Texas border mayor says immigrants' COVID positivity concerns 'not a crisis'

Brownsville, Texas, Mayor Trey Mendez told Fox News on Thursday that his city is not experiencing coronavirus positivity among border crossers at a "crisis" level yet, but that he understands the concerns of officials in his and other areas along the U.S.-Mexico line.

Mendez said that there has been a slight short-term uptick in border crossers from Tamaulipas state, after officials there cleared out a migrant encampment. "The city of Brownsville felt it was good to get a good handle on this and test people out of [concern for] public health. We’ve been doing that for a little over a month now. We’ve had about 2,400 [asylum seekers] come in so far. We’ve seen about 200 positive [cases] so far." "We’re not seeing the same numbers that other border communities are. On a regular basis, we see about 70 to 100 people coming over [who] are asylum seekers," he said.