Several Haitian migrants allowed to stay in the U.S. wait at a gas station in Del Rio, Texas for a volunteer to help them find transportation on Sep. 20, 2021. .
A gas station along Veterans Boulevard, Del Rio, Texas, serves several functions.
While patrons buy gas, lottery tickets or have their cars serviced, hundreds of Haitians recently released
from immigration authorities gather there trying to decipher the next step.
The migrants arrive after completing asylum paperwork with the U.S. Customs and Border Protection or from the Val Verde Border
Humanitarian Coalition. The latter connects migrants with relatives who will send funds for airfare or bus fare to new locations.
For many migrants, it’s a long day of trying to get answers, charging their smartphones or exchanging money or information.
Eventually, many find their way to a Greyhound bus, which arrives twice daily to pick up whoever has a ticket.
Outdoor electrical outlets allow migrants to charge their smartphones to contact relatives. Sep. 21, 2021.
Migrants wait in line for the afternoon Greyhound bus to San Antonio, where they will continue on the journey to relatives and friends throughout the U.S.-Sep. 21, 2021.
A Haitian migrant searches through his phone to find contact information for a relative in the U.S. who could take him in while he awaits an asylum hearing. Sep. 21, 2021.
A Haitian man and his family were trying to figuring out how find money for a bus ticket to San Antonio, where they will fly to Delaware and stay with relatives.
U.S. Customs and Border Protection agents drop off migrants at a local gas station, after their asylum application is initiated and they are cleared to travel to relatives in other locations.Sep. 21, 2021.
A local volunteer brings water and snacks for Haitian migrants at the station.--Sep. 21, 2021.
Many wait hours without knowing when they will find their way to relatives’ homes in the U.S.--Sep. 21, 2021.
Some of the asylum seekers were released with electronic devices. Those did had to find electrical outlets for recharging their device
A Haitian couple converse at the gas station in Del Rio, TX that functioned as transportation hub, and waiting area for many Haitian asylum seekers released in the US, on September 21, 2021.