That's all well and good for legal immigrants... assuming you can swab babies or something, and can test in minutes instead of days.
What about the hundreds of thousands or millions [0] of illegal border crossings every year at the mexican border though?
[0] Naturally good stats for this are impossible to find, but in FY19 851,508 individuals were apprehended at the american southwest border [1]. It seems reasonable to assume the same order of magnitude of people successfully crossed.
There might not be any foreigners let in at all for a while. I was talking about citizens. Prepare for fundamental erosion of our rights - that one is almost guaranteed now. I won’t be surprised if they go to apple/google and telcos for location data to aggressively backtrack infected. It’s either that or millions of deaths. A perfect zugzwang
The Tweet is now deleted, so probably just a rumour, but Sky News tweeted earlier:
> Sky News understands the [UK] Government has asked mobile network O2 to hand over anonymous mobile phone location data in order to ensure people are following social distancing guidelines during the COVID-19 outbreak
