Quote Originally Posted by JaneV2.0 View Post
They legally registered at the border in hopes of securing refugee or immigrant status, which, as I understand it, is the appropriate process.

Spraying them with DDT? Isn't that a poison?

In your eyes, apparently, anyone seeking to enter the country at the southern border is basically vermin. Nice.
It’s a reference to past immigration practices, probably too obscure for most people.

https://www.vox.com/2019/7/29/893484...o-dark-history


edited to add: The medical testing and treatment of border jumpers today is probably more akin to what our immigrant ancestors encountered at Ellis island. Anyone who looks sickly failed a TB test wouldn’t have been able to get on a bus to go to Martha’s Vineyard.