{"id":24945,"date":"2021-09-02T13:11:59","date_gmt":"2021-09-02T17:11:59","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.immigrationreform.com\/?p=24945"},"modified":"2021-09-02T13:12:02","modified_gmt":"2021-09-02T17:12:02","slug":"biden-failure-covid-protection-migrants-immigrationreform-com","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.immigrationreform.com\/2021\/09\/02\/biden-failure-covid-protection-migrants-immigrationreform-com\/","title":{"rendered":"Biden\u2019s Team Fails COVID Test at the Border"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention<\/a> (CDC) says \u201ca combination of vaccination and routine infection control practices will provide the best protection from COVID-19 for immigration applicants and U.S. communities.\u201d\u00a0The Biden administration is failing at both.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

COVID is considered a \u201crespiratory syndrome,\u201d making it a Class A Inadmissible Condition. Since the Immigration Act of 1891, entry to the U.S. is barred for \u201cpersons suffering from a loathsome or a dangerous contagious disease.\u201d\u00a0A 2014 executive order<\/a> affirmed this policy.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Beginning Oct. 1, the\u00a0government will require that immigrants applying through legal channels show proof of COVID vaccination<\/a>. Yet migrants crossing America\u2019s southern border aren\u2019t getting anywhere near the same treatment. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

Illegal border crossers are not routinely tested for COVID before they are bused and flown to cities across the country. Officials in McAllen, Texas, reported last month that U.S. authorities have released more than 7,000 COVID cases<\/a> into their border community since February.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u201cThe administration is handing COVID-positive migrants over to NGOs [non-governmental organizations] with no restrictions on their movement, and no notice to local officials in the places they are housed,\u201d according to the Center for Immigration Studies<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Paradoxically, while COVID-carrying\nmigrants move around the country, CDC\u2019s director this week advised unvaxxed\nAmericans not to travel over the Labor Day<\/a> weekend.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

(Note: Mexico and the\nNorthern Triangle countries of El Salvador, Guatemala and Honduras have a\ncombined average vaccination rate<\/a> of 22 percent. The U.S. is 53 percent.)<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The Border Patrol<\/a> says screening migrants for COVID would just take too much time, and there aren\u2019t enough resources\u00a0to quarantine those who test positive<\/a> anyway. The Department of Homeland Security said it is working on tentative plans<\/a> to send an unspecified number vaccine doses to the border.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

As badly as Biden\u2019s border team is botching the health-security operation, open-borders advocates are angling to make the situation worse. The American Civil Liberties Union, Texas Civil Rights Project, RAICES, Center for Gender & Refugee Studies, Oxfam and others are resuming their lawsuit<\/a> to block the lightly used Title 42 policy that authorizes immediate expulsions on health grounds.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

“People have a legal\nright to seek safety in America and our government has the resources to safely\nprocess them into the country to have their cases heard,” argues Karla\nMarisol Vargas, senior attorney at the Texas Civil Rights Project.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The word \u201csafely\u201d is key\nhere. Amid the mixed messages and erratic application of law, it seems safe to\nsay this administration isn\u2019t doing its job to anyone\u2019s satisfaction \u2026 except the\ndeath-dealing cartels, of course.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) says \u201ca combination of vaccination and routine infection control practices will provide the best protection from COVID-19 for immigration applicants and U.S. communities.\u201d\u00a0The Biden administration is failing at both. COVID is considered a \u201crespiratory syndrome,\u201d making it a Class A Inadmissible Condition. Since the Immigration Act of<\/p>\n

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