One Reporter's Opinion: 'Will We Still Be a Nation?'

newsmax.com ^ | Oct. 24, 2003 | George Putnam

[gubamyster]

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[So Cal Rocket]

Good to see that George Putnam is still active. He's got to be pushing 90 years old by now.

[skeeter]

We're watching America come apart and are powerless to do anything to stop it.

[upchuck]

Close the borders BUMP!

[GunsareOK]

But we don't have to drink the koolaid and vote for Bush.

[Paulie]

"...7,000 new cases of leprosy in three years that have crossed over from Mexico, India and Brazil;"

Leprosy! I had no idea. Not surprisingly, the major media goes bonkers when 4 people get West Nile Virus and won't shut up about it for days. Not one word about this.

[ex-Texan]

If GWB does not do something very soon -- about illegal immigration, deporting illegals and shipping American jobs to China and India -- he will not get my vote in 2004. Rather than stand by and watch my country die a slow death, I will move to an ex-patriot-local, sip rum and cokes on the beach and just go fishing.

'Nuff said. Sorry, that's just how I feel about it. Feel free to flame away.

[GrandMoM]

Colorado Daily
March 5, 2003

Last fall in Commerce City, Colorado, a food service worker exposed over 1000 people to Hepatitis A before he was discovered. His disease isn't the only one Coloradoans are being exposed to this year.

In the past 40 years, a total of 900 cases of leprosy were recorded in the United States. Today more than 7,000 new cases arrived in this country from 'leprosy hotspots' in Mexico, Brazil, India and the Caribbean.

"And those are the ones we know about," said. Dr. William Levis, physician at Belevue Hospital's Hansen's Disease Clinic. "It's spreading, too," he said. "Many of our patients have never left the country, but came down with the disease through exposure."

As a result, leprosy is now officially endemic to the Northeastern United states for the first time ever.

Illegal aliens who work in food service will bring the most exposure to Americans. Leprosy's symptoms - bumpy rashes, skin indentations and loss of feeling in hands and feet - are often misdiagnosed for a variety of disorders including bug bites.

Another 'bug' riding in the bodies of newcomers to America is tuberculosis.

Sixteen thousand new cases of TB were detected in the U.S. of a disease that was once deemed 'extinct'. In a recent article, 'THE PATIENT PREDATOR', in "Mother Jones" magazine, Dr. Kevin Patterson said, "In the 1990's, cases of foreign born Americans rose from 29 percent to 41.6 percent. Strains of TB once found only in Mexico have migrated to borders states like Texas, Arizona and California. We have no cure for these strains."

Dr. Lee Reichmann of New York said in that same article that "At least half of all diagnosed TB cases are found among foreign-born people have moved to the USA. We sit on the edge of a potential catastrophe."

Most Americans sit, wait, watch and listen, but don't do anything until personally affected.

In Colorado, an illegal alien working at a Commerce City Taco Bell last fall exposed 1000 patrons to Hepatitis A. With more than 2 million immigrants arriving each year, both legal and illegal, you and your childen are at increased risk.

If you would like to do something, please act locally at www.cairco.org or nationally at www.numbersusa.com or write me at frostyw@juno.com. I will help you take action.

Frosty Wooldridge

[DumpsterDiver]

Here is part of another article:

Border River Is Also Sewage Drain: Officials fear diseases as immigrants use route to get to U.S.

CALEXICO, Calif. June 21 – As it flows north from Mexico into California's Imperial Valley, the New River not only brings with it more than 20 million gallons of raw sewage daily, but also a human cargo of illegal immigrants that may be drenched in bacteria and pollutants that cause communicable diseases.

Public health officials along the border worry about this toxic, infested river and the people who use it as a route into the United States.

A recent report by the federal Centers for Disease Control noted that California had double the rate of infections of two food-borne pathogens associated with human sewage, campylobacter and shigella, than any other state.

Along the Texas-Mexico border, health officials are battling tuberculosis brought in by undocumented workers from Mexico and Central America. Of the 16,500 people apprehended last year in the Port Isabel, Texas, region, 89 percent tested positive for TB bacteria.

The rate of full-blown tuberculosis in the lower Rio Grande Valley, a fertile agricultural area that borders Mexico, is triple the national average, according to Dr. Abraham Miranda, deputy director of immigration health services for the U.S. Public Health Service in Port Isabel.

[spodefly]

Rather than stand by and watch my country die a slow death, I will move to an ex-patriot-local, sip rum and cokes on the beach and just go fishing. 'Nuff said. Sorry, that's just how I feel about it. Feel free to flame away.

Right behind you. It seems that there are very few elected "representatives" that are concerned about illegal immigration (and immigration numbers in general.) In so many ways, I believe that we, assisted by the few in congress that have a clue, are shovelling sand against the tide.

[Klickitat]

Tom Tancredo bump

[Barnacle]

"Will we still be a nation?"

Based on our government's actions, this nation thing is over-rated. It's far better to be a member of the World Community.

Community. Don't you just love the sound of that word? It reminds me of another... Communi... Communit? Communits? Oh well, I'll think of it later.

[engrpat]

I have brought voting for GW up on other threads and the more I think about it I don't think I will. The RNC called last week seeking another contribution and I told the gal to call the illegals and get money and votes from them as GW seems to be more concerned about their well being than mine.

[JustPiper]

Just one of my biggest contentions:

We've talked about the diseases they are bringing into America: 7,000 new cases of leprosy in three years that have crossed over from Mexico, India and Brazil; 16,000 new cases of multiple-drug-resistant tuberculosis; and God knows how many cases of venereal diseases – some of them incurable.

[janetgreen]

But we don't have to drink the koolaid and vote for Bush.

Hopefully articles like this will wake more people up to the mess that is going on because of open borders.

[janetgreen]

Jackelope Breeder tried to tell us about what is happening on the Arizona border, but alas, he got banned for it here at FR. Does anyone else miss him? I do.

[DumpsterDiver]

Yeah, I miss those posters, too.

[dagnabbit]

Tancredo Bump

[SCalGal]

Jackelope Breeder tried to tell us about what is happening on the Arizona border, but alas, he got banned for it here at FR. Does anyone else miss him? I do.

Marine Inspector was banned at the same time.