Migrant encounters at U.S.-Mexico border are at a 21-year high

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  1. Sharlee01 profile image85
    Sharlee01posted 3 years ago

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    In my view, he simply ignores and turns his back on problems.

    With all the horrendous news about Biden's disgraceful withdraw from Afghanistan the media has neglected the huge problem at the US Southern Border. Although the Biden administration is ignoring the border problem the border patrol is not...

    "The U.S. Border Patrol reported nearly 200,000 encounters with migrants along the U.S.-Mexico border in July, the highest monthly total in more than two decades.

    The number of monthly encounters had fallen to 16,182 in April 2020, shortly after the coronavirus outbreak forced the closure of the southwestern border and slowed migration across much of the world. But migrant encounters have climbed sharply since then, reaching 199,777 in July, according to the latest data from U.S. Customs and Border Protection (CBP), the federal agency that encompasses the Border Patrol.

    The July figure is the highest monthly total since March 2000 and far surpasses the peak during the last major wave of migration at the U.S.-Mexico border, which occurred in May 2019."   https://www.hstoday.us/subject-matter-a … year-high/

    Yes, it would appear many citizens have become complacent to all of the numerous problems that Biden has created, it would seem sensible to start at this point to start taking note of the problems Biden has put on our plates.

    In my view, this president poses a real danger if left in charge of foreign affairs, as well as our economy. 

    What are your thoughts, do you trust Biden to conduct foreign affairs, and do you have concerns over where he is taking the economy?

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    1. gmwilliams profile image86
      gmwilliamsposted 3 years agoin reply to this

      He POSES a PROBLEM?  He IS the PROBLEM.   Biden simply isn't presidential material.  An astute 7 year old can see this.  Why can't adults who are supposedly intelligent see this????   Biden shouldn't have been president in the first place but some American people blindly & s------------y elected him.   Oh well...... A president has to have qualities of assertiveness & being truthful to the point of being disliked.   A president must be impartial & fierce.  Biden has NONE of those qualities.  Biden is going to ruin America.  Repeat this after me, Sharlee-BIDEN IS GOING TO RUIN AMERICA.

      1. Kathryn L Hill profile image84
        Kathryn L Hillposted 3 years agoin reply to this

        We need a redo election. we need a free and fair election with limited mail in-ballots.
        it'll never happen.
        Darn.

      2. Sharlee01 profile image85
        Sharlee01posted 3 years agoin reply to this

        Oh Yeah --- BIDEN IS GOING TO RUIN AMERICA. And he is hell-bent on doing so.

        1. Sharlee01 profile image85
          Sharlee01posted 3 years agoin reply to this

          18 percent of migrant families leaving Border Patrol custody tested positive for Covid, document says ---  The Department of Homeland Security document does not give precise dates or say how many migrants were tested.

          Migrants are not tested for Covid in Border Patrol custody unless they show symptoms, but all are tested when they leave Border Patrol custody, according to DHS officials. Immigrants who are allowed to stay in the U.S. to claim asylum are given tests when they are transferred to ICE, Health and Human Services, or non-governmental organizations. Deportees who are scheduled to be put on planes out of the U.S. are tested for Covid and other infectious diseases by ICE.

          https://www.nbcnews.com/politics/immigr … e-n1276244

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          1. Sharlee01 profile image85
            Sharlee01posted 3 years agoin reply to this

            But public health experts say arriving migrants are not driving the rising infections in the U.S. The main culprits are people who refuse to get vaccinated. Furthermore, migrants who are allowed to enter are generally tested for COVID-19 and given hotel rooms to quarantine if they test positive, though federal authorities have not made data available about such cases___

            WHAT HAPPENS WHEN MIGRANTS ARE STOPPED AT THE BORDER?

            It varies, but most single adults are turned away, while unaccompanied children and some families are admitted to pursue asylum claims. This practice is in keeping with the Biden administration’s continued use of Title 42, a public health rule adopted by the Trump administration at the start of the pandemic.

            In June, the most recent month with available figures, Customs and Border Protection stopped single adults 117,602 times, resulting in 96,704 expulsions, or 82% of the total. Families were stopped 55,805 times at the border in June, with only 8,070 expulsions, or 15%. (Since some people attempt to cross more than once, these numbers refer to stops, not individual people).

            Families who are allowed to enter the U.S. to apply for asylum are given dates to appear in immigration court or an appointment with immigration authorities. After they are dropped off in border communities, families typically travel to reunite with relatives, friends or supporters.

            Children who arrive without parents are exempt from expulsion. They are typically held for less than a month at emergency shelters until they can be released to relatives or moved to licensed shelters.

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            ARE MIGRANTS WHO ARE NOT EXPELLED TESTED FOR COVID-19?

            Generally, yes. CBP, the agency that first takes migrants into custody, says they are given masks and referred to local health care providers for testing and treatment if they have symptoms.

            From there, testing protocols can vary depending on which federal agency is involved. Most single adults and some families are transferred to Immigration and Customs Enforcement custody, where they all take COVID-19 tests.

            All new arrivals are separated from the general population for 14 days and isolated if they test positive. Unaccompanied children are also tested before they are transferred to Health and Human Services Department facilities for minors, and then are given ongoing tests.

            Some migrant families are released to border communities directly from CBP facilities, and this is where the government’s information is less clear. The government says it works with local partners and “appropriate agencies” to test this population and quarantine those who are infected, but it has not clarified if that happens across the board. Often, local governments or nonprofits arrange testing and send those who test positive to isolate in hotels.

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            HOW MANY MIGRANTS TEST POSITIVE FOR COVID-19?

            The federal government has not disclosed this data, but in Texas’ Rio Grande Valley — the busiest stretch of the border for illegal crossing attempts — local officials recently publicized their own data.

            On Aug. 4, local officials in McAllen, Texas, announced that out of nearly 88,000 migrants released by CBP in the city since mid-February, more than 7,000 had tested positive for COVID-19, which is a positivity rate of more than 8%. Catholic Charities of the Rio Grande Valley arranged hotel rooms for those infected. Positive tests became more frequent in recent weeks, surpassing 16% — a rate that county officials said was similar to the local population.

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            WHAT DO PUBLIC HEALTH OFFICIALS SAY IS FUELING THE INCREASE IN CASES IN THE U.S.?

            The key factors behind the recent spike in COVID-19 cases are people in U.S. communities who are unvaccinated and are not following guidance from Centers for Disease Control and Prevention about the highly contagious delta variant, according to public health experts.

            At a news conference last week, Dr. Ivan Melendez, who serves as the local health authority in Hidalgo County, Texas, acknowledged that arriving migrants were “part of the problem” but he also said they did not pose any more of a danger than he does. “I have been in seven COVID units today.”

            He said migrants are not responsible for introducing the virus nor do they have higher infection rates compared with the general population.

            “Is it a pandemic of the migrants? No, it is a pandemic of the unvaccinated,” Melendez said.

            The number of arriving migrants is far too small to be driving the enormous increases in cases across the U.S., said Dr. Joseph McCormick, a physician and former CDC epidemiologist now based at the Brownsville campus of the University of Texas Health Science Center at the Houston School of Public Health.

            “Given what we are seeing now across the country, it just doesn’t work to try to attribute that to migrants,” McCormick said. Furthermore, experts say, the delta variant, which was first identified in India, began circulating in the U.S. before it was in Mexico or other parts of Latin America, where most migrants arrive from.

            “So the claim that migrants entering from the southern border brought delta to the U.S. is baseless rhetoric,” said Max Hadler, senior policy director for Physicians for Human Rights, in a statement. “Rates are increasing everywhere, in every state in the country. It’s not a border issue or a migrant issue, it’s a national issue.”

            As for people who evade the Border Patrol and enter the United States undetected, there is no reason to suspect that they would have higher rates of COVID-19 infection, McCormick said.

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            HOW DO BORDER COMMUNITIES HANDLE MIGRANTS AS THE DELTA VARIANT SPREADS?

            In many places along the border, local governments and nonprofits have a long history assisting migrants coming out of federal custody with food, clothing and travel arrangements. Local officials say the delta variant adds another challenge.

            McAllen officials worked with Hidalgo County last week to erect a tent city to quarantine migrants who tested positive for COVID-19 and their family members. In other Texas cities, local leaders have expressed frustration with the governor’s approach to the pandemic, which has included for blocking local governments from enacting mask mandates.

            Brownsville, Texas, began a program to vaccinate arriving migrants about a month ago and has given shots to more than 860 migrants so far. Similar efforts are happening in other communities that receive migrants, including El Paso and Phoenix.

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            DOES THE FEDERAL GOVERNMENT PLAN TO OFFER VACCINES TO MIGRANTS?

            DHS denied recent media reports that federal officials are gearing up to offer vaccines to migrants after they are apprehended at the border. However, ICE has begun vaccinating immigrants held in detention. The government has also started inoculating unaccompanied children who are 12 and older with the Pfizer vaccine.

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    2. Sharlee01 profile image85
      Sharlee01posted 3 years agoin reply to this

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      My god, and we are still getting no clear numbers on how many Biden has just released into the country. No COVID testing, none Vaccinated... Women that claim to be pregnant are not tested but released on. I guess Biden is once again borrowing an Obama policy.  This White House is incompetent, and Biden has told one lie after another.

      None of this is acceptable.

    3. Sharlee01 profile image85
      Sharlee01posted 3 years agoin reply to this

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      Come On Down...
      In a long-awaited memo, Homeland Security Secretary Alejandro Mayorkas outlined a dramatic shift in U.S. immigration enforcement policy that will likely spare most undocumented immigrants who have lived in the U.S. for years from arrest and deportation, as long as they don't commit serious crimes.

      "The majority of undocumented non-citizens who could be subject to removal, the majority of the more than 11 million people, have been contributing members of our communities for years," Mayorkas told reporters. "They include individuals who work on the frontlines in the battle against COVID, teachers, individuals who teach our children, who do the back-breaking farmwork that puts food on our table, who lead our congregations of faith and contribute to our communities in meaningful other ways."

      IMO, this new policy gives a message and further extends an invitation to migrants to come across the border illegally---  we will no longer deport you if you are not actually breaking the law... Is not being in the country illegally still illegal?

      This new policy sends a message in my view, and that message is come on down...

      1. wilderness profile image79
        wildernessposted 3 years agoin reply to this

        Of course it sends a message.  So does "sanctuary" cities.  So do mayors that publicly tell illegal aliens when to hide because ICE is coming.  So does screaming to the heavens when horses are used to turn back illegal border crossings.  So does free transportation to illegal aliens travelling to the interior.  So does ending the border wall project.

        The list goes on and on of how we encourage illegal entry; the only surprise is that we actually catch as many as we do...even when we then turn them loose in the interior of the country.

  2. Sharlee01 profile image85
    Sharlee01posted 3 years ago

    One would think most American's would be screaming to the heavens for this mess to be solved once and for all. My God, it seems like complacency is accepted in our society as the first norm.  Sh-t, we are in such trouble.  I mean we pay these representatives in Washington, and they don't do our bidding --- we do theirs.   Biden is clearly trying to rip democracy down to the ground in my view, from his flighty attitude in regards to campaigning to his blatantly rip it down policies.   


    "Panama’s foreign minister warned Wednesday that up to 60,000 migrants, many of them of Haitian origin, are making their way through the Central American country toward the US-Mexico border — threatening the Biden administration with a fresh illegal immigration crisis." Wee--  https://nypost.com/2021/09/30/panamas-e … -s-border/

 
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