Pictures showing U.S. Customs and Border Patrol agents chasing Haitian migrants at the U.S.-Mexico border on horseback are "Horrific," White House press secretary Jen Psaki said, adding more information on the situation is needed.
CBP agents charged migrants carrying only food and water and the clothes on their backs as they tried to scramble onto the U.S. side of the river.
"Let's go! Get out now! Back to Mexico!" agents shouted.
A camp of over 10,000 migrants who crossed the Rio Grande at a low point between Ciudad Acuña, Mexico and Del Rio, Texas, have been waiting beneath the international bridge in Del Rio to open an asylum claim.
Homeland Security Secretary Alejandro Mayorkas told reporters Monday that CBP is working with Immigration and Customs Enforcement and the U.S. Coast Guard to move migrants to other processing locations for removal.
Title 42 allows CBP to expel undocumented migrants to prevent the spread of COVID-19.
Campbell vehemently disagreed with the deportation of Haitian migrants.
