U.S. border agents have temporarily stopped taking illegals into the primary facility for processing illegals in South Texas, a day after a 16-year-old diagnosed with the flu at the facility died. In a statement to CBS News late Tuesday, U.S. Customs and Border Protection said a large number of detainees in its processing center in McAllen, Texas had high fevers and were displaying signs of a flu-related illness.
The agency said it was working to provide medical treatment to all of those who had fevers. To avoid the spread of the illness, the CBP said, intake operations were temporarily suspended at the facility and illegals who would have been brought there will be taken elsewhere until the situation is resolved.
The processing center is a converted warehouse that holds hundreds of parents and children at a time in large, fenced-in pens.
After being diagnosed with the flu on Sunday, Carlos Hernandez Vasquez was transferred to a smaller Border Patrol station, where he was found unresponsive Monday.
CBS News spoke to one of Hernandez's brothers, in New Jersey, who wants to know what happened.
"The hardest part about it all is what happened to him because we never thought this would happen in a place where he's supposed to be in a better place," he told CBS News through a translation.
"Supposed to be in a better place?" Who's telling them to come here one must ask!?
More reason we shouldn't be allowing them to flood in here but people will just ignore this, and start panicking as diseases break out all over the place.
Noah Price
How much more proof will there have to be to stop this utter insanity today? Must things get so out-of-control BAD before we ever learn?
Connor Brooks
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Xavier Sanchez
this is very important thread about important news!
This is fake misconstrued news. It’s about a contagious flu that is nothing to do with immigration.
The flu can transfer from anybody, including custody officers.
Angel Gomez
It came from an illegal who recently died. Now everyone is getting it around the facility. We are bringing this like tuberculosis back into the country as well. But you open border shills don't care, do you? Better hope they don't come to a city near you.
Gabriel Gray
Imagine if people started shooting up these processing centers
stoopid trumptards think the flu is a mexican thing. I guess if trump tweeted it it must be true, right? (not even trumptards believe trump, tbh, they just put up with him because they think he's anti-swamp, even though he's the most pro-elitist president in US history)
