US Exporting COVID-19?

It has been previously reported that the United States has been deporting COVID-19 positive migrants to Guatemala.  Camilo Montoya-Galvez for CBS News updates the story.  In adopting policies to halt migration across the U.S./Mexico border, the Trump administration claimed that infected migrants could spread the coronavirus in the United States:

“But in a paradoxical twist, Guatemala fears the U.S. is exporting the virus there through its deportation policy. . . . At least 99 migrants recently deported to Guatemala by the U.S. had tested positive for coronavirus as of Sunday, according to the nation’s public health ministry. Deportees from the U.S. make up nearly 20% of the 500 coronavirus cases in Guatemala, which has had 15 pandemic-related deaths.

`I do believe that the U.S. is exporting the virus,’ California Representative Norma Torres, the sole Central American in Congress and an immigrant from Guatemala, told CBS News.” (bold added).

KJ