United States Border Patrol Agent Marco Gonzales, running with a brush in the warmth of the kitchen last June, one night near his hometown of Del Rio, when he saw four or five Mexicans leaving the Rio together. Big. they all had symptoms of Covid, his 23-year-old daughter Catherine Gonzales told the Center for Immigration Studies (CIS) last week.
The 49, 15-year-old border patrol veteran told his circle of family members that he still loaded the Mexicans into his off-duty vehicle and took them to the Acuña International Bridge. Del Rio for his deportation to Mexico, the existing procedure of Title 42 of the physical fitness code invoked to keep detention centers away from Covid.
The officer later said he believed Mexicans gave him the coronavirus that night despite the gloves and mask that all border patrol officers receive. Soon he complained of headaches, fatigue, and loss of taste and smell. He lasted two painful weeks in the hospital on a ventilator. Towards the end, he was so swollen that “you couldn’t see his eyes anymore,” said Catherine, who is one of Agent Gonzales’ 3 children and has two.
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