Scalise’s claim that unauthorized immigrants are getting priority for vaccination misses the point
During a Feb. 2 interview on Fox News, Rep. Steve Scalise (R-La.) claimed President Joe Biden was allowing unauthorized immigrants to move ahead of American citizens to get their covid-19 vaccines.
This story was produced in partnership with PolitiFact. It can be republished for free. Now [Biden s] saying that people who came here illegally can jump ahead of other Americans who have been waiting to get the vaccine, said Scalise, who is also the No. 2 Republican leader in the House.
Lauren Fine, a spokesperson for Scalise, said the representative was referring to a Feb. 1 statement from the Department of Homeland Security, which said the agency encourages all individuals, regardless of immigration status, to receive the COVID-19 vaccine once eligible under local distribution guidelines.
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Feb. 9, 2021
Hundreds of migrant workers and asylum seekers stood in a line snaking across a parking lot in south Tel Aviv Tuesday morning, eagerly awaiting their first dose of the Pfizer COVID-19 vaccine.
“I’m so relieved,” said Andrew Kamau, a 46-year-old Kenyan asylum seeker who has lived in Israel for two years, as he patiently waited his turn. He found out about the opportunity through his job as an office cleaner. His boss, he said, sent him the information and instructed him to come. He was happy to comply, he said.
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The municipality, along with Ichilov hospital, will be vaccinating 2,000 people daily in the city's Neve Sha'anan neighborhood, and stress that those receiving the COVID vaccine will not be checked by Israeli immigration authorities
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Tuesday, February 2, 2021
February 2, 2021, Washington, D.C. – Today, more than a hundred non-governmental organizations joined a letter led by the Center for Constitutional Rights and the Center for Victims of Torture, urging President Joe Biden to close the prison at Guantánamo Bay, Cuba and end indefinite military detention. The letter is signed by organizations ranging from those working to end anti-Muslim discrimination and torture to immigrant rights organizations and organizations working broadly on civil rights, civil liberties, and racial justice at the national and local level. It emphasizes the devastating and ongoing consequences of the prison, including the effect of a post-9/11 national security framework on domestic racial justice struggles and efforts to end police violence. The letter reads, in part: