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.
If the government feels that expensive medical exams are necessary for those who try to follow the legal route into the US...how can they allow millions of illegals to live in the US (often in the food service industry) with no medical screening?
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You can thank GWB.
By the time he leaves office we are going to have one HUGE mess to clean up!
You are asking the federal government to be reasonable and make sense. Don't try to wrap your head around that, you'll just drive yourself crazy.
My husband was put through the ringer just to come to America. It ticks me off that so many others get a free pass.
Crazy, isn’t it?
You are certainly justified for feeling that way. None of it makes sense. The good news is, at least you don’t have to worry because the tide is turning and I have a feeling a lot of illegals will be leaving or having a tough time finding a job.
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One could only hope.
TB is caused by a bacteria, according to my sources. Here is what the NIH has to say.
Just one of many, many reasons to get control of immigration.
“how can they allow millions of illegals to live in the US (often in the food service industry) with no medical screening?”
Why I rarely eat out.......
not to mention the once laughed about and thought extinct, Bedbugs, have made a startling comeback.
Thank you third worlders for your marvelous gifts.
How wonderful.
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.
I don't think Santos and his mother will be leaving the U.S. any time soon and he will be getting treatment at U.S. taxpayers' expense.
Jailed TB patient in Gwinnett could be released this week
Published on: 09/04/07
Santos will be handed over to the custody of his mother, and both have signed a legally binding consent order saying he will comply with nine months of treatment and not leave the area.
In addition, when Santos leaves the Gwinnett County jail, federal immigration officials say they will hand him a notice to appear in court for deportation. "He is being processed for removal," said Richard Rocha, spokesman for the U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement.
Santos' mother, who declined to comment Tuesday, has also been slated for deportation as an illegal immigrant, Rocha said. Enriqueta Palacios and her son are expected to appear before an immigration judge in Atlanta within a few weeks.
... he may not be deported for another two years, which would provide him time to receive the treatment locally.
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TB and bedbugs are just the tip of the iceberg. We now have leprosy here in this country - straight from Mexico. And the number of illegals with tapeworms is astounding. The kids of these illegals have diseases as well and are in close contact with our children.
Thank you Jorge.
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