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General Category => Immigration/Border => Topic started by: Right_in_Virginia on May 06, 2020, 03:56:30 am
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Migrants deported by U.S. make up more than 15% of Guatemala's coronavirus cases
Yahoo News, May 4, 2020, LA Times
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(Illegal) Immigrants are led onto a flight in the United States.
Guatemalan officials said Monday they would begin routinely accepting U.S. deportation flights again after being promised that every passenger would first have to test negative for the novel coronavirus.
The country halted the flights two weeks ago after scores of passengers turned out to be infected with COVID-19.
As of Monday, 117 deportees on four flights from the U.S. had tested positive for the virus, according to the Guatemalan Foreign Ministry. They account for more than 15% of all infections in the country.
Guatemala accepted one flight last week after U.S. immigration authorities said they had screened all 89 deportees for the virus. But it remained unclear whether such flights would resume on a regular basis.
Under the new guidelines laid out by Guatemalan officials, the number of deportees on each flight would drop from about 100 to about 75.
On Monday, 76 Guatemalan deportees arrived on a flight from Houston and immediately underwent medical examinations.
"None presented symptoms," said Alejandra Mena, spokeswoman for the country's Migration Institute.
Three more flights were scheduled for this week, Guatemalan officials said.
More: https://news.yahoo.com/u-deportation-flights-guatemala-resume-025526161.html
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They don't have covid-19.
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Error 404 (Not Found)!!1 (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=53SsSpYqVGg#)
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PRESIDENT TRUMP HELPS ALL AMERICANS.
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They are your freaking problem Guatemala... they are YOUR citizens, not ours.
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They are your freaking problem Guatemala... they are YOUR citizens, not ours.
Darn right! Not sure why @Right_in_Virginia posted. But many migrants coming through Mexico have COVID. Many are our problem because migrant workers are an exception to Trumps EO. So many are coming to work on farms and spread their COVID.
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Darn right! Not sure why @Right_in_Virginia posted.
Because the illegals are being deported to their home country @Chosen Daughter
Here on planet Earth we consider this good news.
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Darn right! Not sure why @Right_in_Virginia posted. But many migrants coming through Mexico have COVID. Many are our problem because migrant workers are an exception to Trumps EO. So many are coming to work on farms and spread their COVID.
What, allegedly, do Trump's EOs have to do with Guatemalan deportees?
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Just doing the jobs Guatemalans don't want to do...