The Plague Invasion at the Border Is Just GOP Propaganda

[babylonsister]

The Plague Invasion at the Border Is Just GOP Propaganda
‘A GO-TO LIE’
Fear of disease was used to keep out the Irish, Italians, Greeks, Jews, and Mexicans. Now it is used to keep out the Guatemalans, Hondurans, and Salvadorans.
Ruben Navarrette Jr.
Updated Aug. 14, 2021 3:23AM ET / Published Aug. 13, 2021 11:34PM ET

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Now here are the facts.

The actual numbers are tiny. According to CBS News, officials in McAllen, Texas say that, since February, more than 7,000 migrants who tested positive for COVID-19 have been processed in the border city. Those same officials claim that every day they see more than 1,800 migrants coming into their community. That’s at least 54,000 per month. So, in the six months since February, about 324,000 migrants have passed through the city. Of that figure, only 7,000 tested positive for COVID-19—or 2 percent.

Public health officials say that migrants and refugees are no more likely to have contracted coronavirus than any other travelers crossing the border or any American living in COVID-19 hot spots in the United States. In fact, the cities in the U.S. with the highest positivity rates for the virus are nowhere near the border. But those cities tend to be in red states—where vaccination rates are lower and Republican governors have opposed mask mandates.

There is a familiar historical ring to all this. Those who have studied the history of immigration even have a name for it: “medical racism.” In the mid-19th century, Chinese immigrants to California were associated with sickness and blamed for bringing smallpox, syphilis, trachoma, and the bubonic plague. The Chinese Exclusion Act of 1882 was passed in part because of the public fear surrounding the spread of disease.

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[MichMan]

1. The administration needs to dispel this RW propaganda with facts and data

They need to provide information that will disprove this bullshit before it takes hold anymore than it already has. Otherwise, the rumors will continue and become confused with facts.

They need to disclose how many & what % of migrants are being tested? 90 %? , 99 %? 100 % ?

How many have tested positive?

When is the testing done once they cross?

How are those testing positive quarantined and how are they isolated from others during the quarantine timeframe?

[babylonsister]

2. I agree. This is the main talking point of the rwnjs.

It needs to be banished by those in the know.