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Feds stop processing migrants at Texas border center after 32 test positive for flu
Source: ABC News
Feds stop processing migrants at Texas border center after 32 test positive for flu
By ANNE FLAHERTY May 22, 2019, 4:35 PM ET
U.S. Customs and Border Protection briefly stopped taking in undocumented migrants at a border processing center in McAllen, Texas, after 32 people being held there tested positive for the flu.
The center is one of the busiest spots along the Mexico border and a short drive to a Border Patrol station where a 16-year-old boy died earlier this week.
An agency official, who spoke on condition of anonymity, said the center was expected to reopen soon. The agency said medical staff were on hand to treat people who were ill.
The agency had announced late Tuesday that the Rio Grande Valley Sector had temporarily suspended "intake operations" at the McAllen Central Processing Center.
"Individuals apprehended in RGV Sector will be held at other locations until this situation is resolved," the agency added.
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By ANNE FLAHERTY May 22, 2019, 4:35 PM ET
U.S. Customs and Border Protection briefly stopped taking in undocumented migrants at a border processing center in McAllen, Texas, after 32 people being held there tested positive for the flu.
The center is one of the busiest spots along the Mexico border and a short drive to a Border Patrol station where a 16-year-old boy died earlier this week.
An agency official, who spoke on condition of anonymity, said the center was expected to reopen soon. The agency said medical staff were on hand to treat people who were ill.
The agency had announced late Tuesday that the Rio Grande Valley Sector had temporarily suspended "intake operations" at the McAllen Central Processing Center.
"Individuals apprehended in RGV Sector will be held at other locations until this situation is resolved," the agency added.
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Read more: https://abcnews.go.com/Politics/govt-stops-processing-migrants-texas-border-center-suspected/story?id=63196466