While Capitol Police are preparing to arrest vaccinated Americans for not following new mask mandates, the porous southern border continues to welcome unvaccinated – and possibly infected – migrants into the country. Democrats are, in large part, fine with this.
In the month of June alone, U.S. Customs and Border Patrol encountered more than 188,000 migrants trying to cross the southern border. But this isn’t a crisis, say Dems. Nothing to see.
But there is.
Setting arguments about national security aside for a moment, the U.S. doesn’t have the resources to properly care for the influx of migrants at the southern border – and a new complaint sent to four Congressional committees and government watchdog agencies proves it.
The Government Accountability Project filed the complaint on behalf of Arthur Pearlstein and Lauren Reinhold – self-described “career federal civil servants” – who volunteered at the Fort Bliss Emergency Intake site from April through June of this year.
“COVID was widespread among children and eventually spread to many employees. Hundreds of children contracted COVID in the overcrowded conditions,” the complaint says. “Adequate masks were not consistently provided to children, nor was their use consistently enforced.”
The complaint added that “regularly, when detailees reached the end of their term, a sheet was passed around with detailed instructions from the HHS Public Affairs Office on how, when asked, to make everything sound positive about the Fort Bliss experience and to play down anything negative.”
“Every effort was made to downplay the degree of COVID infection at the site, and the size of the outbreak was deliberately kept under wraps,” the whistleblowers said.
Fox News spoke with an HHS spokesperson who said, “Currently, children at the Emergency Intake Site at Fort Bliss meet with a case manager weekly and we have close to 60 mental health and behavioral counselors on site working with the children. It remains our policy to swiftly report any alleged instances of wrongdoing to the appropriate authorities.”
Boilerplate, with little promise of action.
Who is this helping? Why keep children in a facility that is too overwhelmed to properly protect them from coronavirus? Why lie about your inability to do so?
Senate Minority Leader Mitch McConnell perfectly sums up the situation at the border: “The Administration can’t admit they’ve caused a crisis; they have yet to address the crisis; and House Democrats are backing policies that would only exacerbate the wrong incentive.”
This won’t be the last whistle blown.
