"I'm gonna completely fsck up America, and you can't stop me!"
Posted on 07/08/2014 12:16:12 PM PDT by jazusamo
The hordes of illegal immigrant minors entering the U.S. are bringing serious diseases—including swine flu, dengue fever, Ebola virus and tuberculosis—that present a danger to the American public as well as the Border Patrol agents forced to care for the kids, according to a U.S. Congressman who is also medical doctor.
This has created a “severe and dangerous” crisis, says the Georgia lawmaker, Phil Gingrey. Most of the Unaccompanied Alien Children (UAC) are coming from Central America and they’re importing infectious diseases considered to be largely eradicated in this country. Additionally, many of the migrants lack basic vaccinations such as those to prevent chicken pox or measles, leaving America’s young children and the elderly particularly susceptible, Gingrey reveals.
In a hard-hitting letter to the director of the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC), Congressman Gingrey demands that the agency keep Americans informed about its plan to handle the growing public health crisis posed by the influx of minors. “As the unaccompanied children continue to be transported to shelters around the country on commercial airlines and other forms of transportation, I have serious concerns that the diseases carried by these children may begin to spread too rapidly to control,” the congressman writes. “In fact, as you undoubtedly know, some of these diseases have no known cure.”
Gingrey mentions reports of Border Patrol agents contracting diseases through contact with the infected illegal aliens. A few weeks ago Judicial Watch reported that the Department of Homeland Security (DHS) is forcing Border Patrol agents to serve as babysitters for the UACs. An internal agency document obtained by JW calls for agents with “child care or juvenile teaching and/or counseling” experience to work at the various shelters housing the migrants. Officers from the front-line agency responsible for preventing terrorists and weapons of mass destruction from entering the U.S. will be “responsible for feeding, monitoring, interacting and providing security” for the illegal alien minors until they are placed elsewhere.
To handle the escalating health crisis the CDC has activated an Emergency Operations Center (EOC), but Gingrey points out in his letter that Congress and the public are being kept in the dark about what it’s doing. “I firmly believe the public deserves to know the specific actions the EOC and other departments of the CDC are taking to combat and prevent the spread of communicable diseases,” the lawmaker writes. He goes on to demand that the CDC take immediate action to assess the public risk posed by the UACs and their subsequent transfer to different parts of the country. “I would also like information on what is being done to protect border patrol agents who come in contact with these diseases, what decontamination efforts are taking place, and what is included in medical screenings of the children.”
The administration has worked hard to keep that information secret, though some of it is slowly leaking out. One major news station reports that tuberculosis is spreading at the camps housing the illegal immigrant minors while the government downplays the severity of the matter. At least half a dozen anonymous sources, including nurses and healthcare providers, treating UAC’s at Lackland Air Force Base in San Antonio say the government is covering up a very serious health threat. Specifically, tuberculosis has become a dangerous issue at both the border and the camps, according to several sources cited in the story. One source confirms that “the amount of tuberculosis is astonishing.”
I agree on the ebola but not dengue fever.
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“Mexico and Central America harbor TB, malaria, yellow fever, food and waterborne diseases, dengue fever, filariasis, leishmaniasis, onchocerciasis, American trypanosomiasis (Chagas’ disease), and myasis (various forms of intestinal parasites). Mexico’s six border states have over 27 cases of TB per 100,000 people. Legal immigrants have to be evaluated for TB and other diseases before they are allowed into the U.S. Illegal aliens escape such inspection.”
http://canadafreepress.com/index.php/article/63834
Dengue Fever is not contagious.
obama’s smallpox blankets are doing their job!
See I take the opposite approach as you and others. I laugh every time obambi does unlawful acts. I stopped wasting my anger energy on him. I’m pissed beyond comprehension at the spineless repubricrats occupying Capitol Hill. WHY HAS CONGRESS DONE NOTHING BUT YACK!? They are the ones we should do something about...they are despicable!
Would illegals coming here that already have it require treatment?
If so are you pleased that we’re footing the bill?
My wife, from Thailand, had to have a thorough physical in Thailand and then, the hospital she came to work at, gave here another check. Additionally, her job history and lack of criminal history were checked and verified. She came to the USA for a nursing job and for her desire to be an American citizen eventually. Her English proficiency was checked as well. She became a citizen five years and a few month later.
I wondered about that too, but I put nothing past the WhiteHut occupant.
I hear you but I’m pissed at both, especially the criminal in the WH.
“America had to be sure new arrivals COULD work and would not just come here and flop! It made sense THEN... why not NOW?”
It made sense then and not now because we have a totally different ethic. These new immigrants/invaders are just one of the crowd whereas 100 years ago they would have been an aberration.
There isn’t any specific treatment so that, in itself, is not a big thing. Yes, they should get supportive treatments such as hydration support. I hope we are not beneath providing that.
why wasn’t the CDC called in immediately? why are they absent from the processing centers?
I think the turkey in the WH feels much the same because he lies his rear end off to keep bringing illegals here.
You cannot please a leftist. They will not be happy with all the “injustice” until they have both killed themselves and the rest of us right alongside them.
I too have lost my anger, because it is all nothing but talk all across the fruited plain. I think you see that too. Nobody really cares in D.C. because they are paid well to not care. Came to that conclusion after the assassinations began and were done during the 60s. Besides, to clean up the mess would require real work. Our leaders and media people are too lazy to do real work.
Thank you for your service to our nation, btw. You performed a real service by serving.
Why would they be? There's nothing novel there or that doesn't come across the border on a regular basis. At most the county public health department would be called in.
"I'm gonna completely fsck up America, and you can't stop me!"
TB is the worse. I would imagine its much like suffering from COPD, which took both my Mom and Dad.
The suffering they endured, I wouldn’t wish on anyone and I personally would rather die from Ebola.
The drug resistant strains being seen from those coming across our border should raise some eyebrows, but that would interfere with folks watching American Idol.
In the past, when an American has been diagnosed with drug resistant TB, they have been quarantined and everyone who had come into contact with them was tested. It was considered a major health threat.
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