Migrant workers coming in with covid

G

garyt1957

Member
108 illegal immigrants released by Border Patrol in Texas test positive for coronavirus, officials say | Fox News

What a joke!

More than 100 illegal immigrants released by the Border Patrol into Texas since late January have tested positive for the coronavirus following their arrival, officials in a city on the U.S.-Mexico border tell Fox News.

Felipe Romero, a spokesperson for Brownsville, said Wednesday that the 108 positives represent 6.3% of the number of total migrants who have been rapid-tested at the city’s main bus station, where they are being released by the Border Patrol. Rapid testing of the individuals began there on Jan. 25.
 

Migrant workers are an important part of the community where I live and not given the credit they deserve. Not all, but some live under deplorable conditions with too many housed in one trailer. No complaints from them as they feared reprisal and this was their only source of income to support their family.

This lead to an outbreak of covid last year here which thankfully put their plight under the spotlight and there is now talk of making them Canadian citizens.
 

garyt1957 said:
More than 100 illegal immigrants released by the Border Patrol into Texas since late January have tested positive for the coronavirus following their arrival, officials in a city on the U.S.-Mexico border tell Fox News.
Click to expand...
According to the article they tested positive FOLLOWING their arrival, so they very likely contracted the virus in Texas.
.
Given that, "The local county-wide positivity rate is estimated to be 13.8%," and "Felipe Romero, a spokesperson for Brownsville, said Wednesday that the 108 positives represent 6.3% of the number of total migrants who have been rapid-tested at the city’s main bus station", this suggests fewer of these immigrants are testing positive than the county at large.

Good thing Texas has opened up completely and eliminated mask mandates.
 
StarSong said:
According to the article they tested positive FOLLOWING their arrival, so they very likely contracted the virus in Texas.
.
Click to expand...
C'mon, don't be silly. How could they test them BEFORE they arrived? It means they tested them when they got here. SMH

Felipe Romero, a spokesperson for Brownsville, said Wednesday that the 108 positives represent 6.3% of the number of total migrants who have been rapid-tested at the city’s main bus station, where they are being released by the Border Patrol.
 
Last edited:
StarSong said:
.
Given that, "The local county-wide positivity rate is estimated to be 13.8%," and "Felipe Romero, a spokesperson for Brownsville, said Wednesday that the 108 positives represent 6.3% of the number of total migrants who have been rapid-tested at the city’s main bus station", this suggests fewer of these immigrants are testing positive than the county at large.
Click to expand...
Which means nothing. If you actually read the article you'd know that these people are headed out all over the country. Some were going to Maryland and New Jersey for instance. Do you really think these people are going to islolate for 14 days? Many were quoted as saying they weren't.
 
garyt1957 said:
Which means nothing. If you actually read the article you'd know that these people are headed out all over the country. Some were going to Maryland and New Jersey for instance. Do you really think these people are going to islolate for 14 days? Many were quoted as saying they weren't.
Click to expand...
I did read the article.

With Texas's governor lifting all Covid restrictions, do you really think all TX (legal resident) positives are going to isolate for 14 days? Or that asymptomatic legal residents will wear masks "just in case" they've got the virus?

I'm not saying it's good or appropriate for people who test positive to be traveling long distances on public transportation, but that this is one more small piece of a very large pandemic puzzle.
 
StarSong said:
With Texas's governor lifting all Covid restrictions, do you really think all TX (legal resident) positives are going to isolate for 14 days? Or that asymptomatic legal residents will wear masks "just in case" they've got the virus?
Click to expand...
Apples to oranges. You can't keep legal residents of texas out of the state but you sure as Hell can keep out illegal immigrants.
 
garyt1957 said:
C'mon, don't be silly. How could they test them BEFORE they arrived? It means they tested them when they got here. SMH

Felipe Romero, a spokesperson for Brownsville, said Wednesday that the 108 positives represent 6.3% of the number of total migrants who have been rapid-tested at the city’s main bus station, where they are being released by the Border Patrol.
Click to expand...
It does not matter since Covid is already here and was widely spread before they arrived.
 
garyt1957 said:
Apples to oranges. You can't keep legal residents of texas out of the state but you sure as Hell can keep out illegal immigrants.
Click to expand...
Yup and then @garyt1957, YOU and the other never ending complainers about illegal immigrants, can go get a job picking crops in the fields to feed our hungry nation. I would love to see such endless complainers picking a field of crops in the hot Texas sun.

Gosh, in fact, I would set up a chair under an umbrella, sip lemonade, and WATCH you, and the others pick those crops while cheering you on. The illegal immigrants would be welcome to join me, as they could give out directions on how to do it. 😍
 
Aneeda72 said:
Yup and then @garyt1957, YOU and the other never ending complainers about illegal immigrants, can go get a job picking crops in the fields to feed our hungry nation. I would love to see such endless complainers picking a field of crops in the hot Texas sun.

Gosh, in fact, I would set up a chair under an umbrella, sip lemonade, and WATCH you, and the others pick those crops while cheering you on. The illegal immigrants would be welcome to join me, as they could give out directions on how to do it. 😍
Click to expand...
There are visas for LEGAL work entry. Wake up.
 
These are not migrant workers. These are illegal aliens. I know a lot of migrant workers and they are here legally working in the USA. These people are not immigrating. They are illegally entering the USA. Let's all go try that in a foreign country and see how far we get.
 
Aneeda72 said:
Yup and then @garyt1957, YOU and the other never ending complainers about illegal immigrants, can go get a job picking crops in the fields to feed our hungry nation. I would love to see such endless complainers picking a field of crops in the hot Texas sun.

Gosh, in fact, I would set up a chair under an umbrella, sip lemonade, and WATCH you, and the others pick those crops while cheering you on. The illegal immigrants would be welcome to join me, as they could give out directions on how to do it. 😍
Click to expand...
Absolutely no reasons to have illegals do it. Lots of migrant workers come in legally to work. But you knew that.
 
StarSong said:
Given that Texas reported 7620 new positives Covid cases yesterday alone, 108 among migrant workers since late January is less than a drop in the bucket.
Click to expand...
Those are just the ones they caught. And I don't care if there were 10 of them , you don't let them spread out through the country with a disease. There's a reason they're called illegal.
 
garyt1957 said:
Absolutely no reasons to have illegals do it. Lots of migrant workers come in legally to work. But you knew that.
Click to expand...
They have not been coming in for a year, as far as I know as the border was closed. 🤣. Crops were plowed under cause the complainers did not get up off their butts and pick.
 
Aneeda72 said:
Yup and then @garyt1957, YOU and the other never ending complainers about illegal immigrants, can go get a job picking crops in the fields to feed our hungry nation. I would love to see such endless complainers picking a field of crops in the hot Texas sun.

Gosh, in fact, I would set up a chair under an umbrella, sip lemonade, and WATCH you, and the others pick those crops while cheering you on. The illegal immigrants would be welcome to join me, as they could give out directions on how to do it. 😍
Click to expand...
Supposedly, there are 11 million undocumented immigrants in the USA. These people are working. Some of them are doing jobs Americans refuse to do. Americans like cheap food. It's the only way to keep prices low.

According to DHS, 667,000 people overstayed their visas in 2019 alone.
 
C'est Moi said:
There are visas for LEGAL work entry. Wake up.
Click to expand...
I am awake, probably more awake than you cause I have Native American blood running through my veins and I don’t remember any Native Americans inviting Europeans to move in and take over. Everyone who is not a Native American is the child of an immigrant, perhaps you should wake up.

Those so proud sons and daughters of the original so called colonists were illegal immigrants. The USA has a history of illegal immigrants. It’s not the illegal immigrants that people want to control, it’s the COLOR of the illegal immigrants that people want to control. IMO.
 
garyt1957 said:
That's absolutely ridiculous.
Click to expand...
Covid came from Europe to Seattle and New York, we have the European version. Until we have the now United Kingdom version from, you know, the United Kingdom which is not in Mexico. I have not heard of a Mexican version of the virus. If you know of a Mexican version of the virus, please enlighten us all.
 
Aneeda72 said:
I am awake, probably more awake than you cause I have Native American blood running through my veins and I don’t remember any Native Americans inviting Europeans to move in and take over. Everyone who is not a Native American is the child of an immigrant, perhaps you should wake up.

Those so proud sons and daughters of the original so called colonists were illegal immigrants. The USA has a history of illegal immigrants. It’s not the illegal immigrants that people want to control, it’s the COLOR of the illegal immigrants that people want to control. IMO.
Click to expand...
Amen!
 

You must log in or register to reply here.

Back
Top