“We sounded the alarm when we should have,” Panamanian Foreign Affairs Minister Erika Mouynes told Axios, expressing frustration over the Biden administration’s lack of preparation for the wave of Haitian migrants that recently hit the U.S. southern border.

After making a big show of sending 2,276 migrants back to Haiti earlier this month, the Biden administration let the rest of the 15,000 migrants living in a shantytown under a bridge in Del Rio, Texas, into the country. The vast majority of these migrants were not even given a court date, just a Notice to Report obliging them to check in with an Immigration and Customs Enforcement office in whatever city they end up in.

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