“They aren’t tested at encounters. [Unaccompanied children] and family units are moved out of custody quickly. If they are infected and do not have obvious symptoms, they are sent out,” a senior Customs and Border Protection official told the Washington Examiner on Monday. The official is not an organization member and spoke on the state of anonymity.
Migrant families and children are “only tested once we turn them over or unless symptomatic,” the official added.
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Chris Cabrera, National Border Patrol Council spokesman, said in an email Monday that the "majority of people in Border Patrol custody are not tested."
"If an individual shows signs or symptoms of COVID-19 they will be sent for testing," Cabrera wrote in an email. "If an individual has any type of medical emergency and is transported to the hospital for treatment, the hospital will test them as a precaution."
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It is unknown how many people were given coronavirus tests or how many had the virus when they were released. Neither person would provide an estimate calculation.
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Yet, since February, more than 280,000 children and parents have been met at the southern border, according to federal data. At least 120,000 people have been delivered into the U.S.
The official added that there is no Department of Homeland Security policy that needs the government to examine the hundreds of thousands of people Border Patrol agents have taken into care since the start of the Biden administration in January.
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The DHS did not refute that it does not have a system that requires migrants to be tested by Border Patrol.
"If anyone exhibits signs of illness in CBP custody, they are referred to local health systems for appropriate testing, diagnosis, and treatment," DHS wrote in an email. "CBP facilitates testing upon transfer or release of persons from CBP custody by coordinating with local, governmental, and non-governmental entities as appropriate."
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Local officials in the Rio Grande Valley of Texas, where more migrants strive to get across than any other part of the 2,000-mile border, began speaking out last week, claiming that the Border Patrol was taking people into custody and then letting them go without first checking them if they have the coronavirus.
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“Faced with multiple reports that migrants are being released in Hidalgo County infected with COVID-19, I am calling on federal immigration officials to stop releasing these migrants into our communities,” Hidalgo County Judge Richard Cortez said in a plea for Texas Gov. Greg Abbott to stop the releases.
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