Health Officials Deny Claims Of Migrants Causing COVID Surge

Public health experts say COVID is being spread by people who are unvaccinated, and by the Delta variant.

In the past few months, tens of thousands of migrants – mainly from countries in Central America – have crossed illegally into the U.S. in the busiest region, which has led Texas Republicans to conflate those crossings with the state's spike in COVID numbers – except those claims don't add up A trail of anguish in La Joya, Texas. In Texas' Rio Grande Valley the U.S. Border Patrol says 210,000 people were detained and processed in the month of July - this after a busy June of 180,000. The high numbers are pushing cities in the valley to the brink. "Just last week, we had to issue a disaster declaration because we still have some funding from the federal government for the purposes to assist. But we're running out," McAllen Mayor Javier Villalobos said.