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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Before anyone knew what caused AIDS there was a desire among the men who had it to give it to people who were not gay, specifically, white housewives. A dentist living in the Tampa area who had AIDS was believed to have injected his blood into dental patients. He had complained* to his “contacts” that until heterosexual (he called them breeders) white women had the disease the government wouldn’t do anything about it. This may be what the government is doing with tuberculosis. The people running our government are downright evil.
* This happened in the later part of the 1980’s. Newspapers were the medium of choice at the time. I saw this interview just once and then nothing like it was published in later articles. As a matter of fact, the whole done-on-purpose part of the story vanished. At least one-woman patient died and since this was early in the epidemic, she was studied thoroughly because the case was so unusual. She was one of the very few verifiable heterosexuals who had the disease. Later, states like California did away with laws intended to punish those who deliberately had sex so they could spread the disease. The reason? Well, to mainstream the disease. Sme as with tuberculosis. The attitude is the same as with the homeless. The woman running the homeless shelter in downtown Tallahassee turned down a beautiful building at the edge of the county, gifted and maintained in perpetuity because, “I’m going to keep this issue in your face until you do something about it.”
Won’t it be exciting when leprosy and head lice are running rampant through our schools?
On the now destroyed Georgia Guidestone, the globalist have stated they want to decrease the world population for sustainability. I wonder who they plan to eliminate first.
Remember this the next time some idiot demands you put on a mask.
Exactly!!!! May the Golden Rule be with them first!!!! Meaning what they want to do unto us, may it be done to them FIRST!! I will give them the wake up call to repent now, but this is warring against what God has gifted us to be and do.
So place blame on Governor Abbott? Yes,that will help. Texas should keep all of these infected illegals and pay for those costs with Texas taxpayer funds. Sounds fair to me. (And this is why the country is torn in two. Leftists are wearing the right down and the right looks and sounds just as evil as the left.)
To the people who think we have to treat them ‘humanely’:
Where will your family member get isolated for their new case of TB?????
AND a FED gov’ment LIMO & a driver & SECURITY-—all paid for by taxpayers.
Guess it’s ok for them not to have mandatory clot shots or death jabs?
Being an illegal alien seems to be the way to go these days.
Easy life paid for by the slaves of the world (today’s responsible workers and taxpayers).
Majority of Americans are vaccinated from tuberculosis. Only those who didn’t take the vaccine need worry. And the yes this a true vaccine Regardless of the antivaxxers.
Thanks Joe.
TB, Malaria and other nasties are beginning to reapper in the US.
Since the news reports say eating BEEF is causing more CO2 in the atmosphere, will the government bring back the Screw Worm fly to kill off the beef?
They have reintroduced the wolf into certain areas to kill off the elk and deer. Can the Yellow Fever be far behind?
John Harrington — ‘Treason doth never prosper: what ’s the reason?Why, if it prosper, none dare call it treason.’
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