In a background press briefing at the U.N. last Tuesday, a senior State Department official said Secretary of State John Kerry told his counterparts from Guatemala, Honduras, El Salvador and Mexico that the pause in minors coming across our southern border was temporary, and that "we have to use this time to put in place more efforts, greater efforts to get at the root cause of this, because we know that those numbers may rise again."
The next wave may be worse than the first, however, because monsoon conditions, a harsh drought and the globalization of transport are ensuring that the 50,000 or so unscreened new entrants will be bringing a raft of new diseases with them.
Though little reported, the Caribbean is on high alert for the spread of chikungunya, known as "the virus of pain." Its Tanzanian-origin Bantu name means "to contort," describing the agony it leaves in joints for years. Some 183,000 cases were detected in the region this year as it spreads from the same mosquitoes that transmit dengue and yellow fever. Central America, according to a report in El Pais, is the epicenter. Puerto Rico has reported 2,000 cases and three deaths.
But the disease has worked its way up to the U.S.; Texas and Florida reported victims who have already contracted it without traveling to the affected regions. (Excerpt) Read more at news.investors.com ...
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NOTEWORTHY: It has been verified that the border-jumpers, emanating from 144 antediluvian disease-ridden countries, are carriers of TB, Ebola,Chikungunya, Dengue fever, Norovirus. Hantavirus, Swine flu, Varicella. Variola, E-coli.......and childhood diseases America stamped out years ago.
The Obama admin has kept secret:
<><> the medical conditions of minors transported to US schools....
<><> the contagion status of contaminated US border-holding facilities....
<><> the contaminated public transportation used to relocate minors.......
<><> dangers to Americans from contaminated illegals handling our food, merchandise....
<><> taxpayers forced to subsidize contagious children in their classrooms....
“we have to use this time to put in place more efforts, greater efforts to get at the root cause of this”
You want the root cause Kerry? Here it is: you won’t secure the border!
The INS is a department whose commissioners are confirmed by the senate. They are sworn to directly serve the constitution not the policies and whims of the executive. If such policies place the United States in danger such as not investigating the background or establishing the health of those entering the country. They should be removed and suffer criminal penalty.