{"id":190778,"date":"2021-03-05T02:44:48","date_gmt":"2021-03-05T07:44:48","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=190778"},"modified":"2021-03-05T09:18:04","modified_gmt":"2021-03-05T14:18:04","slug":"texas-refuses-bidens-request-to-help-with-covid-19-testing-at-border","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/texas-refuses-bidens-request-to-help-with-covid-19-testing-at-border\/","title":{"rendered":"Texas Refuses Biden\u2019s Request to Help With COVID-19 Testing at Border"},"content":{"rendered":"<aside class=\"mashsb-container mashsb-main mashsb-stretched\"><div class=\"mashsb-box\"><div class=\"mashsb-count mash-medium\" style=\"&quot;\"><div class=\"counts mashsbcount\">22<\/div><span class=\"mashsb-sharetext\">SHARES<\/span><\/div><div class=\"mashsb-buttons\"><a class=\"mashicon-facebook mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/sharer.php?u=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.conservativenewsdaily.net%2Fbreaking-news%2Ftexas-refuses-bidens-request-to-help-with-covid-19-testing-at-border%2F\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Facebook<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-twitter mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/intent\/tweet?text=&amp;url=https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=190778&amp;via=ConservNewsDly\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Twitter<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-subscribe mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"#\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Subscribe<\/span><\/a><div class=\"onoffswitch2 mash-medium mashsb-noshadow\" style=\"display:none\"><\/div><\/div>\n            <\/div>\n                <div style=\"clear:both\"><\/div><\/aside>\n            <!-- Share buttons by mashshare.net - Version: 4.0.47--><p>&#8216;We will not aid a program that makes our country a magnet for illegal immigration&#8217;<\/p>\n<div>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.theepochtimes.com\/t-texas\">Texas<\/a> Gov. Greg Abbott has announced he is refusing a Biden administration request to help test and potentially quarantine illegal immigrants for the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theepochtimes.com\/giving-the-right-name-to-the-virus-causing-a-worldwide-pandemic-2_3277200.html\">CCP virus<\/a> at the U.S.-Mexico border.<\/p>\n<p>In a <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/GregAbbott_TX\/status\/1367569447880425473?s=20\">statement<\/a>, the Republican governor said that border security is \u201cstrictly a federal responsibility.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThe federal government alone has the responsibility to test, screen, and quarantine illegal immigrants crossing our border who may have COVID,\u201d he said on Thursday.<\/p>\n<p>The CCP (Chinese Communist Party) virus, also known as the novel coronavirus, causes the disease <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theepochtimes.com\/t-covid-19\">COVID-19<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cInstead of doing their job, the Biden Administration suggested it did not have the sufficient resources and, remarkably, asked Texas to assist them in aiding their illegal <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theepochtimes.com\/t-immigration\">immigration<\/a> program,\u201d he added. \u201cTexas refused. We will not aid a program that makes our country a magnet for illegal immigration.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThe unconscionable act by the Biden Administration of releasing COVID-positive illegal immigrants in our state puts the lives of Texans and Americans at risk,\u201d Abbott said.<\/p>\n<p>\u00a0<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-3721829\" src=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/03\/brownsville-texas-covid-600x413-1.jpg\" alt=\"covid19 testing\" width=\"600\" height=\"413\" \/><\/p>\n<p>Medics suit up in PPE before testing illegal immigrants for COVID-19 who had been released by the U.S. Border Patrol in Brownsville, Texas, on Feb. 25, 2021. (John Moore\/Getty Images)<\/p>\n<p>Prior to Abbott\u2019s statement, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.washingtonpost.com\/national\/fema-would-help-with-border-surge-in-texas-under-new-biden-proposal\/2021\/03\/04\/fa448a62-7cfb-11eb-b0fc-83144c02d676_story.html\">The Washington Post<\/a> had reported, citing anonymous sources, that the Biden administration wanted to use the\u00a0Federal Emergency Management Agency (FEMA) in South Texas to manage the influx of illegal immigrants\u2014to test and potentially quarantine them before they are released by U.S. Customs and Border Protection into the United States.<\/p>\n<p>Abbott said in a separate <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/GregAbbott_TX\/status\/1367243450140086274?s=20\">statement<\/a> that the Biden administration \u201cis recklessly releasing hundreds of illegal immigrants who have COVID into Texas communities,\u201d and called on the administration to stop.<\/p>\n<p>The news comes as <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theepochtimes.com\/108-illegal-immigrants-released-by-border-patrol-in-texas-tested-positive-for-covid-19-officials_3719020.html\">more than 100 illegal immigrants<\/a>\u00a0released into Texas tested positive for the CCP virus. Felipe Romero, a spokesperson for Brownsville, Texas, told Fox News that since Jan. 25,\u00a0when rapid testing began, 108 migrants tested positive for the CCP virus. The figure represents about 6.3 percent of the total undocumented migrants who were rapid-tested at Brownsville\u2019s bus station, the official said.<\/p>\n<p>Romero added that the city doesn\u2019t have the authority to stop the immigrants who test positive for the CCP virus from traveling elsewhere in the United States, although the officials have provided them with advice including to quarantine and to follow federal health guidelines.<\/p>\n<p>When asked about what the federal government is doing to test illegal immigrants coming from Mexico,\u00a0White House press secretary Jen Psaki said, \u201cWhen migrants are placed in alternatives to detention, their COVID-19 testing\u2014our policy is for COVID-19 testing to be done at the state and local level and with the help of NGOs and local governments \u2026\u00a0before they are even moved to go stay with family members or others they may know while their cases are being adjudicated.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u00a0<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-3721833\" src=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/03\/psaki-600x400-1.jpg\" alt=\"Press Secretary Jen Psaki\" width=\"600\" height=\"400\" \/><\/p>\n<p>White House Press Secretary Jen Psaki speaks during at the White House in Washington, on March 4, 2021. (Samuel Corum\/Getty Images)<\/p>\n<p>\u201cIn general, our approach and our policy is to work with local governments, work with NGOs to ensure\u2014to have testing\u2014to ensure these migrants are tested. And that can take place, in that steps for isolation, quarantining, and medical care can be taken should that be needed,\u201d Psaki said.<\/p>\n<p>The United States under the Biden administration is seeing a surge in illegal immigrants at the border in recent months. According to a recent report,\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.theepochtimes.com\/1600-immigrants-arrested-over-3-days-in-single-texas-border-sector-official_3719759.html\">more than 1,600 illegal immigrants<\/a> were arrested in three days in just a single Texas border sector.<\/p>\n<p>In another recent report, a large number of migrants\u00a0seeking to cross the U.S.-Mexico border were photographed <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theepochtimes.com\/migrants-photographed-wearing-biden-please-let-us-in-t-shirts-at-us-mexico-border_3720218.html\">wearing Biden T-shirts<\/a> and holding banners that call on President Joe Biden\u00a0to allow them into the United States.<\/p>\n<p>\u00a0<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-3720284\" src=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/03\/biden-tshirts-migrants-600x400-1.jpg\" alt=\"migrants\" width=\"600\" height=\"400\" \/><\/p>\n<p>Migrants hold a demonstration demanding clearer United States migration policies, at San Ysidro crossing port in Tijuana, Baja California state, Mexico, on March 2, 2021. (Guillermo Arias\/AFP via Getty Images)<\/p>\n<p>Biden has undone a number of Trump-era immigration policies since taking office, including\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.theepochtimes.com\/mkt_app\/cbp-stops-border-wall-construction-after-biden-order_3674966.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">stopping the completion of the near-fully constructed U.S.-Mexico border wall<\/a>\u00a0and\u00a0reversing Trump\u2019s ban on travel from seven terror-prone countries.<\/p>\n<p>Biden also <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theepochtimes.com\/biden-administration-suspends-remain-in-mexico-program-for-asylum-seekers_3665500.html\">revived the \u201ccatch-and-release\u201d process<\/a> of letting illegal immigrants claiming asylum stay in the United States while they wait for their\u00a0asylum cases to be adjudicated, however many years that may take. That process had been ended under the Trump administration.<\/p>\n<p>Biden has also issued a <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theepochtimes.com\/democrats-release-bidens-immigration-bill-with-no-public-republican-support_3702356.html\">sweeping immigration package<\/a> to Congress that offers a legalization pathway to an\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.migrationpolicy.org\/news\/mpi-estimates-unauthorized-immigrants-path-citizenship\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">estimated<\/a>\u00a011 million illegal immigrants already in the country. As of Thursday, Democrats postponed plans for a vote on Biden\u2019s immigration reform bill, reported <a href=\"https:\/\/www.politico.com\/news\/2021\/03\/04\/democrats-house-immigration-plan-473475\">Politico<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>House Republicans on Thursday <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theepochtimes.com\/house-gop-demands-hearing-on-bidens-response-to-surge-in-children-at-southern-border_3720772.html\">called for a hearing<\/a> on the Biden administration\u2019s response to what they say is a\u00a0\u201csharp increase in unaccompanied alien children\u201d at the border.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&#8216;We will not aid a program that makes our country a magnet for illegal immigration&#8217; Texas Gov. 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