What we know about COVID-19 testing for migrants at the southern border

Overcrowding at southern border facilities has raised concerns that migrants might get sick with COVID-19 since they may not have enough space to safely distance from each other.

Some Republican lawmakers who went to Texas in late March to examine Border Patrol operations have also raised alarms about admitting into the U.S. migrants who are sick. Sens. Ted Cruz of Texas, James Lankford of Oklahoma and others claim that high percentages of people at a border facility were testing positive for COVID-19.