'Are they vaccinated yet?' Axios reports that about 50K migrants have been released in the US without a court date, and what could possibly go wrong?

Sarah D | 3:54 PM on July 27, 2021

Yesterday, Jen Psaki reiterated that the Biden administration “will maintain existing travel restrictions at this point.”

Bear that in mind when you look at this:

About 50,000 migrants who crossed the southern border illegally have now been released in the United States without a court date.

Although they are told to report to an ICE office instead, just 13% have showed up so far, Axios has learned.

https://t.co/LzvdjQA6QZ

— Axios (@axios) July 27, 2021

From Axios:

The big picture: The new data come as immigration agents in the Rio Grande Valley highlight over 20,000 apprehensions made in just one week, as noted on Sunday in a tweet by the chief Border Patrol agent for that sector.

- It’s a sign of the continued surge in people attempting to illegally cross the U.S.-Mexico border.
- That’s after months of higher-than-normal border crossings, record months for encounters with migrants and more than 1 million apprehensions for the year.
- The White House’s emphasis on root causes in Central America, focus on critiques of former President Trump’s harsh border policies and insistence that the inflated numbers are just seasonal are falling flat.

Damn right, the White House’s strategies are falling flat. It’s awfully difficult for them to tell us not to believe our lying eyes and ears when there is very clearly a crisis at the southern border.

The CDC reportedly wants everyone — including vaccinated people and children — to mask up again as a way to slow and stop the spread of the Delta variant of COVID19. But tens of thousands of people who haven’t been tested and likely haven’t been vaccinated are flooding our southern border and being released to potentially spread the Delta variant and possibly other illnesses indiscriminately.

And the Biden administration’s message? “This is fine.”