
The surrounding town offers evidence of simmering frustration in America's migration debate. (Jennifer Barr/CBC)įamilies were sent off on buses to start new lives in the U.S. One day, border guards on horseback clutching leather reins forced migrants back to Mexico.Ĭhildren were given toys to play with Friday after leaving the now-empty migrant camp in Del Rio. The nation's internal conflict was crystallized in the contradictory images from the camp. As the Haitian migrants will soon discover, cases are badly backlogged and can drag on for years. Partisan disagreement has paralyzed efforts to modernize a plethora of programs - from work visas, to border security, to the legal status of past migrants, to the chaotic system for refugee claims. Homeland Security Secretary Alejandro Mayorkas referred Friday to long-stalled reforms. It's become a cliché at this point to call the American immigration system broken.
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He said the legacy of what's unfolded here will take a while for the U.S. Mook's team was cooking up to 20,000 meals a day before the camp emptied out by Friday.

They’re preparing to leave on buses, as they’re among the group of thousands of migrants from the nearby camp being allowed to stay in the U.S. It's horrible.… It's inhuman," he said Thursday, before the camp was emptied.Ī man and child outside a makeshift centre for processing migrants in Del Rio, Texas, near the Mexican border on Friday. "I cried," said Theova Milfort, a Haitian American activist who was allowed in the camp with an invitation from the local municipality. Witnesses described distressing scenes inside the camp, which was heavily fortified and surrounded by a walled perimeter. has seen a migration surge all year driven by political and non-political factors. It left indelible images: of the camp in the U.S., of border agents on horseback, of people collapsing under scorching heat.Ī record number of refugees around the world are being displaced by wars, poverty and natural disasters, with climate change one contributing factor. The working-class border town of Del Rio became the flashpoint in the country's years-old immigration battle. It's kind of like I'm being a hypocrite.… It's kind of weird. "Because now it's like family and the rules have changed. "It's not easy," Kroeger said of trying to reconcile his conflicting feelings. to seek asylum or were still being screened.

Thousands were deported but more than half were allowed into the U.S. About 30,000 people, mostly Haitians, arrived there near the Mexican border before they were all moved elsewhere over the course of the week. He arrived at a historic scene near the Mexican border - a makeshift refugee camp, inside the United States, on a scale described by federal officials as unprecedented. They’ve come in with a really good attitude, wanting to get better, wanting to work at their craft, and so that part I’m proud of these guys.An overhead shot of the massive camp under the Del Rio International Bridge in Texas. What I’m very impressed with with our team is our ability to bounce back and bounce back both times that those two things have happened. We’ve lost a game on the last-second field goal, we lost the game in overtime and those are tough losses to endure. “I think we’re playing really good football sometimes in game better than others. “Might have been you actually that asked me about, are we a better team this year than we were a year ago and I do believe we are,” Sarkisian said on Saturday. Only the plus-two turnover margin, 1.3 above expected, and the 6-of-8 effort on fourth downs were enough to propel Joey McGuire’s team to an improbable victory. How wonky was the loss to the Red Raiders? Texas Tech had a 2.4-percent win expectancy with a projected margin of Texas victory by 16.6 points. It might look weird, but the Horns have been phenomenal on paper,” Connelly writes. 1 overall team and a loss to Texas Tech that SP+ viewed as one of the least-likely losses of the season. “Meanwhile, Texas will play Oklahoma next week in the Red River Rivalry, with its own rating having leaped to fifth overall thanks to three resounding wins, an ultracompetitive loss to the No. 35 special teams, one spot ahead of Oklahoma and ranking as one of only three teams in the top 20 (Baylor at No.

In Bill Connelly’s SP+ rankings, that’s also where Texas sits with the No. KFord Ratings by Winning Edge by /mVuVePnino- Nate Manzo October 5, 2022 Texas is back?įEI by by by by the ESPN Analytics Team
