{"id":242873,"date":"2021-09-19T07:32:59","date_gmt":"2021-09-19T07:32:59","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/?p=242873"},"modified":"2021-09-20T11:52:40","modified_gmt":"2021-09-20T11:52:40","slug":"biden-is-handling-the-border-crisis-as-badly-as-afghanistan-texas-gov-abbott-slams-president-for-sparking-border-surge","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/?p=242873","title":{"rendered":"&#8216;Biden is handling the border crisis as badly as Afghanistan&#8217;: Texas Gov. Abbott slams president for sparking border surge"},"content":{"rendered":"<h1 style=\"text-align: center;\"><strong>Texas Gov. Abbott slams president for ending deportation flights to Haiti a week ago &#8211; sparking border surge with 12,000 Haitian now living under squalid bridge<\/strong><\/h1>\n<ul>\n<li><strong>The Texas governor announced he was sending National Guard troops to &#8216;deter crossings&#8217; at ports Thursday<\/strong><\/li>\n<li><strong>Abbott said he was shutting down six ports of entry &#8211; before backtracking and accusing the Biden administration of &#8216;flip-flopping&#8217; on its efforts to &#8216;secure the border&#8217;\u00a0<\/strong><\/li>\n<li><strong>CBP said Texas does not have the authority to shutter the ports and did not ask the state to do so\u00a0<\/strong><\/li>\n<li><strong>Around 12,000 mostly Haitian migrants have gathered in a camp at the Del Rio bridge, Texas\u00a0<\/strong><\/li>\n<li><strong>The camp is said to have ballooned after Joe Biden paused deportation flights back to Haiti<\/strong><\/li>\n<li><strong>New aerial footage, shot by Fox News Friday, reveals streams of people continuing to enter the camp\u00a0<\/strong><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<h1 style=\"text-align: center;\"><strong>Rachel Sharp \u2013 Daily Mail Sept 17, 2021<\/strong><\/h1>\n<p>Governor Greg Abbott has slammed Joe Biden for the &#8216;complete disarray&#8217; at the US-Mexico border which has left agents &#8216;overwhelmed&#8217; as the number of Haitian migrants camped out under a bridge in Texas has now swelled to around 12,000.<\/p>\n<p>The Texas governor announced he was sending National Guard troops and officers with the Texas Department of Public Safety to the state&#8217;s ports of entry to &#8216;deter crossings&#8217; as he compared the migrant crisis to the chaotic withdrawal of US troops from Afghanistan.<\/p>\n<p>&#8216;The Biden administration is in complete disarray and is handling the border crisis as badly as the evacuation from Afghanistan,&#8217; he said.<\/p>\n<p>Abbott made the announcement Thursday, just hours after he said he was shutting down six ports of entry &#8211; before backtracking one hour later and accusing the Biden administration of &#8216;flip-flopping&#8217; on its efforts to &#8216;secure the border.&#8217;<\/p>\n<p>Around 12,000 mostly Haitian migrants have gathered at the Del Rio Port of Entry and the International Bridge in the city of Del Rio, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.dailymail.co.uk\/news\/texas\/index.html\"><strong>Texas<\/strong><\/a>, in recent days,\u00a0in a temporary camp which is said to have ballooned after\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.dailymail.co.uk\/news\/joe-biden\/index.html\"><strong>Joe Biden<\/strong><\/a>\u00a0paused deportation flights back to Haiti.<\/p>\n<p>New aerial footage, shot by <a href=\"https:\/\/www.foxnews.com\/politics\/greg-abbott-biden-administration-flip-flopped-border-closings\"><strong>Fox News<\/strong><\/a>\u00a0Friday, reveals streams of people continuing to cross over the Rio Grande river from Mexico into Texas and joining the already overflowing camp.<\/p>\n<p class=\"mol-para-with-font\">The footage was captured by Fox\u2019s national correspondent Bill Melugin from a Texas Public Safety (TPS) helicopter after the Biden administration was accused of trying to cover up the extent of the migrant crisis by issuing a flight ban over\u00a0the US-Mexico border.<\/p>\n<p class=\"mol-para-with-font\">The Federal Aviation Authority (FAA) implemented a two-week flight ban over the bridge Thursday night to stop drones capturing footage of the thousands of people living camped out under the Del Rio bridge.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.dailymail.co.uk\/news\/article-10001453\/FAA-BANS-drone-flights-showing-10K-migrants-living-filth-Del-Rio-bridge.html\">Continues \u2026<\/a><\/p>\n<h2 style=\"text-align: center;\"><strong>&#8216;Entirely Caused By Joe Biden&#8217;: Ted Cruz Releases Video Of Over 10,000 Migrants Under Del Rio Bridge<\/strong><\/h2>\n<div align=\"center\">\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"YouTube video player\" 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