COVID Cases Among Detained Immigrants Surge by 900 Percent As Biden’s Border Crisis Continues: Report
The number of migrant detainees who have tested positive for COVID-19 in the Rio Grande Valley sector of Texas has soared by 900 percent this month, according to a new report. Fox News reported, “There were 135…
The number of migrant detainees who have tested positive for COVID-19 in the Rio Grande Valley sector of Texas has soared by 900 percent this month, according to a new report.
Fox News reported, “There were 135 detainees who tested positive in the first two weeks of July alone, marking a 900% increase in confirmed positive cases compared to the previous 14 months.”
The report added, “The RGV sector is one of the main destinations for migrants crossing the border, seeing more than apprehensions each day and accounting for 60% of confirmed positive detainees in the U.S. Border Patrol custody.”
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Texas Sen. Ted Cruz and other Republican senators introduced a bill last week to extend Title 42, a provision that allows the U.S. to turn away illegal immigrants at the nation’s southern border due to the risk of their spreading COVID-19.
The Securing the Homeland from International Entrants with Life-threatening Diseases, or SHIELD, Act would continue the public health protections enacted in March 2020, according to Fox News.
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