Apparently, there is now a charity in the Texas-Mexican border town of La Joya, Texas that allegedly took over an ENTIRE hotel and used it to house illegal immigrants, all who have tested positive for the COVID-19 virus and giving no notification to the local community!
Fox News State Department Correspondent Rich Edson tweeted about the situation on Wednesday night: “Police in La Joya, TX, a Border town, announce a charity has rented an entire hotel here for COVID-positive migrants. They say they only found out when a family, showing symptoms and staying there, ate at a restaurant next door. A customer flagged down a police officer.”
A later post by Edson added, “They’re advising La Joya to mask up and distance.”
“The La Joya Police Department said a patrol officer was waved down Monday by someone concerned about a group that appeared to be sick at a Whataburger fast food restaurant,” Fox News reported late Wednesday night.
“The officer found a family inside who were coughing and sneezing and not adhering to health guidelines, including the wearing of masks, authorities said during a news conference,” the Fox report noted.
La Joya police sergeant Manuel Casas said that neither his department nor the town of La Joya had been notified of the tremendous amount of COVID-19 patients that were now descending upon the town.
“We did not know this,” he said. “No one told the city of La Joya. No one told the police department that these people were here, and no one told us that these people were possibly ill.”
The COVID-19 positive individuals had been staying at the Texas Inn and Suites after they were released by Border Patrol.
This report was made a week after a tremendous number of migrant detainees had tested for COVID-19 in the Rio Grande Valley, causing the area COVID numbers to soar to as much as 900 percent higher.
Fox News noted, “There were 135 detainees who tested positive in the first two weeks of July alone, marking a 900% increase in confirmed positive cases compared to the previous 14 months.”