The southern United States border is leaking in masses of aliens. You would think with the federal emphasis on COVID mandates we would also have some sort of public health inspections for the newcomers.
T'ain't so.
Except briefly. The specialized Homeland Security unit charged with preventing weapons of mass destruction (WMD) attacks against the United States allocated $9.5 million to test illegal immigrants for COVID-19 in Mexican border crossings.
The costly operation, described as “short-term” in a federal audit, lasted less than two months and tested around 22,000 migrants primarily in the Del Rio and Rio Grande Valley Border Patrol sectors in Texas.
The Department of Homeland Security (DHS) bureau, known as the Countering Weapons of Mass Destruction (CWMD) office, evidently stepped in because Customs and Border Protection (CBP), the frontline DHS agency, was crushed with an onslaught of illegal immigrants in the throes of a global pandemic.
Specific details about the CWMD’s involvement and multi-million-dollar
allocation to screen illegal immigrants for the virus are scarce and
what little is known only surfaced casually in a report focusing on a related matter.
The report notes that "CBP does not conduct COVID-19 testing for migrants who enter CBP custody. Instead, CBP relies on local public health systems to test symptomatic individuals (page 3 of the report)."
So when is our government going to start protecting us?
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