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Deadline Approaching for CBP Agents to Get Vaccinated, or Face the Consequences

This mandate could cut the number of border patrol agents by more than half, according to Fox News

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The November 22 deadline for Customs and Border Patrol (CBP) agents to get the Covid-19 vaccine is approaching, and the Biden administration is remaining firm in their threat to terminate agents who do not report that they have received it. This mandate could cut the number of border patrol agents by more than half, according to Fox News

Fox News reports, “according to the document [obtained from a source within CBP], as of October 25, 2021, 48% of border patrol agents have not responded to the reporting mandate. Of the 52% who had reported their vaccination status, 90% reported having received one or more COVID-19 jabs.”

An October 30 email from President Biden obtained by Fox News, demands that CBP supervisors order their employees to report their vaccination status by November 8, and threatens the supervisors if they do not. The email reads, “Supervisors who fail to have the required discussions with their employees will be subject to potential discipline for insubordination, up to removal from federal service.” In the email, President Biden includes “discussion points” and a log that supervisors are required to maintain and submit regarding their discussions with employees. Former acting CBP Commissioner Mark Morgan told Fox News that the requirement for supervisors to speak to each of their 64,000 employees is a severely time-consuming task. This is especially not easy when the border crisis is raging. 

Morgan argued that when an agency has to pressure supervisors to this extent, it shows that the mandate has been a “colossal failure,” and having to “strong-arm” leadership is a “red flag.” A CBP source told Fox News that employees are receiving multiple emails each day regarding the Covid-19 vaccine, and they include videos of CBP or Homeland Security employees who have been affected by it. Some Border Patrol agents who have spoken to Fox News said that they actually do have the vaccine, but “object to the mandate, particularly considering there is no such mandate for those crossing the border illegally.”

The crisis at the southern border is intensifying with over 192,000 migrants encountered in September and more than 1.7 million in the 2021 fiscal year; however, the full data on the number of illegal immigrants released into the U.S. is yet to be released from the Department of Homeland Security. 

The threat of losing over half of CBP agents includes ports of entry in addition to the southern border and other areas as well. Still, President Biden is firm in his order for them to either get vaccinated or face the consequences.

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  1. JM

    November 13, 2021 at 10:38 am

    I am a federal government employee, I prefer not to say where. November 22 is the deadline to be fully vaccinated, which means you had to have had the shot two weeks before that (this last Monday the 8th). I have “crossed the Rubicon”, there is no way for me or any other federal government employee to “be in compliance” if they have not already had the shot.

  2. Sal

    November 13, 2021 at 11:51 am

    Complete jackass regime. They can do anything now that their election rigging has essentially gone unchallenged.

  3. SFC MAC

    November 13, 2021 at 5:38 pm

    Biden’s government goons won’t let the CBP agents do their jobs anyway. Who could blame them if they “called in sick” until further notice.

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Former Harvard medical professor says he was fired for opposing Covid lockdowns and vaccine mandates

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“My hope is that someday, Harvard will find its way back to academic freedom and independence.” That is the heartfelt message from Dr. Martin Kulldorff, a former Harvard University professor of medicine since 2003, who recently announced publicly he was fired for “clinging to the truth” in his opposition to Covid lockdowns and vaccine mandates.

Kulldorff posted the news on social media alongside an essay published in the City Journal last week. The epidemiologist and biostatistician also spoke with National Review about the incident. Kulldorff says he was fired by the Harvard-affiliated Mass General Brigham hospital system and put on a leave of absence by Harvard Medical School in November 2021 over his stance on Covid.

Nearly two years later, in October 2023, his leave of absence was terminated as a matter of policy, marking the end of his time at the university. Harvard severed ties with Kulldorff “all on their initiative,” he said.

The history of the medical professional’s public stance on Covid-19 vaccines and mandates is detailed by National Review:

Censorship and rejection led Kulldorff to co-author the Great Barrington Declaration in October 2020 alongside Dr. Sunetra Gupta of Oxford University and Dr. Jay Bhattacharya of Stanford University. Together, the three public-health scientists argued for limited and targeted Covid-19 restrictions that “protect the elderly, while letting children and young adults live close to normal lives,” as Kulldorff put it in his essay.

“The declaration made clear that no scientific consensus existed for school closures and many other lockdown measures. In response, though, the attacks intensified—and even grew slanderous,” he wrote, naming former National Institutes of Health director Francis Collins as the one who ordered a “devastating published takedown” of the declaration.

Testifying before Congress in January, Collins reaffirmed his previous statements attacking the Great Barrington Declaration.

Despite the coordinated effort against it, the document has over 939,000 signatures in favor of age-based focused protection.

The Great Barrington Declaration’s authors, who advocated the quick reopening of schools, have been vindicated by recent studies that confirm pandemic-era school closures were, in fact, detrimental to student learning. The data show that students from third through eighth grade who spent most of the 2020–21 school year in remote learning fell more than half a grade behind in math scores on average, while those who attended school in person dropped a little over a third of a grade, according to a New York Times review of existing studies. In addition to learning losses, school closures did very little to stop the spread of Covid, studies show.

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