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Val Verde county sheriff Joe Frank Martinez said Border Patrol officials are “overwhelmed” trying to process the thousands of immigrants waiting near Del Rio.
“They just can’t process them fast enough, so there’s a backlog of these individuals underneath the bridge,” Martinez told the Texas Tribune.
Karen Olick, chief of staff to Department of Homeland Security Secretary Alejandro Mayorkas, announced Monday that she will be leaving for an undisclosed opportunity.
Jennifer Higgins, the current associate director of Refugee, Asylum and International Operations at U.S. Citizenship and Immigration Services, will step in as a temporary chief of staff until a new appointment is made, according to officials in the department. Olick plans to leave DHS at the end of the month.
