Posted on 08/13/2021 10:27:58 PM PDT by blueplum
Amid rising infections, the Biden administration has stepped up efforts to vaccinate immigrants in U.S. government custody against the coronavirus, but thousands of detainees have refused vaccination, according to federal data shared with Congress and obtained by CBS News....
The increased vaccination efforts — and the significant refusal rate — come as coronavirus infections continue to surge inside ICE detention facilities, where the detainee population has ballooned to 25,000, a 70% increase since the start of the Biden administration.
In the past six weeks, ICE has reported over 5,000 new coronavirus cases among detainees, according to an analysis of agency data. As of Friday, nearly 1,400 detainees were being monitored or isolated after testing positive for the virus.
Since the start of the pandemic, ICE has reported over 24,000 COVID-19 infections among immigrants in its custody, as well as 10 coronavirus-related deaths....
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They don’t have jobs, tuition investments and pensions to protect of course they’re not taking it
Well I am sure that they just let them go then.
“Wait…they can refuse?”
Why can they say no and go where they want, but we can’t?
How about the Republicans running NOW on a campaign position of “No vaccine, no stay”? Or, “If you don’t like vaccinations, how about deportations”?
Because they have nothing to lose. Govt has no bargaining power over them like they do with citizens who go to school and work for a living.
DO NOT BE MISLEAD .... we have been infused with a couple of million 17 - 30 year olds since obama was _resident.
I’m not a big believer in the vaccine, but this administration seems to be. So you refuse, you go home. You want in you take the jab. Seems simple to me. It shouldn’t be an option. It wasn’t on Ells Island.
I think the governors of Florida, Texas, and other states that are having all these illegals dumped into their state ought to rent buses and ship them on to Washington DC or maybe New York City or even Portland OR. Be a heck of a lot cheaper than trying to take care of them or having them overwhelm hospitals or schools in their own states. Kind of poetic justice.
LOL! Some minor side-effects.
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