Official Alleges The U.S. Has Deported Many COVID-19-Positive Migrants To Guatemala

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Guatemala's health minister says migrants deported back to Guatemala from the U.S. now account for a large number of COVID-19 cases in the country. On one flight, he claimed, '75% of the returned migrants tested positive for the virus.'

An immigration worker in an orange jacket carries a young Guatemalan deported from the U.S., followed by another deportee, at La Aurora International Airport in Guatemala City on March 12.An immigration worker in an orange jacket carries a young Guatemalan deported from the U.S., followed by another deportee, at La Aurora International Airport in Guatemala City on March 12.

The health minister told a congressional hearing in Guatemala City that at least half of the country's now almost 200 COVID-19 cases could be traced back to migrants returned from the U.S, which he referred to as"the Wuhan of the Americas." According to the Associated Press, the health minister's remarks contradict statements made earlier by President Alejandro Giammattei, who has previously identified only four confirmed cases of returned migrants testing positive for COVID-19. Giammattei made no mention of the health minister's bombshell statement in his daily report to the nation on Tuesday night.

As the COVID-19 crisis spread to Central America in the last month, the governments of Guatemala and other Central American countries had requested temporary suspension of the deportation flights. On Tuesday, Guatemala's Foreign Minister Pedro Brolo confirmed flights of returned migrants would continue, saying,"We have begun ... negotiations with the Embassy and government of the United States to improve conditions of those being returned from the United States ...

 

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Why would this surprise anyone?!?! If one migrant had it, and was then force to small quarters... They would all end up getting the virus, although some may be asymptomatic.

Yet the president of Guatemala said only four migrants tested positive, so which is it?

Don’t Build a Walll Build a DOME !!!

living in this country is getting embarrassing on the international stage.

Good

SpeakerPelosi SenSchumer HouseDemocrats AOC ewarren AyannaPressley SenateDems

Shameful.

That is a BS lie.

hello, dumbass, they are your citizens..

The US's mishandling of the situation caused an outbreak to occur in the concentration camps, then they sent the outbreak abroad. It's like how the Nazi's purposely kept their prisoners in unsanitary conditions, causing an outbreak of diseases like Typhus.

Who’s the “shit hole country” now

what a disaster

Illegals.

This is going to be one of the most shamefully sad results of this admin...

Ouch

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So much winning hey realDonaldTrump - there’s SO MANY UNTESTED PEOPLE IN AMERICA that people leaving the country for Guatemala, Canada, & who knows where else are INFECTED by rampant coronavirus community spread. You have BloodOnYourHands

Thanks to idiot TrumpVirus

Wow Guatemala can test and US can’t?

*illegals.

Lol

Thank goodness they can reunite with their families in great south America

bullsh8t lmfao. NPR will say anything to taint the US.

Everybody needs to hear my song about all of this. Please share.

Hello DeroneArcher

Trump sees this and he will celebrate.....

How is it that Guatemala can test whoever it wants but we can't test whoever we want? I call bullshit

Many walked like 900 miles to get here in Abercrombie sandals. How did they get back? No one is doing the sandal thing twice.

Gtfo

Whoooooooooo gives a fuck

'The health minister told a congressional hearing in Guatemala City that at least half of the country's now almost 200 COVID-19 cases could be traced back to migrants returned from the U.S, which he referred to as 'the Wuhan of the Americas.' deportation Guatemala Corvid19

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