Illegal immigrants are a threat to public health

[Fremont]

For well over a century the US has exercised a wise and moral policy of screening immigrants for contagious diseases in order to protect public health and thus the common good. Infected persons are rejected and denied entry to the US. This sort of policy is consistent with Church teaching.

Illegal immigrants deliberately bypass this process and endanger public health.
Because illegal immigrants, unlike those who are legally admitted for permanent residence, undergo no medical screening to assure that they are not bearing contagious diseases, the rapidly swelling population of illegal aliens in our country has also set off a resurgence of contagious diseases that had been totally or nearly eradicated by our public health system.

Some examples are:

1. Tuberculosis. Contrary to common belief, tuberculosis (TB) has not been wiped out in the United States, mostly due to illegal migration.
2. Leprosy
3. Dysentery
4. Also some diseases most of us have not heard of and were absent in the US before illegal immigrants brought them such as the pork tapeworm, which thrives in Latin America and Mexico, is showing up along the U.S. border, threatening to ravage victims with symptoms ranging from seizures to death. Dr. Laurence Nickey, director of the El Paso heath district states “… The same [Mexican] underclass has migrated north to find jobs on the border, bringing the parasite and the sickness—cysticercosis—its eggs can cause Cysts that form around the larvae usually lodge in the brain and destroy tissue, causing hallucinations, speech and vision problems, severe headaches, strokes, epileptic seizures, and in rare cases death.”

Illegal immigrants bypassing the medical screening process can be compared to someone deliberately bypassing the requirement to wear a sterile mask and smock as they sneak into a hospital nursery to see a specific baby and exposing all the other infants to infection and disease.

Such behavior is illegal, immoral and dangerous.

More information can be found at:

fairus.org/site/PageServer?pagename=iic_immigrationissuecenters64bf

 

[Dale_M]

The article makes claims that it doesn’t support your headline. It repeatedly refers to diseases passed on by immigrants but it doesn’t say the immigrants are illegal.

And for at least one claim no evidence at all is offered.

Contrary to common belief, tuberculosis (TB) has not been wiped out in the United States, mostly due to illegal migration

(bold text by me)
This claim seems rather suspect.

 

[Fremont]

The article makes claims that it doesn’t support your headline. It repeatedly refers to diseases passed on by immigrants but it doesn’t say the immigrants are illegal.

And for at least one claim no evidence at all is offered.
(bold text by me)
This claim seems rather suspect.

I guess the tie to illegal immigrants must be in the eye of the reader. I did not think it was that ambiguous, but maybe so.

Statements such as:

“the foreign population of special concern is illegal residents, who come most often from countries with endemic health problems and less developed health care. They are of greatest consequence because they are responsible for a disproportionate share of serious public health problems,”

and:

“Because illegal immigrants, unlike those who are legally admitted for permanent residence, undergo no medical screening to assure that they are not bearing contagious diseases, the rapidly swelling population of illegal aliens in our country has also set off a resurgence of contagious diseases that had been totally or nearly eradicated by our public health system.”

make it seem pretty obvious to me that illegal immigrants are the focus.

 

[Walt_Oliver]

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