Texas Border City Grapples with Released Migrants, COVID-19 Quarantines

[mystery-ak]

Texas Border City Grapples with Released Migrants, COVID-19 Quarantines

Randy Clark 23 Feb 2021

Lacking federal guidance, local border communities are bearing the brunt of accommodating hundreds of newly released asylum seekers despite the potential public health impacts of COVID-19. In one South Texas community, migrants are not being ordered into quarantine by local officials. Despite efforts by humanitarian organizations to provide shelter in hotels for those migrants who test positive, others are breaking quarantine protocols and leaving the border area to points further inland in Texas.

In a Harlingen City Commission meeting held last week, leaders expressed concern with the COVID-19 testing capabilities and quarantine procedures at the shelters. Wanting to balance humanitarian needs and protect public health, the commissioners discussed the situation of migrants violating quarantine procedures and leaving the community.


https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Yz-c2ONq49A&feature=emb_logo

During the meeting, posted in its entirety on YouTube, City Commissioner Richard Uribe, referring to the migrant testing process asks, “if they’re positive, what happens?” Assistant City Manager Gabriel Gonzalez responds, “If they test positive, they’ll be quarantined but they can’t force them to stay somewhere in quarantine, they’ll just have to notify, if we know where they’re going that they tested positive.” Commissioner Uribe then asks, “they could just leave, and they would be positive?” Gonzalez replies, “That’s true.”

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https://www.breitbart.com/border/2021/02/23/texas-border-city-grapples-with-released-migrants-covid-19-quarantines/

[PeteS in CA]

People who entered the US illegally are violating quarantine protocols? Who could have foreseen that?!