Fauci Says Administration Doesn’t Have ‘Capability’ to Test All Illegal Immigrants Crossing Border for COVID-19

Dr. Anthony Fauci, director of the National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases and the chief medical adviser to the president, gestures as he answers a question from a reporter after giving an update on the Omicron COVID-19 variant during the daily press briefing at the White House in Washington on Dec. 1, 2021. Anna Moneymaker/Getty Images

White House coronavirus response team member Dr. Anthony Fauci said Wednesday that President Joe Biden’s new COVID-19 testing requirements for visitors entering the United States are a “different issue” to the testing of illegal immigrants because the administration doesn’t “have the capability” to test all illegal aliens crossing the border.

The Biden administration is expected to announce newly-updated testing requirements for air travelers entering the United States in the coming days. It comes following discovery of the Omicron variant of the CCP (Chinese Communist Party) virus, which causes COVID-19, by South Africa last week.