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Municipal officials in Brownsville, Texas, say that six percent of migrants released into their community who are tested for COVID-19 are getting positive results. More than 100 tested positive since the releases began in late January. Brownsville spokesman Felipe Romero said that 108 released migrants tested positive for COVID-19, Fox News reported . Tests are being carried out at the bus station in the border city on migrants who are being released by Border Patrol agents after they illegally cross the border from Matamoros, Tamaulipas. Romero said this represents a 6.3 percent positive test rate. The Brownsville official said they do not have the authority to prevent those who test positive from boarding buses to travel into the U.S. interior. A worker at the bus station told Fox News they cannot ask passengers for proof of coronavirus test results before transit. NBC News reported: Eva Orellana, 29, who is from Honduras and who tested positive, said she was going to … [Read more...] about REPORT: 6 Percent of Released Migrants in Texas Border City Test Positive for COVID-19

President Joe Biden’s administration still has no strict national quarantine policy for migrants who test positive for the coronavirus, according to the White House. White House press secretary Jen Psaki responded to recent reporting from NBC News showing migrants who tested positive for the virus were not prevented by the federal government from traveling into the United States. She said quarantining migrants who were tested positive was “part of what happens” but did not confirm that a policy had been set. “Isolating, quarantining is a part of what our recommended health guidelines are and certainly part of what happens at the border when there are symptoms that are displayed and when testing is done,” Psaki said. She said that testing migrants for the coronavirus were done at the state and local levels with help from the federal government. Sen. Tom Cotton (R-AR) and other Senate Republicans, demanded answers from the Biden administration last month on their release … [Read more...] about Biden Administration Still Has No Quarantine Policy for Migrants Testing Positive for Coronavirus

Texas Gov. Greg Abbott (R) on Thursday responded to President Joe Biden slamming states lifting coronavirus restrictions such as mask mandates. Biden said those lifting such restrictions are engaging in “Neanderthal thinking.” Abbott, who announced this week his state would be removing restrictions put in place to mitigate the spread of the virus, said on FNC’s “Fox & Friends” that Biden is engaging in a “Neanderthal-type approach” by releasing COVID-positive illegal immigrants into Texas with his open border policy. “First, obviously it is not the type of thing a president should be saying, but second, he said it on the worst day he could have because the same day he said that, in Texas, the Biden administration was releasing illegal immigrants into our communities who had COVID,” Abbott stated. “The Biden administration was spreading COVID in South Texas yesterday because of their lack of constraint of testing and quarantining, people who had come across the border … [Read more...] about TX Gov. Abbott: Biden Engaging in ‘Neanderthal’ Thinking by Releasing COVID-Positive Illegal Immigrants Into Texas

U.S. Representative Henry Cuellar (D-TX) reported the apprehension of approximately 10,000 migrants in the last seven days in the Rio Grande Valley Sector. He said agents apprehended 2,500 in the past two days alone. “We are weeks, maybe even days, away from a crisis on the southern border. Inaction is simply not an option,” Congressman Cuellar said in a written statement. “Our country is currently unprepared to handle a surge in migrants in the middle of the pandemic.” The Laredo congressman said the illegal border crossings are “potentially exposing border communities to the coronavirus and putting us at risk. Right now, none of the migrants are being tested for COVID-19 by Border Patrol.” In Brownsville, Texas, city officials said that six percent of the migrants being released at the bus station to obtain transportation into the U.S. interior are testing positive for COVID-19, Breitbart Texas reported . The Brownsville official said they do not have the authority to … [Read more...] about 10K Migrants Apprehended in One Week in Single Texas Border Sector, Says Democrat Congressman

A report released last month by the Empire Center for Public Policy undermines claims by the New York State Department of Health that Gov. Andrew Cuomo’s (D-NY) controversial March 25 order requiring nursing homes in the state to admit coronavirus-positive residents had no impact on nursing home coronavirus death rates. In that report, titled, “COVID-positive Admissions Were Correlated with Higher Death Rates in New York Nursing Homes,” the Albany, New York, based think tank concluded , “The admission of coronavirus-positive patients into New York nursing homes under March 25 guidance from the New York State Department of Health was associated with a statistically significant increase in resident deaths.” Cuomo’s controversial March 25, 2020, guidance was in effect until May 10, 2020. “Statewide, the findings imply that COVID-positive new admissions between late March and early May, which numbered 6,327, were associated with several hundred and possibly more than 1,000 … [Read more...] about Study: Gov. Cuomo’s Nursing Home Order ‘Associated with Possibly More than 1,000 Additional Deaths’