Editor’s Note: The first component of this series through Todd Bensman, from the upcoming e-book “America’s Covert Border War,” can be found here: “Trump is on point: those infected with Covid flee Mexico… to U.S. hospitals.”
AUSTIN, Texas – Last week, a hearse with the body of U.S. Border Patrol agent Marco A. Gonzales moved slowly south from Central Texas Hospital where He died of Covid-19, through small towns on the road where mourners line up on the road. waved his last respects. Gonzales, who will be buried on the small border of the town of Del Rio where he worked, one of at least 3 frontline border patrol officers in Texas who died of Covid in recent weeks.
There, Agent Enrique J. Rositas, a 20-year veteran at McAllen, and Agent Agustín Aguilar of Eagle Pass, who will be buried this weekend.
Their bodies, funerals and grieving wives and youth are offering a harsh rebuke to recalcitrant national media and state and federal workplace holders who have largely refused to recognize a damaging and ongoing progression in the life cycle of the Covid-19 pandemic. : Your destination reflects only a percentage of the existing hospitalization peaks in the California Array Arizona and Texas border states is due to a kaleidoscope of legal and illegal border crossings through covid health-troubled patients seeking repair in the United States.
Covid’s deaths ‘in the line of duty’ defy denial
Acting U.S. Customs and Border Protection Commissioner Mark Morgan illustratrf the general state of denialism during the August 6 press briefing. None of the attending national journalists reported in context the totality of his remarks confirming this Covid-importation among illegally entering immigrants, and worse, that in its fatal vortex along the Mexico-U.S. border, at least 10 CBP personnel had died “in the line of duty because of Covid.”
The country’s most sensible border official said his agents encountered illegal immigrants “who know or strongly suspect they have Covid,” but rent smugglers anyway to cross them, or climb the border wall or enter by other means. Under Title 42 provisions on emergency pandemics, the Border Patrol has returned 91 percent of Mexican citizens arrested. But under the Long-standing Waivers of Title 42 from the Border Patrol, Morgan stated that agents sending to U.S. hospitals are confident that they contract Covid’s symptoms or admit they have the virus.
Some of the illegal transported immigrants report that they are in poor health with Covid, while others have symptoms, get injured when they fall from the wall or wander lost and dehydrated and then tested positive in the hospital, Morgan said.
“We’re talking about them right now, ” said Morgan. “And we took them to the hospital and once they arrive at the hospital, they are tested later and found out they were Covid [positive].
A relative of the deceased officer Aguilar told me that before his husband and father died, he had told his wife that he had transported an illegal immigrant with apparent symptoms of Covid in Eagle Pass/Del Rio to a nearby Texas hospital, and then he lit himself up. his whole family.
“They have recovered; he didn’t,” the father told me.
By the way, U.S. hospital facilities. Those who take these immigrants have become so overrun by patients inflamed with the virus in recent weeks that they have transported patients in helicopters, planes and ambulance fleets to hospitals throughout California. Texas and Arizona, where all the blame is regularly attributed only to the lifting of closed closures and the expansion of the community. Officer Aguilar, for example, died in a Hospital in San Antonio that at a hospital on the border of his hometown, which was overwhelmed.
Previously, in a July 19 interview with Breitbart Texas, Morgan showed that a wider variety of Covid patients who were legally fleeing across the border after the collapse of Mexican hospitals were also to blame for the component of the hospitalization crisis in the border state. Existing provisions for the closure of the federal border on March 20 come with an exemption for legal medical crossings.
Surprisingly, the national media has refrained from reporting on other statements by Commissioner Morgan.
He warned that other numbers of inflamed illegal migrants (40,000 were arrested in July) were evading the return of the Title 42 border patrol “for their own economic efforts” and are presumed to have made their way to infect other communities of running illegal migrants. .
“They’re running. They’re fighting. They’re doing everything they can to avoid apprehension,” he said. “Even if some of the illegal alien beings know, or strongly suspect that they have CovidArray … they’re still coming. They disclose to all those with whom they came into contact with their trip, while checking to enter this accountant illegally. “
In doing so, they are endangering the lives of CBP and their families, as well as those of our border communities and beyond. They don’t just stay in the border towns. An illegal single alien Covid can infect many other illegal alien beings as well as our manpower. “
There is no doubt that countless illegal immigrants, Mexicans with dual nationality, Mexican visa holders of all kinds and American expats have been fleeing overcrowded Mexican hospitals and contributing to the filling of U.S. hospitals since at least early June. (see my column for the city corridor on July 24)
Why it’s important
The challenge in understanding and detecting Mexico’s extension as an aggravating source of hospitalizations in U.S. border states. It is whether the state and federal government deserve policies that go beyond restoring the blockade and social estrangement on the U.S. side, and instead adjusts to federal measures on March 20. .border closure restrictions; Border Patrol’s hospital transport policy pursuant to Title 42; or take steps to alleviate Mexico’s current hospital capacity crisis, which obviously bleeds the U.S. hospital system.
But U.S. and government officials rarely recognize or communicate about Mexico’s contribution as Morgan did Thursday. That’s because when they did, illegal immigration activists accused them of xenophobes or racists, as happened to Arizona Republican Governor Doug Ducey when he cited Mexico as one of Covid’s top hospitalizations, and also when Trump management officials discussed what to do about it in private. Array
As a result of these criticisms, federal and state officials have refrained from calculating the extent to which Mexico and the border closure policy are causing the hospitalization crisis in U.S. border states and reconfiguring the public policies needed to counter it.
But all of them.
In mid-July, 3 members of Congress sent a letter to Chad Wolf, acting secretary of the Department of Homeland Security, requesting knowledge to indicate Mexico’s contribution to border hospitalizations, adding how often the border patrol takes patients to hospitals. The data will be delivered on July 24 to chip Roy (R-Texas), Paul Gosar (R-Ariz.) representatives. And Ted Budd (R-N. C.). Roy’s workplace stated that DHS did not meet deadlines, but gave the impression that it was collecting data.
On Monday, the Congress trio sent a new letter to Wolf, on behalf of 19 other signatories, requesting more information on the border closure policy, which only prohibits “essential” travel, and indicating whether the definition is too broad.
The members asked how CBP has defined “essential travel,” under what circumstances aliens with border crossing cards are stopped at the border and when they are admitted, and what steps CBP is taking to prevent Covid-positive aliens from entering. It also asks how many aliens with border crossing cards have been admitted into U.S. health care facilities for Covid treatment.
“Our policies are as smart as their implementation, and we cannot undermine their effectiveness, especially with lives, resources and the well-being of our country at stake,” it reads in the members’ letter. “We want to put in place and then put into force common-sense measures to restrict the spread of this highly contagious virus, and we expect your branch to focus aggressively on our states and border communities.”
I have filed a Freedom of Information Act request and two Texas Public Information Act requests for similar information. All are pending.
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