Border officers are releasing illegal immigrants who test positive for COVID-19 to a charity, Texas authorities said this week. The immigrants were handed over to the Catholic Charities of The Rio Grande Valley, which put them up in a hotel that they had rented out entirely, La Joya police officials said. “We did not know this. No one told the city of La Joya, no one told the police department that these people were here. And no one told us that these people were possibly ill,” La Joya Sgt. Manuel Casas told reporters at a press conference on Tuesday. The situation came to light after a concerned citizen on Monday reported to a police officer that she saw a family who was coughing and sneezing without covering their mouths and were not wearing masks. Management at the Whataburger location where the family was said they wanted them to leave because they …