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.
OH Yeah I saw that on History Channel over the weekend to save and restore Ellis Island yeah this same brunch who want amnensty for Illegals
OH Yeah I saw that on History Channel over the weekend to save and restore Ellis Island yeah this same brunch who want amnensty for Illegals
OH Yeah I saw that on History Channel over the weekend to save and restore Ellis Island yeah this same brunch who want amnensty for Illegals
OH Yeah I saw that on History Channel over the weekend to save and restore Ellis Island yeah this same brunch who want amnensty for Illegals
OH Yeah I saw that on History Channel over the weekend to save and restore Ellis Island yeah this same brunch who want amnensty for Illegals
The elite don't grub for money; the elite dole out money, almost enough for illegal aliens to send some back to illegal land.
They are not illegal immigrants. They are illegal aliens.
I don’t disagree, I was speaking of the diseases that have entered this country because of illegal “aliens”, to feed the needs of the elite for cheap labor or votes.
No....I have been sick and I really believe it was food poisoning. I am cooking all meats until they are well done. I am also making sure all fruits & veggies are well washed before eating them.
A lot of Mexicans are chubby. They get a tendency for diabetes from their Indian heritage. Many Mexicans that get here (by hook or by crook) have mostly indigenous genetics. 3rd worlders tend to pig out here. It's party time with all kinds of food they were too poor to afford
You watched it 5 times?
Pinworms, Hookworms, Roundworms - while everybody should
start to become aware of pests which are being brought back
to the USA - parents with children in elementary school
should keep an eye out for the symptoms of these critters.
Watch for more meat recalls due to “e. coli”.
I'm pleased that you liked the thought so much.
He could have locked down the borders and he should have.
Re detention camps, he probably couldn’t have done that. The higher ed lobby, alone, would have stopped it. Universities make a lot of money from the foreign students. Tens of thousands of them are in this country. They spend money, LOTS of it.
Sure, Ill trade ya for some of this Chinese Trichina Pork Loin seasoned with Tapeworm of Illegal Alien. Its yummy..really...
Bring us your tired, your poor, your emboldened masses infected with TB... The wretched refuse of all other shores... Send these, who work the system, no matter the cost to me... I empty my pockets and open my doors!”
I had gotten tired of buying tainted miscut meat from grocers and went on a quest to find a real butcher. I found a local fellow who was licensed in Germany. All of the animals that I dont butcher on the farm are sent to him, and when I dont have one he finds real quality for me.
He lets his customers watch every step of the processing and is obsessive about sanitation. Every type and size of cut are custom to my exact specification with me determining what the waste cuts are and what those are processed into.
Comparing even the poorer cuts from him to the higher end cuts from the chain stores is like comparing filet to hamburger...
...and yet its cheaper and safer.
Then again, itll be hard to get a cow home on the back of a bike.
When I was growing up we had a wonderful German butcher. My mother would send me down the street with a onion in my hand & he would add it to her fresh chopped meat. I always got a slice of whatever cold cut meat or cheese I wanted. I sure wish I had a butcher like that man again. I do eat venison & have it made into various cuts etc but nobody was as good as my mom’s butcher.. We do have a truck besides the bikes ....lol Have a great night ~Pandora~
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