading in, and we now know more about the administration's 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 chance to claim asylum. >> we need the administration, secretary mayorkas, the president, the vice p...