Report: Massive COVID Spike Erupts Among Detained Immigrants as Biden’s Border Crisis Continues; As Border Apprehensions Surge, Migrant COVID Cases Jump 900 Percent In Rio Grande Valley Sector, and related stories
Report: Massive COVID Spike Erupts Among Detained Immigrants as Biden’s Border Crisis Continues:
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 [2,000] apprehensions each day and accounting for 60% of confirmed positive detainees in the U.S. Border Patrol custody.”
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. —>READ MORE HERE
As Border Apprehensions Surge, Migrant COVID Cases Jump 900 Percent In Rio Grande Valley Sector:
COVID-19 cases among apprehended migrants in the Rio Grande Valley sector along our Southern border have jumped 900 percent over the last 14 months, according to an exclusive report from Fox News.
The report found that the Rio Grande Valley region detained 135 COVID-19 positive migrants, accounting for 60 percent of all positive COVID-19 cases across all the border regions migrants attempt to cross.
In a local radio interview, the Chief of the Rio Grande Valley Sector Brian Hastings told KURV 710 AM that over 40 of his border patrol agents have tested positive for COVID-19 during the fiscal year
This new data comes as border apprehensions pass 1 million for the first time since 2006, now on track to set a new record and that will surpass both 1986’s 1.69 million apprehensions and 2000’s 1.67 million apprehensions. —>READ MORE HERE
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In just two weeks, 135 illegal immigrants test positive for COVID-19 at Rio Grande Valley border
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