Posted on 07/21/2023 10:03:20 PM PDT by SeekAndFind
Thousands of young illegal immigrants with tuberculosis were released from U.S. government custody across one year, officials have revealed in a new report.
The illegal immigrants, all under 18 years of age, were released to family members or other responsible adults despite having latent tuberculosis infection, the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) said in a recent disclosure.
The dates of each release were not clear. HHS officials notified state officials from June 1, 2022, to May 31, 2023, of the tuberculosis-positive youth over a web-based system operated by the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC), Aurora Miranda-Maese, an HHS official, told a court in the report.
The CDC, which is part of HHS, declined to comment. HHS did not respond to requests for comment.
The Washington Times first reported on the report, which runs 35 pages and covers other aspects of managing illegal immigrant youth who are transferred to HHS by the U.S. Department of Homeland Security after crossing the border.
Ms. Miranda-Maese said that each minor must undergo a medical examination within two business days of entering HHS custody. The examination helps officials assess the minors’ health, enables them to administer vaccines, and allows them to detect communicable diseases such as tuberculosis.
A person with latent tuberculosis infection, or an infection without symptoms, requires three to nine months of treatment to prevent potential progression to active disease, according to HHS officials. Without treatment, 5 to 10 percent of infected people will develop active tuberculosis, or tubercolosis disease, according to the CDC.
The CDC says that people with the disease are infectious, can transmit the disease to others, and can die if not treated. If tuberculosis becomes active, that is “a threat to both the individual’s and the public’s health,” according to Ms. Miranda-Maese.
Minors do not typically receive treatment while in HHS custody because most are released before one month elapses, she said, opening up the possibility of problems such as the development of drug-resistant tuberculosis if treatment is initiated and discontinued before completion.
To that end, HHS developed in 2018 a system that notifies state officials of illegal immigrant minors who have been sent to live in their states.
Officials in 44 states received more than 2,450 alerts of illegal immigrant minors with tuberculosis in the year ending May 31, 2023, according to HHS.
Over that same time, 126,069 minors were released by HHS.
Some states confirmed that they’ve been told of minors with active tuberculosis, in addition to latent cases.
“The department, in conjunction with local health departments, coordinates care and appropriate follow-up for anyone with active tuberculosis reported through this mechanism,” a spokeswoman for the New York State Department of Health told The Epoch Times via email.
And some minors, by the time states are alerted to cases, have already moved elsewhere.
“Some individuals relocate prior to case interviews,” a spokeswoman for the West Virginia Department of Health and Human Resources told The Epoch Times in an email.
Even if they haven’t, minors can choose not to undergo offered treatment, according to the spokeswoman for the Indiana Department of Public Health.
Critics said President Joe Biden was to blame for the situation.
“Biden’s broken border policies continue to welcome millions of lawbreakers into our country, including countless thousands with infectious diseases, such as tuberculosis,” Rep. Paul Gosar (R-Ariz.) told The Epoch Times via email. “Rather than protecting Americans, the Biden regime is quite literally bringing disease and death to our doorstep.”
Ira Mehlman, a spokesman for the Federation for American Immigration Reform, said that the releases of children with tuberculosis and other communicable diseases “is another example of the administration prioritizing the quick release of migrants over all other considerations, including public health, public safety, and national security.”
HHS deals with unaccompanied minors or children who arrive at the border without a responsible adult.
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Where is Fauxcy?
RE: Where is Fauxcy?
Retired with his six figure a year pension and more private pharma consultancy.
Biological warfare by any other name would sound as....”inclusive”.
TB is a terrible disease. Biden is trying to kill us all
Where is Fauxcy?
WHO the faux cares?
Prolly stuck up to his azz in bat jizz.
When the state gave the contract for taxpayer paid healthcare of the illegal alien invaders over to the HMO my ex-wife worked for, it only took two weeks for her to catch TB. And this was years ago when there were only tens of thousands coming in per year, and mostly from Mexico, instead of millions, from third world hellholes from all over the globe.
But our current rulers just love plannedemics, so to them, this is a feature, not a bug.
it just isn’t fair we don’t live in third world s holes so the democrats are bringing it to us
Are they going to declare a TB epidemic next year before voting? Mail-in balloting and all that?
Infected children go to school. A lot of in-person voting occurs in schools...
This is germ warfare, plain and simple.
The Apocalypse will be presaged by violence, famine, and disease. Did I not read about this somewhere? Seems the Left is determined to make it all come true sooner rather than later.
So, we had a pandemic where we were all locked down, forced to wear masks, many forced to take vaccines or risk losing their jobs or not being allowed to travel but the millions of illegal aliens from countries all over the world can walk into our country unmasked, unvaccinated, be flown and driven all over the country spreading Covid, we pay for any illnesses they may have, AND arent we required to be vaccinated against TB (?) and they are brining that diseas and likely many others here for us to catch, pay to treat them, and start a public health crisis??? Are we going to ne locked down again? That anyone in our country puts up with this, is mind boggling.
When my ancestors arrived in the United States by boat a century ago, tuberculosis was one thing that could get you sent back to “the old country”.
I am 90 years old…..my father died in 1938 of TB….he was 32 .
From my exposure I still test positive on the tine test all these years later…never had the disease .
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How many of these kids, much less other military age males have been bussed deeper into the interior of the country by Greg Abbott as well?
Like the blankets with small pox given to the Indians buy the british back in the days of the occupation
The Demented One and his not ready for primetime crew owe the Chinese Kung Flu boyz an apology. Disease is the far left’s new solution for population control. Biological warfare is a lot trickier and harder to identify than conventional or nuclear warfare but it works just as well.
Just think of them as Faucis beagles leaving the labs.
They closed Ellis Island in the 1950s ...
Is this drug resistant tuberculosis?
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