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Send us your TB carriers...
Disease is the Achilles’ Heel of the open-borders
crowd. Contrary to their apparent imagining,
there was rigorous official screening of
immigrants back in the Ellis Island era: 1-3
percent of them were turned back every year. With 1-3 million illegal border
crossings every
year, nothing like these safeguards exist now.
This may be the unreported story of West
Nile Disease. It is certainly the unreported
story of America’s much touted but unhistorical “commitment” to refugees.
By Scott McConnell
Same
story (but worse, of course) in Canada
Someone is coughing in the
subway, nearby. You can see a half dozen public
service ads extolling “safe sex,” but underground
neither morality nor prudence can protect from the
germs of your fellow passengers. In a cab with a coughing driver, you can open the
window wide, though it’s December, calculating the risk-reward ration of
flu versus…tuberculosis.
TB is back.
Ten years ago, on the heels of the AIDS epidemic, it was rising fast, but
effective countermeasures—including directly observed therapy
and even detention of patients stalled the disease’s
rise. But now the drugs are weaker, the strains more difficult-sometimes
impossible-to cure. And rates are rising.
Where is the disease coming from? Our immigration policy, that is courtesy of Bill
Clinton, The Wall
Street Journal editorial page, La Raza, George W.
Bush and dozens other culprits. Listen to Dr.
Lee Reichman of the Center for Disease Control.
“We’re now at the level that
to control TB anywhere we have to control it
everywhere. We’re doing a great job with native-born
Americans. We’re
not doing a good job in keeping down the incidence
among persons coming into the country.”
A CDC report notes that
immigrants are six times more likely to have TB than
Americans, and their rates are rising. VDARE notes
that in all of Dr. Reichman’s nuanced exposition of
the difficulties in diagnosing and treating this long
dread disease, he mentions not once the possibility of
actually reducing the number of TB carriers who enter
the country.
December 17, 2000
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Canada: The Disease Dimension
Disease is the Achilles’ Heel of the open-borders
crowd. Contrary to their apparent imagining,
there was rigorous official screening of
immigrants back in the Ellis Island era: 1-3
percent of them were turned back every year. With 1-3 million illegal border
crossings every
year, nothing like these safeguards exist now.
This may be the unreported story of West
Nile Disease. It is certainly the unreported
story of America’s much touted but unhistorical “commitment” to refugees.
By Michael Monastyrskyj
Immigrants
are bringing tuberculosis to Canada, infecting Canadians with the deadly
disease and placing
even more strain on the country’s overburdened
healthcare system.
Recently
newspapers in southern Ontario reported that a Caribbean
immigrant and his girlfriend had infected at least 14 Canadians with TB. It
will cost
hundreds of thousands of dollars to track down
and test all the people the couple had contact
with.
Canada’s
immigration system broke down twice. First, the man, who suffered from “one
of the worst types
of TB,” should not have been let in. Even
under the country’s lax immigration rules,
would-be immigrants with active TB are barred
until they have been adequately treated in their
country of origin.
Second,
health authorities in Hamilton,
Ontario, should have been notified about the
man’s presence, but say they weren’t. As a
result, he was able to live undetected in the
area for a year – enough time for to make
contact with 1,200
people across southern Ontario, all of whom have to be found, tested and re-
tested at
taxpayer’s expense.
Hamilton
isn’t the only Canadian city forced to deal
with tuberculosis. Last week in Montreal, a Peruvian
refugee claimant with TB and “a problem
with authority” barely avoided jail after
repeatedly refusing to take treatment and
infecting his ex-girlfriend’s five-year-old
daughter. The man described as
“belligerent” was often too hungover to show
up for treatment and even in spat
in the face of an ambulance attendant taking
him to the hospital. Tuberculosis can be
transmitted by saliva.
A
year ago, the Canadian Employment and
Immigration Union complained that “there is a definite health threat to its
members and the Canadian public, because refugee claimants are not medically
screened early
enough and thoroughly enough by Health
Canada.” It cited cases of tuberculosis
being discovered among refugees from Tibet, China and Kosovo.
Tuberculosis
isn’t the only imported disease Canadians have
to fear. Montreal recently experienced an
outbreak of malaria brought in by refugees from central Africa.
Of
course, the United States faces similar
problems. In testimony given in April 1995 before the House Judiciary
Committee Subcommittee on Immigration, Norm
Matloff discussed the impact that tuberculosis brought in by immigrants was
having on America’s racial minorities.
December 17, 2000
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