Texas Lieutenant General Dan Patrick, R., expressed Joe Biden’s “Neanderthal thinking” remark about lifting COVID-19 restrictions on “The Faulkner Focus” Thursday and called the president a “hypocrite.”
Biden let down Republican governors in Texas and Mississippi on Wednesday, accusing them of ‘Neanderthal thinking’ following their decision to reverse the coronavirus security policy, including mask mandates.
“How dare he attack Texas for our policies if he allows the border to be overrun by people who come here hundreds, test thousands and positives and take a bus to your state wherever you live in the United States? From America, said Patrick. “What a hypocrite.”
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More than 100 illegal immigrants released by Texas Border Patrol since January tested positive for COVID-19 after their arrival, officials at the U.S.-Mexico border told Fox News.
Brownsville spokesman Felipe Romero said Wednesday the 108 positive points represent 6.3% of the number of migrants quickly tested at the city’s main bus station, where they are being released by the Border Patrol. Rapid testing of the individuals began there on January 25th.
He added that Brownsville does not have the power to prevent those who have tested positive from traveling elsewhere in the US and advises them to keep quarantine, the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) guidelines and social distance follow.
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Sources in the White House told Fox News on Wednesday that they are aware of cases where individuals may continue to travel, despite having been tested positive and quarantined, but federal guidance remains for them to isolate.
‘What I would call’ Neanderthal thinking ‘would be governor [Gavin] “Newsom in California who told his people not to come out of their cave for a year,” Patrick said. I would call ‘Neanderthal thinking’ the Democratic governor. [Andrew] Cuomo from New York sends patients with COVID to nursing homes where he kills 12,000 people. ‘
He added: ‘I would think’ neanderthal ‘to allow people to cross the border illegally with COVID. ”
Patrick went on to say that Biden ‘did not look at the facts’, noting that 15 other states do not have a mask mandate. He added that people are still encouraged to give up socially.
“We have just joined the group,” he said. “We are not telling people not to wear masks. We are just removing a mandate.”
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A Biden spokesman did not immediately respond to Fox News’ request for comment.
Fox News’s Caitlin McFall, Greg Norman, Peter Doocy and Griff Jenkins contributed to this report.