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Fox News: Republicans call on Mayorkas to reinstate COVID-era border policy amid tuberculosis 'surge'

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Republicans call on Mayorkas to reinstate COVID-era border policy amid tuberculosis 'surge'

Sen. Mike Lee led some of his GOP colleagues in calling on Secretary Alejandro Mayorkas to reinstate Title 42 due to tuberculosis concerns.......                    ...                        ...FIRST ON FOX: You are not allowed to view links. Register or Login led some of his Republican colleagues in calling for Department of Homeland Security (DHS) Secretary Alejandro Mayorkas to reinstate a COVID-19 era border policy due to rising tuberculosis cases in the U.S. ......"Due to your negligence and refusal to enforce our current laws, tuberculosis (TB) is rapidly spreading through the millions of unscreened You are not allowed to view links. Register or Login the interior of the United States, putting American lives and health at severe risk," Lee wrote in a letter sent to Mayorkas Wednesday, which was also signed by senators Tommy Tuberville, R-Ala., and Roger Marshall, R-Kan. ......You are not allowed to view links. Register or Login......The senators requested that he close the border, detain and deport "inadmissable" immigrants, reinstate the Trump-era Remain in Mexico policy and bring back Title 42, which gave authority to turn away illegal immigrants due to the You are not allowed to view links. Register or Login. ......The Biden administration lifted the policy last year despite bipartisan pleading against him doing so. ......"The Biden-Harris administration's destruction of America's southern border has resulted in violent crime, human trafficking, drug smuggling and now a surge in a disease that was declining for nearly three decades before they took power. Secretary Mayorkas must answer for his part in this failure," Lee told Fox News Digital in a statement.......You are not allowed to view links. Register or Login......He noted that tuberculosis has risen steadily in recent years despite being on the decline for decades. ......According to the You are not allowed to view links. Register or Login (CDC), there were 9,615 cases of the disease in 2023, a 16% increase from 2022. ......"Despite this increasing human health risk, you have turned what was once border security into a rubber-stamp for any individual seeking access to the interior," the Republicans told Mayorkas. ......You are not allowed to view links. Register or Login......"Rather than requiring immigrants to apply for status prior to arriving at the border and undergo health screenings, your policies encourage immigrants to unlawfully enter the interior with no meaningful processing, screening, or security analysis."......The senators pointed out that some of the most frequently encountered nationalities by Border Patrol are from countries that have higher rates of tuberculosis than the U.S. ......But the rise in cases is not confined to immigrants entering illegally, the letter said. Lee emphasized that the CDC reported increases in tuberculosis "among all age groups and among both U.S.-born and non-U.S.-born persons."......You are not allowed to view links. Register or Login......"There can be no doubt that your administration's failure to enforce the law is the cause for the dramatic and dangerous rise of TB in the U.S," the senators continued. ......The lawmakers asked Mayorkas to respond to several questions, including whether the DHS recognizes a correlation between the influx of migrants from countries with higher rates of tuberculosis and the rising rate in the U.S.......The letter further asked him if the department was taking steps to mitigate the spread of the disease and if it considers the rise in tuberculosis a public health crisis. ......DHS did not immediately provide comment to Fox News Digital....

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