Illegal Immigrants Test Positive for Covid But Are Sent On Their Way Into the Interior of the Country

They seem to have the "Black Lives Matter Variant" that is noncontagious.

Or maybe the Post-Election Celebration Strain, which cannot be transmitted as long as you share a bottle of champagne with a stranger.

Miriam Izaguirre, a 35-year-old asylum-seeker from Honduras, crossed the Rio Grande at dawn Monday with her young son and turned herself in to the authorities.

A few hours later she was released, and the first thing she did was take a rapid test for Covid-19 at the Brownsville bus station. They told her her test came out positive.

"Right now we were tested for Covid and they separated about eight of us because we were positive," she told Noticias Telemundo Investiga. "We are waiting right now." She was waiting to catch a bus to Houston.

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Other migrant families who also said they had tested positive were waiting to go to other destinations: North Carolina, Maryland and New Jersey.

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In response to Noticias Telemundo Investiga, a spokesperson for the city said in an email that Brownsville does not have the authority to retain these migrants who plan to travel to dozens of cities throughout the country. The city assured that municipal workers recommend to those who test positive to keep quarantine as indicated by the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention. The city employees suggest to families they go to nongovernment organizations (NGOs) and nonprofits in the the border area who can take them in and isolate them in order to keep quarantine.

Oh, they're recommending the illegal aliens self-quarantine.

On their honor as illegal immigrants.

We know they scrupulously follow rules about where they're allowed to go, right?

They're free to roam the country, while actual Americans are forcibly quarantined, even when not infected with covid.

The positive rate found among the illegal aliens is 6.3%. That seems high.

posted by Ace at 12:09 PM

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