CDC health experts said sealing off the border to immigrants and asylum seekers wouldn't slow coronavirus. Vice President Pence ordered them to do it, anyway. AP has exclusive details on how political pressure caused an unprecedented border shutdown.
Vice President Mike Pence arrives at Dobbins Air Reserve Base in Marietta, Ga., Wednesday, Sept. 30, 2020.
Also on the phone call were Pence’s chief of staff, Mark Short, and Homeland Security Secretary Chad Wolf. Redfield immediately ordered his senior staff to get it done, according to a former CDC official who was not authorized to discuss internal deliberations and spoke on condition of anonymity. Title 42 of the Public Health Service Act gives federal health officials unique powers during a pandemic to take extraordinary measures to limit transmission of an infectious disease. One of those is the ability to stop the flow of immigration from countries with high numbers of confirmed cases, a legal authority the CDC does not normally have.
“That is what the Trump administration has been trying to do for four years and they finally saw a window,” he added. An HHS lawyer then wrote the order and submitted it to Redfield, who reviewed it and signed it. Redfield declined to comment through a CDC spokesperson, because the order is currently in litigation.
In recent months, Trump has highlighted the decision to shut down the border as an argument for his reelection in November.
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