Posted on 10/18/2007 8:45:48 PM PDT by LouAvul
For the second time this year, the federal government has failed to stop a man infected with a dangerous strain of tuberculosis from traveling to and within the United States.
U.S. officials this spring were unable to catch a Mexican man infected with the disease because the doctor treating the man did not know his real name, according to an official who was briefed on the incident but requested anonymity because the official was not authorized to discuss it publicly.
The Mexican national traveled to the United States 76 times in the past year, even though Mexican and U.S. authorities knew he was infected with a contagious strain of tuberculosis. However, the Mexican clinic that had been treating the man, which is affiliated with the Texas Health department, unknowingly provided a fake name to U.S. authorities, the official said. The Washington Times first reported the episode in Thursday's editions.
The man crossed the U.S. border 21 times between April 16 and May 31. However, the man used his real name and real travel documents when traveling, according to Customs and Border Protection spokesman Michael Friel. The Centers for Disease Control would not provide the man's real or fake names for privacy reasons.
Customs officials sent out a nationwide alert to look for this man on April 16, but officials were not able to catch him, because the alert was for the man's fake name, Friel said.
On April 17, when Customs officials had not had any luck finding the man, they suspected they had the wrong information and alerted health officials. On May 31, the Mexican man revealed his real identity to his doctor in Mexico, according to the official.
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I’ll sleep so well tonight knowing that our government is working so hard to protect us.
Is this a joke? We've got millions of illegal aliens in this country using aliases and a whole lot others legal and illegal that just don't care to be detected.
Homeland Security? Right.
Too bad you’re not a speckle-spotted salamander, or something of the sort. The government would work much harder to protect you then.
Too true, sad to say.
Yes, millions. When I'm around a Latino who's coughing, all I can think is what germs am I being exposed to. Thank you, George Bush, for something else to worry about.
When someone has been diagnosed with something like this, they should have to wear an ankle monitoring devise so they can be kept up with.
According to what I heard from Michael Savage’s show this evening, this Mexican citizen was a visiting professor at the Kennedy School of Government. That’s why he kept going back and forth between Mexico and the United States, over and over again.
And Homeland Security knew about his presence here, his health status, and constant traveling since April, 2007. People in the know were threatened with termination if they didn’t keep their mouths shut, lest they be fired (according to the journalist at the Washington Times, in an expose to be published Friday, October 19, 2007). Talk about a Fascist State! So stand by, Freepers! The trail may get much hotter.
Now I was vacuuming at the time so my information may not be totally accurate. I heard it in snatches. Least a ways, it doesn’t look good for the folks working security at our borders and airports. Makes them look like damn fools.
This government is totally dysfunctional that it’s dumbfounding...
We need to encourage people like this to go to the Capital in D.C., hit all the restaurants, take all tours, and attend a few closed door meetings with the fat cat elites that are allowing this insanity to continue. Lets make sure the infected get on *their" flights. See how they like it. Send them to their kids birthday parties.
Give the elite a taste of what we're thinking when the illegal alien or border hopping foreigner standing next to us in Walmart is hacking their head off, while shopping for Communist Chinese goods.
Right. If those who make the laws and have the money could not float above all the problems the illegals cause, they would not be so in favor of them.
Well said.
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