Texas mayor rips Biden as migrants with COVID are brought to his city

Contributing sentiments towards policy:

59% : Asylum-seeking families wait for CBP in Roma, Texas, also along the border but far from McAllen, on July 30)
59% : CBP was holding more than 10,000 migrants in custody as of August 1, nearly eight times its COVID-adjusted capacity.
53% : In a bid to stem the flow of migrants to his state and keep COVID transmission down Abbott signed an executive order last week to prohibit ground transport of migrants by anyone other than law enforcement.
52% : In July, 210,000 migrants crossed into the U.S. along the southern border, the highest one-month total in 21 years, according to the Department of Homeland Security.
49% : According to preliminary figures, 210,000 were apprehended in July at the southern border.
47% : In a video posted to Facebook Wednesday, McAllen Mayor Javier Villalobos fumed at the White House after 1,500 migrants tested positive for COVID out of 7,000 left in his city by Border Patrol last week.
24% : The Biden administration said Title 42 is responsible for sending away most single adult migrants who cross illegally, and the United Nations and the ACLU had called on President Biden to end the order.

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