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Airbnb's hopes of housing Afghan refugees. But first, Haitian migrants at the southern border

is today's one big thing. Thousands of Haitian migrants are living in a temporary encampment

under the Del Rio International Bridge at the southern border in Texas. A lot has happened

this week since the Biden administration announced it would start deporting many of these people

back to Haiti. Axios politics reporter Steph Kite has what we need to know right now. Hi, Steph.

Good morning. Let's start with the numbers. How many people have been deported back to Haiti?

As of the end of Tuesday, there were around 1100 Haitians who had arrived in Haiti who had been

deported by the US. And that number is obviously going to change very quickly. The administration has

said that they are uping the number of flights that they're sending out each day. So we're

going to see that number continue to rise. And do we know how many are still in Del Rio?

I actually spoke with Congressman Gonzalez, whose district includes Del Rio. And as of Wednesday

afternoon, there were around 5,700 migrants who were still under the bridge. Most of those have

been Haitians. Yesterday, the Associated Press reported that the US was letting some people go

instead of deporting them. What do we know about who's being released into the US?

We don't have a lot of information about who is being released at this point. It is something

that I've heard from other sources that Haitians are being released. And I think, you know, it makes

sense that they're not going to be able to deport everyone in a timely fashion that they're

going to have to release some people into communities like they have been doing for some Central

American migrants. But the administration has been pretty clear that their goal is to deport

as many Haitians as possible where they're not, you know, qualified to stay in the US where they

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