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Biden doesn’t require migrants at border to get vaccinated despite mandate on Americans

By Anna Giaritelli
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Biden doesn’t require migrants at border to get vaccinated despite mandate on Americans

The Biden administration is not planning to vaccinate the nearly 200,000 migrants who are showing up on the border each month, despite imposing mandates on federal workers and private businesses nationwide.

White House press secretary Jen Psaki confirmed during a press briefing Friday that many employees would be required to get the coronavirus vaccine but that people in federal custody at the U.S.-Mexico border would not be required, nor be able, to get it.

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