More than 18% of migrant families and 20% of unaccompanied minors who recently crossed the U.S. border tested positive for Covid-19 on leaving Border Patrol custody over the past 2 to 3 weeks, briefing document says.
Some flights scheduled to deport migrants had more than 25 percent of passengers test positive before departure, leading Immigration and Customs Enforcement to remove those migrants from the flights for quarantine in the U.S., according to the document.
As of Wednesday, more than 15,000 migrants were in Border Patrol custody, according to Customs and Border Protection data obtained by NBC News.If a migrant who is about to be deported by ICE tests positive for Covid, the migrant is quarantined and deportation is delayed, according to DHS. The document refers specifically to those migrants chosen for"expedited removal," meaning they were deported soon after they crossed or attempted to cross the U.S. border.
A second DHS document prepared this week for the White House says high positivity rates are"straining the capacity of the NGOs and local governments that DHS currently partners with to care for them." In a statement, a White House spokesperson said,"DHS and CBP takes its responsibility to prevent the spread of Covid-19 and other diseases very seriously. CBP provides migrants who can't be expelled...or are awaiting processing with PPE from the moment they are taken into custody, and migrants are required to keep masks on at all times, including when they are transferred or in the process of being released.
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