Mexican migrants aren’t spreading COVID in the U.S. No, Republicans are doing that

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Now that they’ve been proven wrong with their ridiculous claims that President Biden is a Socialist, and that the stock market would collapse, and that the U.S. economy would plummet under Biden’s administration, former President Trump and his right-wing followers are reverting to their original playbook: racism.

They are now blaming immigrants — Mexicans, specifically — for the upsurge in COVID-19 cases across the nation. It’s another big lie, just like the one that insists Trump won the election or that drinking bleach would kill COVID-19.

In recent days, Trump world has been spreading the falsehood that the surge of COVID-19 in the country is the result of Biden’s allegedly lax border policies.

Florida Gov.Ron DeSantis — who reportedly is campaigning to be the Trump-backed Republican candidate for president in 2024 — and Texas Gov. Greg Abbott are going gung-ho with the theory that the border is wide open to undocumented migrants.

DeSantis even had the nerve to claim on Aug. 4 that Biden is helping “facilitate” the spread of the virus because of the alleged influx of COVID-spreading Mexican migrants.

This comes from the same DeSantis who is one of the nation’s biggest COVID-19 enablers. He has, among other things, signed an executive order threatening school districts that require face masks with funding cuts; he has sued cruise-line companies that require passengers to be vaccinated.

But the argument that Mexicans or any other undocumented migrants are a major cause of COVID-19’s spread is based on lies.

First, it’s not true that Biden is allowing more COVID-19-carrying migrants into the country. In fact, more migrants have been expelled back to Mexico under COVID-19 prevention laws so far this year than during the entire final year of the Trump administration.

More than 500,000 migrants were expelled from February to June under Title 42, a public-health law the Trump administration began using in March 2020 to eject people at the border in the name of preventing COVID-19 infection, according to Factcheck.org. By comparison, there were 449,000 such expulsions from March 2020 to January 2021, it says.

Second, it’s not true that undocumented migrants who cross the border are the spreading the virus in the United States.

In fact, the biggest COVID-19 surges in the country are taking place in Florida and parts of Texas with mostly white unvaccinated — not Hispanic — populations. And the least vaccinated places in the country are mostly populated by Trump voters, according to several studies.

Third, migrants released at the border and who move to other locations have already been tested before leaving their shelters and determined to be COVID negative. They are perhaps the most thoroughly tested population in the country, Reichlin-Melnick told me.

So the real culprits of the spread of COVID-19 in Florida and Texas — two Republican-run states that account for the bulk of the current spike in contagions — are not Mexican immigrants, but unscrupulous Trump-backed politicians and right-wing news channels.

According to a new report by MediaMatters, in recent months “Fox News alone was responsible for pushing 325 segments that actively undermined coronavirus science.”

Trump world is simply trying to divert public attention from its own responsibility for fighting mask mandates and not actively supporting vaccinations. The governors of Florida and Texas are now resorting to thinly veiled racism — the perennial last resort of political scoundrels — to try to make us blame somebody else.

https://www.miamiherald.com/news/local/news-columns-blogs/andres-oppenheimer/article253325148.html
 
In typical Trump/teabagger (www.teaparty.org) fashion, it is NEVER their fault.

Mini-Dotard is even blaming immigrants from Texas for his state's dismal covid-19 reaction.

Then blaming Biden.

ANYONE but him but still dictating from Tallahassee, what the counties, cities, schools and school boards can do to protect their constituents.

Whining about DC bureaucrats but ignoring the hypocritical bureaucrats (DeSantis) in Tallahassee dictating to the rest of Florida.
 
no worries said:
In typical Trump/teabagger (www.teaparty.org) fashion, it is NEVER their fault.

Mini-Dotard is even blaming immigrants from Texas for his state's dismal covid-19 reaction.

Then blaming Biden.

ANYONE but him but still dictating from Tallahassee, what the counties, cities, schools and school boards can do to protect their constituents.

Whining about DC bureaucrats but ignoring the hypocritical bureaucrats (DeSantis) in Tallahassee dictating to the rest of Florida.
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with trump, and all would be dictators, it is always "their" fault- the radical socialists, the obama deep state, the illegal invasion, the chinese virus, dr. fauci telling lies........with hitler it was the jews and gypsies....
 
Hoosier Daddy said:
Now that they’ve been proven wrong with their ridiculous claims that President Biden is a Socialist, and that the stock market would collapse, and that the U.S. economy would plummet under Biden’s administration, former President Trump and his right-wing followers are reverting to their original playbook: racism.

They are now blaming immigrants — Mexicans, specifically — for the upsurge in COVID-19 cases across the nation. It’s another big lie, just like the one that insists Trump won the election or that drinking bleach would kill COVID-19.

In recent days, Trump world has been spreading the falsehood that the surge of COVID-19 in the country is the result of Biden’s allegedly lax border policies.

Florida Gov.Ron DeSantis — who reportedly is campaigning to be the Trump-backed Republican candidate for president in 2024 — and Texas Gov. Greg Abbott are going gung-ho with the theory that the border is wide open to undocumented migrants.

DeSantis even had the nerve to claim on Aug. 4 that Biden is helping “facilitate” the spread of the virus because of the alleged influx of COVID-spreading Mexican migrants.

This comes from the same DeSantis who is one of the nation’s biggest COVID-19 enablers. He has, among other things, signed an executive order threatening school districts that require face masks with funding cuts; he has sued cruise-line companies that require passengers to be vaccinated.

But the argument that Mexicans or any other undocumented migrants are a major cause of COVID-19’s spread is based on lies.

First, it’s not true that Biden is allowing more COVID-19-carrying migrants into the country. In fact, more migrants have been expelled back to Mexico under COVID-19 prevention laws so far this year than during the entire final year of the Trump administration.

More than 500,000 migrants were expelled from February to June under Title 42, a public-health law the Trump administration began using in March 2020 to eject people at the border in the name of preventing COVID-19 infection, according to Factcheck.org. By comparison, there were 449,000 such expulsions from March 2020 to January 2021, it says.

Second, it’s not true that undocumented migrants who cross the border are the spreading the virus in the United States.

In fact, the biggest COVID-19 surges in the country are taking place in Florida and parts of Texas with mostly white unvaccinated — not Hispanic — populations. And the least vaccinated places in the country are mostly populated by Trump voters, according to several studies.

Third, migrants released at the border and who move to other locations have already been tested before leaving their shelters and determined to be COVID negative. They are perhaps the most thoroughly tested population in the country, Reichlin-Melnick told me.

So the real culprits of the spread of COVID-19 in Florida and Texas — two Republican-run states that account for the bulk of the current spike in contagions — are not Mexican immigrants, but unscrupulous Trump-backed politicians and right-wing news channels.

According to a new report by MediaMatters, in recent months “Fox News alone was responsible for pushing 325 segments that actively undermined coronavirus science.”

Trump world is simply trying to divert public attention from its own responsibility for fighting mask mandates and not actively supporting vaccinations. The governors of Florida and Texas are now resorting to thinly veiled racism — the perennial last resort of political scoundrels — to try to make us blame somebody else.

https://www.miamiherald.com/news/local/news-columns-blogs/andres-oppenheimer/article253325148.html
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Mexican migrants are the GOP's scapegoats for the GOP's blatant failures.
 
Hoosier Daddy said:
Now that they’ve been proven wrong with their ridiculous claims that President Biden is a Socialist, and that the stock market would collapse, and that the U.S. economy would plummet under Biden’s administration, former President Trump and his right-wing followers are reverting to their original playbook: racism.

They are now blaming immigrants — Mexicans, specifically — for the upsurge in COVID-19 cases across the nation. It’s another big lie, just like the one that insists Trump won the election or that drinking bleach would kill COVID-19.

In recent days, Trump world has been spreading the falsehood that the surge of COVID-19 in the country is the result of Biden’s allegedly lax border policies.

Florida Gov.Ron DeSantis — who reportedly is campaigning to be the Trump-backed Republican candidate for president in 2024 — and Texas Gov. Greg Abbott are going gung-ho with the theory that the border is wide open to undocumented migrants.

DeSantis even had the nerve to claim on Aug. 4 that Biden is helping “facilitate” the spread of the virus because of the alleged influx of COVID-spreading Mexican migrants.

This comes from the same DeSantis who is one of the nation’s biggest COVID-19 enablers. He has, among other things, signed an executive order threatening school districts that require face masks with funding cuts; he has sued cruise-line companies that require passengers to be vaccinated.

But the argument that Mexicans or any other undocumented migrants are a major cause of COVID-19’s spread is based on lies.

First, it’s not true that Biden is allowing more COVID-19-carrying migrants into the country. In fact, more migrants have been expelled back to Mexico under COVID-19 prevention laws so far this year than during the entire final year of the Trump administration.

More than 500,000 migrants were expelled from February to June under Title 42, a public-health law the Trump administration began using in March 2020 to eject people at the border in the name of preventing COVID-19 infection, according to Factcheck.org. By comparison, there were 449,000 such expulsions from March 2020 to January 2021, it says.

Second, it’s not true that undocumented migrants who cross the border are the spreading the virus in the United States.

In fact, the biggest COVID-19 surges in the country are taking place in Florida and parts of Texas with mostly white unvaccinated — not Hispanic — populations. And the least vaccinated places in the country are mostly populated by Trump voters, according to several studies.

Third, migrants released at the border and who move to other locations have already been tested before leaving their shelters and determined to be COVID negative. They are perhaps the most thoroughly tested population in the country, Reichlin-Melnick told me.

So the real culprits of the spread of COVID-19 in Florida and Texas — two Republican-run states that account for the bulk of the current spike in contagions — are not Mexican immigrants, but unscrupulous Trump-backed politicians and right-wing news channels.

According to a new report by MediaMatters, in recent months “Fox News alone was responsible for pushing 325 segments that actively undermined coronavirus science.”

Trump world is simply trying to divert public attention from its own responsibility for fighting mask mandates and not actively supporting vaccinations. The governors of Florida and Texas are now resorting to thinly veiled racism — the perennial last resort of political scoundrels — to try to make us blame somebody else.

https://www.miamiherald.com/news/local/news-columns-blogs/andres-oppenheimer/article253325148.html
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Congratulations, you just made the dumbest OP of the week.
 
Blacks and Hispanics are Democrats and they are less likely to be vaccinated than whites as a group.

As of this week, 70% of the adult population in the United States have received at least one dose of a COVID-19 vaccine. While this progress represents a marked achievement in vaccinations that has led to steep declines in COVID-19 cases and deaths, vaccination coverage—and the protections provided by it—remains uneven across the country. With the growing spread of the more transmissible Delta variant, cases, hospitalizations, and deaths are once again rising, largely among unvaccinated people. While White adults account for the largest share (57%) of unvaccinated adults, Black and Hispanic people remain less likely than their White counterparts to have received a vaccine, leaving them at increased risk, particularly as the variant spreads.
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https://www.kff.org/coronavirus-cov...data-on-covid-19-vaccinations-race-ethnicity/
 
ExpressLane said:
Blacks and Hispanics are Democrats and they are less likely to be vaccinated than whites as a group.

https://www.kff.org/coronavirus-cov...data-on-covid-19-vaccinations-race-ethnicity/
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and they make up less percentage of the population.....that makes a big difference....

from the article you sourced-


The CDC reports demographic characteristics, including race/ethnicity, of people receiving COVID-19 vaccinations at the national level. As of August 2, 2021, CDC reported that race/ethnicity was known for 58% of people who had received at least one dose of the vaccine. Among this group, nearly two thirds were White (59%), 10% were Black, 16% were Hispanic, 6% were Asian, 1% were American Indian or Alaska Native, and <1% were Native Hawaiian or Other Pacific Islander, while 8% reported multiple or other race.

now compare those percentages to their percentage of the US population-

As of July 2016, White Americans are the racial majority. Hispanic and Latino Americans are the largest ethnic minority, comprising an estimated 18% of the population.[7] African Americans are the second largest racial minority, comprising an estimated 13.4% of the population.[8] The White, non-Hispanic or Latino population make up 61% of the nation's total, with the total White population (including White Hispanics and Latinos) being 77%

so, compare the percentage of white americans in the country to those getting vaccinations, and latino to latino, and black to black and you get

white total 77%, white vaccs 59%---under represented by 18%

latinos total 18%, latino vaccs 16%---under represented by 2%

blacks total 13%, black vaccs 10%--OVER represented by 3%

whites are way behind in ratio vaccinations....
 
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Hoosier Daddy said:
Now that they’ve been proven wrong with their ridiculous claims that President Biden is a Socialist, and that the stock market would collapse, and that the U.S. economy would plummet under Biden’s administration, former President Trump and his right-wing followers are reverting to their original playbook: racism.

They are now blaming immigrants — Mexicans, specifically — for the upsurge in COVID-19 cases across the nation. It’s another big lie, just like the one that insists Trump won the election or that drinking bleach would kill COVID-19.

In recent days, Trump world has been spreading the falsehood that the surge of COVID-19 in the country is the result of Biden’s allegedly lax border policies.

Florida Gov.Ron DeSantis — who reportedly is campaigning to be the Trump-backed Republican candidate for president in 2024 — and Texas Gov. Greg Abbott are going gung-ho with the theory that the border is wide open to undocumented migrants.

DeSantis even had the nerve to claim on Aug. 4 that Biden is helping “facilitate” the spread of the virus because of the alleged influx of COVID-spreading Mexican migrants.

This comes from the same DeSantis who is one of the nation’s biggest COVID-19 enablers. He has, among other things, signed an executive order threatening school districts that require face masks with funding cuts; he has sued cruise-line companies that require passengers to be vaccinated.

But the argument that Mexicans or any other undocumented migrants are a major cause of COVID-19’s spread is based on lies.

First, it’s not true that Biden is allowing more COVID-19-carrying migrants into the country. In fact, more migrants have been expelled back to Mexico under COVID-19 prevention laws so far this year than during the entire final year of the Trump administration.

More than 500,000 migrants were expelled from February to June under Title 42, a public-health law the Trump administration began using in March 2020 to eject people at the border in the name of preventing COVID-19 infection, according to Factcheck.org. By comparison, there were 449,000 such expulsions from March 2020 to January 2021, it says.

Second, it’s not true that undocumented migrants who cross the border are the spreading the virus in the United States.

In fact, the biggest COVID-19 surges in the country are taking place in Florida and parts of Texas with mostly white unvaccinated — not Hispanic — populations. And the least vaccinated places in the country are mostly populated by Trump voters, according to several studies.

Third, migrants released at the border and who move to other locations have already been tested before leaving their shelters and determined to be COVID negative. They are perhaps the most thoroughly tested population in the country, Reichlin-Melnick told me.

So the real culprits of the spread of COVID-19 in Florida and Texas — two Republican-run states that account for the bulk of the current spike in contagions — are not Mexican immigrants, but unscrupulous Trump-backed politicians and right-wing news channels.

According to a new report by MediaMatters, in recent months “Fox News alone was responsible for pushing 325 segments that actively undermined coronavirus science.”

Trump world is simply trying to divert public attention from its own responsibility for fighting mask mandates and not actively supporting vaccinations. The governors of Florida and Texas are now resorting to thinly veiled racism — the perennial last resort of political scoundrels — to try to make us blame somebody else.

https://www.miamiherald.com/news/local/news-columns-blogs/andres-oppenheimer/article253325148.html
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18 percent of migrant families leaving Border Patrol custody tested positive for Covid, document says


WASHINGTON — More than 18 percent of migrant families and 20 percent of unaccompanied minors who recently crossed the U.S. border tested positive for Covid on leaving Border Patrol custody over the past two to three weeks, according to a document prepared this week for a Thursday briefing with President Joe Biden.

https://www.nbcnews.com/politics/im...order-patrol-custody-tested-positive-n1276244

And u can bet your ass its higher than that
 
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Hoosier Daddy said:
Now that they’ve been proven wrong with their ridiculous claims that President Biden is a Socialist, and that the stock market would collapse, and that the U.S. economy would plummet under Biden’s administration, former President Trump and his right-wing followers are reverting to their original playbook: racism.

They are now blaming immigrants — Mexicans, specifically — for the upsurge in COVID-19 cases across the nation. It’s another big lie, just like the one that insists Trump won the election or that drinking bleach would kill COVID-19.

In recent days, Trump world has been spreading the falsehood that the surge of COVID-19 in the country is the result of Biden’s allegedly lax border policies.

Florida Gov.Ron DeSantis — who reportedly is campaigning to be the Trump-backed Republican candidate for president in 2024 — and Texas Gov. Greg Abbott are going gung-ho with the theory that the border is wide open to undocumented migrants.

DeSantis even had the nerve to claim on Aug. 4 that Biden is helping “facilitate” the spread of the virus because of the alleged influx of COVID-spreading Mexican migrants.

This comes from the same DeSantis who is one of the nation’s biggest COVID-19 enablers. He has, among other things, signed an executive order threatening school districts that require face masks with funding cuts; he has sued cruise-line companies that require passengers to be vaccinated.

But the argument that Mexicans or any other undocumented migrants are a major cause of COVID-19’s spread is based on lies.

First, it’s not true that Biden is allowing more COVID-19-carrying migrants into the country. In fact, more migrants have been expelled back to Mexico under COVID-19 prevention laws so far this year than during the entire final year of the Trump administration.

More than 500,000 migrants were expelled from February to June under Title 42, a public-health law the Trump administration began using in March 2020 to eject people at the border in the name of preventing COVID-19 infection, according to Factcheck.org. By comparison, there were 449,000 such expulsions from March 2020 to January 2021, it says.

Second, it’s not true that undocumented migrants who cross the border are the spreading the virus in the United States.

In fact, the biggest COVID-19 surges in the country are taking place in Florida and parts of Texas with mostly white unvaccinated — not Hispanic — populations. And the least vaccinated places in the country are mostly populated by Trump voters, according to several studies.

Third, migrants released at the border and who move to other locations have already been tested before leaving their shelters and determined to be COVID negative. They are perhaps the most thoroughly tested population in the country, Reichlin-Melnick told me.

So the real culprits of the spread of COVID-19 in Florida and Texas — two Republican-run states that account for the bulk of the current spike in contagions — are not Mexican immigrants, but unscrupulous Trump-backed politicians and right-wing news channels.

According to a new report by MediaMatters, in recent months “Fox News alone was responsible for pushing 325 segments that actively undermined coronavirus science.”

Trump world is simply trying to divert public attention from its own responsibility for fighting mask mandates and not actively supporting vaccinations. The governors of Florida and Texas are now resorting to thinly veiled racism — the perennial last resort of political scoundrels — to try to make us blame somebody else.

https://www.miamiherald.com/news/local/news-columns-blogs/andres-oppenheimer/article253325148.html
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the right wing has been scapegoating Mexicans since before Reagan, now they scapegoat everyone south of the border
 
Hoosier Daddy said:
Now that they’ve been proven wrong with their ridiculous claims that President Biden is a Socialist, and that the stock market would collapse, and that the U.S. economy would plummet under Biden’s administration, former President Trump and his right-wing followers are reverting to their original playbook: racism.

They are now blaming immigrants — Mexicans, specifically — for the upsurge in COVID-19 cases across the nation. It’s another big lie, just like the one that insists Trump won the election or that drinking bleach would kill COVID-19.

In recent days, Trump world has been spreading the falsehood that the surge of COVID-19 in the country is the result of Biden’s allegedly lax border policies.

Florida Gov.Ron DeSantis — who reportedly is campaigning to be the Trump-backed Republican candidate for president in 2024 — and Texas Gov. Greg Abbott are going gung-ho with the theory that the border is wide open to undocumented migrants.

DeSantis even had the nerve to claim on Aug. 4 that Biden is helping “facilitate” the spread of the virus because of the alleged influx of COVID-spreading Mexican migrants.

This comes from the same DeSantis who is one of the nation’s biggest COVID-19 enablers. He has, among other things, signed an executive order threatening school districts that require face masks with funding cuts; he has sued cruise-line companies that require passengers to be vaccinated.

But the argument that Mexicans or any other undocumented migrants are a major cause of COVID-19’s spread is based on lies.

First, it’s not true that Biden is allowing more COVID-19-carrying migrants into the country. In fact, more migrants have been expelled back to Mexico under COVID-19 prevention laws so far this year than during the entire final year of the Trump administration.

More than 500,000 migrants were expelled from February to June under Title 42, a public-health law the Trump administration began using in March 2020 to eject people at the border in the name of preventing COVID-19 infection, according to Factcheck.org. By comparison, there were 449,000 such expulsions from March 2020 to January 2021, it says.

Second, it’s not true that undocumented migrants who cross the border are the spreading the virus in the United States.

In fact, the biggest COVID-19 surges in the country are taking place in Florida and parts of Texas with mostly white unvaccinated — not Hispanic — populations. And the least vaccinated places in the country are mostly populated by Trump voters, according to several studies.

Third, migrants released at the border and who move to other locations have already been tested before leaving their shelters and determined to be COVID negative. They are perhaps the most thoroughly tested population in the country, Reichlin-Melnick told me.

So the real culprits of the spread of COVID-19 in Florida and Texas — two Republican-run states that account for the bulk of the current spike in contagions — are not Mexican immigrants, but unscrupulous Trump-backed politicians and right-wing news channels.

According to a new report by MediaMatters, in recent months “Fox News alone was responsible for pushing 325 segments that actively undermined coronavirus science.”

Trump world is simply trying to divert public attention from its own responsibility for fighting mask mandates and not actively supporting vaccinations. The governors of Florida and Texas are now resorting to thinly veiled racism — the perennial last resort of political scoundrels — to try to make us blame somebody else.

https://www.miamiherald.com/news/local/news-columns-blogs/andres-oppenheimer/article253325148.html
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sad you democrats want illegals to spread this virus all over. You do realize this will blow up in your face right?
 
Third, migrants released at the border and who move to other locations have already been tested before leaving their shelters and determined to be COVID negative. They are perhaps the most thoroughly tested population in the country, Reichlin-Melnick told me.
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true. but that is only from the shelters (tent cities),and only if they are symptomatic do they not just get processed straight thru
Feds do not do COVID testing,it's done by a 3rd party when symptomatic
 
Hoosier Daddy said:
Now that they’ve been proven wrong with their ridiculous claims that President Biden is a Socialist, and that the stock market would collapse, and that the U.S. economy would plummet under Biden’s administration, former President Trump and his right-wing followers are reverting to their original playbook: racism.

They are now blaming immigrants — Mexicans, specifically — for the upsurge in COVID-19 cases across the nation. It’s another big lie, just like the one that insists Trump won the election or that drinking bleach would kill COVID-19.

In recent days, Trump world has been spreading the falsehood that the surge of COVID-19 in the country is the result of Biden’s allegedly lax border policies.

Florida Gov.Ron DeSantis — who reportedly is campaigning to be the Trump-backed Republican candidate for president in 2024 — and Texas Gov. Greg Abbott are going gung-ho with the theory that the border is wide open to undocumented migrants.

DeSantis even had the nerve to claim on Aug. 4 that Biden is helping “facilitate” the spread of the virus because of the alleged influx of COVID-spreading Mexican migrants.

This comes from the same DeSantis who is one of the nation’s biggest COVID-19 enablers. He has, among other things, signed an executive order threatening school districts that require face masks with funding cuts; he has sued cruise-line companies that require passengers to be vaccinated.

But the argument that Mexicans or any other undocumented migrants are a major cause of COVID-19’s spread is based on lies.

First, it’s not true that Biden is allowing more COVID-19-carrying migrants into the country. In fact, more migrants have been expelled back to Mexico under COVID-19 prevention laws so far this year than during the entire final year of the Trump administration.

More than 500,000 migrants were expelled from February to June under Title 42, a public-health law the Trump administration began using in March 2020 to eject people at the border in the name of preventing COVID-19 infection, according to Factcheck.org. By comparison, there were 449,000 such expulsions from March 2020 to January 2021, it says.

Second, it’s not true that undocumented migrants who cross the border are the spreading the virus in the United States.

In fact, the biggest COVID-19 surges in the country are taking place in Florida and parts of Texas with mostly white unvaccinated — not Hispanic — populations. And the least vaccinated places in the country are mostly populated by Trump voters, according to several studies.

Third, migrants released at the border and who move to other locations have already been tested before leaving their shelters and determined to be COVID negative. They are perhaps the most thoroughly tested population in the country, Reichlin-Melnick told me.

So the real culprits of the spread of COVID-19 in Florida and Texas — two Republican-run states that account for the bulk of the current spike in contagions — are not Mexican immigrants, but unscrupulous Trump-backed politicians and right-wing news channels.

According to a new report by MediaMatters, in recent months “Fox News alone was responsible for pushing 325 segments that actively undermined coronavirus science.”

Trump world is simply trying to divert public attention from its own responsibility for fighting mask mandates and not actively supporting vaccinations. The governors of Florida and Texas are now resorting to thinly veiled racism — the perennial last resort of political scoundrels — to try to make us blame somebody else.

https://www.miamiherald.com/news/local/news-columns-blogs/andres-oppenheimer/article253325148.html
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Your a complete idiot if you think illegals are not spreading covid . And a poor at lying even idiots know they are
 
Hoosier Daddy said:
Now that they’ve been proven wrong with their ridiculous claims that President Biden is a Socialist, and that the stock market would collapse, and that the U.S. economy would plummet under Biden’s administration, former President Trump and his right-wing followers are reverting to their original playbook: racism.

They are now blaming immigrants — Mexicans, specifically — for the upsurge in COVID-19 cases across the nation. It’s another big lie, just like the one that insists Trump won the election or that drinking bleach would kill COVID-19.

In recent days, Trump world has been spreading the falsehood that the surge of COVID-19 in the country is the result of Biden’s allegedly lax border policies.

Florida Gov.Ron DeSantis — who reportedly is campaigning to be the Trump-backed Republican candidate for president in 2024 — and Texas Gov. Greg Abbott are going gung-ho with the theory that the border is wide open to undocumented migrants.

DeSantis even had the nerve to claim on Aug. 4 that Biden is helping “facilitate” the spread of the virus because of the alleged influx of COVID-spreading Mexican migrants.

This comes from the same DeSantis who is one of the nation’s biggest COVID-19 enablers. He has, among other things, signed an executive order threatening school districts that require face masks with funding cuts; he has sued cruise-line companies that require passengers to be vaccinated.

But the argument that Mexicans or any other undocumented migrants are a major cause of COVID-19’s spread is based on lies.

First, it’s not true that Biden is allowing more COVID-19-carrying migrants into the country. In fact, more migrants have been expelled back to Mexico under COVID-19 prevention laws so far this year than during the entire final year of the Trump administration.

More than 500,000 migrants were expelled from February to June under Title 42, a public-health law the Trump administration began using in March 2020 to eject people at the border in the name of preventing COVID-19 infection, according to Factcheck.org. By comparison, there were 449,000 such expulsions from March 2020 to January 2021, it says.

Second, it’s not true that undocumented migrants who cross the border are the spreading the virus in the United States.

In fact, the biggest COVID-19 surges in the country are taking place in Florida and parts of Texas with mostly white unvaccinated — not Hispanic — populations. And the least vaccinated places in the country are mostly populated by Trump voters, according to several studies.

Third, migrants released at the border and who move to other locations have already been tested before leaving their shelters and determined to be COVID negative. They are perhaps the most thoroughly tested population in the country, Reichlin-Melnick told me.

So the real culprits of the spread of COVID-19 in Florida and Texas — two Republican-run states that account for the bulk of the current spike in contagions — are not Mexican immigrants, but unscrupulous Trump-backed politicians and right-wing news channels.

According to a new report by MediaMatters, in recent months “Fox News alone was responsible for pushing 325 segments that actively undermined coronavirus science.”

Trump world is simply trying to divert public attention from its own responsibility for fighting mask mandates and not actively supporting vaccinations. The governors of Florida and Texas are now resorting to thinly veiled racism — the perennial last resort of political scoundrels — to try to make us blame somebody else.

https://www.miamiherald.com/news/local/news-columns-blogs/andres-oppenheimer/article253325148.html
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It's a lot easier though to blame it on the "dirty brown people" than to look in the mirror and see where the real filth is.
 
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