Migrants seeking asylum at U.S. border cross Rio Grande River for supplies, food

Record ID: 1637370

  • Title: Migrants seeking asylum at U.S. border cross Rio Grande River for supplies, food
  • Date: 17th September 2021
  • Summary: ON THE BORDER BETWEEN CIUDAD ACUNA, MEXICO AND DEL RIO, TEXAS UNITED STATES (SEPTEMBER 17, 2021) (REUTERS) MIGRANTS WALKING THROUGH THE WATER OF THE RIO GRANDE RIVER, CARRYING BELONGINGS WIDE SHOTS OF PEOPLE WALKING THROUGH THE WATER OF THE RIO GRANDE GROUP WALKING ACROSS RIVER, CARRYING BELONGINGS, ONE CARRYING A CHILD VARIOUS PEOPLE CARRYING BAGS WALKING IN BOTH DIRECTIONS ACROSS THE RIO GRANDE TIGHT SHOT OF FEET, PEOPLE WALKING THROUGH WATERS OF RIO GRANDE WIDE SHOT OF PEOPLE WALKING ACROSS RIO GRANDE MEDIUM SHOT OF WOMAN WALKING ACROSS RIO GRANDE MAN RINSING LARGE CLOTH IN WATER PEOPLE CROSSING THE RIO GRANDE DEL RIO, TEXAS, UNITED STATES (SEPTEMBER 17, 2021) (REUTERS) PAN OF VARIOUS MIGRANTS UNDER BRIDGE, SHOT IN VERTICAL, PORTRAIT MODE
  • Embargoed: 1st October 2021 20:21
  • Keywords: Biden border immigration migration
  • Location: ON THE BORDER BETWEEN CIUDAD ACUNA, MEXICO AND DEL RIO, TEXAS; DEL RIO, TEXAS, UNITED STATES
  • City: ON THE BORDER BETWEEN CIUDAD ACUNA, MEXICO AND DEL RIO, TEXAS; DEL RIO, TEXAS, UNITED STATES
  • Country: Various
  • Topics: Asylum/Immigration/Refugees,Government/Politics,Editors' Choice
  • Reuters ID: LVA001EV3ZJGN
  • Aspect Ratio: 16:9
  • Story Text: Hundreds of migrants on Friday (September 17) were wading through the shallow Rio Grande River, which divides the Mexico and the United States, to stock up on essentials they say they were not receiving on the American side of the border.
    Haitians fleeing a country hammered by political turmoil and two natural disasters made up most of over 10,000 migrants sleeping on the ground and desperate for food in a squalid camp under a bridge in southern Texas, in a growing humanitarian and political challenge for U.S. President Joe Biden.
    Temperatures were forecast to stay above 100 degrees Fahrenheit (38 Celsius) in coming days.
    The U.S. Border Patrol said in a statement on Thursday it was increasing staffing in Del Rio and providing drinking water, towels and portable toilets as migrants wait to be transported to U.S. facilities.
    Biden, a Democrat who took office in January, pledged a more humane approach to immigration than that of former President Donald Trump, whose fellow Republicans seized on the camp as evidence Biden's policies were drawing more migrants.
    (Production: Go Nakamura, Deborah Lutterbeck)
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