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A group of Haitian migrants on Monday took over a bus being used to transport them to a different immigration processing station in Texas, before fleeing the area, sources told Fox News.
Multiple sources told Fox that the bus, traveling from Del Rio to Brownsville, was taken over by migrants who didn't want to be removed from the U.S. back to Haiti. The migrants forced their way off the bus and fled. All were later caught.
The bus is said to have been contracted by DHS and did not have law enforcement on board. National Border Patrol Council President Brandon Judd mentioned the incident at a press conference alongside Texas Gov. Greg Abbott, who called for the perpetrators to be prosecuted.
"When they found out they were going to be sent back to Haiti, they took the bus over and they fled," Judd said, praising Texas Department of Public Safety for arresting them.
"On Monday, Sept. 20, some migrants in U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) custody traveling by bus from Del Rio to Brownsville, Texas, became disruptive," a DHS spokesperson told Fox News in a statement. "As ICE law enforcement officers worked to restore order, three migrants attempted to abscond. They were immediately apprehended by ICE officers and returned to the bus, which continued to Brownsville without incident."
The spokesperson added: "ICE fully respects the rights of all people to peacefully express their opinions, while continuing to perform its immigration enforcement mission consistent with our priorities, federal law and agency policy."
The incident comes as officials on the ground are scrambling to deal with a massive surge of Haitian migrants at Del Rio. At one point, there were more than 14,000 migrants underneath the international bridge.
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DEL RIO, TEXAS - SEPTEMBER 21: A boy bathes himself with a jug of water inside a migrant camp at the U.S.-Mexico border on September 21, 2021 in Del Rio, Texas. The immigrants, mostly from Haiti have numbered as high as 14,000 at the camp located near the international bridge. Families have been living in makeshift dwellings made of tree branches and carrizo cane. U.S. immigration authorities have been deporting planeloads of them directly to Haiti while others have crossed the Rio Grande back to Mexico. (Photo by John Moore/Getty Images)