{"id":605787,"date":"2021-07-29T11:22:38","date_gmt":"2021-07-29T15:22:38","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=605787"},"modified":"2021-07-29T11:22:41","modified_gmt":"2021-07-29T15:22:41","slug":"covid-positive-illegal-immigrants-given-hotel-rooms-in-south-texas-authorities-not-informed","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/covid-positive-illegal-immigrants-given-hotel-rooms-in-south-texas-authorities-not-informed\/","title":{"rendered":"COVID-Positive Illegal Immigrants Given Hotel Rooms In South Texas, Authorities Not Informed"},"content":{"rendered":"<aside class=\"mashsb-container mashsb-main mashsb-stretched\"><div class=\"mashsb-box\"><div class=\"mashsb-count mash-medium\" style=\"float:left\"><div class=\"counts mashsbcount\">24<\/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%2Fcovid-positive-illegal-immigrants-given-hotel-rooms-in-south-texas-authorities-not-informed%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=605787&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--><div><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/07\/GettyImages-1311829335.jpg?w=1200&amp;h=800&amp;ixlib=react-9.0.3\" class=\"ff-og-image-inserted\" \/><\/div>\n<p>Police in South Texas were surprised to discover that illegal immigrants had been put up in hotels after being released from federal custody \u2013 and that these immigrants had possibly tested positive for COVID-19.<\/p>\n<p>Fox News <a href=\"https:\/\/www.foxnews.com\/us\/texas-police-covid-illegal-immigrants-whataburger\">reported<\/a> that the immigrants had been turned over to a Catholic charity after they were released from federal company, and the charity booked them hotel rooms. Local authorities, however, weren\u2019t informed.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThe La Joya Police Department said a patrol officer was waved down Monday by someone concerned about a group that appeared to be sick at a&nbsp;Whataburger&nbsp;fast food restaurant. The officer found a family inside who were coughing and sneezing and not adhering to health guidelines, including the wearing of masks, authorities said during a news conference,\u201d Fox reported. \u201cA manager told the officer they wanted the people to leave the establishment because they were making everyone inside \u2018uneasy.\u2019 When the officer approached the migrants, they said they had tested positive for the coronavirus and had been apprehended by Border Patrol agents several days prior before being released. \u201c<\/p>\n<p>La Joya police Sgt. Manuel Casas told the outlet that the family didn\u2019t have documentation to prove they had tested positive for COVID-19.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWe did not know this,\u201d Casas told the outlet. \u201cNo one told the city of La Joya. No one told the police department that these people were here and no one told us that these people were possibly ill.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Further, the immigrants told the officer who responded to the Whataburger concerns that they had been booked a room at the Texas Inn &amp; Suites down the road after they had been released from Border Patrol and that the rooms had been booked by the Catholic Charities of The Rio Grande Valley.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWe have an understanding based on what was told to us that the hotel in totality has already been rented out,\u201d Casas told Fox. \u201cThe information we have is that everyone that is staying in that hotel is COVID-19 positive because it\u2019s being rented out for them.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Casas also told the outlet that police can\u2019t keep the immigrants from leaving the hotel and going elsewhere in the U.S.<\/p>\n<p>News of the COVID-19-positive immigrants comes at the same time that whistleblowers said they were told to downplay a COVID-19 outbreak among migrant children at a shelter set up at Fort Bliss in Texas. NBC News <a href=\"https:\/\/www.nbcnews.com\/politics\/immigration\/whistleblowers-say-they-were-told-downplay-covid-outbreak-among-migrant-n1275261\">reported<\/a> that two new whistleblowers had come forward to discuss the conditions of children being kept in migrant facilities under the Biden administration. The new whistleblowers said in a complaint: \u201cCovid was widespread among children and eventually spread to many employees. Hundreds of children contracted Covid in the overcrowded conditions. Adequate masks were not consistently provided to children, nor was their use consistently enforced.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>The whistleblowers, Arthur Pearlstein and Lauren Reinhold, added that HHS public affairs officials told them \u201cwhen asked, to make everything sound positive about the Fort Bliss experience and to play down anything negative.\u201d<\/p>\n<p><em>The Daily Wire is one of America\u2019s fastest-growing conservative media companies and counter-cultural outlets for news, opinion, and entertainment. Get inside access to The Daily Wire by becoming a&nbsp;<\/em><a href=\"https:\/\/www.dailywire.com\/subscribe\"><em>member<\/em><\/a><em>.<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Police in South Texas were surprised to discover that illegal immigrants had been put up in hotels after being released from federal custody \u2013 and that these immigrants had possibly &#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":2315279,"comment_status":"close","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_mo_disable_npp":"","fifu_image_url":"","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-605787","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/605787","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=605787"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/605787\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2315279"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=605787"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=605787"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=605787"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}