Yep! The Mexican TB Dude turns out to be an illegal Mexican TB Dude. Whoda thunk it?
Thanks to all my readers who notified me of this guy's illegal status.
This guy is gonna be deported back to Mexico. I wonder how long it will take, with our porous border, for him to return to this country? A week? Two weeks? A month?
This is a telling paragraph.
Because of antibiotics and other measures, the TB rate in the United States has been falling for years. Last year, it hit an all-time low of 13,767 cases, or about 4.6 cases per 100,000 Americans.
But as long as folks from Third World countries are able to sneak into this country due to lax border enforcement we will see more cases of TB, especially resistant strains. Is it worth the cheap labor?
Posted by denny at August 31, 2007 01:23 PMHe will return and go to a sanctuary city and receive treatment for his TB. Anyone want to bet?
Posted by: gene Hall on August 31, 2007 02:03 PMGene-
Anyone who takes that bet has their head up their ass.
1 down, 23 million 'n' counting to go...
Posted by: Sandy G on August 31, 2007 08:59 PMGene: I think you are missing the point. This person hit the news NOT because he was getting free treatment, but because he REFUSED free treatment of a communicable disease. In other words, what he was doing was GOING TO INFECT AMERICANS. He'll be back, but he's not going to be treated -- and he'll infect a lot of people along the way.
Posted by: Peter on September 1, 2007 05:50 PMGene: I think you are missing the point. This person hit the news NOT because he was getting free treatment, but because he REFUSED free treatment of a communicable disease. In other words, what he was doing was GOING TO INFECT AMERICANS. He'll be back, but he's not going to be treated -- and he'll infect a lot of people along the way.
Posted by: Peter on September 1, 2007 05:50 PMDrug-resisitant TB is endemic to Mexico. It has been brought into America by Mexican illegal aliens. While legal immigrants are screened for diseases, other Central and South American illegal aliens (73% of whom are Mexican) bring not only TB, but also plague, leprosy, dengue, malaria, Chagas disease, and a host of other diseases either not endemic to, or already eradicated from, the US. Their substandard hygiene helps those diseases, and others, to spread.
The threat that illegal aliens pose to American public health is so severe that the Journal of American Physicians and Surgeons ran a feature article recommending fencing America's borders, rescinding the citizenship of babies born to illegal aliens, punishing those who aid and abet illegal aliens, and no amnesty for illegals.
A fine start, if you ask me. Too bad W and his liberal pals think that we're the bad ones for wanting to enforce our laws and for wanting to maintain our sovereignty as a nation.
Posted by: Squidley on September 4, 2007 01:31 AM