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CDC spins illegals


Wednesday, June 15, 2005

Drug-resistant tuberculosis among California's foreign-born population threatens to consume as much as $1.2 million for each case treated.

Most of the 407 cases from 1994-2003 were found in immigrants from Mexico and the Philippines. Those afflicted with the resistant strain are four times as likely to die and twice as likely to spread the disease than people with other TB.

The study did not lay out the patients' immigration status (why not?), but let's not be shy.

This may argue for enforcement of our unenforced immigration laws, but that's not the spin from the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention.

"TB is a deadly airborne disease and a global public-health emergency. ... (W)e must employ innovative public-health strategies -- not border closings," said Dr. Reuben Granich, a lead investigator for the agency.

Why not border closings? Does Dr. Granich forget he works for the U.S. government and that illegals are criminals straining health-care systems paid for by American citizens? Does he forget that measles, leprosy, polio and whooping cough also are coming across the borders?

No, the job for Americans, according to the government's medical establishment, is to finance their salaries and then help with health care in other nations so that when their citizens enter the United States in violation of our laws they might be less disease-ridden.

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