Lice, hepatitis, TB, chicken pox, scabies plague 1/3 of the caravan migrants – and now there's rain

American Thinker ^ | 11/28/2018 | Monica Showalter

[SeekAndFind]

As I write this from San Diego, the rain is pouring outside my window, a rare winter rain brought on by an offshore tropical storm blowing in from the west. It's heavy, dripping, dropping rain, and it's getting the entire region good. Normally, rain is a cause for rejoicing in these parts, because drought is the norm, and rain makes everything turn green.

But you don't want to be out in that rain, which is where the Tijuana caravan migrants are, just south of San Diego, soaking up rain, mud, germs, cold, bacteria, viruses – and picking up diseases.

Right now, it's happening in Tijuana, where 6,000 migrants are still camped out. Fox News reports that more than a third, some 2,200 of them are being treated for lice, scabies, chicken pox, hepatitis, HIV, tuberculosis, and infections. The San Diego television press reported last night that measles has also been detected in the squalid encampment, where new caravans are arriving even as some pack up and go home.

So much for the insistence from the left that the migrants are disease-free, and any concern about public health issues is easily explained as xenophobia, as Vox claimed. Boston Public Radio WGBH echo-chambered that in the true JournoList tradition of Vox founder Ezra Klein (it's as though they talk to each other, no?) seizing on the small discrepancy in a U.S. agent's claim about "smallpox" when he likely meant "chicken pox" – which sure enough, has turned up among the migrants.

Such a phony, phony argument. With the latest Fox News report, these media claims did not age well.

Nobody should be camping out in unsanitary conditions in that rain. What a vile group the caravan organizers are to allow such inhuman conditions to occur.

[rjsimmon]

[Don Corleone]

How many hundreds were sent back from Ellis Island and Baltimore etc. because of ill health? Yet we are expected to import disease ridden illegals into our cities, schools and churches because their home countries are distasteful to them.

[gov_bean_ counter]

😂😂😂

[rjsimmon]

But you don't want to be out in that rain, which is where the Tijuana caravan migrants are, just south of San Diego, soaking up rain, mud, germs, cold, bacteria, viruses – and picking up diseases.

[rdl6989]

I think it was many thousands who were quarantined and rejected at Ellis Island.

[Boomer]

This battle is a battle of will’s. Which one will fold first? I’m guessing the invaders will finally just give up and go home. It’s also my hope.

[sickoflibs]

So they are applying for medical asylum?

They would be at home in the states taking the extra Obamacare/Medicaid $$$ like CA.

[Mogger]

I still have my grandmother's health card, stamped off by the ship's doctor every day on the voyage from England.

Had he found her sick in any way, any day, she would have remained on the ship for the return to England.

Doing genealogy, you see a huge number of ancestors succumbing to consumption (TB).

All it will take is unscreened people bringing in a new strain of TB, and millions of Americans will die a slow, horrible death,

[Salamander]

I suspect that The Elite are hoping for just that.

[justa-hairyape]

The Deep State lies. About everything. That is it’s only purpose. The immigrants are not the issue The destruction of US borders and illegal voting are the real issue. Do not let the Marxist lie about their intentions. Those intentions are all that matter to a Marxist Deep Stater.

[Spok]

Sounds like a total failure to have a plan B.

[olezip]

Fox News reports that more than a third, some 2,200 of them are being treated for lice, scabies, chicken pox, hepatitis, HIV, tuberculosis, and infections.

Not to mention that some are carrying the polio-like virus that has infected hundreds in the USA.

Can it be a surprise that the life expectancy of Americans is on the decline?

[mabarker1]

You know it !!!

Why do I envision a Firefighting DC-10 loaded with Bleach making a Drop Run while this rain goes on.

And I don’t mean so any of them can come over the Border but just to clean things up a bit.

[txrefugee]

Coming to a public school near you. Head lice and diseases are part of the diversity package promoted by childless Leftists.

[dfwgator]

Beat me to it!

[Pearls Before Swine]

What’s the over/under on how long it will take for typhus or cholera to show up?

[jmacusa]

“Bacteria, germs, diseases’’. Jeez, Just like back in the places they left.

[skimbell]

Yeah, but that was back when white/racist/sexist/homophobic men were running the country and doing everything all wrong.

[Vaduz]

So much for the insistence from the left that the migrants are disease-free,whats one more lie from a democrat.