25 Percent of Illegal Immigrants Dropped in Texas City Test Positive for COVID

The coronavirus is crossing America’s Southern Border along with illegal immigrants who are then filtering into communities across Texas and the rest of the nation, according to information from Texas communities.

Bill Reagan, who runs the Loaves and Fishes food bank and shelter in Harlingen, Texas, said 25 percent of one recent group of migrants tested positive for the virus, according to The Washington Times.

That’s even higher than Brownsville, which reported that 6.3 percent of migrants tested there tested positive, Felipe Romero, Brownsville’s communications and marketing director, said, according to NBC. In Cameron County, the positivity rate was 13.8 percent, Romero said.

According to the Johns Hopkins School of Public Health, a positivity rate over 5 percent is considered “too high.”

Reagan said that his shelter can’t do anything as he watches people with the coronavirus pass through before being released under the new Biden administration policies.

“We can’t quarantine them,” he said. “Even though they test positive, they’re going to leave the next day. They’re going to get on the bus or the airplane, and they’re gone.”