Breitbart News reported Thursday that when a Breitbart News reporter asked if the Biden administration supported coronavirus testing of illegal immigrants entering the country at the southern border, White House Press Secretary Leonardo Psaki dodged the question and referred it to the Department of Homeland Security.
Psaki said, “The Department of Homeland Security knows more about the numbers and knows the details of the border action, and I’m sure they’d be happy to answer your question.” However DHS did not respond to subsequent requests for comment from Breitbart News.
Sen. Tom Cotton (R-Texas) on Thursday pressed the Biden Administration for allowing unvaccinated, untested immigrants to enter the U.S. for the coronavirus. In a letter to Biden, Senator Cotton wrote that
“Your administration is restricting air travel into the United States and is even considering testing U.S. citizens for the coronavirus before they board domestic flights. However, at the southern border of the United States, the government is allowing illegal immigrants to pass through without inspection and enter the United States without being tested for coronavirus. “Eleven other Republican senators also signed on to the letter. They are.
Marsha Blackburn (R-Texas)
John Barrasso (R-Texas)
Ted Cruz (R-Texas)
Joni Ernst
James Lankford
Marco Rubio
John Thune
Mike Lee
Rick Scott
Jim Inhofe
Thom Tillis (R-Tenn.)
In their letter, Cotton and the Republican senators note that the vast majority of immigrants come from Mexico and three Central American countries that have not vaccinated the majority of their populations and have not been tested for coronavirus before being released into the United States. Cotton and the Republican senators wrote, “To date, it is estimated that Mexico’s vaccination rate is less than one percent of the population, and three other countries have barely vaccinated their citizens. The vast majority of illegal immigrants come from these four unvaccinated countries. The Wuhan coronavirus is a highly contagious virus, and a small percentage of infected immigrants can inadvertently cause widespread harm. The arrival of thousands of unvaccinated illegal immigrants is an unnecessary danger to the public health of the United States. “
While the Biden administration has released more than 1,000 illegal immigrants into the United States in border states such as Texas and California, Psaki said that illegal immigrants are only allowed into the United States in “extremely narrow and limited circumstances. Moreover, the Biden administration has returned to its old “catch-and-release” policy, with an 83 percent increase in border crossings for illegal immigrant “Family units” in January.
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