Man crisscrossed border with TB (seventy-eight times)

The Washington Times ^ | October 18, 2007 | Sara A. Carter and Audrey Hudson

[Baladas]

By Sara A. Carter and Audrey Hudson - A Mexican national infected with a highly contagious form of tuberculosis crossed the U.S. border 76 times and took multiple domestic flights in the past year, according to Customs and Border Protection interviews and documents obtained by The Washington Times.

The Customs and Border Protection (CBP) agency was warned by health officials on April 16 that the frequent traveler was infected, but it took Homeland Security officials more than six weeks to issue a May 31 alert to warn its own border inspectors, according to Homeland Security sources who spoke on the condition of anonymity for fear of retribution. Homeland Security took a further week to tell its own Transportation Security Agency.

[Baladas]

Fire Chetkoff.

[Vigilanteman]

Cherkoff always reminds me of a mortician. Without the sense of humor and job skills.

I believe he was only one of a half-dozen or so U.S. attorneys who Clinton didn't fire when he took office.

It is not a coincidence that he made the cut, not is it a coincidence that he got his present appointment.

[Scythian]

The Customs and Border Protection (CBP) agency was warned by health officials on April 16 that the frequent traveler was infected, but it took Homeland Security officials more than six weeks to issue a May 31 alert to warn its own border inspectors

We are a country just begging for destruction, I'm astounded, all I can do is laugh, the liberals outlawed Mommy and Daddy now, 6th graders get birth control without parental consent in Maine now, and we're afraid of offending some jerk with a highly dangerous form of TB. Lord, what are you waiting on, if you don't strike us soon surely an apology to soddom and gomora are in order !!!

[yankeesdoodle]

You wait--that wall is going to be built, and it's really going to be a sight to see... No... really... hello?

[Vigilanteman]

Both airlines were asked whether and when they were informed by Homeland Security or CDC officials that the infected foreign national had been a passenger on recent flights or of the possible contamination risks to fellow passengers.

US Airways and Delta Air Lines both declined to answer, citing passenger privacy issues.

Somebody help me figure out why two airlines are stonewalling and covering for the incompetence of two government agencies. Were they threatened? Is the disease carrier a very profitable frequent flier?

Now that the cat is out of the bag, exactly what passenger privacy issue is involved? Even if the cat wasn't out of the bag, is the privacy of their TB carrier more important than the safety of other passengers?

[M203M4]

Can someone explain to me why America lets in contagiously diseased foreign nationals at all? Forget letting one in 70-odd times (and I am reminded of the 7 mph police car scene in he movie ‘Black Sheep’) for a moment. Of all the useless, corrosive, nannyistic, big-brother things the federal government involves itself in, it all but absolves itself of responsibility in one of the few areas in which its constitutional authority is expressly enumerated! Beyond worthless.

[AngelesCrestHighway]

crisscrossed the border 76 times?...in addition to TB he also had a poor sense of direction?

[hometoroost]

The government cannot stop one sick Mexican and yet they want to health care and retirement. Amazing.

[Rummyfan]

He's only carrying the TB that Americans don't want to carry!

Seriously, the government's willful incompetence wrt illegals, even aiding and abetting of them, is going to cause a revolution in this country.

[Travis McGee]

At least.