Posted on 04/27/2020 5:52:18 AM PDT by Oldeconomybuyer
When it unveiled an unprecedented order last month to swiftly expel virtually all unauthorized migrants from the U.S. southern border, the Trump administration said potentially infected foreigners could spread the coronavirus in the U.S., prompt outbreaks in immigration jails and strain public health resources along border communities.
But in a paradoxical twist, Guatemala, the largest source of migration to the U.S.-Mexico border in recent years, fears the U.S. is exporting the virus there through its deportation policy.
At least 99 migrants recently deported to Guatemala by the U.S. have tested positive for coronavirus as of Sunday, according to the nation's public health ministry. Deportees from the U.S. make up nearly 20% of the 500 coronavirus cases in Guatemala, which has had 15 pandemic-related deaths.
"I do believe that the U.S. is exporting the virus," California Representative Norma Torres, the sole Central American in Congress and an immigrant from Guatemala, told CBS News.
The cases among deported migrants have alarmed the public in Guatemala and its U.S.-aligned government, which indefinitely suspended deportation flights from the U.S. earlier this month. Guatemala's government, which has allowed two "humanitarian" flights in the past two weeks to receive repatriated children and families, has said it will only permit the resumption of regular deportation flights once the U.S. improves its screening protocols.
Experts and advocates warn that continued deportations from the U.S., the global epicenter of the pandemic, would pose a major threat to Guatemala, a developing country with rampant economic and public health inequities that has relatively few coronavirus cases.
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“”We kick out folks who have no right to be here back to their own countries and it’s our fault that they are infected?””
Pretty nutty, right? I can’t figure out if they were being held SOUTH of our border or actually IN our country....
I think I understand the situation so what is the problem?
“”to swiftly expel virtually all unauthorized migrants from the U.S. southern border,””
Looks like SOUTH of the border and not IN our country yet but then that poses the question of how do we pick people out of a crowd SOUTH of the border to deport? Wouldn’t deport mean they had to be IN our country to start?
Mexico’s done the same thing with theirs.
And they all belong back home.
We took in all of ours worldwide. Should have never let the illegals in, let alone stay and be subsidized massively by taxpayers, for decades now.
If we sent them all back to Latin America, Latin America would have a huge jump in educated and entrepreneurial citizens, ready to move their countries forward.
Do them that big favor and get them off the remittances dole.
Trump exporting DEATH! /s
22 million? My guess would be at least 30 million.
Brought to you by “Build the Wall”.
Not really.
We arent “exporting” jack shtt. We are returninv to sender.
The suggestion that Guatemala is getting the Wuhan Flu just because we drove out their invasion force would be risible were it not so pernicious.
Get out of the United States! These criminal Invaders need to be thrown out ASAP. Instead of infecting America through their illegal activity and their diseases that can infect their own crappy country. Get OUT!
What goes around comes around.
So they would have infected the US and it is a good thing we got rid of them.
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