NOTE: This is Part 2 of the story of the Haitian migrants in Del Rio, TX. I broke this post into two sections because there are many flights with specific timelines that need to be examined. Part 1 examined the (claimed) repatriation of 2,000 migrants back to Haiti. This will examine where 12,000+ migrants who were allowed to stay in the US while awaiting immigration hearings may have gone.
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The Del Rio, TX border crisis started in September of 2021. Del Rio is a small town/city of 35K people on the Rio Grande River.
The migrant group were primarily Haitian migrants, and the group in Del Rio grew by thousands per day until there were an estimated 15,000 people camped under the US side of the bridge that crosses the Rio Grande River into Mexico.
Then as quickly as they arrived, they disappeared. Suddenly, by September 24th , they were all gone. NBC reported the following from Sec’y Mayorkas on Friday September 23: “Of the approximately 15,000 migrants who arrived at the border in recent days,” Mayorkas said, “2,000 were returned to Haiti on 17 flights under the policy called Title 42 which was invoked at the start of the Covid-19 pandemic….. An additional 12,400 will remain in the country and have their asylum cases heard by a judge…”
Part 1 of this story examined the flight data and compared it to Sec’y Mayorkas’ claim of sending 2,000 migrants back to Haiti. While his statement doesn’t hold up against the data, that is not the “big” story in this. The larger story is what happened to 12,000+ people who were let into the US? Where did they go?
To try to determine that, I looked at the flight data from the area to see how many flights left and their destinations. Del Rio has one airport in the city, Laughlin AFB. While many military bases are being used to move migrants during this crisis along the southern border, Laughlin was not used extensively for the Haitian migrants in Del Rio. The closest commercial airport is San Antonio which is 156 miles to the east. I expanded the list to include other “nearby” airports. Keep in mind that while this was occurring in Del Rio, other border areas were continuing to deal with regular influxes of migrants and flights were moving those migrants to other parts of the country as well.
This story began to get attention on Saturday September 11, 2021, with local reporting stating that the Del Rio bridge had 2,500 Haitians under it. As discussed above, the number quickly swelled to 15,000 before the bridge encampment was removed by September 24th. The table below reflects the weekly number of flights from the Del Rio area.
With the sharp drop off in flights after the week of 10/17/21, I limited my analysis to the period from 9/4/21 through 10/22/21. In that time, as the table reflects a total of 284 Flights left the 7 airports closest to Del Rio.
It is no surprise that most of the flights went to some of the airports that are being used extensively in this migrant transfer program- Alexandria, LA, San Diego, CA and Miami, FL.
Flights take many paths in this program, some using larger airports, some flying direct, but all seem to end up at smaller regional airports in the US. This proves the point that while migrants cross into the US at the southern border, this is a national issue impacting cities and towns far removed.
One flight to Westchester, NY from the Del Rio area occurred on 9/14/21 (see below). When people in NY saw Fox News reporting on September 17, that the number of migrants “was over 11,000” did they realize that some Haitians had already been flown to Westchester? Where did they go? Who are they with now? With this Biden flight program (to steal a phrase) “all migrant issues are local issues”.
Here is a specific example of flights making a stop at one of the larger airport/hubs and then flying to another smaller location, in this case, Stewart, NY:
Examples of the direct flights to smaller locations including the September 14th flight to Westchester, NY:
Just as major airlines do not have non-stop flights to every airport they serve (flights go through centralized “hub” airports), these charters make extensive use of this process. Flights they operate cross paths with other of their flights every day.
At times it can be difficult to understand where migrants are being transported if all we see is a single plane or single route.
In the above example, one plane (iAero #N625SW) flew from Brownsville to El Paso, then back to Brownsville. We know Brownsville and El Paso are used extensively for these migrant flights, but that flight doesn’t reveal anything.
Then we see World Atlantic #N808WA landed in El Paso from Midland. It left El Paso 1-1/2 hours after the flight from Brownsville landed and flew to Jacksonville then Westchester. Suddenly we see how migrants were moved (in this case) from Brownsville to Westchester. This example is more typical of what the charter companies are doing. We have multiple examples of this, here are only a few:
Lastly there are some flights that may combine multiple of these scenarios. In the example below, 2 planes “meet” at Valley, then one of the planes “meets” another in San Diego. Were Haitians moved through Valley, then San Diego to Cincinnati? Only the Biden Administration knows for sure. But they aren’t telling us.
CONCLUSION:
In one very short period of time 15,000 migrants from a small town in Del Rio, TX suddenly disappeared into the country. The fact so many were moved so quickly should be troubling for any American. The speed of this proves how extensive the program implemented by the Biden Administration has been. This program has been in operation since at least last summer.
How many have been moved into the cities and towns where you live? What will the impacts be to state and local budgets of thousands of people being moved into these locations? Will there be other impacts that the Media won’t report on? We know that not all the migrants have come here for the “American dream”. One need only look to how MS-13 has impacted Long Island or see any of the latest statistics about fentanyl deaths in America to realize that open borders have far greater costs than the Biden Administration is acknowledging.
All of these movements of "migrants" will result in the increased costs to the local township they are moved to. School, welfare, medical costs increase where ever these "migrants" land.