Tim Furr said masks should not be a local requirement because of undocumented migrants crossing the U.S. border with Mexico, despite his county being nearly 1,400 miles away.
A North Carolina county school board member defended his claim at a Monday night meeting that the recent spike in Delta variant COVID-19 cases can be blamed on"unvaccinated, sick" undocumented migrants crossing the U.S. border from Mexico.
"I'm not trying to make this political, but until this government keeps illegal aliens by the thousands coming across that border without masks, with COVID, putting them on buses, sending them all over the United States, we're just beating our heads against the wall," Furr told the school board Monday, explaining his reasons for wanting masks to be optional for local teachers and students.
At this point, a livestream of the meeting overhears another board member ask aloud,"are we serious right now?", teachers and students wearing masks in Cabarrus County schools won't help to reduce the number of local cases as long as there are countless"illegal aliens" coming over the U.S. border.
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