Posted on 09/11/2007 10:04:01 AM PDT by uxbridge
As our nation slowly is overrun by illegal immigrants, we must realize there are not just societal and economic issues, but medical concerns as well.
It has become second nature for people to sit back and make justifications for allowing illegal immigration. However, unless they acknowledge the consequences they are not likely to understand its full implications.
Investor's Business Daily reported on Aug. 29, that Francisco Santos, an illegal immigrant, was arrested at Gwinnett Medical Center on Aug. 24 when he refused treatment for an active case of contagious tuberculosis and threatened to leave the hospital and return to Mexico.
Santos will get his wish when Immigration and Customs Enforcement agents deport him back home to receive medical help there, instead of taxing our services.
Unfortunately, cases like Santos' are not random occurrences. A tuberculosis outbreak involving 131 immigrants occurred at a South Carolina poultry plant just a few weeks ago.
According to webmd.com, tuberculosis is a highly contagious viral infection spread through air particles by an infected person when he or she sneezes, coughs or spits.
Frontpagemagazine.com reported Aug. 17, "It is estimated that each person infected with TB will infect 10 others."
This is a huge biological threat to the citizens of the United States. New strains of tuberculosis that are resistant to drug treatment have developed, and research by the Indiana University of Medicine affirmed it was introduced into the United States by Mexican Nationals.
Citizens of the United States should be rightfully concerned with the alarming rate at which infected immigrants, who have not gone through any medical screening processes, are coming into this country. According to a Pew Hispanic Report, illegal immigrants make up for almost 30 percent of the foreign-population inside the United States.
Last year, the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention released a report titled "Trends in Tuberculosis Incidence - United States" saying the number of tuberculosis cases among foreign-born persons in the US increased in 2006, and approximately half came from five countries, Mexico being the leader with 1,912 reported cases.
Considering the United States shares a border with Mexico, it would be in our best interest to stop any miscreants from coming into the country and unabashedly jeopardizing our health.
Matt Hayes, professor at Berkeley College and author of "The New Immigration Law and Practice," said in response to the problem, "Not one of them encounters immigration authorities, let alone BCIS civil surgeons whose job it is to test immigrants for communicable diseases."
The evidence shows the relative costs of harboring between 8 and 15 million illegal immigrants outweighs the "benefits" that illegal-immigrant sympathizers fabricate.
If ever there was a time to crack down on illegal immigration it would be now before a pandemic arises. We must not brush off this dire problem with anecdotes about the tough life of an illegal immigrant.
If the United States wants to continue to be a strong prosperous nation, we need to learn to control the borders so as to protect our country from disease. The longer we continue to blatantly ignore problems, the worse the repercussions.
bttt
agreed....you know, the day after 9-11 the president should have LOCKED DOWN the borders and put aliens from islamic countries into camps just like socialist FDR did to the Japanese, Italians and Germans.
compassionate conservatism is bogus...its Bush's Globalism that rules the day....we are doomed to third world status, if we don't get some real CONSERVATIVES elected in '08.
“I had a stomach parasite earlier this year.....came straight from Mexico.”
Don’t tell me you were the one that had to eat the worm at the bottom of the tequila bottle.
PING
BLASPHEMY!!!!!!!!!!!
RACISM!!!!
HATESPEECH!!!!
What's for dinner? Some sneeze coated chicken?
Oh thats fowl...Now you see why I refuse to eat it?
Forget contagious diseases as the real problem, they are a statistical drop in the bucket.
Try this one, overlay the US County map of illegal aliens with the US county map of incidence of diabetes (type 2). We have allowed the influx of a large number of people with insulin resistance who become diabetic when their exercise level drops, and their caloric intake increases.
“...its Bush’s Globalism that rules the day....we are doomed to third world status, if we don’t get some real CONSERVATIVES elected in ‘08”
B U M P
NOT!....:-)
An ugly situation just beginning to brew. We have these people coming in unchecked with things we eradicated for the most part with immunizations. At the same time, many of the young parents seem to be backing off immunizing their kids.
Seious situation brewing. The spp. talks about bird flu. It hasn’t killed too many worldwide. What we need to worry about are the ones being passed on to the US population by illegal immigration for the selfish money grubbing elite.
NO KIDDING LOL!
I was just thinking back in da day if you remember Godfather 2 they put future Vito Corlone and others in quartaine for few months make sure they don’t give other Americans disease when they turn out into American society what happen those Ellis Island old school rules
Just asking
Those medical concerns are also economic -- the U.S. taxpayer foots the bills for expensive medical treatments. Illegal immigration brings high crime, 3rd world diseases, a huge anti-American demographic, and a host of other problems. But hey, we get cheap lettuce! What a deal.
Do you think it’s different in the beef, pork and veggie processing facilities?
Doh!
NO KIDDING LOL!
I was just thinking back in da day if you remember Godfather 2 they put future Vito Corlone and others in quartaine for few months make sure they dont give other Americans disease when they turn out into American society what happen those Ellis Island old school rules
Just asking
35 posted on 09/11/2007 12:52:20 PM MDT by SevenofNine
No mention of the purpose of Ellis Island. It was a quarantine station for legal immigrants. Jorge Arbusto is fully responsible before G-d for allowing the destruction of America by TB plague from Mexico. We now have Hollyweird faces advertising on TV to save Ellis Island.
Yup, big libs like Elliot Gould. I think it’s a good idea. Preserve Ellis Island as a reminder of how legal immigration should work. I’ll let the libs fund it though.
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