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EXCLUSIVE: ‘It’s a death trap’: ICE officers file OSHA complaint over illegal immigrant COVID risks
Washington Times ^ | 04 November 2021 | Stephen Dinan

Posted on 11/05/2021 8:58:57 PM PDT by blueplum

The labor union for ICE officers has filed two workplace safety complaints about the Biden administration’s handling of illegal immigrants and COVID-19 at the border, saying federal employees processing and releasing the migrants face conditions that amount to “a death trap.”

The complaints say many of the federal workers are contracting COVID-19.

A Texas processing facility designed to hold fewer than 1,000 people at times has topped 4,000 per day. Employees have been falling ill after spending time in close quarters with illegal immigrantsm , who generally aren’t tested for coronavirus infection, according to the complaints....

(Excerpt) Read more at washingtontimes.com ...


TOPICS: Culture/Society; Government; News/Current Events
KEYWORDS: aliens; border; borderpatrol; covid; illegalimmigrants; invasion; osha; texas
This can't go on. It's insanity. The BP folks are using every precaution they can, and are still getting infected. Which means these infected released into the communities are spreading infection all along their travels to wherever they end up in the US.
1 posted on 11/05/2021 8:58:57 PM PDT by blueplum
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To: blueplum

They haven’t been tested for TB and many other communicable diseases.


2 posted on 11/05/2021 9:05:44 PM PDT by wintertime ( Behind every government school teacher stand armed police.( Real bullets in those guns on the hip!))
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Precautions? Are you talking about the cheap Chinese made masks they have laying around the stations. Most of the so called precautions are a joke. When you have to fingerprint or search someone a mask is little to no protection. Which is why our unions have filed suit.


3 posted on 11/05/2021 9:08:15 PM PDT by 98charlie
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4 posted on 11/05/2021 10:29:57 PM PDT by bitt (<img src=' 'width=50%>)
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To: 98charlie

Do they even check or fumigation for lice anymore?


5 posted on 11/06/2021 7:16:40 PM PDT by CJ Wolf ( what is scarier than offensive words? Not being able to say them. )
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