Twenty percent of border crossers tested positive amid delta variant surge, 'surprised' Mayorkas says

The top border official in the Biden administration admitted to being caught off guard recently by the spike in delta variant coronavirus cases among migrants at the border.

"What I didn't expect was the tragic rise of the delta variant," Homeland Security Secretary Alejandro Mayorkas said during a Monday speech at the Migration Policy Institute's annual immigration law and policy conference in Washington.

Mayorkas, who has for months refused to speak on the risk that infected migrants who are released into the United States pose to border communities, said upwards of 20% of that population are sick with the highly contagious disease.

BIDEN CONDEMNATION MAKES A FAIR INVESTIGATION INTO BORDER PATROL AGENTS 'IMPOSSIBLE,' ALLIES SAY. "We are confronted with a population of people that, as a general matter, that have a rate of illness of approximately 20%," said Mayorkas, who has been in his position since January.

"When one is speaking of 7,000 or 7,500 people encountered at the border every day, if one takes a look at that the system, it is not built for that in a COVID environment where isolation is required."

The Biden administration has not specifically disclosed how many people every month are being released into the U.S. Washington Examiner Videos.

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