Five Human Smuggling Incidents Lead to 86 Arrests
Five Human Smuggling Incidents Lead to 86 Arrests Release Date:
EDINBURG
, Texas – Rio Grande Valley Sector (RGV) Border Patrol agents disrupted five human smuggling events resulting in the arrest of 86 illegal aliens.
Wednesday afternoon, McAllen Border Patrol Station agents responded to a call for assistance from the Mission Police Department (PD). Mission PD received a report of a possible human smuggling stash house in Mission, Texas. Agents and officers arrived on scene and discovered 13 illegal aliens being harbored in a trailer home.
The subjects were identified as nationals of Mexico, Guatemala, Honduras, El Salvador, and Nicaragua. Border Patrol took custody of all subjects.
After a year of steadily increasing COVID-19 case numbers, the United States may finally be at an inflection point. The recent overall decline in the number of new infections represents an opportunity to finally eliminate the virus within US borders, and to begin to eradicate it globally.
Update 209: COVID-19 pandemic in Alberta (April 1, 4:15 p.m.)
This long weekend, do not attend indoor social gatherings and strictly follow all public health guidelines to protect the health system and reduce the spread of COVID-19.
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There are 292 people in hospital due to COVID-19, including 59 in intensive care.
There are 8,653 active cases in the province.
To date, 138,560 Albertans have recovered from COVID-19.
In the last 24 hours, there were four additional COVID-related deaths reported: one on March 26, two on March 30, and one on March 31.
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Telehealth aside, providers look to invest IT dollars in cloud services, data analytics
Though telehealth will continue to account for a large portion of healthcare IT budgets in 2021, there are other technology-based services driving provider interest. These range from cloud deployment to vaccine scheduling solutions as providers navigate the new landscape created by the Covid-19 pandemic.
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Provider IT spending is expected to grow from $113 billion last year to $131 billion in 2022, according to data from Gartner. This huge jump will of course include spending on virtual care services but there is more on providers’ minds.
With the shift to digital showing no signs of slowing down, providers are also looking at cloud services, vaccine scheduling solutions and data analytics to boost their clinical offerings and improve patient experience.