No, the surge in Covid cases across the U.S. is not due to migrants or immigrants

Republican Govs. Abbot and DeSantis blame migrants and immigrants entering the country for the surge of Covid cases in the US but there's no evidence to support those accusations, experts say. - NBCLatino

Anthony Fauci, the director of the National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases, said that contrary to what DeSantis has said, the state's Covid-19 surge is due to its low vaccination rate.

For Caplan, blaming immigrants — undocumented or not — for the recent outbreaks of Covid-19 is not only wrong, but “racist.”

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