Welllll, actually the Chinese laborers brought in to work on the railroads brought in the Plague from China.
An American doctor detected the outbreak in San Fransisco's Chinatown.
He reported it to the city, along with recommendations for quarantine and a rat catching program.
The San Fransisco city fathers simply refused to believe that their was Plague in their fair city, and refused to do anything until it had already spread to the native ground squirrel population, and become uncontainable.
Any parallels you may wish to draw to, say, the AIDS epidemic are left as an exercise for the reader.
Thank you Null and Void. That was interesting.
I think the context in which this issue was raised here, was as it relates to the problems of our southern border. Now that may not be the case, it may have been the broader issue of all immigrants to our nation.
Either way, in today’s climate, we are not seeing instances of the plague spike because of immigration.
Of course that doesn’t mean that we aren’t seeing spikes in other diseases. In fact we’re seeing spikes in diseases we all but eradicated in the U. S. Instances of Tuberculosis are spiking. Instances of some childhood diseases have increased.
Immigration is still a problem as it relates to the introduction of disease into the U. S., but the plague probably isn’t one of the problems.