[janetgreen]

In the past the government had sense enough to give medical examinations to immigrants before they were allowed to live in our country. Now with millions of illegal aliens being allowed to come and go as they please, diseases like this one that we've never heard of will be rampant, and diseases that we stamped out years ago will return.

Our government is committing a horrendous crime against America by allowing this invasion by third world countries.

[Captainpaintball]

Bring us your tired, your poor, your emboldened masses infected with TB...

The wretched refuse of all other shores...
Send these, who work the system, no matter the cost to me...
I empty my pockets and open my doors!"

[cavtrooper21]

Reduviid.

Would those be the "kissing bugs" most often found in the American southwest??

[azhenfud]

PING

It's not just the money we're being duped out of by Illegaliens - it's the health risks also....

[gubamyster]

ping

[Sabertooth]

The rising migration of Latin people to the United States increases the potential number of cases of a deadly parasitic infectious disease, common in the Southern Hemisphere, that is spread by blood transfusions.

The danger is real, but the headline is unfortunate.

[Bikers4Bush]

Oh joy, so not only do they bring the crime associated with the smuggling and poverty of illegals but they're bringing deadly blood critters as well.

The entire federal government should be tried for treason if we have an epidemic of any kind.

[Semaphore Heathcliffe]

They raise the risk for every damned disease under the sun. Three years ago, the DFW metroplex became home to a new bug, an upper respiratory thing that lasts and lasts, stronger than a round or Zpack. Feels like an cold, then the flu, then allergies, then a cold, etc... I've lived here all my life, and this thing only showed up recently. Coincidentally or not, back a few years ago, an attentive observer could notice an increasing number of "recent immigrants" sitting like a sack of taters, obviously ill, in places like the barber shop, laundromat, horking up mouthfuls of infected phlegm.

The issue of importing diseases into our crowded cities is the one issue I'm watching as the ultimate barometer of how the American public will deal with illegal immigration. Jobs, driver's lisences, voting...to the extent that those are issues, they aren't personal like an unprecedented sinus infection that will not go away. If we don't respond aggressively and decisively (whatever that means, in the long run) to this threat to our very bodily health, then we deserve to vanish like other native populations erased by imported disease.

[TruthNtegrity]

TB, now Chagas and Heaven only knows what else?

I want them all sent home and I want the borders closed.

This has gotten ridiculous.

Maybe we can find a way to use Attornies to our advantage? Start suing somebody - anybody over these illegals. "Latin" my ass. These are Hispanic illegal aliens doing this to us.

Just damn.

[Paulie]

What's the problem? They're only bringing in the diseases that Americans can't come down with on their own! This is great! C'mon people, lighten up!

Now, let's repeat after that great defender of American security, Mr. Thomas Ridge: "We CAN'T do anything about it because of political and cultural differences".

[North Coast Conservative]

Not trying to be the bearer of bad tidings, or be the spreader of alarm, this is but another reason why the tide of illegal immigration across ANY of our borders should be turned back.

In God We Trust…..Semper Fi!

[Warrior Nurse]

Here is your weapon of mass distruction Chagus, TB, Hunta virus, Dengue Fever, Cholera. What happens if a buch of infected illegals cross the borders a defacto "dirty bomb" if you will. It maybe time to invoke passe comatatus(sp)

[AEMILIUS PAULUS]

Good Lord! Yet more strength being derived from "Our Diversity!"

[StriperSniper]

Latin immigrants raise parasite risk

I thought this was going to say that they would vote for Democrats. ;-)

[Flightdeck]

This thread is DU bait for fleshing out comments they can use against us.