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Fact check: Abbott exaggerates COVID-19 concerns about migrants entering Texas
Brandon Mulder, PolitiFact
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Gov. Greg Abbott talks to reporters during a press conference about a package of election reforms, at Senator Paul Bettencourt s District Office on Monday, March 15, 2021, in Houston.Godofredo A. Vásquez, Houston Chronicle / Staff photographer
One day after Gov. Greg Abbott announced he would lift the statewide mask mandate and allow all businesses to open to 100% capacity, the governor turned his attention to the coronavirus spreading along the Texas-Mexico border. The Biden Administration is recklessly releasing hundreds of illegal immigrants who have COVID into Texas communities, the governor said in a March 3 tweet. The Biden Admin. must IMMEDIATELY end this callous act that exposes Texans & Americans to COVID.
And in Harlingen, near Brownsville, the homeless shelter where families are being dropped off reported a group at 25% positive for COVID-19. That’s more than seven times the current positivity test rate for the U.S. public, which Johns Hopkins University’s tracker shows at 3.5%.
Pastor Bill Reagan, who runs Loaves and Fishes, the Harlingen shelter, said they’re doing the best they can with the situation.
“It would be best if Customs and Border Protection decides to release certain individuals into the United States that they thoroughly quarantine them for the 14 days and test them and only release those that rest negative,” he said. “But I also understand they’re overwhelmed.”