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Yo_Mama_Been_Loggin

(107,111 posts)
Fri Oct 8, 2021, 12:36 PM Oct 2021

Anger in U.S. Customs and Border Protection as Biden administration's vaccine mandate looms

The coronavirus took an immediate toll on U.S. Customs and Border Protection, and in the first months of the outbreak, the agency’s memorial pages highlighted the sacrifices of those killed through “diligent service to country during a worldwide pandemic.”

Dozens more names have been added to the memorial since then, marking the deadliest span in the agency’s history. But in recent months, CBP has not called attention to the deadly pathogen that killed them, leaving out any mention of the virus.

Police departments across the country are struggling with vaccine hesitancy, but at CBP, the nation’s largest law enforcement agency, the politics are especially fraught. With immigration arrests along the Mexican border soaring to the highest levels in decades, Republican lawmakers blame the Biden administration’s policies for exposing U.S. agents to greater risk, even as they denounce vaccine mandates that would help protect them.

President Biden’s order mandating federal employees to be fully vaccinated next month has generated anger in CBP’s ranks, particularly among conservative-leaning U.S. Border Patrol agents and the union that represents them. In recent weeks, leaders at the National Border Patrol Council (NBPC) have joined Republican lawmakers who allege the Biden administration is allowing migrants to spread the coronavirus in the United States and placing the CBP workforce at greater risk, while also opposing his vaccination order.

https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/us/anger-in-us-customs-and-border-protection-as-biden-administrations-vaccine-mandate-looms/ar-AAPhbdJ

Oh grow the fuck up.

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Anger in U.S. Customs and Border Protection as Biden administration's vaccine mandate looms (Original Post) Yo_Mama_Been_Loggin Oct 2021 OP
Too effing bad wryter2000 Oct 2021 #1
Revised Headline: Budi Oct 2021 #2
Fuck 'em. Quit, you fucking crybabies. Wingus Dingus Oct 2021 #3
Get the Shot or Get the F... Out! MineralMan Oct 2021 #4
Vaccine "hesitancy" aligns pretty closely with fascist tendencies. Crunchy Frog Oct 2021 #5
We need to get rid of any hesitancy in firing the "vaccine hesitant" gulliver Oct 2021 #6
I grow more intolerant of my fellow man - mostly the Deplorable morons - every single day. NoMoreRepugs Oct 2021 #7
 

Budi

(15,325 posts)
2. Revised Headline:
Fri Oct 8, 2021, 12:39 PM
Oct 2021

"Republican lawmakers blame the Biden administration’ ..even as they denounce vaccine mandates that would help protect them."



"Republican lawmakers blame the Biden administration’ policies for exposing U.S. agents to greater risk, even as they denounce vaccine mandates that would help protect them."



WTF..

Wingus Dingus

(8,049 posts)
3. Fuck 'em. Quit, you fucking crybabies.
Fri Oct 8, 2021, 12:40 PM
Oct 2021

Don't fucking whine about migrants spreading the disease while you're also...spreading the disease. Fucking clowns.

Crunchy Frog

(26,548 posts)
5. Vaccine "hesitancy" aligns pretty closely with fascist tendencies.
Fri Oct 8, 2021, 12:44 PM
Oct 2021

If they won't get vaccinated, fire their asses.

The US govt should also do testing and vaccinating of border crossers IMO.

gulliver

(13,142 posts)
6. We need to get rid of any hesitancy in firing the "vaccine hesitant"
Fri Oct 8, 2021, 12:47 PM
Oct 2021

They have their orders. Get the shots or find another job.

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