EFE.- More than 18 % of immigrant families that crossed the southern border of the United States And they were under the custody of the border patrol in the last two or three weeks they gave positive for the COVID-19, a document of the federal authorities cited this Saturday by the NBC chain was revealed.
The document, prepared by the United States National Security Department (DHS) To be presented to President Joe Biden, he also details that 20 % of the minors who arrived alone in the country and who were in custody of the border patrol in the last two or three weeks gave the virus positive.
The report It does not give precise dates or say how many migrants were examinedthe television station detailed.
Since the end of July, the DHS began to deport expeditious to immigrant families that does not have a legal basis to remain in the country. These foreigners remain in custody of the Immigration and Customs Control Office (ICE) that performs the tests of the COVID-19 before expelling them, those who give positive are quarantine before being returned to their countries.
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At a press conference this Friday the head of the Border Patrol Operations Directorate, Manuel Padilla, indicated that accelerated deportation flights began on July 30 and until yesterday three had taken place to El Salvador Guatemala and Honduras.
The authorities did not specify how many of the migrants who are waiting to be deported in an accelerated way are infected with the virus.
The document revealed by NBC also recommends that the DHS provide more medical personnel in the border processing facilities especially to those located in the Valle del Rio Grande in Texas, an area that is again overwhelmed with the arrival of immigrants.
The revealed data are given in the middle of a series of criticism of the Republicans, headed by the Governor of Texas, Greg Abbottwhich ensures that the arrival of undocumented immigrants is contributing to the increase in coronavirus infections on the southern border.
In this sense, officials in Hidalgo County, located on the Texas border, denied accusations last Thursday that undocumented migrants are the source of contagion of the COVID-19 in this region.
“We want to make it very clear that it is not migrants who are spreading the COVID-19, our main problem is the citizens who refuse to vaccinate,” said County Judge Hidalgo, Richard Cortez, during a press conference.
Cortez explained that the emergency order issued by this border county last Monday is with the sole purpose of looking for federal funds and not because migrants are blaming the increase in positive cases of the COVID-19 in that region.
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