Sen. Marshall: Biden has Created a Humanitarian Crisis at the Southern Border

(Washington, D.C., October 6, 2021) – Today, U.S. Senator Roger Marshall, M.D. joined his colleagues at a press conference to discuss the crisis at the southern border created by President Biden. Senator Marshall raised concern for the health of the American people as illegal immigrants with COVID-19 as well as other infectious diseases continue to pour across the southern border into the United States. Senator Marshall said in part,

“America knows we have a health care crisis at the border, and America knows this crisis was created by Joe Biden…My big concern is just the number of people crossing the border with infectious diseases. We know that millions of people have crossed the border, will cross the border this year – 20% of them are positive for COVID, twice that many have been exposed to it as well. A third of the people that we’re releasing into America are refusing the vaccine…I want to do everything we can to show compassion, but at the same time I was sent here to protect our families from these infectious diseases… America knows that we have a humanitarian crisis on the border and America knows Joe Biden could fix it.”

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Senator Marshall’s Complete Remarks:

America knows we have a health care crisis at the border, and America knows this crisis was created by Joe Biden. And America knows that Joe Biden wants this crisis.

My big concern is just the number of people crossing the border with infectious diseases. We know that millions of people have crossed the border, will cross the border this year – 20% of them are positive for COVID, twice that many have been exposed to it as well. A third of the people that we’re releasing into America are refusing the vaccine.

As a senior medical student I spent two months on a medical Christian mission in Haiti. And, certainly I was concerned about the largest endemic tuberculosis population in the western hemisphere – the poorest nation in the western hemisphere, but every morning I got to the clinic there were 60-80 people lined up to see us. And as we saw each one they would describe the worms that they were seeing: the worms in their feces, the worms in their mouth.

Infectious diseases are rampant in these populations.

Certainly I continue to feel for the people of Haiti, continue to do mission work through other folks there. I also did mission work in Central America. Again, infectious diseases are rampant. And I can’t help but just stop and think about the Afghanistan refugees coming across as well. The highest rate of Tuberculosis in that part of the world as well. The only countries in the world still with polio: Afghanistan and Pakistan. I want to do everything we can to show compassion, but at the same time I was sent here to protect our families from these infectious diseases.

America knows that we have a humanitarian crisis on the border and America knows Joe Biden could fix it.

Thank you.

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