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(Most of the Haitian illegal aliens who crossed the Rio Grande to Del Rio had been granted asylum by Brazil or Chile. They had been living in South America for many years. THEY LEGALLY DO NOT QUALIFY AS REFUGEES ACCORDING TO U.S. LAW. Yet, the illegitimate Biden regime has let thousands of them stay in the U.S.)

EXCLUSIVE: Thousands of Haitian migrants who flocked to Del Rio were already working and living comfortably as refugees in CHILE and only set off for the US after Biden scrapped Trump-era deportation policy

The 15,000 Haitians who turned up in Del Rio did not come from Haiti - they came from mostly Chile
Chile is the wealthiest country in Latin America where they have been living in modest comfort in Santiago and São Paulo for the past five or six years
They traveled up from South America through Colombia, Panama, Costa Rica, Nicaragua, Honduras and Guatemala before landing in a camp across the Mexican border in Tapachula.
'When Biden got in, word went out and they decided, we're coming now. That was the decision point,' says migration expert Todd Bensman
'Joe Biden opened the border so we decided we could upgrade our lifestyle,' the migrants told him
They flocked to the entry point at Del Rio International Bridge in Texas after hearing they could cross the border there for free
Todd Bensman, of the Center for Immigration Studies, said the lack of smuggling fees has made Del Rio crossing the cheapest on the border

The thousands of Haitians who have turned up in Del Rio, Texas didn't migrate from Haiti at all but from Chile, where they had been granted asylum and were working and living comfortably as refugees.

The dozens of Chilean identity cards that litter the ground in Ciudad Acuña, just across the Rio Grande from Del Rio, all bear distinctly non-Hispanic names.

There is Prosper Pierre for instance, or Linode Lafleur or Eddyson Jean-Charles. None of the cards carries a name such as Gonzalez or Muñoz or Rojas.

These are the discarded ID cards of Haitians who have turned up in Del Rio by the thousands.

But they haven't come from Port-au-Prince or Cap-Haïtien or any other city in the poorest nation in the Western Hemisphere. These have mainly come from Santiago, the glittering capital of relatively prosperous Chile. Many had jobs there.

'As one put it to me, "I love Chile, it's 1,000 times better than Haiti," migration expert Todd Bensman of the Center for Immigration Studies told DailyMail.com.

'But I want to come to the United States, that's a million times better.'

The majority of the Haitian migrants have come from Chile - the wealthiest country in Latin America - and Brazil - the fifth wealthiest - where they have been living in modest comfort in Santiago and São Paulo for the past five or six years.

There are an estimated 150,000 Haitians in Chile and around 125,000 in Brazil - tiny fractions of the two million that live in the United States.

But as US immigration rules became tougher, people desperate to leave the impoverished island began to look to South America as a haven.

Bensman revealed that he has not met any Haitian in Del Rio or Acuña who has come directly from their Caribbean-island homeland.

'None of these Haitians are from Haiti. None of them. These Haitians are all from Chile and Brazil,' he said.

'When Biden got in, word went out and they decided, we're coming now. That was the decision point. I've interviewed 60 to 70 Haitians over the last year and it's always the same story – Joe Biden opened the border so we decided we could upgrade our lifestyle.

'I interviewed a guy an hour ago who said he was living in Brazil and making good money but he said he heard everyone was getting into America so he came.'

The immigrants traveled up from South America on a path that took them through Colombia, Panama, Costa Rica, Nicaragua, Honduras and Guatemala before landing in a camp across the Mexican border in Tapachula.

There they stayed at the behest of the Biden administration who pressured Mexican authorities not to let them come further north.

That was until Sunday September 12, when Mexico suddenly said they are free to go, said Bensman.

So they headed for the United States. Del Rio was the destination of choice because unlike most other places on the border the local branch of the Los Zetas cartel allows them to cross for free, DailyMail.com has learned.

In most Mexican frontier towns, coyotes charge fees of up to $10,000 per head to smuggle people across the border.

But Del Rio is different, and by last weekend, just a week after they were freed from Tapachula, thousands had camped out under the Del Rio International Bridge - overwhelming the city of just 35,000 people.

A miles-long steel barrier of state-owned vehicles was put in place on Wednesday to physically keep the immigrants - who had dumped their identity cards at the border so US authorities would not know where their journey had started — from getting away from the border.

Speaking exclusively to DailyMail.com, Bensman – who has spent the past week with the Haitians in Ciudad Acuña – said the absence of smuggling fees made the Del Rio sector the cheapest on the border.

'The cartel landscape is not the same in Del Rio as it is in Rio Grande Valley and other parts of Arizona and California. It's different everywhere.

'In this sector, there's never really been cartel human smuggling on the same scale – I'm sure you can find a coyote here if you need one.

'People just cross on their own and make their way into the US without paying anyone. You'll pay further south in Texas but if you come through here, you pay nothing.

'It's cheaper. It's a lot cheaper. It's life-changing cheaper.' (read more)

See also: So how did 15,000 Haitians suddenly find their way to Del Rio, Texas?

See also: Haitian deportees BITE ICE agents and assault pilots on deportation flights back to Port-au-Prince

"May 22 2021: Department of Homeland Security announces Haitians in US will be granted Temporary Protection Status (TPS), meaning they can't be deported and can apply for documentation that allows them to work.

"A statement on the Department of Homeland Security's website stipulates that the TPS rule only applies to Haitians already in the United States when the announcement was made in May, and that Haitians who subsequently tried to travel to the US would not be allowed to benefit from the new rule."

Asked by @ABC‘s @CeciliaVega, Jen Psaki follows the lead of DHS Secretary Mayorkas in refusing to say how many Haitians have been deported, processed, and allowed to stay in the U.S. pic.twitter.com/wXahF8aozB

— Curtis Houck (@CurtisHouck) September 22, 2021

NEW: This is what it looks like under the international bridge in Del Rio this morning. Latest numbers as of 6 AM.

6,722 migrants
4,742 family units
1,489 single adult men
418 single adult females
73 family “groups”

300+ pregnant women here as of yesterday.@FoxNews pic.twitter.com/xbR2tNj9XT

— Bill Melugin (@BillFOXLA) September 22, 2021

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