40 Percent of Illegal Immigrants Released in Texas City Tested Positive for COVID-19: Officials

A group crosses a road on the way to Nuevo Laredo, Mexico, with the intention of entering the United States, in a file photograph. Omar Torres/AFP via Getty Images

Four in 10 illegal immigrants released in a Texas city near the U.S.–Mexico border last week tested positive for COVID-19, city officials said.

“That was very high,” Laredo Mayor Pete Saenz told The Washington Examiner.