The handling of Afghan immigrants in northern Virginia is increasingly chaotic as migrants lodge in an abandoned Dick’s Sporting Goods in a mall and then abruptly move in on them, and area residents. potentially exposed to measles.
The Virginia Department of Health said people who went to Dulles Airport, StoneSprings Hospital, Inova Children’s Hospital in Falls Church, the Dulles Expo Center or the Crowne Plaza Hotel in Herndon, could have been exposed earlier this month.
Five Afghan migrants were diagnosed with measles in northern Virginia, as well as in Richmond and at an Army National Guard facility called Fort Pickett, Nottoway County. Most Americans are vaccinated against measles, but it is a “highly contagious disease” that causes a rash “that appears on the face and spreads throughout the body,” the health department said.
After the federal government brought flat loads of Afghan migrants to the outskirts of the nation’s capital, it has been the responsibility of local governments to take on some of the loads, according to local officials who cannot obtain information or support from the Biden administration. .
Some migrants were staying at a former Dick’s Sporting Goods in a mall in the Fair Lakes area. The store is connected to a Dave and Busters gallery, an ice cream parlor and a children’s science lab.
On Tuesday afternoon, the old sporting goods store was surrounded by a high-chain fence, which included black fabric that hid visibility for up to about five meters. According to materials obtained by The Daily Wire, white trucks arrived at a loading dock.
A woman sitting in a folding chair in front said she was working for a Department of Defense subcontractor and that the migrants had been relocated and the facilities were closed.
“Today I think it will be the last day we do it because everything is closed, so I should go back to whoever owns the store,” he said.
“I’m not sure if the county, I’m sure they work there [DoD], but I’m not sure how exactly they are located “.
The Fairfax Times reported on Sept. 10 that “although it originally appeared that many refugees had just stopped calling at Fairfax County before heading to military bases in other states, it looks like there will be more Afghans than it was originally thought that they would stay and integrate into the county. “
Pat Herrity, a member of the county board of supervisors, told the newspaper, “I don’t know how many refugees will go to schools and the county, but I’m looking and I’ve been trying to get this information … The real problem is the lack of “Federal government information on this issue. It is a federal government project.”
Fairfax County has spent at least $ 300,000 tracking and transporting Afghans to hospitals, and in one hospital, Americans were turned away because it was too crowded with Afghans.
County Executive Bryan Hill told the Washington Post, “It’s been very difficult to get even to the federal government about what the next steps are.”
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