Data from Customs and Border Protection reveals almost 4,000 of the 21,000 total agents were unvaccinated as of late November — only weeks after the government-mandated all employees reveal their status.
President Joe Biden ordered all federal workers to be completely vaccinated. The order has faced court challenges. It was put on hold by a court in January. though another court reversed the choice in April.
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“That bar is now lifted, and the federal agencies are now clear to proceed with whatever disciplinary actions they were going to move on with respect to unvaccinated people,” stated John J. Michels Jr., counsel for the Federal Practice Group in Washington. He served as lead counsel in the lawsuit that stopped former President George W. Bush’s federal mandate for an anthrax vaccine.
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According to the Examiner, the administration is awaiting one more court conclusion. That conclusion, which could arrive as early as Friday, could clear the way for governmental agencies to begin penalizing those who are not vaccinated.
“Agencies have lately adopted policies that penalize employees who have not disclosed their COVID-19 vaccination status by requiring them to take regular COVID-19 tests as a condition of coming to work (and disciplining them if they don’t),” David Dorey, a lawyer and former chief of staff of policy at the Department of Homeland Security, explained. “I view CBP’s implementation of COVID-19-related requirements as more aggressive than other agencies, including often demonstrating outright hostility to those who question them.”
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Three Border Patrol agents placed at many parts of the U.S.-Mexico border spoke with the Washington Examiner regarding vaccine waivers and stated they have not received responses to their reasonable accommodation request in the nine months since they submitted them, putting them in purgatory.
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One agent told the Examiner: “You're going to try to tell me that after I’ve been doing this job for two years now in the field that I’m somehow the danger, not the fact that almost every single day, we’ll have at least one to maybe four COVID-positive kids come through?”
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In the meantime, Rep. Mike Johnson, R-La., has presented a bill to protect service members seeking religious exemptions from Biden’s COVID-19 mandate.
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Under the bill, service members who are involuntarily discharged based on their COVID-19 vaccine status would have their status designated as honorably discharged.
It would allow them to seek reinstatement and enable them to obtain retirement and benefits.