Border Patrol Stops Hundreds of Chinese Migrants due to Coronavirus Travel ban
Border patrol reportedly stopped hundreds of Chinese immigrants from entering the country due to the travel ban put in place by President Trump and his administration.
According to Fox News:
EXCLUSIVE: Since officials first reported the coronavirus outbreak in Wuhan in late December and the United States imposed a travel ban for those entering from China, Border Patrol agents have detained 333 Chinese nationals attempting to enter the United States illegally, according to Department of Homeland Security data obtained by Fox News.
While none have tested positive for the virus, the southern border remains a primary focus of the Trump administration, which sees the area as high risk and a gateway for COVID-19 to spread in the U.S.
"We have a unique public health threat posed by individuals arriving unlawfully at the border, where migrants, law enforcement officials, frontline personnel, and the American public are put at risk," said a DHS official who asked to remain anonymous because he was not authorized to speak publicly by the agency.
Under MPP, which stands for the Migrant Protection Protocol, the U.S. has deported some 60,000 migrants to Mexico to await their deportation hearings. Unless the Supreme Court acts, the policy will be ruled illegal in California and Arizona and those individuals and other migrants claiming asylum will be allowed to remain in the U.S. indefinitely.
Officials have stated that it would only take one infected individual to infect the whole detained migrant community, and if the remain in Mexico policy if lifted it greatly increases the risks of this.
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