Did you miss the local reporting in South TX?
“The border communities face particular challenges because of the influx of migrants arriving every single day,” U.S. Rep. Henry Cuellar, a Laredo Democrat, said in late July. He noted an extremely high CVOID positivity rate among those deported.
According to Cuellar’s July 26 press release, the migrant surge has resulted in the temporary shutdown of Catholic Charities (the primary organization that assists new migrants), nearly 70 border agents testing positive for COVID-19 in the Rio Grande Valley sector, 17 border agents testing positive for COVID-19 in the Laredo sector, and 233 hospital beds occupied in the area.
The city of McAllen didn’t mince words about the impact of the migrant surge on the local community, either. “As these temporarily admitted immigrants are released, the federal government does not test them for COVID-19,” officials said Wednesday.
The city reports that since mid-February, the Border Patrol has released more than 7,000 immigrants confirmed as having COVID into McAllen.
More than 1,500 of those have come in the past week or so.
https://www.star-telegram.com/opinion/cynthia-m-allen/article253279983.html