WASHINGTON — Customs and Border Protection is not testing migrant children packed into overcrowded border stations for Covid-19, Biden administration officials said on Thursday, though more than 100 have tested positive after being transferred from those facilities.
"We are not performing testing inside Border Patrol facilities," an administration official told reporters on a press call.
The official said children are tested when they are transferred to sites run by the Federal Emergency Management Agency or the Department of Health and Human Services.
In a Carrizo Springs, Texas, HHS facility currently housing 766 children, 108 have tested positive for Covid-19. All came from Border Patrol stations and it is not known if they contracted or spread the virus there.