Louisiana Republican Attorney General Liz Murrill is suing Homeland Security Secretary Alejandro Mayorkas and various security agencies for allowing an illegal immigrant with a rare drug-resistant form of tuberculosis to enter the state.
Gov. Jeff Landry joined Murrill on Wednesday in claiming that U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) agents shuttled an infected Chinese national into custody and brought him into contact with at least 200 other detainees and employees.
Mayorkas is specifically named in the lawsuit, alleging that “through his official capacity as security chief,” he allowed itinerant detainees to be present around ICE facilities.
of new york post report of lawsuit Federal immigration authorities release “potentially infectious detainees” who came into contact with Chinese nationals suffering from “a rare, aggressive, drug-resistant, and deadly form of tuberculosis” trying to prevent it from happening. Immigration and Customs Enforcement.
“ICE has announced its intention to release potentially infected detainees from two contracted facilities.” [in Louisiana] — without medical clearance from the Louisiana Department of Health — where release is required by order,” the complaint states.
“ICE has announced that once its immigration-based detention authority expires, its hands will be tied,” the lawsuit continues, adding that immigrants who may have been exposed to the disease will be taken to “the streets, bus stops, and airports of Louisiana.” He warned that he would be released.
“This is completely wrong,” Murrill insists. post Report. “The Surgeon General's continuing order requires that detainees at the two facilities in question be held until medically cleared by the Louisiana Department of Health.”
“This is a classic exercise of a state's sovereign prerogatives, its police powers and its obligation to protect public health within its borders,” she added, adding that the two sites where infected migrants were being held It was pointed out that the facility is not the owner. ice.
According to the complaint, the Chinese illegally entered California through the southern border in July. She was then flown to Alexandria, Louisiana, along with 100 other detainees. She was then transferred by bus to another facility with more detainees.
Murrill estimates that more than 200 detainees and “countless non-detainees” may have been exposed to TB as TB-infected immigrants.
She added that there was no indication that the public was in immediate danger.
The case against Mr. Mayorkas is ongoing in federal court.
