Fauci dodges question on illegal immigrants following same travel restrictions as Americans: ‘Different issue’

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White Home Coronavirus Response Staff Member Dr. Anthony Fauci dodged a query from Fox Information Reporter Peter Doocy concerning unlawful immigrants being screened for the omicron coronavirus variant on the border.

“You suggested the president about the potential for new testing necessities for folks coming into this nation, does that embrace all people?” Doocy requested Fauci throughout a press convention on Wednesday because the White Home is reportedly set to situation journey restrictions for Americans in response to the omicron variant of the coronavirus.

President Biden speaks about the COVID-19 variant named omicron, in the Roosevelt Room of the White House, Monday, Nov. 29, 2021, in Washington. as Dr. Anthony Fauci, director of the National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases listens. (AP Photo/Evan Vucci)

President Biden speaks concerning the COVID-19 variant named omicron, within the Roosevelt Room of the White Home, Monday, Nov. 29, 2021, in Washington. as Dr. Anthony Fauci, director of the Nationwide Institute of Allergy and Infectious Illnesses listens. (AP Photograph/Evan Vucci)
(AP Photograph/Evan Vucci)

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“The reply is sure,” Fauci stated, prompting Doocy to ask if migrants crossing the southern border had been included. 

“That’s a unique situation,” Fauci claimed.

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Fauci defined that there’s testing on the border “below sure circumstances” and cited the very fact “we nonetheless have Title 42” which put into place by former President Donald Trump to mitigate the unfold of coronavirus on the border.

Anthony Fauci, director of the National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases, listens during a Senate Health, Education, Labor, and Pensions Committee hearing in Washington, D.C., U.S., on Thursday, Nov. 4, 2021. Photographer: Al Drago/Bloomberg via Getty Images

Anthony Fauci, director of the Nationwide Institute of Allergy and Infectious Illnesses, listens throughout a Senate Well being, Schooling, Labor, and Pensions Committee listening to in Washington, D.C., U.S., on Thursday, Nov. 4, 2021. Photographer: Al Drago/Bloomberg through Getty Pictures

President Biden‘s enhanced winter COVID-19 technique that might be introduced Thursday would require each traveler coming into the nation, together with returning U.S. residents, to be examined in the future earlier than boarding their flight, in line with the CDC. The rule will even apply to vaccinated vacationers, who beforehand had been solely required to point out a unfavorable take a look at not more than three days earlier than their flight.

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However the Biden administration has refused to place related necessities in place for many who illegally cross the border, claiming in September that such people don’t intend “to remain right here for a prolonged time period.”

Fauci has confronted criticism in latest days after claiming in an interview that he “represents” science.

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WASHINGTON, DC - NOVEMBER 29: Anthony Fauci (R), Director of the National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases and Chief Medical Advisor to the President, speaks alongside U.S. President Joe Biden as he delivers remarks on the Omicron COVID-19 variant following a meeting of the COVID-19 response team at the White House on November 29, 2021 in Washington, DC.  (Photo by Anna Moneymaker/Getty Images)

WASHINGTON, DC – NOVEMBER 29: Anthony Fauci (R), Director of the Nationwide Institute of Allergy and Infectious Illnesses and Chief Medical Advisor to the President, speaks alongside U.S. President Joe Biden as he delivers remarks on the Omicron COVID-19 variant following a gathering of the COVID-19 response staff on the White Home on November 29, 2021 in Washington, DC.  (Photograph by Anna Moneymaker/Getty Pictures)
(Photograph by Anna Moneymaker/Getty Pictures)

“They’re actually criticizing science as a result of I characterize science – that is harmful. To me, that is extra harmful than the slings and the arrows that get thrown at me. I am not going to be round right here endlessly, however science goes to be right here endlessly. And when you harm science, you’re doing one thing very detrimental to society lengthy after I depart. And that is what I fear about,” Fauci informed CBS’s Margaret Brennan on Sunday.

Republican Sen. Ted Cruz responded to the remark by calling Fauci “probably the most harmful bureaucrat” in American historical past.

Fox Information’ Michael Lee contributed to this report

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