With them taking media beatdown’s on Delta infections and anti-mask and vaccine policies?
They are resorting to the ole ‘border’ thing….
Trump wrapped it into the “Border Wall’ crusade…
And THAT worker for him with the masses…..
Now the party, which is watching President Biden, skiing above the waves and NOT liking it…
So?
Why NOT reach back?
Even it ain’t true…
Sound familiar?
— Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis (R), in a fundraising letter, Aug. 4
“He’s imported more virus from around the world by having a wide-open southern border.”
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In recent days, the city of McAllen, Tex., in Hidalgo County, has sounded the alarm about “the shockingly large number of immigrants released by CBP,” which has overwhelmed a Humanitarian Respite Center run by the Catholic Charities of the Rio Grande Valley. The center is intended to make sure migrants are not on McAllen’s streets between their release from border control custody and their departure to destinations elsewhere in the United States, where immigration courts will decide their cases.
The city says about 87,000 migrants have passed through the city limits so far in 2021…
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The positivity rate has obviously increased along with the prevalence of the delta variant. A July 30 statement from the city said the positivity rate among migrants was about 13.1 percent, an increase from 11.7 percent the week before.
But that’s still better than how Hidalgo County itself has fared in this period, according to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention. The rate in the county has spiked even higher, to 18.55 percent as of Aug. 3. The Covid Act Now website says the risk level in the county is now “very high.”
Brenda Riojas, a spokeswoman for Catholic Charities of the Rio Grande Valley, says that any migrants who test positive for the virus that causes covid-19 are immediately isolated (along with family members who might have been exposed but test negative). They are not released until they test negative, so they have little interaction with the local community….
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At this point, there is little reason to believe the positivity rate of the migrants who have not been apprehended is much different from the positivity rate of those who are apprehended. What we do know is that the positivity rate in the center of the Rio Grande Valley region — Hidalgo County — is higher than the rate attributed to undocumented immigrants who have been caught. Could some migrants have infected U.S. citizens? Of course. But given that Catholic Charities seeks to isolate migrants who test positive, the odds appear relatively small.
DeSantis has long argued he handled the pandemic better than many other governors. Now he faces a crisis. Whether it is one of his own making remains to be determined, but it make little sense to point the finger at Biden based on guesswork and assumptions, not evidence. It’s certainly rhetorical overkill to assert that “no elected official is doing more to enable the transmission of COVID in America than Joe Biden.”
We cannot completely rule out some spread of the coronavirus because of illegal immigration, but so far we do not see evidence to support his claim.
As former Republican Joe Walsh Recently commented on leaving the party…
“Republicans like lying.”
Thus we have a new
“Conservative Value.”
Yes – except it’s not new.
Speaking of DeSantis…
A federal Judge is allowing Norwegian Cruise Lines to require proof of vaccination to board.DeSantis has demanded that cruise lines not be allowed to attempt to protect their passengers and crew from the virus spreaders.
He’s doing one helluva job!
Her Ron here’s something else you can use to rouse the trash…
The Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change is meeting this week .
Here’s a chance to denounce that fake stuff.
Gotta keep the trash stirred up now