Is it smart to release covid-positive illegal immigrants?

True.
I am sure there are a lot of empty hotels right now, where they could have been housed.
If you reactivate the maids and other employees, they could have even gotten them room service!
That would have been a great way for the state of Texas to support their hotel industry.

Absolutely, and in particular they should be made to stay in Texas, because the governor there has opened that state up to everyone without masks. Governor Abbott has decided to ignore national guidelines, so let him sow the benefits of that policy.

Of course, if the aliens had been vaccinated while in detention, then we would be having a different conversation.

@crazyguy: “How smart is this while we Americans are being urged to continue taking every possible precaution?”

Not sure if you’ve heard, but the United States never had a shutdown or took any precautions to try to stop Covid.

Stop attempting to weaponize things you care nothing about in service to your xenophobic anti-immigrant shit.

@ragingloli I am not certain the state of Texas could have intervened in what was essentially a DHS operation.

@elbanditoroso I do not think that you can impose any particular domicile on illegal immigrants because they enjoy all the rights of a US citizen. As far as your rant about Governor Abbott, he is just letting responsible Americans be responsible.

“he is just letting responsible Americans be responsible.”
All six of them.

It’s nice that they’re testing everyone. My conservative sensibilities tell me that yes, this is the right way to treat people, which is always the right way for a country to behave. They are advised to quarantine and socially distance, just like basically every American on required quarantine. That’s the crux to me. There aren’t many forced quarantines in this country, so I disagree with targeting otherwise acceptable asylum seekers.

Annddd…. may I just say you asked a question about “Illegal Immigrants” when the information you post is on those seeking asylum. Asylum is a legal process.

@Smashley A request for asylum can be made legally, or it can be made after being arrested for illegal entry. A legal request is made either at a Port of Entry or at a US Embassy or Consulate in the applicant’s country.

@crazyguy – These people were being processed. Regardless of their actions, even criminal ones, they are not at this time illegally present. They may not be permitted to stay long term, but they are not in violation of law.

@Smashley IS it, or is it not, illegal to cross our border? If it is not, then surely we have OPEN BORDERS!

@ragingloli I thought for some strange reason that you had a higher opinion of Americans than that.

@crazyguy
Being charged with a crime conveys the status of “illegal”. Got it. America.

In an unrelated subject, if US officials accept an asylum request, we incredibly do not charge the asylum seekers with the crime of entering illegally (which is not even established with the processed population you cite).

@Smashley Here is a definition of asylum taken from
https://www.americanimmigrationcouncil.org/research/asylum-united-states
Asylum is a protection granted to foreign nationals already in the United States or arriving at the border who meet the international law definition of a “refugee.” The United Nations 1951 Convention and 1967 Protocol define a refugee as a person who is unable or unwilling to return to his or her home country, and cannot obtain protection in that country, due to past persecution or a well-founded fear of being persecuted in the future “on account of race, religion, nationality, membership in a particular social group, or political opinion.”

It would appear that the fact of illegal entry is wiped out from the record of the successful asylum seeker. However, an unsuccessful asylum seeker can be returned to his/her country of origin.

An interesting observation about the definition of asylum. It does not list “economic hardship”.