Migrant border crashers arriving with dramatically higher COVID-19 rates than U.S. population
Migrant families coming across the border are testing positive for the coronavirus at between three and 10 times the rate of the U.S. population, according to a Washington Times survey of jurisdictions that are doing the testing.
U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement told The Times that the families it is processing are between 5% and 10% positive.
In Brownsville, Texas, the city says it is seeing a 12% positive rate.
And in Harlingen, near Brownsville, the homeless shelter where families are being dropped off reported a group at 25% positive for COVID-19. That’s more than seven times the current positivity test rate for the U.S. public, which Johns Hopkins University’s tracker shows at 3.5%.
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