YES, UNVETTED ILLEGAL “CARAVANS” THREATEN PUBLIC HEALTH WHILE LEGAL IMMIGRANTS ARE SUBJECTED TO MEDICAL SCREENINGS
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We live in bizarro times. Suddenly, it is controversial to
state obvious, neon-bright truths. This week, it has become newsworthy
to observe that illegal border-crossers who circumvent required medical
screenings are a threat to America’s public health and safety.
From Newsweek, which is supposed to, you know, report actual news of
the week: “‘We don’t know what people have’: Laura Ingraham calls
migrant caravan a health issue.”
And from The Daily Beast: “Fox & Friends Host Brian Kilmeade Fears ‘Diseases’ Brought By Migrant Caravan.”
This is not “news.” It’s propaganda recycled and regurgitated by lazy
political operatives masquerading as journalists. At least the Newsweek
writer gave credit to his zealous hitmen sources: “Ingraham’s comments,”
he dutifully wrote, “were first highlighted by Media Matters for
America.”
MMfA is a militant left-wing oppo research outfit
funded by progressive billionaire George Soros. Somehow,
not-really-Newsweek forgot to mention this fact. (Alas, mentioning Soros
subsidies has also become a forbidden act this week, but that’s another
story.) The determined intent of these “news” pieces is not to inform
readers but to inflame them with the dog-whistle assumption that
conservatives, Fox personalities and ordinary Americans who worry about
diseases from immigration are de facto racists.
On cue, tennis
star and celebrity leftist Martina Navratilova barked at Fox News’
Kilmeade on Twitter: “YOU ARE THE DISEASE! the migrants are not the
problem, Trump and his sycophants, like you, are the problem. Stop
spewing fear and prejudice.”
Comedian John Henson tweeted: “Brian Kilmeade is spreading the disease of intolerance every single day…”
And former Clinton press flack-turned CNN hack Joe Lockhart wrote:
“This is the disease Fox News spreads every day. They are complicit with
Trump in trying to change the character of our country.”
Newsflash, fake newsers: It’s neither racist nor xenophobic nor hateful
to discuss the impact of unfettered mass immigration and unvetted
caravans of illegal border-crossers on our public health.
My parents, legal immigrants from the Philippines, were screened for a panoply of communicable and infectious diseases.
My husband’s great-great grandparents and their relatives from Ukraine
underwent thorough medical and physical exams at Ellis Island
immediately after disembarking from their arduous transatlantic
journeys. A team of doctors checked for everything from eye disease and
muscle weakness to heart conditions, ringworm and mental deficiencies.
Those who failed were rejected and ejected. No appeals, no apologies, no
amnesty.
I find it especially bizarre that some of the same
outspoken, big government advocates for vaccinating every American
citizen, young or old, against every possible condition, from the flu to
chickenpox to HPV, are the same types now howling over the commonsense
idea that we should protect ourselves from foreign diseases.
It wasn’t Trump’s idea to build a wall against microscopic invaders.
The Immigration and Nationality Act mandates medical screening exams
for legal immigrants and refugees from around the world. The tests are
performed by authorized physicians in either the applicants’ countries
of origin or in the United States. The process includes “a physical
examination, mental health evaluation, syphilis serologic testing… and
chest radiography followed by acid-fast bacillus smears and sputum
cultures if the chest radiograph is consistent with tuberculosis (TB).”
Legal immigrants and refugees must provide mandatory proof of
vaccination for measles, mumps, rubella, polio, tetanus, diphtheria,
pertussis, hepatitis A and B, rotavirus, meningococcus, chicken pox,
pneumonia and seasonal flu.
Moreover, the Centers for Disease
Control, not Fox News or the Trump White House or any other evil
conservatives, reports that “most experts agree that testing for TB,
hepatitis B, and HIV should be performed for most new arrivals to the
United States. Clinicians should also make a habit of ensuring that this
screening has been done for every new non-US-born patient they see,
regardless of time since the person’s arrival.”
Actual public
health experts across the Southwest have reported rises in
drug-resistant TB and dengue fever. In June, Australian public health
researchers reported that “scabies, long considered a disease of the
past in the developed world, is making its way back.” The scientists
pointed to mass global migration as a leading factor, noting scabies
outbreaks among refugees to the European Union and along America’s
southern border.
And in Germany, federal epidemiologists
reported that since opening the floodgates to migrants in 2015, data
show “increased incidences in Germany of adenoviral conjunctivitis,
botulism, chicken pox, cholera, cryptosporidiosis, dengue fever,
echinococcosis, enterohemorrhagic E. coli, giardiasis, haemophilus
influenza, Hantavirus, hepatitis, hemorrhagic fever, HIV/AIDS, leprosy,
louse-borne relapsing fever, malaria, measles, meningococcal disease,
meningoencephalitis, mumps, paratyphoid, rubella, shigellosis, syphilis,
toxoplasmosis, trichinellosis, tuberculosis, tularemia, typhus and
whooping cough.”
It’s simply insane to argue we should turn a
blind eye to the health status of law-breaking aliens. And it’s
treachery, yes, treachery, for so-called journalists to use their
platforms to blithely smear those who dare to question open borders
orthodoxy or report the highly inconvenient facts.