During the beginning of 2020, if you did not receive a COVID vaccine you were considered, what? Answer: A ‘virus spreader’. Churches were deemed ‘super spreaders’ and let’s not even talk about holidays and events. The fact is, the Biden administration, the CDC, and Democrats had no qualms calling out the unvaccinated but apparently, there was one demographic they intentionally didn’t give that label to—Unvaccinated illegals.
The top U.S. health official on migration told Congress he chose not to bring back a Trump-era border rule that expelled migrants because he didn’t want to label them as ‘virus spreaders’.
Dr. Marty Cetron, Director of the Centers for Disease Control and Preventions (CDC) Division of Global Migration and Quarantine said that he refused to reinstate Title 42, a border rule responsible for expelling millions of migrants to mitigate the spread of COVID-19, during a May interview with the House Select Subcommittee because he believed similar rules led to the scapegoating of certain communities, according to a transcript of the interview. Cetron later refused to sign the order implementing Title 42.
An “epidemic of disease … can be followed by an epidemic — an inappropriate epidemic of stigma and misrepresentation of where the problem is,” Cetron said.
“I was concerned that there may be a motivation that was beyond the specific public health agenda,” Cetron argued.
The Trump administration began expelling migrants under Title 42 in March 2020. Trump administration aides, including Stephen Miller, pushed for the policy’s implementation, rather than CDC public health experts, Cetron said, according to CBS News.
“It did not originate from CDC,” Cetron told congressional investigators.
Cetron “refused” to sign onto implementing Title 42 because “we could not substantiate that the threat was, quote/unquote, being addressed by this.”
Cetron didn’t want to unfairly stigmatize undocumented migrants. I find that interesting considering no one had a problem stigmatizing taxpaying legal citizens.