- Illegal aliens cross America's borders medically unexamined.
We shrug. We do not know what Illegal Aliens carry in their backpacks.
We do not know what they carry in their bodies.
-
- Long ago we knew what legal immigrants brought with them.
When my grandpa came to America, he kissed the ground of New York's Ellis
Island, then he stripped naked and coughed hard. Every legal immigrant
before 1924 was examined for infectious diseases upon arrival and tested
for tuberculosis. Anyone infected was shipped back to the old country.
That was powerful incentive for each newcomer to make heroic efforts to
appear healthy.
-
- Today, legal immigrants must demonstrate that they are
free of communicable diseases and drug addiction to qualify for lawful
permanent residency Green Cards.
-
- But Illegal Aliens stop at no medical checkpoint. Whoever
walks through our foolishly open Golden Door comes in healthy or sick.
If a border patrol sentry catches a healthy Illegal Alien he might be sent
back home immediately. However, if we catch and detain a sick Illegal Alien,
who after examination by physicians in a detention center proves to have
a serious disease, we keep him! Foolish compassion makes us fear that his
home country has neither adequate medical resources nor modern wonder drugs.
So we release sick Illegal Aliens to the American streets, to infect others
if their diseases are contagious, or we place them in our Medicaid program
where we pay for their expensive treatments.
-
- Foolish medical generosity encourages clever Illegal
Aliens to exploit free medical care that EMTALA, the Emergency Medical
Treatment and Active Labor Act, provides.[1] Foolish medical graciousness
encourages cynical Illegal Aliens to take and take and take again.[2] Only
a foolish guest will refuse what a foolish host offers. Our wide-open Golden
Door guarantees that Illegal Aliens in their own self-interest will use
and abuse our medical system. Our Golden Door also is propped open thanks
to advocacy and legal aid of Mexican American Legal Defense and Education
Foundation, National Immigration Law Center, Southern Poverty Law Center,
and similar open border groups.[3] America is fast becoming Hospital to
the World.
-
- Horrendous diseases that long ago America had conquered
are resurging. Horrific diseases common in Third World poverty and medical
ignorance suddenly are appearing in American emergency rooms and medical
offices. Along with the visible invasion of Illegal Aliens across our borders
is an invisible invasion of deadly diseases.[4]
-
- Many illegals who skulk across our borders have tuberculosis
(TB). That disease had disappeared from America thanks to excellent hygiene
and powerful modern drugs such as Isoniazid and Rifampin.[5] ,[6] ,[7]
,[8] ,[9] ,[10] TB's swift, deadly return now is lethal for about 60% of
those infected. The culprit is the new Multi-Drug Resistant Tuberculosis
(MDR-TB).[11] Until recently MDR-TB was endemic to Mexico.[12] ,[13]
-
- The mycobacterium tuberculosis is resistant to at least
two major TB drugs. Ordinary TB usually is cured in six months with four
drugs (that cost about $2000). MDR-TB takes 24 months with many expensive
drugs with toxic side effects (that cost around $250,000).[14] ,[15] Each
Illegal Alien with MDR-TB coughs and infects numerous people who will not
show symptoms immediately. Latent disease explodes later, like a time bomb.
-
- TB was virtually absent in Virginia until in 2002 it
spiked a 17% increase, but Prince William County, not far from Washington,
D.C., had a meteoric rise of 188%. Public health officials blamed immigrants.
Indiana School of Medicine in 2001 studied an outbreak of MDR-TB traced
to illegal aliens from Mexico.
-
- The Queens, New York, health department attributed 81%
of new TB cases in 2001 to immigrants. The Centers for Disease Control
ascribed 42% of all new TB cases to "foreign born" people who
have up to eight times higher incidence.[16] ,[17] ,[18] ,[19] ,[20] ,[21]
Apparently 66% of all TB cases coming to America originate in Mexico, the
Philippines, and Viet Nam.
-
- Virulent TB outbreaks afflicted schoolteachers and children
in Michigan,[22] ,[23] and adults and kids in Texas.[24] The teachers and
kids caught it at school from coughing children of Illegal Aliens. In Minnesota,
policemen suddenly came down with MDR-TB. The cops caught it in their patrol
cars when they arrested Illegal Aliens who coughed in their faces. Recently
TB erupted in Portland, Maine, and Del Ray Beach, Florida.
-
- Chagas Disease has no known cure. Chagas has the revolting
nickname of kissing bug disease. The Reduviid bug has parasites that favor
the lips and face for infection. That noxious Trypanosoma-Cruzi protozoan
annually infects 18 million people in Latin America and causes 50,000 deaths.[25]
,[26] ,[27] ,[28] ,[29] ,[30] ,[31] This seditious disease also infiltrates
America's blood supply. Chagas affects blood transfusions and transplanted
organs. Hundreds of blood recipients may be silently infected.[32] After
10 to 20 years, up to 30% will die when their hearts or intestines, enlarged
and weakened by Chagas Disease, burst.[33] Two people died of the three
people in 2001 who received Chagas-infected organ transplants.
-
- Leprosy, a scourge in Biblical days and in medieval Europe,
so horribly destroys flesh, faces, and fingers it was called Disease of
the Soul.[34] Lepers quarantined in leprosaria sounded noisemakers when
they ventured out to warn people to stay far away. Leprosy or Hansen's
Disease was so rare in America that in 40 years only 900 people were afflicted.[35]
,[36] ,[37] ,[38] Suddenly, in the past three years America has more than
7,000 cases of leprosy. Leprosy now is endemic to northeastern states.
There are leprosy clinics in New York City. Illegal Aliens and other immigrants
brought leprosy from India, Brazil, the Caribbean, and Mexico.[39] ,[40]
,[41]
-
- Dengue Fever is exceptionally rare in America though
common in Ecuador, Peru, Viet Nam, Thailand, Bangladesh, Malaysia, and
Mexico.[42] Recently there was a virulent outbreak of Dengue Fever on the
Webb County, Texas, border with Mexico.[43] Though Dengue usually is not
a fatal disease, Dengue Hemorrhagic Fever, is one strain of the disease
that routinely kills.
-
- Polio was eradicated from America but now reappears in
illegal immigrants.[44] Intestinal parasites were mostly obliterated. Our
fine sanitation and microbe-safe food supplies made them disappear. But
they are back, in the bodies of Illegal Aliens.[45] ,[46] ,[47] ,[48]
-
- Malaria was obliterated but now is re-emerging in Texas
and other states.[49] ,[50] ,[51] ,[52] No mosquito that bites a person
infected with malaria checks identification papers before biting another
person to transmit debilitating fever.
-
- About 4000 young children under age five annually in
America contract the infectious disease called Kawasaki Disease. Youngsters
develop fever, red eyes, "strawberry tongue," and acute inflammation
of their coronary arteries and other blood vessels. Many suffer heart attacks
and sudden death.[53] ,[54]
-
- Hepatitis A, B, and C are resurging.[55] ,[56] ,[57]
,[58] An outbreak of Hepatitis A in 2003 near Pittsburgh endangered 3000
thanks to infected Mexico-grown scallions and Illegal Alien kitchen workers
in a Chi-Chi's restaurant. Two Americans died. Asians number 4% of Americans
but over 50% of Hepatitis B cases. We inoculate all newborns for Hepatitis
B although mainly Asians are susceptible.[59] Why? The answer is political
judgment not medical judgment.[60]
-
- Deadly Marburg disease, like the fierce hemorrhagic Ebola,
right now in April, 2005, is devastating Angola.[61] Physicians in that
African country are despairing as hundreds of infected people bleed to
death. Just one infected person who could walk through the Golden Door
of our Hospital to the World could be a suicide bomber with incendiaries
in his arteries, veins, or capillaries.
-
- Terrorists are buying so-called "weapons grade"
strains of disease organisms for bio-warfare. America risks devastation
by evil intent of a terrorist or by innocent accident of an infected Illegal
Alien walking through our foolishly open Golden Door.
-
- Illegal Aliens secret in their bodies invisible, deadly
time bombs. Homeland Security ignores these lethal weapons of health destruction.
-
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- - Dr. Cosman is a medical lawyer located in
- California. Her forthcoming book in 2005 is Who Owns
- Your Body?: Doctors and Patients Behind Bars.
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- © 2005 Madeleine Cosman - All Rights Reserved
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