Posted on 05/21/2004 1:40:01 AM PDT by NewRomeTacitus
It is this reporter's opinion that the Congress of the United States acted tragically against America's best interests when it shot down Dana Rohrabacher's illegal alien medical bill, HR 3722. Powerful interests representing hospitals, pharmaceuticals, etc., acted against us.
All the bill asked was that illegal aliens - violators of our sovereignty - be identified as illegal!
But this is a sad, continuing story and particularly in those states that border on Mexico, where we witness a steady, silent, pervasive invasion of the U.S. by an unarmed army carrying an assembly line of diseases into the heart of America. And it grows unabated as an average of 2,000 illegals cross over U.S. borders without being screened for diseases.
It is a silent invasion with deadly consequences to America and our children!
Recently I read a brilliant dissertation, "IMMIGRATION'S SILENT INVASION, DEADLY CONSEQUENCES." It was researched by Stephany Gabbard, a registered nurse, and Frosty Wooldridge, former U.S. Army Medical Service Corps officer, teacher and author. They offer a frightening study of how the hordes of illegals invading our nation have reintroduced tuberculosis, leprosy, smallpox and Chagas' disease. (Chagas is a nasty parasitic bug common in Latin America, where 18 million people are infected and 50,000 die annually.)
The most serious is a MDR (multi-drug-resistant) tuberculosis, with a higher death rate than cancer. The deadly bacteria becomes airborne when an afflicted person coughs. It is estimated that each victim infects 10, 20 or more people with a time-bomb lasting effect. To make matters worse, in excess of 7,000 new cases of leprosy have been diagnosed in the U.S. in the past three years. Chagas, called the "kissing bug disease" because the parasite favors the face as a root of infection, damages the heart and intestines and even threatens our blood supply; hundreds of blood recipients may be silently infected. And there is dengue fever, polio, cases of malaria ... and God only knows what other diseases.
The health-care crisis spreads daily across our nation and is not confined to the border states. The Queens, N.Y., Health Department found 81 percent of new tuberculosis cases among illegals and foreign-born people, who have an eight times higher incidence of TB. In fact, two-thirds of the cases of TB brought into the U.S. originated in three countries: Mexico, the Philippines and Vietnam.
Take the case of Miguel, who worked in construction on a subway renovation and was able to change his status to "legal permanent alien." Miguel is infected with tuberculosis. But this did not stop the federal government from issuing Miguel a health waiver under the Immigration and Nationality Act. That permits him to have a green card, though his disease made him inadmissible for the waiver. Miguel continues to move about at will, spreading TB wherever he goes.
Or take the case of a young worker in Santa Barbara, Calif., who refused to take his medication and has spread 56 known cases of TB to fellow workers.
Illegal aliens continue pouring over the borders, their bodies carrying hepatitis A, B and C, tuberculosis, leprosy, Chagas' disease, smallpox and more. Yet the Congress of the United States will not act effectively to secure our borders. It's time to stop illegal immigration by whatever means necessary - U.S. troops, National Guardsmen, mass deportations and the arrest of employers who hire illegal aliens. I say hit 'em where it hurts the most: Remove their source of profit! And make the punishment fit the crime.
Cough, cough, cough, wheeeze. "Por favor." Cough, cough, cough.
Ummm.. I hate to break the news, but no one has naturally contracted smallpox since 1978....
Might I add that no one in the United States has contracted smallpox since 1949..
Smallpox is a serious, contagious, and sometimes fatal infectious disease. There is no specific treatment for smallpox disease, and the only prevention is vaccination. The last case of smallpox in the United States was in 1949. The last naturally occurring case in the world was in Somalia in 1977.
After the disease was eliminated from the world, routine vaccination against smallpox among the general public was stopped because it was no longer necessary for prevention.
In the aftermath of the events of September and October, 2001, there is heightened concern that the variola virus might be used as an agent of bio-terrorism. For this reason, the U.S. government is taking precautions for dealing with a smallpox outbreak.
It's out there in purloined bio-weapons like so many other things the Russians have "lost track of". The reporter perhaps shouldn't have included it here but it is too potentially devastating to dismiss out of hand.
No, the reporter should not have included it because the context of his inclusion is ridiculous and ignorant. This article is not about Soviet bioweaponry; it's about illegal immigrants..
I loathe spitting on the floor. Hence I take off my shoes, and noone is allowed in my house with shoes on.
I can sympathize with those who opposed Rohrbachers bill. I don't think the hospitals should become a law enforcement agency. I do think the proper agency is the United States. If our country was doing its Constitutional duty of protecting our borders, Rohrbachers bill would be moot.
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Let me know if you find any more errors. I'll have the sepuku knife ready but it's a bit much without a "second" to lop off my head.
When did "political correctness" trump quarantining the dangerously contagious? That's not just irresponsible, it's insane! Especially considering how the homeless huddle for warmth when it's cold outside.
Please check the "Immigration' Silent Invasion" article Mr. Putnam sourced from as it goes into much more detail on the tubercular aspect.
And thanks for your professional input.
But the government is bailing out the hospitals that treat these people coming over who have no intention of paying their own way. At least report the deadbeats so they can be deported and denied legal entry ever. We don't need this type of scum who comes over just for the purpose of being supported by the taxpayers.
The authors are possibly wrong about smallpox being re-introduced, by infected illegal immigrants, but they're right about everything else they've written? Geez.
This $1B won't begin to cover the expense. The hospitals are required to treat the illegals, due to laws passed by the government. Other laws threaten them if they "discriminate"-- this bill would have been a Catch-22 (Discriminate, and then we'll get you for discriminating). The hospital interests are smart enough to see a lose-lose here. They know EMTALA, COBRA, and HCFA wouldn't cut them a break, and they'd just end up in court for a whole new reason.
Let the hospitals shut down their ERs. This is the exit that I've been watching for a long time. Do you realize that in most states a hospital is not required by law to run an ER? It is a liability nightmare, a huge money loser. It's amazing so many are still open.
The bill should have been about enforcement, not identification. Make the feds do their jobs--the problem is that our present immigration laws go completely unenforced.
On a more amusing infestation note, bedbugs are prolifering in the US.
Bush and Rove don't want us to know how many billions of U.S. Taxpayer's dollars illegal aliens steal from us, in free medical care, every year.
Bush and Rove also don't want the bills for this medical care passed along to their corporate campaign contributors.
Bush and Rove are content to have the U.S. Taxpayers subsidize the cheap labor their corporate campaign contributors claim they need.
Here's another way that the blind eye being turned towards illegal immigration, by our pandering politicians, is costing innocent American lives.
Everybody has a duty to cooperate with law enforcement including the hospitals.
The invasion is causing so many problems that the media is not reporting. I will continue to vote nonetheless I am very discouraged with almost all politicians. Last night I was reading some more news about this invasion and I was so disappointed that I actually thought about giving up on voting. It seems the scum in the swamp are intent on ruining America.
The fact that we are now becoming a two language nation divided in so many ways and that many cities are starting to look like Tijuana is proof that something fishy is going on. This is much more then just more immigration. This is much more then just reps wanting slave labor and dems wanting votes.
I believe most will vote for dems and the southwest is a rep stronghold for the most part. Those electorol votes swinging to the dems might ruin reps chances of capturing the top spot in the years to come. America's coastal and border states being liberal and the rest of america trying to escape the nightmare that commie or facist politicians have created.
I find it interesting how hospitals in rural America have been closing right and left --- no one cares about the access those Americans might have to health -- especially emergency care --- but the hospitals along the border are being sent massive amounts of dollars --- $20 million isn't unusual -- to keep them afloat --- so the citizens from Mexico keep their access.
Something will be done about illegal immigration after a few hundred soccer moms have their kids come home from school with a bad case of TB.
Maybe ...
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