excalibur
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Absolutely no excuse for this demented action. And with a forecast for record numbers thanks to Traitor Joes©™ stupid actions all Americans should be demanding answers.
U.S. border officials have no plans for personnel on the southern border to administer coronavirus tests on migrants, which could risk the spread of the virus as thousands of families and children are released from federal custody into border communities and travel across the United States.
The Biden administration is struggling to respond to the escalating situation on the U.S.-Mexico border, where about 20,000 people were encountered illegally entering the country each week in February. Border officials are able to send adults immediately back to Mexico, but they cannot return children and some families.
Several border lawmakers are concerned that the government will not test migrants in federal custody before letting people out of custody in communities across the border, where migrants will board buses and flights and then embark to their final destinations around the country.
Border Patrol agents look over migrants for symptoms of COVID-19, but the Border Patrol itself cannot administer rapid coronavirus tests and has not tested anyone.
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Rep. Henry Cuellar, a Texas Democrat, revealed Wednesday that Border Patrol released 108 people in nearby Brownsville, Texas, who had tested positive at a local bus station, where private groups had been running tests. The releases are a cause for concern for bus companies such as Greyhound, which is reportedly pushing the Biden administration to come up with a way to guarantee that migrants seeking to board its buses from the border have tested negative for the coronavirus before being transported across the country.
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DHS won’t test thousands of migrants before releasing into US and is relying on border communities - Washington Examiner
U.S. border officials have no plans for personnel on the southern border to administer coronavirus tests on migrants, which could risk the spread of the virus as thousands of families and children are released from federal custody into border communities and travel across the United States. The...
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