{"id":813246,"date":"2021-09-25T10:59:14","date_gmt":"2021-09-25T14:59:14","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=813246"},"modified":"2021-09-25T10:59:18","modified_gmt":"2021-09-25T14:59:18","slug":"bidens-dhs-chief-admits-u-s-did-not-test-haitian-migrants-for-covid-19","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/bidens-dhs-chief-admits-u-s-did-not-test-haitian-migrants-for-covid-19\/","title":{"rendered":"Biden\u2019s DHS Chief Admits U.S. Did Not Test Haitian Migrants For COVID-19"},"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\">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%2Fbidens-dhs-chief-admits-u-s-did-not-test-haitian-migrants-for-covid-19%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=813246&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\/09\/GettyImages-1342321287.jpg?w=1200&amp;h=800&amp;ixlib=react-9.3.0\" class=\"ff-og-image-inserted\" \/><\/div>\n<p>Homeland Security Secretary Alejandro Mayorkas on Friday acknowledged that the nearly 15,000 illegal immigrants from Haiti who camped out under a bridge in Del Rio, Texas, were not tested for COVID-19. Previous reports indicate many of those who had camped out under the bridge were released into the United States.<\/p>\n<p>Fox News <a href=\"https:\/\/www.foxnews.com\/politics\/mayorkas-migrants-del-rio-bridge-not-tested-covid-19\">reported<\/a> that Mayorkas also said he was unaware of whether anyone contracted COVID-19 while staying at the camp.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWe did not test that population of individuals,\u201d Mayorkas said, according to the outlet. \u201cWe do not know, I do not know, I should say if I may be perfectly accurate, I do not know if anyone was sick with COVID. We certainly had some people get sick, not with COVID to my knowledge and we addressed their illnesses.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Fox noted that Mayorkas had been asked about the\u201d Biden administration\u2019s use of Title 42 public health protections that are deployed to quickly expel migrants who have come to the border, using the COVID-19 pandemic as a rationale.\u201d Mayorkas responded by saying the public health protection was to protect Americans and the migrants themselves, but was not an immigration measure.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cMigrants continue to be expelled under the CDC\u2019s Title 42 authority,\u201d Mayorkas said on Friday. \u201cTitle 42 is a public health authority and not an immigration policy.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Mayorkas then said that 150 medical personnel had been sent to the camp in Del Rio to handle health issues for the migrants, including setting up medical facilities in the area. He also said that as many as 30,000 illegal immigrants passed through the camp, but that only 15,000 were ever there at once. More from Fox:<\/p>\n<blockquote readability=\"17\">\n<p><em>Approximately 12,400 individuals are expected to have their cases heard by an immigration judge to decide whether they will be allowed to remain in the U.S.<\/em><\/p>\n<p><em>Another 8,000 have chosen to return to Mexico, while an estimated 5,000 migrants are being processed by DHS, which will determine whether they will be deported or placed in an immigration processing center, Mayorkas said. Only 2,000 have been deported.<\/em><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>Mayorkas admissions came a day after he refused to say how many of the Haitian migrants had been released into the U.S. The Daily Wire <a href=\"https:\/\/www.dailywire.com\/news\/bidens-homeland-security-chief-repeatedly-dodges-about-number-of-haitian-immigrants-released-into-u-s\">reported<\/a> that Mayorkas was pressed by CNN\u2019s Wolf Blitzer about the exact number, but the DHS Secretary dodged the question.<\/p>\n<p>Blitzer had asked Mayorkas: \u201cWhat\u2019s the situation right now? I understand the Department of Homeland Security says 1,400 Haitians have been deported. How many have actually been released here into the United States?\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWolf, we have indeed removed approximately 1,400 people from the Del Rio sector. We accumulate our statistics on a monthly basis, and, of course, we\u2019ll publish those as well. The individuals whom we release and place into immigration enforcement proceedings are those, for example, with acute medical conditions, specific vulnerabilities, or if our operational capacity so dictates,\u201d Mayorkas replied.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cIt\u2019s very important, Wolf, to underscore the fact that this is not a matter of immigration policy, but rather this is a matter of public health policy,\u201d he continued. \u201cWe are applying the law pursuant to an order that the Centers for Disease Control issued in light of the fact that this country and the world is in the midst of a pandemic. We are exercising that authority, as we are required to do, to protect the health and well-being of the migrants themselves, our personnel, local communities and the American public.\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>.&nbsp;<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Homeland Security Secretary Alejandro Mayorkas on Friday acknowledged that the nearly 15,000 illegal immigrants from Haiti who camped out under a bridge in Del Rio, Texas, were not tested for &#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":2315279,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_mo_disable_npp":"","fifu_image_url":"","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-813246","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\/813246","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=813246"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/813246\/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=813246"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=813246"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=813246"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}