Thread: Border Patrol releasing thousands who were exposed to diseases like tuberculosis

Border Patrol releasing thousands who were exposed to diseases like tuberculosis


Daniel Horowitz · April 30, 2019

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What happened to the incubation periods at quarantine stations in Ellis Island? Why does coming here illegally exempt aliens from the laws on the books that make them inadmissible until we know they are not a threat?
On Sunday, Aaron Hull, chief patrol agent of the El Paso sector, divulged to the public what we already suspectedbut most government officials assiduously covered up. The head of the second busiest illegal immigration corridor told Fox News’ Maria Bartiromo that Customs and Border Protection (CBP) is increasingly “caring for more and more sick people, because a lot of these aliens coming in are carrying contagious health conditions, things like chicken pox, scabies, tuberculosis, lice.”
Tuberculosis. That is the disease we sought to eradicate through our laws as early as 1907 by requiring every prospective immigrant to wait at Ellis Island, away from the population, until they got the green light to enter. That is a far cry from what a CBP official told me two weeks ago – that “we have not seen any specific, unusual, or alarming public health or infectious disease threats in persons in CBP custody.”
CBP declined to comment further on Hull’s revelation upon my request.
If border agents have confirmed the arrival of illegal aliens with tuberculosis who have not been treated in hospitals, what about all those exposed to it in close quarters who did not yet exhibit symptoms and were released within hours of apprehension? Unlike in the past, where illegal immigrants waited for days in ICE facilities before either being deported or released, CBP is directly releasing thousands of aliens into the interior within hours. A bunch of illegal aliens caught in Arizona and El Paso this past month were released in Tucson.
It is simply inconceivable that this is not a priority threat to the American people. It is certainly a violation of current immigration law. The law (8. U.S.C. §1182(a)(1)(A)(i)-(ii)) states clearly that any alien “who has failed to present documentation of having received vaccination against vaccine-preventable diseases, which shall include at least the following diseases: mumps, measles, rubella, polio, tetanus and diphtheria toxoids, pertussis, influenza type B and hepatitis B, and any other vaccinations against vaccine-preventable diseases” are inadmissible. Moreover, 8 U.S.C. § 1222(a) requires the government to detain them “for a sufficient time to enable the immigration officers and medical officers to subject such aliens to observation and an examination sufficient to determine whether or not they belong to inadmissible classes.”
DHS officials, including the current acting DHS secretary, have testified that these people have largely never “received immunizations.”
Why is the lack of detention space a rationale to vitiate our laws and release them anyway and not a rationale toturn them back across the river or at least hold them in tent cities right at the border until or unless they voluntarily depart?
We now know that aliens are coming with tuberculosis and that they are being released without proper quarantining and incubation. TB is highly contagious among people who live very closely to each other, precisely the conditions in which the migrants travel north. According to the CDC, “The TB bacteria are put into the air when a person with active TB disease of the lungs or throat coughs, sneezes, speaks, or sings.” It warns that “a person who is exposed to TB bacteria” should take steps not to “spread the bacteria to other people right away.”
ICE has a standard procedure of vetting for TB, but even if we assume agents are not too overwhelmed to make mistakes, thousands are being released directly by Border Patrol without ever stepping foot into an ICE facility.
As the CDC warns, “Some people develop TB disease soon (within weeks) after becoming infected, before their immune system can fight the TB bacteria. Other people may get sick years later, when their immune system becomes weak for another reason.” Remember, Guatemalans are already 83 times more likely to have tuberculosis than Americans and seven times more likely than legal immigrants, according to the CDC.
Thus, there is a reason why, over time, Texas, and particularly the border areas, have become infested with this once near-extinct disease. Breitbart Texas reported that Dr. Hector Gonzalez, the health director of Laredo, said, “TB is an ongoing issue in the state of Texas” and that “Between Texas, California, and New York, we have 50 percent of the cases of TB and the border has the most. Brownsville has the biggest number of cases.” According to Texas Health and Human Services, 61.4 percent of TB cases were associated with immigrants, and “rates are higher along the Texas-Mexico border.” In 2017, 53 percent of reported TB cases were among Hispanics, and all the border counties and major metro areas were hardest hit. This was before the major influx from Central America, which began last year.
Even if DHS had more time to screen some of these migrants, they are bringing in strains of diseases that medical professionals have not dealt with and might not be familiar with. A recent report from the bipartisan Homeland Security Advisory Council noted that “most FMUs [family units] are not detained by ICE ERO due to their lack of capacity,” so they are released very quickly by CBP. And although CBP has hired staff to treat medical concerns, the report observes how all the “infections” are “not necessarily evident” with the medical observations being done by CBP because “an expectation for clinical acumen by CBP agents and officers is highly unrealistic.”
Moreover, it’s unclear if these new strains are resistant to existing vaccines or not. We just don’t know what we don’t know when we are releasing tens of thousands from disease-prone countries without any regard for the American people. As the report stated, “Even medical personnel need to have a higher level of expertise to anticipate some of the potential infectious disease complications that can be found in this population of children.” We are now seeing that even those who were vaccinated against measles and were thought to have been immune have been infected by the new strains coming into the country.
According to Texas Health and Human Services, the rate of TB in children under five is double that of the rest of the country. It’s not surprising given that almost the entire flow of unaccompanied minors into the U.S. from Central America in 2014 was in Texas. Today, according to the Homeland Security report, “73% of the children in FMUs illegally crossing our border are tender aged, being 12 or younger.”
In June 2014, at the height of the Central American UAC crisis, which was a fraction the size of today’s influx, one CDC official sent out a warning on tuberculosis: “We might as well plan on many of the kids having TB,” states a June 26, 2014, guidance email from a CDC environmental health scientist, Alaric C. Denton, according to a Judicial Watch FOIA. “Most of these kids are not immunized, so we need to make sure all our staff are immunized.”
But here’s the rub. That was when the problem was with unaccompanied minors. They were held for a while in facilities run by Health and Human Services, where there is a protocol for screening, testing, and quarantining those with TB and other diseases. Today’s unprecedented influx of family units, on the other hand, are being immediately released unless the alien requests medical attention or a medical official or border agent happens to notice apparent symptoms of illness. Even then, they are often not quarantined but sent to our hospitals in major border cities, which further endangers Americans. A few months ago, Yuma County Sheriff Wilmot said on my podcast (minute-marker 19:55) that one alien escorted to a hospital in Imperial County, California, with tuberculosis escaped out a window.
There are other mystery viruses whose origin is unknown, but one has to wonder if illegal immigration is the culprit. Beginning in August 2014, right after the influx of Central American teens, there was an outbreak ofenterovirus D68, a respiratory illness, which many experts increasingly believe to be the cause of Acute Flaccid Myelitis (AFM), a mysterious polio-like disease that causes paralysis but starts out as what appears to be an innocuous cold. Health experts still say the cause is unknown, but it’s awfully suspicious that this disease did not appear until the latter part of 2014, right after the Central Americans started coming. 2014 is a benchmark year for those who follow immigration policy.
Over 550 Americans have contracted AMF since 2014, 90 percent of them children, according to the CDC, whereas the disease wasn’t even tracked before that. The enterovirus D68, milder compared to AMF, was barely on the radar for decades, yet from mid-August 2014 to January 15, 2015, there were 1,395 confirmed cases. It’s hard to identify a more potent variable being introduced into the equation right around that time than the influx of tens of thousands of Central Americans under the worst conditions.
The most obvious external factor endangering public health is being ignored and adamantly exonerated as any factor whatsoever in the resurgence of many diseases. Why is it that the caution of our government is always weighted toward fulfilling the desired outcome of illegal immigrants and not protecting the welfare of the American people?

https://www.conservativereview.com/n...-tuberculosis/

These diseases are costing U.S. taxpayers millions of dollars out of our wallets!

TB costs $50,000 - $150,000 per person to treat! There are hundreds of them that have ALREADY been dumped in our communities by Obama AND Trump...and thousands of these cases pouring over our border!

Send them back!

We are not the healthcare system for the world. We cannot afford our own bills!

May 1, 2019
Written by R. Cort Kirkwood

The illegal-alien invasion of the United States continues with no end in sight, and Border Patrol agents, whose agency does not have the means to house the “migrants,” are dumping them into unsuspecting communities.

But the communities don’t have the means to handle them either, which is why Yuma, Arizona, declared an emergency two weeks ago.

What Americans in these communities also don’t know but might suspect is this: The waves of immigration are bringing in thousands of sick and diseased people who might well trigger a major contagion.

They Want To Get Caught

That news comes from Aaron Hull, chief of the El Paso Border Sector. He divulged the truth in an interview with Maria Bartiromo of CNBC, helpfully posted online by CNS.com. Upwards of 90 percent of the illegals hitting the border’s El Paso sector are from the Northern Triangle countries: Guatemala, Honduras, and El Salvador.

Hull confirmed what Brian Hastings, operations chief at Customs and Border Protection, said in early March. But unlike illegals in the past who wanted to avoid the Border Patrol, these “migrants” want and expect to be caught because they know border agents will release them.

“Those people realize that as long as they're being apprehended by us, they are still likely to be released on their own recognizance,” Hull told Bartiromo. “That’s because the country, the U.S. government as a whole, does not have the detention and removal capability to hold them in custody until their immigration hearing.”

When Bartiromo said “they want to get apprehended,” Hull agreed. “Yeah, they’re not trying to get away. They know that we're basically — a period of time, they are going to be held in custody and then they're going to be released and continue on to all parts of the United States.”

And Bartiromo confirmed again what The New American has repeatedly reported: Aliens don’t fear returning home and aren’t crossing the border for “asylum.” Bartiromo said she directly asked a woman why she was in the United States.

“Asylum, asylum,” she answered. But when Bartiromo asked the illegal alien whether anyone tried to hurt her, she confessed the truth: “Well actually, I just want to get opportunity for my daughter.”

“That's exactly right," Hull replied. “A lot of people refer to all of these family units as asylum seekers but that’s really not the case. Matter of fact, most of those that we encounter when they're caught at this step in the process, they don't indicate fear of return. They indicate they want better opportunity.”

TB and Scabies

The real shocker is this: Hull’s frank admission that the federal government is inoculating American communities with illegals who carry contagious, deadly diseases.

“Agents join the Patrol to secure the border, to enforce the law,” he said, “but increasingly they’re being tasked with things that they never thought they would be doing — heating up baby bottles, literally changing diapers, caring for more and more sick people, because a lot of these aliens coming in are carrying contagious health conditions, things like chicken pox, scabies, tuberculosis, lice.”

Lice carry the threat of a typhus contagion, while scabies is an infestation of the skin with the human itch mite. According to the Centers for Disease Control, scabies spreads “rapidly under crowded conditions where close body contact is frequent. Institutions such as nursing homes, extended-care facilities, and prisons are often sites of scabies outbreaks.” Illegals also bring in Chagas disease.

Other diseases the illegals bring in include mumps, strep throat, and the flu, which killed an illegal-alien boy after his irresponsible father refused treatment.

In other words, the “migrants” are sick — very sick — but CBP isn’t holding them in quarantine. It’s releasing them. The Trump administration, as the Associated Press reported in April, has expanded the catch-and-release policy the president vowed to stop.

At the end of March, Breitbart.com reported that the government had dumped 108,500 illegals into communities across the southwest, and some 24,000 between March 5 and March 20 alone. The targets of this dump were San Diego (2,500), Phoenix (4,000), El Paso (7,500), and San Antonio (10,000). Of the 108,500, Breitbart reported, “50,000 ... were released in the San Antonio area since the beginning of the year.”

Those facts and Hull’s admission add up to a frightening truth: The United States government is waging biological warfare on Americans by dumping these sick and diseased illegals into their communities.

https://www.thenewamerican.com/usnew...an-communities

TB, AIDS, lice, scabies, hepatitis, skin diseases, heart problems, kidney dialysis, cancer, mumps, measles, chickenpox, flu, giardia, ebola, zika, you name it...they got it! And pregnant ones! Get them all out!

Do not forget … these are not just Central Americans pouring over our border and being DUMPED in your communities and your schools, they are coming from Africa, the Middle East, Haiti, Cuba, Pakistan, Nicaragua, China, and all over the World you idiots!

We are not working and trying to pay our own bills so our government can TAKE our money and FORCE us to pay for this!

You fools who are for this invasion...matter of time before YOU or your kids get infected with this and YOU will not only pay the bill to treat yourselves, miss work, AND you will pay for them too! Not only that...many of these diseases are NOT treatable and you will have it for LIFE!

Do not forget that adults can get SHINGLES from the chickenpox. It is very painful!!!