Border City Declares State Of Disaster After Release Of 1,500 COVID Positive Migrants Last Week
Officials in the border city of McAllen, Texas, declared a state of disaster after border officials released some 1,500 migrants positive for COVID-19 last week, according to a statement provided to the Daily Caller News Foundation Wednesday.
The Catholic Charities of the Rio Grande Valley partnered with American Medical Response to test thousands of migrants released from Customs and Border Protection (CBP) custody for COVID-19, according to the statement. Migrants who test positive for the virus are taken from the testing facility to designated quarantine sites around Texas’ Rio Grande Valley.
“Since mid-February of 2021 there have been over 7,000 confirmed COVID-19 positive immigrants released into the City of McAllen by CBP, including over 1,500 new cases in the past seven days,” the City of McAllen said in a statement provided to the DCNF.
NEW: The city of McAllen, TX says the federal government has released over 7,000 COVID positive migrants into their city since February, including over 1,500 new infected migrants in just the *last week alone*. A local state of disaster in McAllen has been declared. @FoxNews
— Bill Melugin (@BillFOXLA) August 4, 2021
McAllen Mayor Javier Villalobos issued a disaster declaration for the city on Monday, according to the statement. The declaration will allow the city of McAllen access to state and county resources to help mitigate the increasing arrivals of migrants and the management of non-government-run migrant facilities.
“Despite the City of McAllen and its community partners’ best efforts, the sheer number of immigrants being released into the city has become a crisis: a crisis the City of McAllen did not create and has proactively tried to avoid for seven years,” the City of McAllen said in a statement provided to the DCNF. “Now, with the drastic, unexpected increase of immigrants arriving to McAllen, the City Commission’s first priority is to protect the health and safety of the residents they serve.”
More than 78,000 migrants were encountered in the Rio Grande Valley in July, the Associated Press reported Tuesday. Officials encountered around 210,000 migrants at the southern border in July, up from nearly 190,000 migrants, according to preliminary numbers.
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For those not familiar with McAllen, it is a small rather layed back comunitiy where the people come and go about their business peacefully and without pretense. It is ill equiped to handle a medical ‘outbreak’ of a minor nature, nor can it stand the financial burder that is being dropped on them.
Imagine, if you can, living where you’re afraid to even go to church or let yur children play for fear of the new criminal element and deadly virus that has infiltrated every facet of your life…..
MCALLEN HAS HUNG OUT THE…..”NO VACANCY’ SIGN……..WILL YOUR TOWN BE THE NEXT ONE STRANGLED IN FEAR?
In late May there was a bus load of these “migrants” unloaded in the park at another small town & told to wait for the next bus…..there was no ‘next bus’. Gila Bend Az is in the middle of the Mohave Desert with a single gas station, a combination cafe, convienent store, gift shop and not much more. The nearest hospital is about two hous away….There is no hotel or Catholic Charity there.
By the way, although I have no knowledge of McAllen’s situation with the Charitiy, Factually in 2014 the Baptist Charity bought a hotel for the same purpose and was PAID W/ TAXPAYER FUNDS $750,000. a month ……to house the unaccompained children Obama allowed (invited) in. Verify this on google if it’s still up, I found it in 2014.
CHAIRTY BEGINS AT HOME……LET’S MAKE AMERICA FIRST so that we can help others