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Border counties in Texas show some of the highest rates of immunization but are now preparing for a possible rise in infection cases from the Delta variant.
In summer 2020, as the pandemic ravaged communities across the country, national media placed the Texas-Mexico border region
in the limelight as a coronavirus hot spot. At the time, death rates in the Rio Grande Valley surpassed the national average.
The surge in infections came only weeks after Gov. Greg Abbott’s
executive order to reopen the Texas economy on May 1, 2020, took effect. For a vulnerable community with a high rate of underlying health conditions and a low rate of insured individuals, the results were drastic.
PHARR, Texas â With the Rio Grande and an unfinished wall for a backdrop, Donald Trump and Gov. Greg Abbott joined forces Wednesday to amplify claims of chaos at the border since President Joe Biden took over.
âIt is time to make sure we seal this border and close it down,â Abbott declared, adopting some of the toughest Trumpian rhetoric of his career in depicting migrants â all migrants â as a security threat. âThe people coming across the border are cartels and gangs and smugglers and human traffickers.â
Trump, he said, âdid more than any other president has ever done to secure our border,â and Biden in five months has left Americans all but undefended, forcing Texas to fill the vacuum by tapping the state budget to send state troopers and guardsmen and continue the wall Trump started. âLook at this border. . You see an unfinished border. This is Bidenâs fault.â
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