Watching the Biden Administration destroy the Country.
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Last but not least — there were moments this week that stopped me in my tracks
Not editorializing but I’ve covered the border several years now and I’ve never seen with my own eyes anything close to what I saw Tuesday — the volume of people and the chaos
Texas border town struggles under surge of migrant families and COVID-19
by Anna Giaritelli, Homeland Security Reporter | | August 05, 2021 06:12 AM
MCALLEN, Texas — The busiest spot of the southern border for illegal crossings is struggling with an all-time high of migrants and a spike in COVID-19 cases.
Last week, 7,000 migrants were released in downtown McAllen, Texas. More than 1,500 tested positive for COVID-19 over the past seven days, according to a city document issued Wednesday.
The city of 141,000 residents in the Rio Grande Valley is ground zero for the border crisis. Agents in the valley encounter more illegal immigrants than any of the Border Patrol's other eight regions. Many migrants come thousands of miles from Central America and elsewhere to cross the border just miles south of downtown McAllen, where they are picked up, processed, and dropped off downtown.
During a tour of the building in March, the respite center was packed with 400-500 people inside. Far more families have come through the town recently. The number of families released daily rose to 1,200 in July before hitting 1,900 this week. The same person is on-site daily and has never observed a city fire marshal inspecting the buildings.
A half-dozen portable toilets line an alley behind Catholic Charities, a sign of the strain on the facilities. The alley was flooded.
A pile of human feces was on the sidewalk directly next to the portable toilets. It was impossible to walk through the flood water left from the recent storm to get to the portage toilets, just a few feet from the building’s back doors, without going through the waste water.
Nearly all of the families being dropped off will leave McAllen within hours to days to go to other places across the U.S. Family or friends in the U.S. may pay for bus or plane tickets to get them to their final destinations. However, Republican Rep. John Katko, ranking member of the House Homeland Security Committee, revealed in April the federal government is paying nonprofit organizations to cover migrants' travel costs.
A local resident who only shared her first name, Margarita, stood catty-corner from the activity Tuesday evening, watching the buses drop off migrants. She is a singer who regularly travels through the bus station between Mexico and Texas. Margarita said she has seen more migrants getting dropped off here in recent months.
“I travel a lot of the time. Every time I come, it’s the same s***,” she said.
She made a point to explain she is a Mexican citizen from Ciudad Victoria but legally immigrated to the U.S. and applied for citizenship shortly before the coronavirus pandemic began in March 2020. She recalled an incident when three men trespassed onto her property by jumping over her backyard fence. The men broke the fence, and she was left with the bill.
“That’s what I don’t like — not everybody's good people,” Margarita said. “I'm waiting a lot for my citizenship and they [are] given more opportunities ... I was living here for so many years — I am a good citizen. I never have any tickets.”
https://www.washingtonexaminer.com/news/border-town-struggles-handle-surge-migrant-families-and-covid-19
Human excreta and the lack of adequate personal and domestic hygiene have been implicated in the transmission of many infectious diseases including cholera, typhoid, hepatitis, polio, cryptosporidiosis, ascariasis, and schistosomiasis.
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