A Mexican teenager who is in the US illegally and is refusing treatment for tuberculosis has been put in jail. He was threatening to go back to Mexico. Health officials had been worried that he could expose more people to the disease. Instead, he faces deportation a process which could take several months and since he is a minor the process is further complicated. Four people who live with him (immigration status not mentioned) also tested positive for tuberculosis. How many more people will test positive because of this individual? All of the people who work and reside in the jail are now potentially exposed to this individual. This is a case where he should be forced to avail himself of the free health care that so many of his ilk enjoy.
Since he has such a great respect for our laws I am sure that he would willingly comply with any request to limit his travel and movement to protect others. Just as Andrew Speaker, the infected lawyer did earlier this year.
http://www.foxnews.com/wires/2007Aug30/0,4670,TuberculosisYouth,00.html
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1 comment:
I'm still not sure what the real deal was with this Andrew Speaker situation. 2+2 was not equaling 4 in this case. From the "he said she said" about whether he was told to stay put before he left the US to the fact that his father in law was a specialist in the form of TB he supposedly had to the apparent fact that he was misdiagnosed with that severe strain - things seemed funkier than a 3 day old band aid.
For those that want to say Ellis Island was just a free for all gateway for any and all, I do believe they screened people for health conditions as much as they could back in the day. TB is just one little nasty bug among many that are more likely to be bolstered by our open borders. Couple that with American's increasing stubbornness to give their children inoculations and you have a recipe for an outbreak of something many Americans didn't know even existed anymore. Terrorism isn't the only thing that can come across the border.
As the Eagles so brilliantly said, "Every form of refuge has its price." The "refuge" of artificially low prices due to an oversupply of labor does have its costs. If, and God forbid not when, something like an outbreak or an attack happens, that cheap labor isn't going to seem so cheap anymore. And in fact, the price will be quite high for some.
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