White House Confirms It’s ‘Working’ With Texas Officials to Prepare for Another Wave of Haitian Illegal Immigrants

An estimated 60,000 Haitians are heading to the border

Illegal immigrants take supplies back and forth between Acuña, Mexico, and the United States (far side) across the Rio Grande, the international boundary with Mexico, in Acuña, Mexico, on Sept. 20, 2021. Charlotte Cuthbertson/The Epoch Times

The White House confirmed it is helping Texas authorities prepare for a surge of tens of thousands of Haitians who are heading to the U.S.–Mexico border.

“As you can imagine, we’re working with the leaders in the region on this issue of migrants coming to the border, but we do have a system in place that we’re going to continue to follow,” White House deputy press secretary Karine Jean-Pierre said in response to a question during a briefing on Tuesday. “We continue to have the push factors in telling folks, ‘This is not the time to come,’ and we’re going to continue to do what we’ve been doing in the past.”