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Illegals Released By DHS Were Not Tested for COVID-19 Before Taking Commercial Flights
Townhall ^ | 05/20/2022 | Julio Rosas

Posted on 05/20/2022 9:48:31 PM PDT by SeekAndFind

A Department of Homeland Security (DHS) Office of Inspector General investigation found many migrants who illegally crossed the U.S.-Mexico border and later released by DHS were not tested for COVID-19 before they boarded commercial flights to other cities in the country.

DHS has been relying on non-governmental organizations to test people for COVID-19 released by Border Patrol but there are towns who either don't have a non-governmental organization to conduct the testing or they do not have the capacity.

A summary of the report stated U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement could not prove single adults, family units, and unaccompanied minors had been given COVID-19 tests before boarding domestic flights: 

"ICE Enforcement and Removal Operations (ERO) policy requires coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19) testing of migrants before transfer, transport, or release from ICE detention facilities. These policies do not include requirements to test family units or noncitizen unaccompanied children (UC) before transfer from U.S. Customs and Border Protection custody. ERO has a process for escorting UCs, but the process does not include requirements to ensure UCs are tested for COVID-19 before transport to the Department of Health and Human Services’ Office of Refugee Resettlement. The Department of Homeland Security Chief Medical Officer recommended UCs receive a COVID-19 test before transport. However, ICE has not implemented this recommendation.

"We identified numerous instances where ERO could not provide evidence that single adults, family units, and UCs were tested for COVID-19 before transport on domestic commercial flights. It is important for DHS and all its components to detect and slow the spread of COVID-19, and ICE is responsible for transporting migrants domestically to ICE facilities and other locations. Therefore, to reduce the spread of COVID-19, ICE should ensure migrants in its care are COVID-19–negative before they board domestic commercial flights. Without ensuring all migrants are COVID-19–negative and without complete records, ERO could risk exposing other migrants, ERO staff, and the general public to COVID-19 on domestic commercial flights."

"ERO did not have controls in place to ensure staff and contractors followed the requirements to test all single adult migrants for COVID-19 before transfer, transport, or release using domestic commercial flights in FY 2021. We reviewed a sample of 48 detainees and identified 24 occasions where a migrant boarded a domestic commercial flight. In 11 of those 24 occasions, ERO could not provide evidence the migrant received a COVID-19 test within 3 days of transport," the report continued.

The DHS OIG report is consistent to what had been described to Townhall during the border crisis in 2021. When the Del Rio Sector was overwhelmed by Haitians illegally crossing the border, many were released into the U.S. by DHS and in the case of those take flights out of the Del Rio International Airport, they were not tested for COVID-19.



TOPICS: Culture/Society; Foreign Affairs; Government; News/Current Events
KEYWORDS: bordercrisis; covid; dhs; illegals; robertsummerhays; title42

1 posted on 05/20/2022 9:48:31 PM PDT by SeekAndFind
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To: SeekAndFind

Somebody dropped the ball and let all the air out.


2 posted on 05/20/2022 9:57:38 PM PDT by lee martell
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To: lee martell

RE: Somebody dropped the ball and let all the air out.

It was TOTALLY DELIBERATE.

I’ve always said ( since last year ) that Alejandro Mayorkas should be impeached for dereliction of duty. Hopefully this will happen in the next congress. It can’t come soon enough.


3 posted on 05/20/2022 10:02:47 PM PDT by SeekAndFind
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To: SeekAndFind

This 💩is never gonna end….


4 posted on 05/20/2022 10:20:00 PM PDT by telescope115 (Proud member of the ANTIFAuci movement. )
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To: SeekAndFind

Alejandro Mayorkas should be impeached for dereliction of duty. Hopefully this will happen in the next congress.


He could well be impeached by the House under Republican leadership (though I doubt it), but he’ll never be convicted by the Senate. Nothing will happen to members of this administration.


5 posted on 05/20/2022 10:42:38 PM PDT by hanamizu
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To: SeekAndFind

NWO/WEF Great Reset/Population Replacement Program fully implemented.


6 posted on 05/20/2022 10:55:25 PM PDT by A strike (The DeepState/Uniparty doesn't only hate Trump, they hate US)
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To: SeekAndFind

As Gomer Pyle would say, “Surprise, Surprise”! NOT!!!


7 posted on 05/20/2022 11:09:30 PM PDT by MadMax, the Grinning Reaper (Figures )
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To: SeekAndFind

Who fricking cares... It’s a mild influenza.


8 posted on 05/20/2022 11:42:05 PM PDT by foundedonpurpose (Praise Hashem, for his restoration of all things!)
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Who cares? Aside from people dying, our country was decimated by lockdowns, mask and vaccine mandates which aren’t over. I’ll stop there before I get kicked off for spouting obscenities.


9 posted on 05/20/2022 11:58:51 PM PDT by vivenne (")
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To: SeekAndFind

Testing for Covid is BS!!!! It is ALL a LIE.....ALL OF IT

“Anyone can test positive for practically anything with the PCR test, if you run it long enough.....with PCR if you do it well, you can find almost anything in anybody....it doesn’t tell you that you are sick”

-Dr Kary Mullis, PHD, creator of the PCR test

Biggest Lie in World History: There Never Was A Pandemic. The Data Base is Flawed. The Covid Mandates including the Vaccine are Invalid

The PCR “Covid-19 Confirmed Cases” are Meaningless. The Multibillion Dollar Antigen and Home Test Project is Fake

By Prof Michel Chossudovsky
Global Research, May 14, 2022

https://www.globalresearch.ca/biggest-lie-in-world-history-the-data-base-is-flawed-there-never-was-a-pandemic-the-covid-mandates-including-the-vaccine-are-invalid/5772008


10 posted on 05/21/2022 1:17:06 AM PDT by afchief
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To: SeekAndFind

more evidence proving the kung flu pandemic is a scam...

trust our government to protect you and your health at your own peril...


11 posted on 05/21/2022 1:48:54 AM PDT by heavy metal (smiling improves your face value and makes people wonder what the hell you're up to... 😁)
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To: SeekAndFind

HOW DARE YOU !!!!


12 posted on 05/21/2022 4:29:50 AM PDT by Tennessee Nana
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To: SeekAndFind

Just part of the replacement plan democrats order more ballots.


13 posted on 05/21/2022 8:53:31 AM PDT by Vaduz ( )
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Continuing proof, as if it were needed, that CoupFlu has NEVER been about public health.


14 posted on 05/21/2022 8:57:23 AM PDT by mewzilla (We need to repeal RCV wherever it's in use and go back to dumb voting machines.)
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