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×U.S. EditionPart of HuffPost Politics. ©2022 BuzzFeed, Inc. All rights reserved.×Advertisement(R-Ariz.) —AdvertisementMeanwhile, the Department of Homeland Security has sought to use coronavirus as justification for restricting migration at the southern border.“Large, uncontrolled migrant flows to the U.S. that overwhelm our system and crowd our facilities presently pose a clear and present health risk to Americans,” DHS claimed in an update sent to lawmakers, . “We are safer, and better prepared, now for the virus because of all the things the administration has done to secure the border, uphold our laws, and reduce the crisis-level migrant flows of last year,” DHS said, . The false notion that Mexicans spread diseases to the U.S. was part of the basis for Trump’s racist immigration policy when he first ran for president. In 2015, Trump claimed without evidence that “tremendous infectious disease is pouring across the border” from Mexico. There have been only eight confirmed cases of coronavirus in Mexico, . AdvertisementXenophobic language to describe the outbreak also has consequences for some Asians in the U.S., who have reported abuse including and , as well as having their car vandalized with the phrase, “Fuck Asions [sic] … and coronavirus!” Suggest a correctionNewsletter Sign UpHuffPost's top politics stories, straight to your inbox.Successfully Subscribed!Realness delivered to your inbox

×U.S. EditionPart of HuffPost Politics. ©2022 BuzzFeed, Inc. All rights reserved.×Advertisement(R-Ariz.) —AdvertisementMeanwhile, the Department of Homeland Security has sought to use coronavirus as justification for restricting migration at the southern border.“Large, uncontrolled migrant flows to the U.S. that overwhelm our system and crowd our facilities presently pose a clear and present health risk to Americans,” DHS claimed in an update sent to lawmakers, . “We are safer, and better prepared, now for the virus because of all the things the administration has done to secure the border,...

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