Why The Sudden Media Interest In The Biden Border Crisis?  After spending three years largely ignoring the border, the mainstream press is suddenly all over it, with headlines blaring about a "surge," "crisis" and "call for action."  Why now?  Last week CNN reported that a "December migrant surge" at the southern border was the "largest in more than two decades."  Several other news outlets used similar language.  The New York Times warned that "surging" Mexico border crossings "push U.S. resources to the brink."  In another story, CNN even described the situation as a "crisis."  Weirdly, the press is even exaggerating the current "surge."  Consider that CNN story, which says:  "Border authorities encountered more than 225,000 migrants along the U.S.-Mexico border this month, marking the highest monthly total recorded since 2000, according to preliminary Homeland Security statistics shared with CNN."  Except that's not true.  According to U.S. Customs and Border Protection data, illegal crossings exceeded 225,000 in August, September, October, and November of this year, and in six previous months since President Joe Biden took office.  As a matter of fact, illegal crossings have averaged more than 200,000 since Biden moved into the White House.

Gov. Greg Abbott shipped over 85,000 illegal migrants from Texas in over one year.  In less than a year-and-a-half, Texas Gov. Greg Abbott has transported 85,400 illegal migrants to so-called sanctuary cities run by Democrats who don't want to adhere to federal immigration enforcement.  New York City has borne the brunt of Texas offloading the crisis to Democratic enclaves, with Abbott sending 32,200 to the Big Apple starting in August 2022, according to his office.  Chicago has seen the second amount of migrants sent from Texas with 24,500 migrants arriving over the last year and four months.  While highly unpopular, specifically among Democrats, Abbott's strategy of sending migrants to sanctuary cities is helping flip the narrative and get more attention on the crisis.

More than 302,000 illegal migrants crossed into the US in December.  A record number of migrants crossed the U.S. southern border in December, according to a new report, topping the highest amount ever recorded as President Joe Biden continues to grapple with the crisis.  There were 300,000 encounters in the last month of 2023, U.S. Custom and Border Patrol sources told Fox News.  Between Dec. 1 and December 31, more than 302,000 migrants were documented attempting to cross the U.S. southern border.  It is the highest total for a single month ever recorded in history and it marks the first time migrant encounters have reached over 300,000.

More than 242,000 people arrived at the southern border in November.  U.S. Customs and Border Protection recorded more than nearly a quarter of a million encounters at the southwest land border in the month of November, the agency confirmed Friday, while insisting that authorities stationed along the Mexican frontier need additional support from Congress.  In total, CBP reported 242,418 arrivals at the southern border in November, including 191,113 between ports of entry.  The figures represent a modest uptick from the October numbers of 240,988 total and 188,778 between ports of entry.  The agency processed 43,000 individuals at ports of entry using the CBP One app.

Biden's Parole Pipeline Frees Over 670K Foreign Nationals into U.S. in 11 Months.  President Joe Biden's parole pipeline at the United States-Mexico border has released a foreign population into American communities larger than Las Vegas, Nevada's, population in less than a year.  On Friday, Biden's Department of Homeland Security (DHS) released illegal immigration figures for November.  The data shows that since the start of the year, more than 670,000 foreign nationals have been released into the U.S. interior through the administration's parole pipeline.  The parole pipeline is made up of so-called "humanitarian parole" that Biden's DHS offers to Cubans, Haitians, Nicaraguans, and Venezuelans as well as the "CBP One" migrant mobile app whereby foreign nationals in Mexico can schedule appointments at the border for release into the U.S. interior.

"13M Gotaways" Alone, 14,509 Illegal Crossers in One Day.  A Washinton Examiner report puts the new estimate this week of the growing population of "gotaways" in the United States at a sky-high 13 million, more than the population of every state except four:  California, Texas, New York, and Florida.  "I think the number is around, now, probably close to 13 million," said Steven Camarota, the research director for the Center for Immigration Studies.  There is a formula for determining the numbers, but there could be one million to two million more than that. [...] Border Patrol announced this week that on Monday, they had a total record-breaking 14,509 apprehensions across all sectors in one day.

House Report:  Illegals to Cost America Nearly Half a Trillion Dollars.  American taxpayers may foot a $451 billion bill for known "gotaways" — those who have evaded U.S. border security when entering the country — and illegal migrants released into the United States under the leadership of Department of Homeland Security (DHS) Secretary Alejandro Mayorkas, according to a report by the GOP-led House Homeland Security Committee.  The 50-page report claims millions of dollars are spent each day on costs directly associated with the "unprecedented crisis" caused by Mayorkas at the southern border.  The range of costs includes "everything from emergency medical care to increased demands on law enforcement to housing and shelter benefits for illegal aliens."  The document draws on figures from the Center for Immigration Studies, which calculated the cost of the country's immigration policies under Mayorkas, finding it may be as high as almost half a trillion dollars.

Report: U.S. Immigrant Population Hits Record 46.6 Million.  The U.S. population of legal immigrants and illegal migrants hit 46.6 million in January, up roughly 1.6 million since President Joe Biden was inaugurated, according to federal data posted by the Center for Immigration Studies.  "The 46.6 million immigrants (legal and illegal) in the country in January 2022 is the largest number recorded in any government survey or decennial census going back to 1850," the CIS says in a report released on February 23.

Trump to Protect U.S. Taxpayers from Subsidizing Health Care.  President Trump signed a presidential proclamation on Friday to protect American taxpayers from being forced to subsidize the healthcare costs of legal immigrants wanting to permanently resettle in the United States.  In a new rule, beginning November 3, foreign nationals applying for visas — not including refugees, asylees, or those on nonimmigrant visas — will have to prove that they will have either employer-based health insurance before arriving in the U.S. or a non-subsidized private health insurance plan.

El Paso Border Crosser Apprehensions Up 500 Percent, Over 400 Caught in 5 Minutes.  In the time span of a mere five minutes, Border Patrol agents in El Paso, Texas, caught two groups of illegal border crossers, counting more than 400 in total and underscoring the roughly 500 percent surge in apprehensions the El Paso Sector seen this fiscal year.  Agents encountered the first group of 194 at about 2:45 a.m. on March 19 west of Bowie High School.  Five minutes later, agents working further west in downtown El Paso caught the second group of 252.

Border Patrol Nabbed 400 Illegals In Under 5 Minutes Yesterday.  In the early morning hours on Tuesday, U.S. Border Patrol agents in El Paso, Texas, detained over 400 illegal immigrants in the span of five minutes.  The first group of 194 illegal border crossers turned themselves in at 2:45 a.m.  Just five minutes later, at 2:50 a.m., a second group of 252 people were apprehended just a few miles west of the first group.

Spike in cases of Southern California children with Kawasaki Disease worries public health experts.  Public health officials are reporting that Southern California is seeing a a spike in the number of cases of a wind-borne disease that inflames blood vessels and can cause heart failure. [...] The illness is also referred to Kawasaki Syndrome, which was first detected in Japan in the 1960s and then in Hawaii in the 1970s.  It primarily affects children younger than 5.  Public health officials are warning the region's physicians about the uptick because symptoms mimic those of other conditions.

Border Patrol Officer Shares Scale of International Influx into U.S. Southern Border.  Straight from the epicenter of the issue, the U.S. Border Patrol outlines a single day of captured illegal aliens from countries other than Central America and Mexico.  Just yesterday [1/9/2019] alone over 113 illegal entry apprehensions from Pakistan, India, China, Ecuador, Romania, Nicaragua and more.  This CBP data is just from one border state in one day.

Yes, Unvetted Illegal Caravans Threaten Public Health.  We live in bizarro times.  Suddenly, it is controversial to state obvious, neon-bright truths.  This week, it has become newsworthy to observe that illegal border-crossers who circumvent required medical screenings are a threat to America's public health and safety.

Illegal immigrant families set record in 2018; top 100,000 for first time.  Illegal immigration across the southwest border appears to have surged 25 percent in 2018, setting new records for migrant families nabbed by the Border Patrol.  More than 107,000 illegal immigrant parents and children traveling together were caught by the Border Patrol in fiscal year 2018, shattering the old record of about 78,000 set in 2016.  September was also the worst month on record for families, with 16,658 people caught in that month alone by the Border Patrol — higher than even the worst years of the Obama administration.

Remittances: Illegal Immigration's $30 Billion 'Hidden Tax'.  [Scroll down]  Redistribution is bad, elimination is worse.  Therein lies one of illegal immigration's biggest, yet routinely ignored, problems:  illegal aliens hop the border, work (often without paying taxes), and send a large chunk of their earnings back home via remittances.  Basically, remittances are a hidden tax Americans pay for the privilege of hiring artificially cheap illegal labor — and it adds up.  In fact, illegal immigrants may remit around $30 billion annually.  To be clear, it's impossible to know exactly how much money illegal immigrants remit annually.  There are three reasons for this.  First, we don't know how many illegal immigrants actually reside in America.  Second, the term remittance itself is ambiguous:  should we include money stuffed in a birthday card in our calculations?  Third, we cannot track the location of every dollar even if we wanted to (if we could, black markets wouldn't exist).

Some foreboding as Mexico's remittances hit record $28.7 billion.  [Scroll down]  In places such as Central America, the long remittance dependency has actually left them with population crises; not enough young people able to take care of the old, hard as that is to believe.  El Salvador in particular has this problem.  Just as embattled nations in extended wars eventually get around to using younger and younger soldiers, what we are seeing from Central America is younger and younger immigrants coming to the U.S. — as unaccompanied minors, because the older ones are gone.  The other problem is that extended remittance dependency based on illegal immigration breaks up families — and leaves young boys raised without fathers.  We all know how that looks in the U.S. inner cities.  Guess what the MS-13 dynamic is.

Immigrants Sent $140 Billion From U.S. Back To Homelands in 2016.  Legal and illegal immigrants wired almost $140 billion from the United States back to their home countries and foreign relatives in 2016.  The huge loss of domestic spending by of immigrants' remittances is spotlighted in a new report by the Pew Research Center, which also noted that $6.5 billion was sent back to the United States by foreign-based U.S. workers.  That is a 21-fold difference and is enough money to support 2.6 million additional $50,000 jobs in the United States.  The remittance number is based on calculations by the World Bank.

GOP's tax bill cancels $23 billion in credits claimed by illegal immigrants.  The new GOP tax overhaul would strip illegal immigrants of the ability to claim several major tax credits, saving the government $23.1 billion over the next decade, according to the bill's authors.  For years Republicans have complained that despite a general ban on taxpayer benefits flowing to illegal immigrants, the IRS has allowed them to collect the child tax credit, the American Opportunity Tax Credit and the Earned Income Tax Credit.  Efforts to shut down those claims have been tried in the House but have never cleared Congress.  But the new tax overhaul tries again, calling for taxpayers to have to submit work-eligible Social Security numbers in order to claim the credits.

UK Muslim Website Promoting Polygamy Gets 100,000 Users.  After a decade of liberal immigration policy, Britain is experiencing the real multicultural 'enrichment' first-hand.  A UK matchmaking website that caters to elderly Muslim men seeking multiple wives has gained around 100,000 users in a short period of time, the UK newspaper Daily Mail reported.  Bigamy is a punishable offence under British law and carries a prison sentence of up to seven years.

Germany:  Infectious Diseases Spreading as Migrants Settle In.  A failed asylum seeker from Yemen who was given sanctuary at a church in northern Germany to prevent him from being deported has potentially infected more than 50 German children with a highly contagious strain of tuberculosis.  The man, who was sheltered at a church in Bünsdorf between January and May 2017, was in frequent contact with the children, some as young as three, who were attending a day care center at the facility.  He was admitted to a hospital in Rendsburg in June and subsequently diagnosed with tuberculosis — a disease which only recently has reentered the German consciousness.  Local health authorities say that in addition to the children, parents and teachers as well as parishioners are also being tested for the disease, which can develop months or even years after exposure.

Census: Illegal immigration up 57% to 550,000.  Illegal immigration has exploded 57 percent in less than two years, with at least 550,000 new undocumented aliens pouring into America in a trend that is set to continue growing, according to new Census data.  In an analysis of the numbers, the Center for Immigration Studies found illegal and legal immigration have reached over 1.5 million a year, a new 15 year high, and a 39 percent increase over 2013.

New Data:  Immigration Surged in 2014 and 2015.  An analysis of new government data by the Center for Immigration Studies shows more than three million new legal and illegal immigrants settled in the United States in 2014 and 2015 — a 39 percent increase over the prior two years.  The number of legal and illegal immigrants settling in the country is now higher than before the 2007 recession and may match the level in 2000 and 2001.  Immigration from other countries has offset a decline in immigration from Mexico.

Syrians, Palestinians buy bogus Honduras identities to sneak into U.S.: Report.  Syrians and Palestinians managed to buy illegal citizenship documents from Honduras then tried to use them to enter the U.S., a Honduran newspaper reported over the weekend, exposing a scheme that analysts say could post a danger to the U.S. visa system.  La Prensa uncovered a criminal network that paid Honduran officials to illegally register foreigners as legal residents, which gave them access to documents that could then be used to gain broader access to the western hemisphere.  The La Prensa report was highlighted Friday by the Center for Immigration Studies, which said the network appeared to be a favorite for those of Arab origin — particularly Syrians and Palestinians — who were looking for a way to enter the U.S.

• Currently, one in four uninsured persons in the United States is an immigrant.
• Nearly half of immigrants either have no health insurance or have it provided by taxpayers.
• In some hospitals, almost two-thirds of operating costs are generated by illegal immigrants.
• More than half of Hispanics, the nation's largest immigrant group, are without insurance.*

Louisiana Sues DHS Over Chinese Illegal With Deadly Infectious Disease.  Tuberculosis used to be a global plague.  Many contracted TB, and many died from it, from Britain's Henry VII to America's John Henry "Doc" Holliday.  It's also a fairly simple disease, caused by an agile little bug, Mycobacterium tuberculosis, which has the unfortunate propensity to develop into antibiotic-resistant strains.  And what's more, it's a bug that's contagious, can be spread by aerosol, and is a prime subject for use as a biological agent.  On Wednesday, a report surfaced that Lousiana's Governor, Jeff Landry, and the state's attorney general, are suing Homeland Security Secretary Alejandro Mayorkas over the case of an illegal immigrant, from China, who was discovered to be carrying a rare, drug-resistant strain of tuberculosis[.]

15 states sue Biden-Harris administration for enrolling noncitizens in Obamacare.  A coalition of states led by Kansas has sued the Biden-Harris administration to block the federal government from providing free health care through the taxpayer-funded Affordable Care Act, otherwise known as Obamacare, to foreign nationals in the U.S. illegally.  Kansas Attorney General Kris Kobach filed the lawsuit in U.S. District Court for the District of North Dakota Western Division and was joined by attorneys general from 14 states.  The U.S. government and the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services are named as defendants.  At issue is a CMS final rule change called, "Clarifying the Eligibility of Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals (DACA) Recipients and Certain Other NonCitizens for a Qualified Health Plan Through an Exchange, Advance Payments of the Premium Tax Credit, Cost-Sharing Reductions, a Basic Health Program."  In it, CMS redefines the legal term of "lawfully present" to include DACA recipients.

15 States Sue to Block Federal Government From Expanding ACA to Cover Illegal Immigrants.  Fifteen states have filed a lawsuit against the Biden administration and the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS), challenging a new rule that extends health coverage benefits under the Affordable Care Act (ACA) to individuals granted Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals (DACA).  Filed in the United States District Court for the District of North Dakota on Aug. 8, the lawsuit alleges that the new rule defies existing federal laws defining eligibility for public benefits.  The states, represented by their attorneys general, argue that the rule published by CMS in May unlawfully expands the definition of "lawfully present" to include DACA recipients, thus making them eligible for federally subsidized health insurance coverage.

Illegal Immigrants In NYC Are Now Selling Ice Cream With Drugs In It.  A new pink and white drug called 'tuci' is reportedly being sold by ILLEGAL 'migrant' gangs in NYC.  Video shows someone using the mixture as a topping on a vanilla ice cream cone.  The drug is known as 'tuci,' 'tusi,' or 'Pantera Rosa,' but most commonly referred to as 'pink cocaine.'  The drug originated from Colombia and does not always contain actual cocaine.  [Video clip]

After stealing identity of American, illegal alien gets kidney transplant on taxpayers' dime.  After stealing the identity of an American citizen, an illegal alien signed up for Medicare and went on to receive a taxpayer-funded kidney transplant, a report said.  Guatemalan national Jeremias Otoniel Herrera Rosales stole the identity of Daniel Glenn Guerra and lived under that name for more than a decade, Stephan Dinan reported for The Washington Times on July 5.  "He wasn't able to hold a job due to his poor health, but he did live off government assistance that he received because he was using an American's identity," Dinan noted.  "That included getting the kidney transplant in 2019, paid for by Uncle Sam."  Via his identity theft, the illegal received more than $400,000 in taxpayer-funded care.

Administration Is Shifting Health Care Resources From Veterans To Illegal Aliens.  The Biden administration is under scrutiny for prioritizing medical care for noncitizens and illegal immigrants at the expense of service members and veterans.  Inadequate care, restricted access to medical treatments, a complex filing process, and lengthy wait times are fueling the ongoing veteran suicide crisis. [...] Since 2021, over 7 million illegal aliens have been encountered at America's borders, both at official ports of entry and between them.  This overwhelming volume has strained federal agencies, requiring resources from other agencies like the Department of Veterans Affairs to help cover costs and/or workload.  VA Deputy Assistant Secretary Terrence Hayes claimed, "At no time are any VA health care professionals or VA funds used for this purpose."  While this statement may be true, Hayes carefully chose his words to sidestep the question by specifically mentioning health care professionals.

California Gov. Gavin Newsom Caught Charging U.S. Taxpayers For Illegal Alien Healthcare.  California Gov. Gavin Newsom has been caught charging U.S. taxpayers for the healthcare bills of the state's illegal alien population.  According to local media, Newsom filed nearly $53 million worth of reimbursements that the state now must return to the federal government: [...] A review conducted by the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services inspector general's office revealed that California employed an "outdated calculation" method for claiming federal reimbursements between October 2018 and June 2019. This method failed to exclude services provided to noncitizens, which must be paid for by the state.

Experts Warn of New, Difficult-to-Treat Fungal Skin Infections Emerging in US.  Two highly contagious ringworm strains that defy standard treatments are arriving in the United States, according to a new report by NYU Langone Health, a medical center chain in New York City.  The fungi are rare, making them difficult to diagnose.  They also defy standard treatments and are harder to treat.  These factors give ringworm infections the potential to spark an epidemic.  Therefore, health care providers are urged to be on high alert.

Long Beach Hotel Housing "Homeless" Sparks Tuberculosis Outbreak.  A health crisis has emerged for Democrat officials in Long Beach, California, following a tuberculosis outbreak linked to a hotel housing 'homeless' people, according to Fox News.  On Thursday, health officials declared a public health emergency after an alarming tuberculosis outbreak was reported at an unnamed hotel housing.  The city has so far confirmed 14 cases of tuberculosis in people "associated with a single room occupancy hotel."  Nine of them were hospitalized with one fatal case.  Another 170 people were "likely exposed" to the deadly bacteria.

Republicans Rip Biden Admin For Providing Taxpayer-Funded Healthcare To Illegal Immigrants.  Republicans in Congress are slamming the Biden Administration after news broke Friday that they will provide taxpayer-funded healthcare through Obamacare exchanges to Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals (DACA) recipients.  In exclusive comments to the Daily Caller, Ohio Sen. J.D. Vance, Missouri Sen. Josh Hawley and Oklahoma Rep. Josh Brecheen criticized the decision, saying it is unfair to U.S. citizens.  "There's an unprecedented crisis at our southern border, we've got major conflicts around the world, and families all across Ohio are getting crushed by inflation.  Joe Biden's response to all this is to give your hard-earned money away to illegal immigrants in the form of taxpayer-funded healthcare.  This is a slap in the face to every hardworking American who plays by the rules, and it would never happen if Donald Trump were president," Vance told the Caller.

Biden Administration Makes Rule Change to Give Taxpayer-Funded Health Insurance to 100,000 Illegal Immigrants.  As many as 100,000 illegal immigrants will now be eligible for health care subsidized by federal tax dollars, the White House announced Friday.  A new "final rule" issued by the Biden administration expands Affordable Care Act coverage to many of those who have been allowed to remain in the United States under the Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals program first put in place by the Obama adminstration in 2012, while Joe Biden was vice president.  According to The New York Times, the DACA program, which also provides work permits to illegal aliens who entered the U.S. illegals while still minors, protects roughly 500,000 people from deportation, but has not provided them with health care coverage.

Illegal Immigrants Cause $566 Million in Unpaid Healthcare Burden on Florida.  Florida passed a law requiring hospitals to publicize the costs of unpaid care for migrants, and the reports thus far show that the loss to the state's hospitals is a massive $566 million just in 2024 — and taxpayers are picking up much of that loss.  In May 2023, Republican Gov. Ron DeSantis signed Senate Bill 1718, requiring healthcare providers to note if patients are legal citizens.  The purpose of the legislation was to ascertain just how much care for illegal aliens cost taxpayers and hospitals after the illegals were found unable to pay for their care.

All those uninvited visitors from Africa have nothing to do with it, right?
Claim: Global Warming is Spreading Malaria and Dengue to Europe.  Famous British playwright William Shakespeare wrote about endemic Malaria in Britain in the 1500s.  Malaria was the scourge of Scandinavia and Russia right up until the 20th century.  But this has not stopped greens falsely claiming Malaria is a disease of warm climates. [...] Studying Shakespeare is, or was until recently, a staple of British education.  So why do people swallow the mistruth that Malaria is a tropical disease?  Why doesn't everyone know about Shakespeare's references to Malaria?  The reason is back in Shakespeare's day, they called Malaria something else.  Shakespeare's 16th century word for fevers like Malaria and Dengue was "Ague".

Tuberculosis outbreak at Chicago migrant shelters sparks urgent contact tracing.  Tuberculosis cases have been detected at migrant facilities in Chicago following a recent measles outbreak in the city's shelters, sparking health officials to urgently start contact tracing.  The Chicago Department of Public Health did not disclose the exact number of cases or which shelter it originated from but confirmed that 'a small number of cases' were reported 'in a few different shelters' around the city.  'These outbreaks happen in close quarters, people who are living close to one another,' associate professor of medicine, Infectious Diseases and Global Health at the University of Chicago Dr. Aniruddha Hazra told Fox 32 Chicago.  Hazra said the situation is concerning, but that the public does not need to panic.

The Editor says...
That's right, the public does not need to panic, until two weeks before Election Day.

Illegals threaten U.S. food supply -report.  In blue cities where illegals congregate, much of the long-term focus is on where the housing for 10 or 20 million "newcomers" is going to come from.  The problem, though, is much worse than housing.  Out in the country, there are worries about where the food supply is going to come from with all this unvetted illegal immigration in the millions.  No, it's not just illegals eating all the food.  It's that unvetted illegals admitted into the country without inspection are bringing in untold diseases, which are already threatening livestock in border states like Texas.

Experts Warn Mass Migration Threatens US Food Security.  Mass migration exposes the United States' food supply to diseases and parasites that could ultimately affect national security, animal health experts told The Epoch Times.  With unfettered illegal immigration — some 9 million encounters since 2021 — the normal guardrails for inspection are ignored, raising the likelihood of unwanted diseases being brought across the border.  Dr. Michael Vickers has been a veterinarian for about 50 years and served on the Texas Animal Health Commission (TAHC)[.]  The threat to the food supply is already apparent from the past cases of tuberculosis (TB) transmitted from illegal immigrants to dairy cows in Texas, he said.  Concerns are growing that it's only a matter of time before U.S. agriculture experiences a fresh disaster on a grand scale, Dr. Vickers said.  "These people are just destroying our country.  And our food supply is going to be a real critical issue," he told The Epoch Times.  In recent years, thousands of Texas cattle have been slaughtered after being infected with drug-resistant TB through contact with illegal aliens who end up working in dairies, Dr. Vickers said.

CDC indicates measles cases already surpassed last year's numbers.  The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention revealed Thursday that the number of U.S. measles cases is 64 as of March 21, more than all of 2023.  By March 26, 2023, there were only seven cases of measles, which grew to a total of 58 cases that year.  Twenty states reported cases last year.  In 2022, six states reported cases for a total of 120.  This year is proving to be worse as it is more widespread.  By March 22 of this year, 17 states, Arizona, California, Florida, Georgia, Illinois, Indiana, Louisiana, Maryland, Michigan, Minnesota, Missouri, New Jersey, New York City, Ohio, Pennsylvania, Virginia, and Washington reported cases.  That number is an increase from nine states since Feb. 9.

Florida's New Online Dashboard Displays Cost of Unrecompensed Hospital Care Provided to Illegal Aliens.  Florida has launched a dashboard that reports the total cost of uncompensated health care for illegal immigrants, which currently tops $566 million.  Announced on Wednesday, the interactive Hospital Patient Immigration Status Dashboard highlights "the cost of illegal immigration, which puts a strain on our health care system and taxpayers here in Florida," the secretary of the Florida Agency for Health Care Administration, Jason Weida, explained in a news release, emphasizing, "Our hospitals and health care systems are designed to provide quality services to the citizens of the United States."  The dashboard offers county-level information about total expenses incurred by illegal aliens' hospital visits in Florida.  Southeastern Florida's Miami-Dade County appears to have the highest amount of such expenses, estimated at a whopping $231.8 million.

State of American Health Care.  [Scroll down]  To add to this cauldron, consider the effect of illegal immigrants who seek medical treatment in U.S. hospitals.  This is resulting in billions of dollars in unpaid healthcare costs.  Denver and Arizona hospitals have "experienced a rise in uncompensated care costs due to the influx of illegal immigrants."  New York City and California now offer free healthcare for illegals.  In a report titled "The Historic Dollar Costs of DHS Secretary Alejandro Mayorkas' Open Borders Policies Phase 4 Interim Report" issued by the House Committee on Homeland Security, it was revealed that the United States is paying $451 billion in annual costs with much of it to reimburse providers for care for illegal immigrants who do not pay.

You Can Thank Joe Biden's Open Border Policies for a Measles Outbreak In Chicago.  Not only have President Joe Biden's reckless immigration policies brought tens of millions of illegal aliens, skyrocketing crime, dangerous gangs, and deadly drugs into the U.S., but sanctuary cities are now having to face a measles outbreak at shelters.  Officials in Chicago are sounding alarms over the third case of measles found in the child of an illegal alien staying at one of the city's migrant shelters.  This comes as the Centers for Disease Control (CDC) has responded to more than eight total cases involving illegal immigrants in the city.  All but one of the individuals diagnosed with measles were described as being connected to the migrant shelter, or Chicago's "new arrivals mission."

Chicago: Migrant Evictions Will Begin Sunday.  As you've probably heard, Chicago has been dealing with a large number of migrants, many of whom have arrived by bus from Texas.  Starting last year, Mayor Brandon Johnson was trying to discourage the buses by impounding them.  But he couldn't do that to the plane loads of migrants which flew in from Texas.  Things got worse this month when there was a measles outbreak at one of the city's shelters housing the migrants.  The number of cases reached 12 yesterday and most of them are connected to one of the city's shelters.  Despite the outbreak the city continued to press forward with a new plan that would limit migrants to 60 days in a city shelter.  That plan was announced last November but Mayor Johnson has extended the deadline three times to avoid evicting people during the frigid Chicago weather.  Now the deadline is finally set to take effect this weekend but yesterday the mayor announced another last minute change of plans.

Illegal Immigrants Leave US Hospitals With Billions in Unpaid Bills.  Tens of thousands of illegal immigrants are flooding into U.S. hospitals for treatment and leaving billions in uncompensated health care costs in their wake.  The House Committee on Homeland Security recently released a report illustrating that from the estimated $451 billion in annual costs stemming from the U.S. border crisis, a significant portion is going to health care for illegal immigrants.  With the majority of the illegal immigrant population lacking any kind of medical insurance, hospitals and government welfare programs such as Medicaid are feeling the weight of these unanticipated costs.  Apprehensions of illegal immigrants at the U.S. border have jumped 48 percent since the record in fiscal year 2021 and nearly tripled since fiscal year 2019, according to Customs and Border Protection data.  Last year broke a new record high for illegal border crossings, surpassing more than 3.2 million apprehensions.  And with that sea of humanity comes the need for health care and, in most cases, the inability to pay for it.

Leprosy is Spreading Across the U.S. — Why Is The Ancient Disease Returning Now?  Leprosy is beginning to occur regularly within parts of the southeastern United States.  Most recently, Florida has seen a heightened incidence of leprosy, accounting for many of the newly diagnosed cases in the U.S.  The surge in new cases in central Florida highlights the urgent need for health care providers to report them immediately.  Contact tracing is critical to identifying sources and reducing transmission.  Traditional risk factors include zoonotic exposure and having recently lived in leprosy-endemic countries.  Brazil, India and Indonesia have each noted more than 10,000 new cases since 2019, according to the World Health Organization data, and more than a dozen countries have reported between 1,000 to 10,000 new cases over the same time period.

Migrants bring the measles to Chicago.  In the U.S., the migrant crisis has come to remind us just how unlike the rest of the world we are — or were, until the millions of illegal migrants came along. [...] Seems the "new arrivals" brought a few things with them, and it shouldn't surprise anyone that many were not vaccinated.  Now all of U.S. life returns to, say, pre-vaccine 1860 when catching the measles was something that happened pretty frequently, with mortality levels to show for it.  Life in America will no longer be all about taking it for granted that the next person over is vaccinated and diseases long thought of as eradicated were a figment of the past.

As the border collapses, a measles cluster is growing at a migrant shelter in Chicago.  Want to come to the United States legally?  You will need 15 different vaccinations, including, yes, a Covid shot.  A Covid vaccine is required even if you have previously had Covid — and even if you are young and at low risk from Covid but at high risk from mRNA-caused myocarditis.  In fact, the government has stricter rules for Covid jabs than other vaccines.  Immigrants must have received only the first dose of other vaccines when they apply for entry or citizenship.  But they must have completed their Covid vaccinations.  These rules were issued in 2021.  They remain in place three years later even though Covid is now endemic and not even the most dedicated mRNA fanatic believes the shots protect from Covid infection or transmission.  You will also be required to get a flu shot, Hepatitis  A and B vaccines, and of course a measles shot; measles is very contagious and the vaccine against it highly effective.

Measles infections rise in Chicago area as 45 cases recorded nationwide.  The Chicago Department of Public Health said four cases of measles have been detected in migrants housed at a shelter in Pilsen, bringing the number of cases in the Chicago area in the past four days up to five.  "CDPH has been at 2241 S. Halsted working around the clock to screen residents for symptoms and provide measles vaccinations to those who haven't had one," the CDPH posted to X Monday.

New Mexico Man Dies of Black Plague.  Sometimes we're forced to look around and find a problem plaguing the country that wasn't caused by Joe Biden and his policies.  It's a serious challenge considering just how much has gone wrong lately, but this story just might qualify.  There's no evidence (yet, anyway) that this is Biden's fault, and when I say "plaguing" the country, I mean it literally.  A patient in New Mexico has died of the bubonic plague, known to our ancestors as the black death.  This took place in Lincoln County, to the south of Santa Fe.  Despite having received medical attention in a hospital, the man passed away.  It is unknown where or how he contracted the disease, but he is the second person in the state to die of it since 2020 and several other non-fatal cases have been recorded.

Second measles case confirmed at Chicago migrant shelter.  A second case of measles has been reported at a migrant shelter in Chicago, raising concerns about the potential for a larger outbreak due to the high number of unvaccinated asylum-seekers.  According to the Chicago Department of Public Health, this is the second case among young children confirmed at a shelter in the city's Pilsen neighborhood.  The first case marked the first occurrence in five years since the last case was identified in Chicago, the health department said.  The first child who was infected has since recovered, and the second child is hospitalized in good condition.

Should U.S. Citizens Pay for Illegal Immigrants' Health Care?  Last year, nearly two-in-five working Americans skipped or delayed medical treatments because of the sheer cost of health care.  In 2024, as many of America's most vulnerable citizens delay or forgo medical treatments, some states are offering taxpayer-funded health care to the millions of illegal immigrants who have streamed across the Southern border.  Incredibly, military veterans, who put their lives on the line for their country, wait an average of 34 days to get an appointment that they should get in seven days.  Meanwhile, these heroes watch undocumented, mostly military-age men from other countries receive immediate medical care without paying a premium, deductible, or copay as they receive "free" health care at California emergency rooms.  In 2024, California began to provide government-funded health care for an additional 760,000 undocumented migrants.  Taxpayers from the 49 other states are right to wonder how much of that tab they are picking up.  It is unsurprising that California provides expensive and controversial medical benefits (such as "gender-affirming" surgery and unrestricted abortion services) that are often illegal in other states.  But in 2024, California provided access to Medicaid-style government-funded health care regardless of one's immigration status.  Meanwhile, the Golden State currently faces a $73 billion shortfall.

Uncontrolled migration of infectious diseases.  [Scroll down]  Americans might be more vulnerable to those diseases than the populations of developing countries.  Some of our social conditions contribute to the spread of such diseases.  We have a large percentage of the immunocompromised population.  Unlike countries where outbreaks periodically happen, we are not prepared for those diseases.  The illegal migrants also bring in diseases that used to be eradicated in the U.S., such as tuberculosis and polio, frequently their drug-resistant varieties.  Bubonic plague is one of the least dangerous diseases carried in by illegal migration.  An extensive search reveals no published research on infectious diseases of migrants coming to the U.S. after 2019, excluding COVID-19.  The serious research ended around 2009.  This is despite the well-established epidemiological fact that migration is how infectious diseases spread.

Why hasn't the CDC warned about all the diseases that could be brought in because of Joe Biden's open borders?  The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) is supposed to be an independent agency looking out for the health of the American people.  So why hasn't it protested the endless stream of illegals pouring across the northern and southern borders, all of whom are allowed to enter without being checked for disease or illness?  Are these bureaucrats more interested in protecting their jobs and going along with the political agenda of Joe Biden instead of protecting public health?  Eight million people, not counting gotaways, have shown up at the southern border during Biden's first three years, and the CDC doesn't require a vaccine passport, or as it appears, check them for anything, despite the fact that these people come from the most unhygienic corners of the world; they're simply released throughout the U.S.

Illegal aliens are killing Colorado's second-largest hospital.  Unlike conservatives, who tend to be linear, simplistic thinkers, in part because conservativism is about clarity and clarity leads to an Occam's Razor simplicity, leftists are more Machiavellian, hatching ideas that achieve multiple goals.  That's the case with illegal immigration:  It adds probable Democrat voters (both legal and illegal), plumps up the census numbers for more representatives in the House, provides gardeners and housecleaners... and their numbers help break the system, which is the Cloward-Piven strategy to pave the way for full socialism.  If the fate of Denver Health Medical Care is anything to go by, the Cloward-Piven plan is working.

Financial Stress from Migrant Crisis Threatens to 'Break' Denver Hospital System, CEO Says.  A hospital system in Denver warned local lawmakers this week that it is on the brink of collapse due to financial pressures created by the migrant crisis.  Denver Health recorded some 20,000 visits from 8,000 Central American migrants in 2023 for everything from dental emergencies to mental health counseling, according to the Denver Post.  Denver estimates more than 36,000 illegal immigrants, most of whom are Venezuelan, have arrived in the city since December 2022.  Roughly half of those migrants have decided to put down roots in the city.  The influx created a $2 million loss for the hospital system last year, following a $35 million loss the year before.  The system's saving grace in 2023 was a $20 million boost it received from the state, Kaiser Permanente Colorado, and private donors, the Denver Post reported.

Denver's major public hospital is hemorrhaging money as migrants flood the city.  Denver is one of the most reliably Democratic cities in the country, so quite frankly we shouldn't really be all that surprised by this:  [Tweet] [...] We shouldn't knock the hospital.  In many cases they're required by law to provide services, and of course in most cases you can't really turn someone away from medical care in good conscience.  Props to the doctors for doing the hard work.  The problem, of course, is left-wing Democratic leadership that is allowing an unsustainable flood of immigration into the country with no plan to manage it.  Helping out desperate illegal immigrants with medical care when they have nowhere else to turn is, by-and-large, a noble thing.  Letting illegal immigrants flood major cities, bankrupting hospitals and making things worse for everyone (including the immigrants themselves!) is not noble.

Cover-up of tuberculosis outbreak at Cape Cod migrant encampment exposed by local media.  A local radio talk show and a conservative newspaper in Massachusetts have exposed the coverup of a tuberculosis (TB) outbreak at a Cape Cod migrant encampment.  On Dec. 2, 2023, CEO Heidi Nelson of the Duffy Health Center sent an emergency alert email to Democrat Reps.  Kip Diggs and Christopher Flanagan, Democrat Sen. Julian Cyr and Republican Rep. Steven Xiarhos about the tuberculosis cases discovered in a South Yarmouth motel.  The administration of Gov. Maura Healey is housing 100 migrant families in the said motel.  A few weeks later, Xiarhos called "The Ed Lambert Show" during its live broadcast on Cape Cod-based 95 WXTK radio to confirm the existence of the email and its content related to tuberculosis cases at the migrant shelter.

We Are in an Abusive Relationship with Our Government.  California is now covering the costs of genital-mutilating surgeries for illegal aliens.  Leftism's slippery slope invariably leads to depraved absurdity.  Consider how Governor (receding) Hairdo and the Pyrite State's other communist saboteurs have greased the shifting ground under Californians' feet:
  [#1]   There is no illegal immigration crisis.
  [#2]   There may be a crisis, but California taxpayers won't be paying for it.
  [#3]   Taxpayers may have to foot the bill for the illegal immigration crisis, but California will do nothing to incentivize illegal immigration.
  [#4]   After further review, these aliens aren't "illegal," but rather "undocumented."
  [#5]   Health care is a human right.
  [#6]   California must provide "undocumented" aliens healthcare.
  [#7]   Mutilating the genitals to make them look like the opposite sex is health care.
  [#8]   California taxpayers must pay for "undocumented" aliens' genital surgery.
  [#9]   Californians who object to paying for undocumented aliens' genital surgery may be guilty of "hate" crimes and will be prosecuted.

The Health Threat of an Open Border.  The Biden White House is determined to have open borders, which not only threaten our economy and overwhelm our existing support systems which are funded by and for US citizens, but also expose Americans to deadly diseases.  This focus has politicized federal agencies such as Centers for Disease Control (CDC), the Department of Health and Human Services (HHS), the Department of Homeland Security (DHS) and the National Institutes of Health (NIH).  US Customs and Border Patrol have encountered 3.2 million illegal aliens crossing our borders in 2023, and these are just the ones who were processed.  How many more came over without notice?  And this is just in the past year.  These agencies are working with the Biden administration to ensure that these illegal aliens are "processed" rapidly.  Vaccine records are not required, and health status — including being positive for vector-spread communicable diseases, such as chikungunya virus, dengue, leprosy, yellow fever, malaria, hepatitis A, sexually transmitted disease and salmonella variants — are overlooked/not tested for.  Even a basic physical is not required.

Disease is diverse and inclusive too.  The flood of illegal immigrants has brought with it human trafficking, rampant crime, known terrorists, sexual slavery, pedophilia, the drug deaths of hundreds of thousands of Americans, has enriched cartels beyond their wildest dreams and oh-so-much more.  Another diverse and inclusive import is third-world diseases once all but eradicated in America.  It's becoming rather noticeable: [...] Hmm.  From where could these different strains have suddenly come?  Fortunately, Shigella can usually be successfully treated with antibiotics.  Unfortunately, people die from common bacterial infections every day.  They die from TB and polio too, perhaps not as often.  Yet another example of how illegal immigration is our diverse, inclusive and equitable strength, and for some Americans, their exclusive destruction.

New Drug That Is 10 Times More Potent Than Fentanyl Confirmed In The U.S..  In the state of Colorado, United States, they confirm the existence of a new drug that they estimate to be 10 times more potent and dangerous than fentanyl.  It is N-desethyl etonitazene and it is the first time that there is clear evidence of this drug in the USA.  The origin of this synthetic opioid, N-desethyl etonitazene, is located, according to the U.S. Drug Enforcement Administration (DEA), in China.  The confirmation of the drug occurred with the death of a person by overdose and the authorities of Boulder County, Colorado, sent the sample for investigation.

Leprosy, Polio, Malaria, TB, Measles, and Massive Unscreened Illegal Immigration.  Successful public health campaigns and medical advances have enabled the United States to conquer a range of disfiguring and damaging diseases.  Polio, which paralyzed thousands of Americans annually, was wiped out by widespread vaccinations.  In 1999 the nation's last hospital for lepers closed its doors in Louisiana.  A global campaign eradicated smallpox, while lethal tuberculosis, the "consumption" that stalked characters in decades of literature, seemed beaten by antibiotics.  Measles outbreaks still occur from time to time, but they are small, local, and easily contained.  Recently, however, some of these forgotten but still formidable infectious diseases have begun to reappear in the U.S. For two years running, polio has been detected in some New York water samples, and this fall, leprosy re-emerged in Florida, where cases of malaria have also been recorded.  Health officials say they are not sure why these and other infectious diseases are resurfacing.  One distinct possibility, which officials are loath to discuss, is that the millions of migrants who have crossed into the country in recent years could be bringing the scourges with them, since many are from countries where such rare diseases persist and vaccination programs are not robust.

Yellow Fever:  Coming to the U.S.?  The 19th-century viral scourge of the U.S. South known as "yellow fever" seems to be on the brink of a resurgence.  Tropical disease experts predict a return of the historically devastating disease to the U.S.  Yellow fever is still active in Latin America and Africa, causing 30,000 deaths annually, but local outbreaks have been absent here since 1905.  Other tropical diseases, however, have landed on our shores.  Earlier this year, several cases of malaria turned up in Florida.  Mosquitoes have recently tested positive for West Nile virus in Texas.  Locally-transmitted cases of Zika, dengue, and chikungunya have also been identified in the past few years.

New York sees a surge in tuberculosis cases amid migrant influx.  New York City is recording a 'dramatic' rise in tuberculosis cases, reports suggest — fueling fears the disease could resurge in the US.  Preliminary data shows 500 cases of tuberculosis (TB) have been diagnosed in the city so far this year — marking a 20 percent increase from this time last year.  Infections are also at their highest level in the city for this time of year in more than a decade, raising concerns the disease could spill into other areas of the country.

Report: New York City Hospitals and Medical Centers Are Being Overwhelmed by Illegal Immigrants.  The medical system in New York City is straining under the weight of the constant flow of illegals.  Hospitals and medical centers are being overwhelmed by the sheer number of people seeking treatment and it's not surprising.  When you suddenly add tens of thousands more people than a system was designed for, this is what you get.  Have the people of New York had enough yet?

Loathsome diseases are coming to America across the southern border.  The border patrol has acknowledged that there are three confirmed cases of tuberculosis amongst illegal aliens who crossed into America through the Biden administration's encouragement and connivance.  This should worry everyone.  We don't think much about tuberculosis, except maybe as a Victorian disease, but it was once America's greatest killer and, thanks to drug-resistant strains, can be again. [...] Of course, three confirmed cases are simply the teeniest tip of the iceberg.  With people from the world's undeveloped countries pouring by the millions over our southern border, you can be guaranteed that thousands, maybe tens of thousands, of them are harboring diseases that long ago vanished in America, everything from scary parasites to tuberculosis, malaria, scabies, dengue fever, leprosy, etc.  But it's tuberculosis, especially, that should worry us.  Many diseases are so bad that they burn themselves out quickly, or illness swiftly follows exposure so you can control them.  Tuberculosis, though, is a very slow disease.  You don't know you have it until it's gotten a hold on you, meaning that you've been contagious for a very long time.

Three Cases of Tuberculosis Found Among Illegal Immigrants in El Paso Sector.  On top of everything else that's been going on along the wide-open southern border, now we have three cases of tuberculosis identified in illegal immigrants in the El Paso sector.  [Tweet]  Tuberculosis (TB) is a serious, transmissible bacterial disease caused by the Mycobacterium tuberculosis pathogen.  TB is usually present in the lungs but can appear elsewhere in the body and may be latent in a person for years — with no symptoms.  What is really disturbing is that there is now a completely drug-resistant strain of the TB pathogen that appeared in Italy and India, starting in 2003.  Historically, TB has been a big killer.  Until the testing of dairy cattle for the pathogen became widespread, one of the more common vectors of TB was unpasteurized milk, but these days, it's more often spread by aerosol when an infected person sneezes or coughs.  TB can cause permanent lung damage if left untreated.  Up to 90 percent of people who carry the TB pathogen are non-symptomatic.

NYC Schools Enroll 20K Migrants, None Required to Show Proof of Vaccination.  Close to 20,000 migrant children will have been absorbed by New York City's public schools when the school year starts on Sept. 7.  None will be required to show proof of vaccinations when they enroll, as is required for the children of New Yorkers.  On Thursday, New York City officials held a press conference regarding the state of the more than 100,000 border crossers and illegal aliens that have arrived in the sanctuary city since the spring of last year.

Also scabies, measles, COVID, bed bugs, lice, hepatitis, chicken pox, mumps, AIDS, Chagas, monkeypox, etc.
NYC Health Official:  Illegal Immigration Bringing Tuberculosis, Polio to New York.  New York City Health Commissioner Ashwin Vasan announced that illegal immigration has been ushering a new wave of tuberculosis and polio to the city.  In a citywide letter to physicians and healthcare administrators last week, Vasan said that the more than 50,000 illegal immigrants that have come to New York City since last year caused a spike in contagious diseases like tuberculosis and polio.

Leprosy Is Likely Coming Over Our Unsecured Border.  Move over, COVID-19, and say hello to leprosy.  Yes, that leprosy, the biblical plague from the Old and New Testaments.  That's according to the CDC, which says that there is "rising evidence that leprosy has become endemic in the southeastern United States."  Leprosy, also called Hanson's Disease, is an infection caused by slow-growing bacteria called Mycobacterium leprae, according to the CDC.  "It can affect the nerves, skin, eyes, and lining of the nose (nasal mucosa)."  Up to 2 million people worldwide are permanently disabled from the disease, which can be transmitted by "prolonged, close contact with someone with untreated leprosy over many months."  It is thought to be spread via respiratory droplets — or even contact with armadillos.  The CDC, which now apparently believes in natural immunity again, says, "more than 95% of all people have natural immunity to the disease."

Texas Has Seized More Than 422 Million Lethal Doses of Fentanyl Since 2021, Governor Says.  Texas officials have seized more than 422 million lethal doses of fentanyl since the launch of the state's Operation Lone Star program in March 2021, governor Greg Abbott announced on Friday.  "Operation Lone Star continues to fill the dangerous gaps created by the Biden Administration's refusal to secure the border," Abbott's office said.  "Every individual who is apprehended or arrested and every ounce of drugs seized would have otherwise made their way into communities across Texas and the nation due to President Joe Biden's open border policies."  Abbott said in a statement that the program has also led to 394,200 illegal-immigrant apprehensions and 31,300 criminal arrests.

Why malaria returned to the USA.  What's the deadliest animal in the world?  A tiger?  A great white shark?  A poisonous snake?  Nope.  The most dangerous animal on Earth weighs about 2/1000 of a gram, is smaller than an M&M, and could be knocked silly by a raindrop.  It's the mosquito.  Mosquitoes, obviously, can't eat you the way a shark or tiger could.  They act as "vectors" for a number of diseases, one of which is malaria.  When a mosquito of the species Anopheles bites you, it extracts blood as a meal and leaves some of its saliva.  The saliva harbors any of a number of disease-causing organisms.  In the case of malaria, it's a single-celled parasite in the genus Plasmodium.  There were over 240 million cases of the disease (with 627,000 deaths) in 2020, almost all from mosquito bites. [...] There's no reason to believe that a major outbreak of malaria will hit the U.S., but let's not hide what might be a contributing factor to its reappearance.  It's just one of the risks of having an open border.

Malaria was once eradicated in this country by the use of DDT.  Bring back DDT!

RFK Jr: Border Hospitals Packed with Pregnant Migrants, Forcing American Women to Delay Deliveries.  Hospitals along the United States-Mexico border are so packed with pregnant migrant women that American women are being forced to delay their scheduled deliveries, Democrat presidential candidate Robert F. Kennedy Jr. says.  As Breitbart News reported on Tuesday, Kennedy visited the southern border to bring awareness to the issue of illegal immigration, which has skyrocketed under President Joe Biden.  Kennedy said the illegal immigration problem under Biden is so straining for American border towns and beyond, pregnant American women are having to delay their scheduled deliveries so that pregnant migrant women can be readily cared for at their local hospitals.

Parents infuriated as migrants enroll in Chicago schools without health records after years of COVID rules.  Chicago-area parents are voicing their outrage over public schools allowing migrant children to enroll without health documentation, as cities across the U.S. are dealing with an influx of migrants into their communities.  Mother Jennifer Preston joined "Fox & Friends First" on Thursday to discuss the hypocrisy of requiring vaccination records from residents, while migrants are allowed to enroll without such documents.  "Right now in the school district in which we live we have to provide residency, citizenship, health records and vaccination records on an almost annual basis.  I have a child right now, and I must have five emails in my inbox stating that my child cannot return to school next year without a specific vaccine.  So it's certainly inconsistent with what they're allowing for the migrant children coming into the Chicago public schools."

Addressing the Real Culprit of Skyrocketing Overdose Deaths.  In 2023, we are just now entering the deadliest phase of the opioid crisis.  Driven by a powerful synthetic opioid known as fentanyl, this is not just another chapter in the pharmaceutical and over-prescription scandal.  During the last three years, prescription opioids were dispensed at the lowest levels in nearly 15 years, while overdose deaths have skyrocketed to record levels.  In 2021, the United States hit a grim new milestone of 107,000 drug overdose deaths, with fentanyl accounting for nearly 70% of those deaths.  Like so many other states, Minnesota, where I served as sheriff of its largest county, was not immune from this trend.  Over that same period, the Gopher State reported a 44% increase in opioid-related overdose deaths year over year, spiking to an all-time high of 978 deaths.

New York Democrats [Consider] Organ Transplants for Illegal Aliens.  Democrat state legislators in New York are reviewing legislation that would have sought-after kidney transplants rewarded to illegal aliens ahead of thousands of Americans who are waiting for such donations.  According to the New York Times, Democrat legislators in New York are considering the plan to open organ transplants, specifically kidney transplants, to illegal aliens.  Such transplants are typically reserved for Americans with Social Security Numbers.

Report: "Cases of Scabies, Measles, COVID, and Bed Bugs" Among Illegal Aliens in El Paso.  Members of the El Paso police force warned Republican Congressman Tony Gonzales that there had been multiple incidents of illness among the illegal aliens who have set up camp in downtown El Paso.  "A couple of days ago I rode along with the Socorro Police Chief.  Imagine having to protect and serve a city of 40,000 all while a border crisis is busting at the seams in El Paso, only 15 mins away," the Republican rep. tweeted.  [Tweet]  On Thursday, Gonzales posted a video to Twitter showing himself in downtown El Paso.  Tony, don't be here unless you have to," the officers reportedly told the representative.  "There have been cases of scabies, measles, covid, and bed bugs.  Take care of your health," officers added.  [Tweet]

Massive Migrant Bus Convoys Heading to the U.S.-Mexico Border With Help From the U.N., E.U., and U.S..  As Title 42's expiration date nears, massive migrant bus convoys are heading to the United States border from Panama with the help of the United States government, UNICEF, and the European Union, longtime war correspondent Michael Yon reports.  Alarmingly, many of the migrants are carrying serious diseases such as malaria, dengue fever, and tuberculosis, according to Yon, who has been reporting on the situation from Darien, Panama. [...] "This is weaponized migration," Yon told The Florida Standard.  "Weaponized migration is being used to change the U.S. demographic, and it's going on in many parts of the world.  It's clearly going to destroy Europe and the United States," Yon said.  A large migrant camp in the area is run by the UN with US funding.  Thousands of people are fed, rested, given maps and advice, and are encouraged to continue the dangerous trip to the border.  Folders containing maps and guides are provided by the Red Cross and entitled "How to Stay Safe and Well When Migrating."  The UN's International Organization for Migration (IOM) even hands out rape kits to women and girls, as they are expected to be raped during the journey, in some cases, multiple times.  The rape kits, according to Yon, contain a female condom, regular condoms and morning-after pills.

You Won't Believe How Much Taxpayers Are Forced to Pay for Illegal Alien Healthcare in Illinois.  In an absolutely shocking report released by the Illinois Department of Health and Family Services, taxpayers in the state are reportedly paying out billions of dollars to provide healthcare to illegal aliens.  This report has caused outrage among the people of Illinois and has sparked an intense debate about immigration.  In a move that is sure to shock the people of Illinois, it has been revealed that taxpayers in the state have been forced to pay out billions of dollars to provide healthcare to illegal aliens.  The report, released by the Illinois Department of Health and Family Services, shows that taxpayers are footing the bill for healthcare services to undocumented immigrants who are living in the state.  This news has sparked outrage among Illinois residents and has raised questions about the government's immigration policies.

Report: Illinois Gov. J.B. Pritzker's Health Care for Illegal Aliens to Cost Taxpayers $1 Billion Next Year.  Illinois taxpayers are set to be hit with a billion-dollar bill providing healthcare benefits to newly arrived illegal aliens in the state thanks to Gov. J.B. Pritzker (D), according to estimates.  While tens of thousands of illegal aliens continue to be bused to the sanctuary city of Chicago, Illinois, from Texas, Republican lawmakers in the state are sounding the alarm over the economic and social burden that the new arrivals are set to impose on taxpayers.

The next pandemic is already here courtesy of Biden's open borders.  Ready for another pandemic?  New York City's health commissioner announced last week that the influx of migrants from the southern border — more than 50,000 to New York City alone in the past year — is delivering contagious diseases, including tuberculosis and polio, to our neighborhoods.  The same disease threats are also endangering other migrant destinations, including California, Texas and Florida.  In a letter to physicians and health care administrators citywide, Commissioner Ashwan Vasan explained that "many people who recently arrived in NYC have lived in or traveled through countries with high rates of TB."  TB, short for tuberculosis, is a bacterial infection.  It is treatable with antibiotics, but it generally takes six to nine months of medication to recover.  Not a walk in the park.

Biden to announce free and taxpayer-subsidized health care for 580,000 DACA recipients.  Illegals clog up emergency rooms if they don't have health insurance when they get sick, driving many hospitals into bankruptcy from their unpaid bills.  We already know that that is happening in the Southwest.  Second, the DACA kids, who may have shelled out $600-plus for the DACA application fee, or gotten an NGO or university to pay it for them, can't buy subsidized insurance on the Obamacare exchanges, or get health insurance for free if they qualify for Medicaid, which a large percentage of the estimated 580,000 of them do.  Asylum-seekers, by contrast, do get it all for free — paying no application fee for their usually invalid asylum claims, and getting free health care as well.  That includes the two to five million recent border-crossers who've rolled in from the Biden border surge.

Americans to Spend Billions on Biden's Obamacare for DACA Illegal Aliens.  American taxpayers are likely to subsidize billions of dollars in Affordable Care Act benefits for illegal aliens enrolled in the Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals (DACA) program under a plan by President Joe Biden.  On Thursday [4/13/2023], President Joe Biden announced a plan to open the Affordable Care Act, commonly known as Obamacare, and Medicaid rolls to hundreds of thousands of DACA illegal aliens.  While DACA, created by former President Obama through executive action, has helped shield close to a million illegal aliens from deportation through the years, the Migration Policy Institute states that about 600,000 are currently enrolled in the program.

Illegal Immigration Costs American Taxpayers Billions Every Year.  Illegal immigration costs American taxpayers and hospitals billions of dollars in medical costs every year, the Federation for American Immigration Reform pointed out.  Last year, when over 98,000 illegal aliens were encountered in the Yuma, Arizona, border sector, the local hospital found itself providing $26 million in uncompensated care to illegal migrants.  CEO of Yuma Regional Medical Center Robert Trenschel pointed out at a Congressional hearing that many migrants come to America with "significant disease," and often require major medical treatments, ranging from dialysis to heart surgery.

Ranchers warn disease that would 'decimate' the cattle industry could cross the southern border.  The Biden administration's border policies have led to a mass influx of illegal immigrants, and ranchers are increasingly concerned that they will bring with them a highly contagious virus that could cost billions and decimate the livestock industry.  Foot and mouth disease (FMD) is a highly contagious virus that affects cows, pigs, sheep and other animals with cloven hooves.  Todd Wilkinson, a South Dakota rancher who also serves as president-elect of the National Cattlemen's Beef Association (NCBA), told Fox News Digital it is only a matter of time before FMD makes its way across the southern border.  "Our border is just so porous, if that disease comes in, it's just going to devastate the industry.  And frankly, I don't know how it's been kept out to this point," Wilkinson said.

Fentanyl's deathly grip on America.  The US is in the midst of a catastrophic fentanyl epidemic that is causing an eye-watering number of deaths and tearing the fabric of American society apart.  The ultra-strong opioid being cut with virtually every street drug in the country killed a record 75,000 Americans in 2021, the equivalent of 1,500 lives lost every week.  Fentanyl - which is 100 times more potent than morphine - started off as a cheap and potent alternative to heroin and was used by only the most hardcore drug addicts in the US, who mainly injected it or smoked it through a pipe.

The poisoning of America.  It's time for a new drug strategy.  The Biden Administration's harm reduction strategy isn't working.  America is in its worst drug abuse crisis in over a century.  According to the CDC, over 107,000 Americans died of drug overdoses in 2021, and almost 950,000 have died since 1999; figures for 2022 show a slight decline in overdose deaths over the previous year.  The leading killer is illicit fentanyl — a synthetic opioid so powerful that two milligrams can kill you.  Fentanyl and methamphetamine come from Mexico; their chemicals come from China.  Drug cartels make fentanyl and add it to heroin, methamphetamine, cocaine, and counterfeit prescription drugs.  The fake drugs look like Xanax, Adderall, and other prescription drugs but are laced with fentanyl.  It's easy to buy drugs on the Internet and social media.  Young people buy "Xanax" and die from fentanyl poisoning.  Yet, there is no outrage from our leaders.

Mexican Officials Say at Least Two Illegal Aliens with Malaria Have Entered the US.  Health officials in Matamoros, Tamaulipas announced this week that at least four cases of malaria was detected recently in the migrant community traveling to the United States.  Over 5 million illegals have entered the US through the open border with Mexico since Joe Bident took office.  It is the greatest illegal alien invasion in world history, and Joe Biden is the one responsible for this.  On his first day in office Joe Biden ended the Trump border policies and stopped work on the border wall with Mexico.  It is planned destruction of the United States.

Arizona border hospital stuck with $20M bill from treating migrants: 'It's unsustainable'.  An Arizona border hospital has been left with $20 million in unpaid medial services from the massive influx of illegal immigrants over the past six months.  Yuma Regional Medical President Dr. Robert Transchel joined "Fox & Friends" Friday to discuss how the migrant crisis has burdened hospitals as experts warn the end of Title 42 will escalate border crossings.  Transchel said anyone coming to the hospital receives the "same level of medical care" regardless of immigration status, including surgeries and intensive care.

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The hospital operates at a profit.  The $20 million figure is more than it cost the hospital to provide services to the newly-arrived deadbeats.  This problem is unavoidable:  Treating illegal aliens is an unfunded mandate from the federal government.

Biden Begins Offering Free Flu Vaccines to Border Crossers, Illegal Aliens.  Border crossers and illegal aliens arriving at the southern border will now be offered a free flu vaccine thanks to an initiative by President Joe Biden's Department of Homeland Security (DHS).  For the first time in American history, border crossers and illegal aliens will be offered free flu vaccines when they arrive at the United States-Mexico border.  The Biden administration started the initiative about a month ago and has already given the vaccine to thousands of border crossers and illegal aliens, many of whom will be released into American communities as part of an expansive Catch and Release network.

Cost of open borders: Yuma hospital forked over around $20M in 'uncompensated' care for illegals.  The cost of the Biden administration's open border policy has to be incalculable, not that they even bother to acknowledge the fact, let alone address it.  Incredibly, though, the situation has escalated to the point that even NBC News is now covering it.  "There have been more than 300,000 illegal border crossings in the area around Yuma.  That's three times the city's entire population of nearly 100,000.  It's an all-time record," national correspondent Gabe Gutierrez reported.  "The only hospital here estimates that, over six months, it's doled out $20 million in uncompensated medical care to migrants," he added.

California announces it will become the first state to give health insurance to undocumented immigrants.  Governor Gavin Newsom released attack ads on Monday urging Florida residents to move to California in the days after it became the first state to move to offer all illegal immigrants state-subsidized health insurance.  Newsom bought $105,000 worth of ad spots that started airing on Fox News in Florida, which is sparking speculation that he could mount a presidential run in 2024.  The ads urge Sunshine State residents who are fed up with their Republican Governor Ron DeSantis to head west.  DeSantis is rumored to be considering a 2024 run as well[,] despite former President Donald Trump likely to seek the nomination.

The Subordinate Citizen.  I recently led a group of about 100 citizens to tour Israel for nearly two weeks.  Before returning to the United States, all participants had to indicate their vaccination status and take a COVID-19 test for reentry.  Anxieties swept the group as Israeli testers swabbed them.  Anyone testing positive would have to delay his or her return.  That quarantine would entail spending thousands of dollars in finding scarce hotel accommodations, additional living expenses, and rebooked airline tickets — depending upon the length of the mandatory sequestration.  Contrast the tens of thousands of foreign nationals now mustering to cross illegally into the United States again this summer.  They follow the already 2 million who have entered the country unlawfully since Joe Biden became president.  Does any foreign national worry about being tested for COVID-19, much less fear being turned away if he tests positive or for lack of proof of vaccination?  Or do we scrutinize far more carefully U.S. citizens entering legally their own country than we do noncitizens crossing our borders unlawfully?

Mexican cartels [are] exploiting border chaos to smuggle fentanyl into US.  Mexican drug cartels are taking advantage of the chaotic influx of migrants at the US southern border to smuggle thousands of pounds of deadly fentanyl into the country, experts say.  "Border patrol agents are too busy dealing with the influx of migrants, and are not really focused on looking for fentanyl," Robert Almonte, a Texas-based security consultant and former deputy chief of the El Paso Police Department, told The Post.  "Border agents are not getting the support they need from the federal government to stop the flow of fentanyl, which is killing thousands of Americans."  More than 90 percent of the 10,000 pounds of fentanyl seized in fiscal 2021 occurred at legal border entry points in California and Arizona — areas where roughly 30 percent of migrants are entering the US, according to CBP statistics.

Importing COVID: Biden administration releases 7,000 COVID-infected illegal border crossers into McAllen, Texas.  So much for Title 42, the court-reinforced order to keep illegal border crossers out of the U.S. to protect the public here during the pandemic.  Actually, they're letting them in ... and letting them in.  There's no limit. [...] According to City-Data, McAllen, Texas has a population of 143,000 and is Texas's 22nd-largest city.  Adding 1,400 people with COVID into a population of that size in one week is [...] a lot of COVID to get spreading.  Ostensibly, these migrants are a "humanitarian exception" to the Title 42 sendbacks — single moms with small children, and unaccompanied minors, most of whom are single MS-13-aged young men.  The problem here is that they spread COVID as much as the single adults and families with older children who are being sent back.  There's no exception with COVID, whether it comes from a single mom with four kids in tow or a single adult male without kids.

Border Patrol Seizes 130 Pounds of Fentanyl During Freeway Stops in Temecula, California.  Just before the Memorial Day holiday got underway, U.S. Customs and Border Protection agents who serve out of Murrieta's Newton Azrak station intercepted two fentanyl hauls on Interstate-15 in Southwest Riverside County.  While arrests were made and about 130 pounds of the illicit narcotic were seized during the busts that came over a 48-hour period, the incidents were notable due to the thousands of potential poisonings that could have occurred if the drug made it to the streets.

Joe Biden's puppeteers, for whom none of us voted, are doing everything they can to make bad problems worse.
DEA Quietly Removes Narco-Busting Aircraft From Mexico As Drug Overdoses Skyrocket.  As overdose-induced deaths skyrocket to record highs in the U.S, the Drug Enforcement Administration (DEA) has quietly relocated a plane fundamental to anti-narcotics operations in Mexico, according to Reuters.  The DEA plane was moved to Texas after Mexican officials revoked its parking spot, according to an anonymous U.S. government official and two security sources, Reuters reported.  The move coincides with new data published by the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) that shows over 100,000 Americans have died of drug overdoses in 2021, which is a 15% increase from 2020 and a 30% increase from 2019 driven largely by the the use of fentanyl and methamphetamine.  China is the primary source of fentanyl and fentanyl-related substances trafficked into the U.S., and the drug is often smuggled into the country at the southern border, according to the DEA.  Border officials have seized record amounts of fentanyl from traffickers in 2022.

When it comes to COVID, illegals outrank the military.  Regardless where one stands on the issue of mandates, the double standard when it comes to the new vaccine policy announced for migrants is hard to accept.  In the midst of firing members of the military for not getting jabbed, the Biden administration has declared the pandemic over for purposes of turning migrants away from the Southern Border (i.e., use of Title 42) and stated it will no longer be implementing COVID mitigation measures such as testing and vaccines for migrants entering the country.  The idea that those not legally in the country are entitled to more liberty and autonomy than American citizens may strike many as puzzling.

How America Became La La Land.  America these last 14 months resembles a dystopia.  It is becoming partly the world of George Orwell's Nineteen Eighty-Four, partly the poet Homer's land of the Lotus-Eaters.  Nothing seems to be working.  And no one in control seems to care.  The once secure border of 2020 vanished.  Two-million people have crossed the southern border illegally in the last twelve months.  Millions more are on the way.  The Biden Administration unilaterally and simply destroyed existing immigration law.  What followed was surreal.  The administration claimed COVID was again on the horizon.  So it justified forcing American citizens to keep wearing masks in public buildings and transportation.  But at the same time, it waived all such requirements for illegal entrants.  Citizens who obeyed our laws had to mask up; foreign nationals who broke them did not need to take such precautions.

Illinois [is] offering free health care to undocumented immigrants ages 55 to 64.  The State of Illinois has launched a new program that will provide free health care to undocumented immigrant adults ages 55 to 64.  The free health care program was approved by lawmakers in Spring 2021.  It is an expansion of Illinois' program to provide health benefits for immigrant seniors.  Covered services include doctor and hospital visits, lab tests, physical and occupational therapy, mental health, substance abuse disorder services, dental and vision services, and prescription drugs.

Expect the left to exploit another emergency to avoid midterm defeat.  Those of us on the pro-freedom right logically expected the Biden administration to finally give up on the pandemic panic plan for electoral success.  The waning of the crisis made it plain that the emergency was long gone.  A clear majority of Americans say COVID is over:  just 9% think the pandemic is a "serious crisis," in a warning to lawmakers planning to bring back mask mandates and restrictions in response to the latest wave.  But then a funny thing happened as the rest of us resumed our normal lives.  While the Biden administration seemed to be all on board with putting pandemic panic theatre behind us, the people in charge were only going along so they could conveniently drop Title 42 and create a new crisis of illegal invaders, flooding in over the border.  So while we thought the emergency was over, they were just lying low to bring it back for the fall election season.  Even perennial camera hog Anthony Fauci did his part by staying out of the spotlight to avoid giving up the game.

Sinema: If the CDC is extending mask mandates in transit, why is Biden lifting Title 42?  Great question.  That's one reason why Politico noticed this morning that Democrats have remained awfully quiet on the CDC's new 15 Days To Stop Air Travelers From Feeling Comfort.  We'll get to that in a moment, but Kyrsten Sinema has decided not to stay quiet on this point at all.  If the pandemic still is enough of a public-health threat in super-controlled commercial airline environments, then why is the Biden administration about to lift pandemic controls at the border?

NYers buy Medicaid for illegal migrants in Gov. Hochul, Dems' $220B budget.  Illegal immigrants aged 65 and over will be able to obtain taxpayer-financed health care in the record-breaking $220 billion state budget signed by Gov. Kathy Hochul and passed by the legislature — a move critics say will incentivize the undocumented to flood New York for the benefits.  A provision in the budget allows up to 20,000 elderly residents living here illegally to apply for Medicaid, the public health insurance program for the needy that served more than 7 million residents during the height of the coronavirus pandemic.  An individual would just need to have income of less than $18,754 to qualify.  Medicaid is largely funded by the federal government with contributions from the state and local governments.  But US law bars using federal dollars for illegal immigrants, so New York will have to foot the entire $220 million cost to cover senior undocumented immigrants.

Law Enforcement Pins Colorado Overdose Spike to Dem-Passed Law.  On Sunday [2/20/2022], five people died of fentanyl overdoses in a suburban Denver apartment, leaving a four-month-old baby parentless as a result. [...] The tragic event has revived calls from local prosecutors and police to reverse a 2019 law that made the possession of four grams or less of many hard drugs — including fentanyl — a misdemeanor instead of a felony.  That law passed shortly after Colorado Democrats expanded their majority in the state House and captured control of the state Senate.  At the time, Colorado prosecutors called on lawmakers to exempt fentanyl from the penalty reduction, noting that four grams of fentanyl is the equivalent of 13,000 deadly doses.  But the bill's sponsors refused, and opioid overdose deaths in the state went on to spike by 54 percent in 2020.

The Border Crisis Reaches Your Child's Middle School.  Hidalgo County, Texas, Sheriff J.E. Guerra, who operates on the frontlines of the border war, explained that he's not worried drugs will impact his community.  "The drugs go further north," he said.  Drug thugs cross the border disguised as needy migrants or even unaccompanied minors.  Once across, they're provided bus and airplane tickets to destinations across the U.S.  In some cases, charities — largely taxpayer-funded — pay for the tickets, and hand the border crossers cellphones and other items as they start their journeys north.  Other times, "Biden Air" flies migrants stealthily at night into places like Westchester County airport, close to the Connecticut border.  Once far north of the border, drug thugs are invading middle schools and high schools and killing our teens.

California DA warns nearly all street drugs laced with fentanyl, says deaths up 800% in one county.  Riverside County District Attorney Michael Hestrin warned that fentanyl overdoses are a grave threat to American citizens and are the main catalyst fueling the nation's drug crisis.  Appearing on Fox News' "America Reports" on Monday, Hestrin told anchor Sandra Smith that in the California county of Riverside, "the number of fentanyl deaths in the last five years has gone up 800 percent.  This year, we expect to have well over 500 people die because of fentanyl poisoning."  He said that in Southern California, in particular, various district attorneys are working together to make it a regular practice to file charges of murder against criminals dealing fentanyl.

Nearly 4-in-10 Illegal Aliens Refusing Coronavirus Vaccine as Americans Hit with Mandates.  While millions of American citizens are being hit with mandates to obtain one of three approved vaccines for the Chinese coronavirus, new data reveals that thousands of illegal aliens are refusing the vaccine.  This week, while striking down President Joe Biden's vaccine mandate for every large business in the nation, the United States Supreme Court upheld a mandate that will require 17 million American healthcare workers to obtain the vaccine or risk firing.  Likewise, in a number of blue states like California, New York, and Illinois as well as giant corporations like McDonald's and Goldman Sachs are requiring millions of Americans to obtain the vaccine to work, eat in restaurants, enter event venues, and other indoor spaces.  New data, published by CBS News, reveals that nearly 4-in-10 illegal aliens in Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) detention are refusing the vaccine.

Border Patrol Reports 1,066 Percent Increase in Fentanyl Seized in South Texas.  U.S. Customs and Border Protection (CBP) has reported a 1,066 percent increase in fentanyl seized in south Texas ports during fiscal year 2021.  Border agents at eight ports of entry extending from Brownsville to Del Rio said that between Oct. 1, 2020, and Sept. 30, 2021, they seized 87,652 pounds of narcotics that would have commanded a combined estimated street value of $786 million, CBP reported on Jan. 5.  Of this, 41,713 pounds was marijuana, 8,592 pounds was cocaine, 33,777 pounds was methamphetamine, 1,215 pounds was heroin, and 588 pounds was fentanyl.  That's a 1,066 percent increase in fentanyl seizures, as well as a 98 percent increase in cocaine seizures, from the year prior.  They also reported having seized $10.4 million in unreported currency, 463 weapons — up 21 percent from FY 2020 — and 84,863 rounds of ammunition.

Heavy Blue Toll:  Law enforcement deaths hit record high in 2021.  The number of police officers killed in the line of duty in 2021 hit a record high, exacerbating challenges inside police departments already dealing with staffing shortages, COVID-19 and skyrocketing crime rates.  More police officers have died in 2021 than any other year in U.S. history, according to the National Law Enforcement Officers Memorial Fund. [...] Notably, of the 29 Border Patrol agents who passed away, 27 deaths were due to contracting the virus in the line of duty.  President Joe Biden has been criticized by conservatives for instituting COVID testing requirements for those legally entering the United States, but not for illegal immigrants.

DEA Chief: Fentanyl [is] flooding [the] U.S. through [the] southern border.  The Biden administration is finally looking to crackdown on the nation's fentanyl crisis.  It seems to be picking up the pace in his efforts to get illicit drugs coming in through the southern border out of America.  On Sunday [12/19/2021], Biden's administrator of the Drug Enforcement Agency, Anne Milgram, sounded the alarm on fentanyl-laced products plaguing the nation.  She said nefarious Chinese actors are sending chemicals to Mexican drug cartels to make the synthetic drug and the cartels are mass producing fentanyl-laced products as well as trafficking them into the U.S.

Afghans, Syrians, Pakistanis Apprehended in West Texas near Border.  According to a source within Customs and Border Protection, migrants from Syria, Afghanistan, Pakistan, and India were arrested Wednesday.  Border Patrol agents encountered them after crossing the Rio Grande as they tried to elude apprehension in dense brush.  The incidents began early Wednesday when agents arrested a group of seven.  Agents tracked footprints away from the Rio Grande, ultimately finding the migrants on a private ranch.  Four identified themselves as citizens of Afghanistan, two from India, and one from Pakistan.  As the day unfolded, five more significant interest migrants were apprehended, raising the number of migrants from significant interest countries to 12 in a single day — including four Syrians.

Illegal immigrants [are] exempt from DOJ's vaccine mandate at deportation hearings.  The federal vaccine mandate will soon apply to Justice Department employees, contractors and visitors to its buildings, but one group it won't apply to is illegal immigrants showing up for their deportation case hearings.  The migrants are deemed an exception to President Biden's mandates because they are seeking a public benefit or service.  That means they will not have to prove they've been vaccinated or show a negative COVID-19 test from the previous three days.  Their attorneys are also exempt.  Those exemptions aren't sitting well with immigration judges and other employees who will have to interact with the unvaccinated.  They say allowing in unvaccinated and untested people defeats the purpose of the mandate.

16K COVID-19 Positive Migrants Released into U.S. by ICE, Says Whistleblower.  More than 16,000 migrants who tested positive for COVID-19 while in Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) custody were released into the United States, according to an agency law enforcement source.  The Biden administration did not mandate any of the migrants to be vaccinated before their release.  The source informs Breitbart Texas that the figures only include those migrants who were tested by ICE.  The source, not authorized to speak to the media, says the migrants ranged from infants to the elderly.  A Department of Homeland Security document reviewed by Breitbart Texas reports the oldest released migrants were over 85 years old.  Nearly 1,300 were under the age of ten.

Custom Officials Seize Small Packages of Lifesaving Ivermectin and Hydroxychloroquine in Chicago While Record Amounts of Fentanyl Continue to Flow.  Customs and Border officials captured two small packages of Ivermectin and hydroxychloroquine at Chicago's O'Hare Airport recently.  The two drugs would not have raised an eyebrow before the COVID pandemic.  But since the Democrats and media politicized the completely safe, inexpensive and effective medications the Customs agents are on the lookout for these cheap drugs.  The agents captured packages of 100 Ivermectin pills, 32 Ivermectin pills and 40 hydroxychloroquine pills.  Meanwhile Mexican cartels continue to smuggle record amounts of fentanyl into the country this year.

Trump says many Haitian migrants 'probably have AIDS' and the US is taking on a 'death wish' by accepting them.  Donald Trump told Fox News on Thursday night that he thought Haitian migrants coming to the US 'will probably have AIDS.'  The former president said accepting the asylum-seekers would be a 'death wish' for the US.  A record-shattering number of Haitian migrants have come to the US in the last month, and the trend doesn't appear to be stopping as more people continue to pour into the Colombian town of Necocli, a popular spot for smugglers to shepherd people through the perilous Darien Gap.  The Darien Gap is a 66-mile stretch of rainforest between North and South America.  Its dangerous terrain is part of the reason it's been left undeveloped and why it poses such a great risk to the people crossing it now.

Reports: Cartels to Provoke Border Agents, Illegal-alien Invasion Could Provide Cover for Bioweapons Terrorism.  The Biden Regime's failure to stop the illegal-alien invasion at the southern border and vilification of the Border Patrol has handed the drug cartels and America's enemies a major weapon they can use to attack the country.  The cartels, Lara Logan of Fox News reported, are pushing drug smugglers to confront border agents to provoke a reaction that will be recorded and further undermine the border force.  The mass invasion could provide cover for a terrorist or foreign power to smuggle a bioweapon into the country, she said, citing national security experts.  So the threat the illegal aliens represent is not just one of budget-busting numbers or the inevitable crime wave Americans will suffer.  They and Biden, the man who invited them in, are gravely endangering national security.

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CDC alert to medical professionals:  Afghan refugees may spread infectious diseases.  It seems like this warning from the CDC shouldn't be necessary yet the agency issued an alert to medical professionals to be on the lookout for Afghan refugees with infectious disease symptoms.  A few cases of infectious diseases for which most Americans are vaccinated have started popping up among the Afghan evacuees recently brought into the United States.  The CDC posted an announcement on its website warning medical professionals and staff of the possibility of Afghan refugees bringing infectious diseases like measles, mumps, and rubella into the country during their evacuation.  Most Americans have been vaccinated against all those diseases.  The number of cases referenced in the warning is relatively small in comparison to the total number of evacuees so far but it's worth noting that the CDC is obviously trying to get out in front of the possibility of that the spread of, say, measles becomes a major story.

Afghan Refugees Bringing Numerous Diseases to US, including Measles, Malaria, and Tuberculosis.  The tens of thousands of Afghan refugees being imported into the United States by the Biden Administration are carrying numerous dangerous diseases in addition to the Chinese coronavirus, including malaria, measles, and tuberculosis, as reported by Breitbart.  The Centers for Disease Control (CDC) admitted to the influx of diseases through the Afghan arrivals in a statement on Monday [9/20/2021], declaring that all of the refugees will be required to take the measles vaccine; however, there are still no measures in place to require them to receive a coronavirus vaccine.  According to the CDC press release, they had been "notified by public health departments of 16 measles cases among the evacuees."  Subsequently, they ordered that "evacuees who are in the United States are required to be vaccinated with MMR and complete a 21-day quarantine from the time of vaccination at U.S. 'Safe Haven' designated locations."  The "safe havens" primarily consist of military bases across the country.

Biden Administration Requires all Foreign Travelers Entering U.S. to be Vaccinated, Except Illegal Border Crossers Who are Exempt From U.S. Rules and Laws.  A rather remarkable development.  The Biden administration has announced that all foreign travelers to the U.S. must be vaccinated.  "All foreign travelers flying to the U.S. will need to demonstrate proof of vaccination before boarding, as well as proof of a negative COVID-19 test taken within three days of flight", said White House COVID-19 coordinator Jeff Zients, who announced the new policy on Monday [9/20/2021]."  However, illegal aliens from around the world who cross the southern border from Mexico into the United States do not have to provide proof of vaccination or COVID test.  [Video clip]  If this seems like a bizarro-world standard, it actually gets worse.

Biden Opens The Border To The Virus.  The Biden administration barrages us daily with messages designed to spread fear of the coronavirus and convince Americans to take experimental vaccines and make Big Pharma even richer.  The logic is inescapable.  Big Pharma is now being forced to pay judgments in the billions of dollars for the damage it caused in the opioid crisis it created.  They have to recoup those losses somehow.  Meanwhile, though — the same administration that assures us we are all going to die if we don't comply and get "the jab" — has opened the southern border and invited the entire world to walk in, untested.  Then these same individuals, still untested and untreated, are flown or bussed all over the United States at taxpayer expense.  It is as if somehow magically COVID-19 — the disease that has crippled our nation — only affects citizens and legal residents.  The absurdity of this situation is perhaps most evident when one considers the current flood of Haitians entering the nation illegally.  Border Patrol agents have apprehended 15,599 Haitians from January through June this year, according to Customs and Border Protection (CBP).

Drone shows Biden super-spreader on border, as thousands of unvaxxed migrants queue up.  President Biden announced "new steps" in the fight against COVID-19 last week that essentially declared war on those who have not been vaccinated, vowing that he will "protect vaccinated workers from unvaccinated coworkers."  "Many of us are frustrated with the nearly 80 million Americans who are still not vaccinated, even though the vaccine is safe, effective, and free," Biden said from the White House, adding, "We've been patient, but our patience is wearing thin."  But illegal immigrants are exempt from that frustration and continue to flow across the wide open southern border by the thousands, as seen in drone footage the Biden administration would rather you not see.  A video shared by Fox News national correspondent Bill Melugin shows thousands of illegal immigrants gathering under the international bridge in Del Rio, TX, waiting on the overwhelmed Border Patrol to "be apprehended."

Biden doesn't require migrants at border to get vaccinated despite mandate on Americans.  The Biden administration is not planning to vaccinate the nearly 200,000 migrants who are showing up on the border each month, despite imposing mandates on federal workers and private businesses nationwide.  White House press secretary Jen Psaki confirmed during a press briefing Friday that many employees would be required to get the coronavirus vaccine but that people in federal custody at the U.S.-Mexico border would not be required, nor be able, to get it. [...] Although there have been reports that the Biden administration is preparing to offer coronavirus vaccines to migrants in custody at the border, U.S. Customs and Border Protection, the federal agency that oversees Border Patrol operations, does not have plans to vaccinate migrants in its custody, two people familiar with the situation told the Washington Examiner.

Hospital in McAllen overwhelmed with COVID-positive migrants.  Dr. Marc Siegel uncovered the story of the McAllen Hospital in Texas that is overwhelmed with COVID-19 cases.  But the majority of their patients aren't locals, they are migrants who just crossed the border.  Now, Dr. Ivonne Lopez-Lopez of the hospital says the surge is due to the unvaccinated patients.  Nearly all of their patients are unvaccinated.  Even fellow vaccinated doctors have contracted the virus.  "They're coming in because they want a better opportunity," Lopez-Lopez said.  "I try to hear them out, right because they are coming in with an idea, a dream, and they end up sick."

Four Keys to Understanding [the] COVID-19 Surge at [the] Border.  More than 18% of families and 20% of unaccompanied minors who illegally crossed the border tested positive for the coronavirus, according to the NBC News report on the Department of Homeland Security document.  That DHS document was included in a briefing for President Joe Biden, NBC reported.  The DHS document also showed that more than a quarter of illegal immigrants who were being deported tested positive, requiring U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement to remove them from planes.  The COVID-19 among illegal immigrants is because of "the highly transmissible delta variant combined with lengthier stays in crowded [U.S. Customs and Border Protection] facilities," the document says.  Employees at a shelter run by the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services in Fort Bliss, Texas, filed whistleblower complaints alleging that supervisors told them to downplay the number of migrant children who tested positive for the virus.

An American apocalypse — why people of all classes, races are filled with fear.  Americans are growing angrier by the day in a way different from prior sagebrush revolts such as the 1960s Silent Majority or Tea Party furor of over a decade ago.  The rage at the current status quo this time is not just fueled by conservatives.  For the first time in their lives, all Americans of all classes and races are starting to fear a self-created apocalypse that threatens their families' safety and the American way of life.  The border is not just porous as in the pre-Trump past.  It is nonexistent.  Some 2 million people may cross illegally in the current fiscal year — with complete impunity.  There is zero effort to stop them.  Officials daily hector Americans to get vaccinated and tested for COVID.  But they are mute about illegal entrants, some of them infected with the virus.

Eleven Senate Democrats Vote Against COVID Tests For Illegal Immigrants at the Southern Border.  Eleven Senate Democrats on Thursday voted against a modest and commonsense amendment to the Senate Budget Resolution that requires illegal migrants apprehended on the southern border to be tested for COVID-19 before they are transported into the country.  The amendment, introduced by Senator Roger Marshall (R-Kan.), a physician, establishes "a deficit-neutral reserve fund relating to protecting migrants and local communities against COVID-19."  Under the provision, migrants will be quarantined and not transported from the border until they tested negative.  This minor impediment to the Regime's goal of fundamentally transforming the nation through mass immigration was supported by Majority Whip Dick Durbin, and Majority Leader Chuck Schumer.

Leaked Video Shows Hundreds at Camp for COVID-19-Positive Illegal Immigrants.  Hundreds of illegal immigrants crowded here under a pavilion in a park where temporary tent facilities were set up to house those who tested positive for COVID-19 over the weekend, video provided to The Daily Caller News Foundation shows.  The temporary facility was set up deep within Mission's Anzalduas Park and out of the public view after the city of McAllen issued a disaster declaration in response to around 1,500 COVID-19-positive migrants released in the city last week, according to local officials.

Officials: 40 Percent of Illegal Immigrants Bussed to Texas Town Are COVID Positive.  At the risk of angering a CNN anchor who has excoriated conservatives for noticing the intersection of the border and COVID crises in Texas, the city of Laredo is fueling this "demonization" with additional facts.  Officials now say that the jurisdiction has turned away buses filled with migrants after discovering that approximately four-in-ten have tested positive for COVID.  The unmitigated mess at the border is a caricature of failed "progressive" governance:  [Tweet] [...] Progressives are screaming at Texas for not imposing enough COVID mandates — though various mitigation and vaccination efforts are active — while also denying and incentivizing the ongoing border crisis, leading to results and nutty policies like this.  Nobody should be claiming that America's COVID wave is being driven by immigrants.  That's not true.  But the Democratic administration's failing immigration policies would be insane in non-pandemic times; they are breathtakingly reckless in the current environment.

'Woke' nonsense is warping everyday life.  Americans are growing angrier by the day, but in a way different from prior sagebrush revolts such as the 1960s Silent Majority or the Tea Party movement over a decade ago.  The rage this time is not just fueled by conservatives.  For the first time in their lives, Americans of all classes and races are starting to fear a self-created apocalypse that threatens their family's safety and the American way of life.  The border is not just porous as in the pre-Trump past.  It is arguably nonexistent.  Some 2 million people may cross illegally in the current fiscal year, according to reports — with complete impunity.  There is zero effort to stop them.  Officials hector Americans daily to get vaccinated and tested for COVID-19.  But they are mute about illegal entrants, some of them no doubt infected with the virus.

COVID-19 Outbreak At Migrant Facility Infects At Least 150 People.  An outbreak at a migrant processing center in Tacoma, Washington, has infected at least 150 people, the Seattle Times reported Tuesday [8/10/2021].  COVID-19 has infected at least 150 individuals, including seven guards and a federal health care worker, since the outbreak at the Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) Processing Center in Tacoma in early June, the Seattle Times reported, based on a lawyer's account of events.  The lawyer, Aaron Korthuis of Northwest Immigrant Rights Project, additionally claimed that the agency has released 570 migrants deemed high-risk of contracting COVID-19 from the facility, according to the Seattle Times.

Biden Rolls Out Red Carpet for COVID-Infected Illegal Immigrants.  President Joe Biden is the root cause of today's COVID-19 superspreader extravaganza on the southern frontier.  His come-and-get-it, no-borders policy offers a laurel and hearty welcome to COVID-19-infected illegal aliens.  Biden's red carpet for COVID-19 carriers on the U.S.-Mexico boundary — atop his mandatory vaccines for U.S. military personnel and vaccination papers for lawful foreign visitors — epitomizes hypocrisy, reckless endangerment, and quite likely negligent homicide.  McAllen, Texas, Mayor Javier Villalobos, a Republican, issued a Declaration of Local Disaster last week. [...] Also, 135 illegal immigrants in Customs and Border Protection's Rio Grande Valley sector tested positive for COVID-19 in July's first half, up 900% versus the previous 14 months.  Patrons at a Whataburger restaurant in La Joya, Texas, fretted on July 26 when several other diners coughed, sneezed, and failed to wear masks.  According to police, these migrants said they were caught by the Border Patrol, released, and tested positive for COVID-19.

"Something is terribly wrong here", Border mayors, doctor sound the alarm on COVID and migrants.  Mayors of Texas border communities, as well as a prominent family medicine doctor, are sounding the alarm about the spread of COVID-19.  They are calling on the Biden administration for help.  Illegal migrants are testing positive for COVID-19 as they flood the southern border.  One well-respected doctor in Rio Grande City, Texas says it is not a coincidence that his medical practice has seen a significant "uptick in cases in the last couple of weeks."  The Rio Grande City area reports a 900% increase in the number of illegal migrants who tested positive for COVID-19 last month.  Dr. Antonio Falcon points his finger at the Biden administration's policies.  Border Patrol apprehends illegal migrants as they flood the border and then release them to others, like Catholic Charities, where they are tested for COIVD-19 by a third party.  If they test positive, they are asked to quarantine and provided a room at a quarantine site — usually a nearby hotel.

CNN Host Says Conservatives Are 'Demonizing Immigrants As Diseased' COVID Spreaders.  Here Are Some Facts.  CNN host Brianna Keilar on Monday [8/9/2021] blamed conservatives for "demonizing immigrants as diseased spreaders" of the coronavirus, saying that there are "no facts" to back up the claim that illegal immigrants at the southern border spread the pathogen.  "There is a crisis on the border," Keilar acknowledged Monday on CNN's New Day. [...]Last week, the Texas border city of McAllen said that more than 7,000 migrants who tested positive for the coronavirus have been released by Customs and Border Protection into the city since February.  More than 1,500 migrants with the virus have been allowed into McAllen over the past week, the city said.  Single adults and some families have been sent back over the border under Title 42, which allows migrants who were recently in a country where a contagious disease was present to be expelled.  However, unaccompanied children and migrant families with young children are being processed by U.S. border authorities and then into U.S. communities.

America is suffering from Biden's COVID recklessness at the border.  There is much debate today as to whether the border crisis resulted in a COVID-19 super-spreader event.  However, there is no doubt that the Biden administration's refusal and inability to stop the flow of illegal immigration is having a significant impact on the spread of the infection.  The tragic reality is that this humanitarian disaster could have been avoided if the "anti-border/amnesty for all" activists had not interjected themselves into our border enforcement program.  The border crisis is the product of a politically motivated agenda to empower and expand the left's partisan base without regard for national security and public safety consequences.  Unfortunately, the American people must pay for this debacle with their lives and livelihoods.

White House Refuses to Endorse Vaccine Mandate for Migrants Released into U.S..  President Joe Biden continues promoting coronavirus vaccine mandates for American citizens, but the White House still struggles to explain why that standard is not applied to migrants crossing the Southern border.  White House press secretary Jen Psaki ignored a question Thursday [8/5/2021] asking if the administration wants to apply the same vaccine standards proposed for foreign visitors to migrants released into the United States.  Psaki said that "interagency working groups" are developing a plan for international travel but did not address migrants coming across the Southern border.

Biden's DHS Admits 'Significantly Increased Rates' of COVID-Positive Border Crossers Arriving in U.S..  The rate at which coronavirus-positive border crossers are arriving in the United States has "increased significantly," according to President Joe Biden's Department of Homeland Security (DHS).  David Shahoulian, DHS's assistant secretary for border and immigration policy, admitted in a court brief filed this week that the agency has seen "significantly increased rates" of coronavirus-positive border crossers arriving at the U.S.-Mexico border, spurring "extremely worrisome" conditions at border facilities.

Joe's welcome mat spurred a superspreader extravaganza.  President Joe Biden is the root cause of today's COVID-19 superspreader extravaganza on the southern frontier.  His come-and-get-it, no-borders policy offers a Laurel and Hardy welcome to COVID-infected illegal aliens.  Biden's red carpet for COVID carriers on the US-Mexico boundary — atop his mandatory vaccines for US military personnel and vaccination papers for lawful foreign visitors — epitomizes hypocrisy, reckless endangerment and quite likely negligent homicide.  Mayor Javier Villalobos (R- McAllen, Texas) issued a Declaration of Local Disaster on Monday.  According to a municipal-government statement published Wednesday:  "Since mid-February of 2021, there have been over 7,000 confirmed COVID-19-positive immigrants released into the city of McAllen by CBP [Customs and Border Protection], including over 1,500 new cases in the past seven days."  Also, 135 illegals in CBP's Rio Grande Valley sector tested positive in July's first half, up 900 percent versus the previous 14 months.

Texas mayor reveals 1,500 of 7,000 migrants released into his city tested positive for COVID.  A mayor on the Texas-Mexico border is slamming Joe Biden and his state's federal lawmakers after he was forced to declare a disaster over the surging number of migrants infected with COVID being released into his city.  In a video posted to Facebook Wednesday [8/4/2021], McAllen Mayor Javier Villalobos fumed at the White House after 1,500 migrants tested positive for COVID out of 7,000 left in his city by Border Patrol last week.  The city commission voted on Tuesday to set up emergency tents to house the overflow of migrants, but moved it to a county-owned facility further away from residents angry over its location.

More Illegal Immigrants, Border Agents Testing Positive for COVID-19: DHS Official.  The rate at which illegal immigrants are testing positive for COVID-19 has "increased significantly" in recent weeks, a Department of Homeland Security official said this week.  The number of Customs and Border Protection (CBP) officers who have tested positive has also risen, despite more and more of them getting vaccinated against the virus that causes COVID-19.  "The rates at which encountered noncitizens are testing positive for COVID-19 have increased significantly in recent weeks.  And although the rate of infection among CBP officers had been declining, this rate recently began increasing again, even though the percentage of officers and agents who have been fully vaccinated has grown significantly since January.  This has led to increasing numbers of CBP personnel being isolated and hospitalized," David Shahoulian, assistant secretary for border and immigration policy, said in a court filing.

McAllen, Texas, declares disaster after 7,000 COVID-infected illegals pour into city.  The chaos at the border is risen to "disaster" levels in McAllen, Texas, where COVID-infected migrants are pouring in and the city can't stop them.  So much for Kamala Harris's migration "root cause" solution, with her visits to showcase schools in Guatemala.  And so much for Joe Biden doing his job as president, as Florida's Gov. Ron DeSantis noted yesterday [8/4/2021]. [...] Catholic Charities of the Rio Grande Valley says it cannot keep up with the intake and has had to turn people away.  They've asked the Border Patrol to stop sending them migrants yet the buses are still coming.  Sister Norma Pimentel, who runs the place, says her Humanitarian Respite Center has already taken in 1,100 uninfected migrants, and are housing another 1,000 infected migrants in hotels around the Rio Grande Valley.

Texas border town struggles under surge of migrant families and COVID-19.  The busiest spot of the southern border for illegal crossings is struggling with an all-time high of migrants and a spike in COVID-19 cases.  Last week, 7,000 migrants were released in downtown McAllen, Texas.  More than 1,500 tested positive for COVID-19 over the past seven days, according to a city document issued Wednesday.  The city of 141,000 residents in the Rio Grande Valley is ground zero for the border crisis.  Agents in the valley encounter more illegal immigrants than any of the Border Patrol's other eight regions.  Many migrants come thousands of miles from Central America and elsewhere to cross the border just miles south of downtown McAllen, where they are picked up, processed, and dropped off downtown.

The Editor says...
McAllen used to be a nice town, back in the early 1970's, and the Rio Grande Valley was a long string of nice little towns.  I remember being there one very hot summer day when it began to rain.  The temperature and the dew point were so high that it started raining warm water.

[The] Border Patrol [is] not testing migrants for COVID before they're released across [the] US.  Migrants who illegally come across the U.S.-Mexico border and are apprehended by Border Patrol are not being tested for the coronavirus before being released from custody and allowed to travel across the United States, the Washington Examiner has learned.  "They aren't tested at encounter.  [Unaccompanied children] and family units are moved out of custody quickly.  If they are infected and do not have obvious symptoms, they are sent out," a senior Customs and Border Protection official told the Washington Examiner on Monday [8/2/2021].  The official is not a union member and spoke on the condition of anonymity.  Migrant families and children are "only tested once we turn them over or unless symptomatic," the official added.  Chris Cabrera, National Border Patrol Council spokesman, said in an email Monday that the "majority of people in Border Patrol custody are not tested."

Biden Is Asked By About Allowing Thousands Of Unvaccinated Illegals Into The Country — It Doesn't Go Well.  Biden and the Democrats own these travesties for the words, actions, and policies that have led to a nation on fire with murders and surging violent crime, has destroyed our energy independence, presided over historic inflation growth not seen in over 20 years that has dramatically increased the cost of living for hard-working Americans, saddled generations of our children with massive debt and orchestrated the current invasion of illegals from all over the world.  When it's all said and done there will be more illegal aliens in the country than the populations of 15 states. [...] We have the contrary Centers for Disease Control, but there is no "Disease Control" at the border, and since they thrive on issuing mandates, how about issuing a mandate to secure the border that is supported by over 70 percent of Americans?

More West Texas Border Patrol Agents Test Positive for COVID-19.  Three more Border Patrol Agents working at the Eagle Pass, Texas, processing center tested positive for COVID-19 over the weekend, according to a source working under the umbrella of U.S. Customs and Border Protection.  The agents were assigned to process migrants apprehended in the Del Rio Sector in a soft-sided structure that is currently holding double its rated capacity.  The total number of Border Patrol agents, according to the source, reached six since Thursday.  In addition, at least one Texas Army National Guard soldier working in Eagle Pass also tested positive for the virus.  The source, speaking on the condition of anonymity, says the facility is rated at 300 migrants due to the COVID-19 pandemic.  The facility is currently holding more than 1,000 migrants.

Biden Coverup Exposed:  Officials Reportedly Ordered to Lie About COVID-19 Outbreak at Border.  Migrant holding facilities that house tens of thousands of illegal aliens are festering petri dishes teeming with coronavirus-infected children and adults, thanks to the unsecured southern border, according to two whistleblowers on the frontlines.  In an explosive 10-page complaint filed Wednesday, the federal employees said the Department of Health and Human Services ordered them to downplay a rampant COVID-19 outbreak among children at a migrant center in Fort Bliss, Texas.  This is especially shocking because children are generally at low risk of contracting the virus.

Attorney General sues Abbott over ban on transporting COVID-infected migrants.  Governor Abbott signed an order Wednesday [7/28/2021] banning ground transportation of migrants who "pose a risk of carrying COVID-19 into Texas communities."  The purpose of such an order is to minimize the spread of COVID-19 in border communities due to the flood of migrants.  "DPS is to stop & reroute, or impound any vehicle being used to transport illegal migrants who have been detained by Border Patrol."  In order for the Border Patrol to ease the overcrowding of shelters along the border, they are releasing the illegal migrants into communities who are then bussed out to other places, either in Texas or other states.  COVID-19 infected illegal migrants are making their way into communities and local officials are concerned about the public health of their residents.  Without help from the federal government, Governor Abbott has little choice but to take matters into his own hands.  So he did.  Responding to pleas from local officials for help, like Hidalgo County Judge Richard Cortez, Abbott signed the ban on ground transportation.  The negative reaction from critics, including Attorney General Merrick Garland, came quickly.  Garland threatened to sue Abbott if he didn't rescind the order.

Surge raises suspicions migrants are propelling COVID-19 outbreaks.  The large number of sick and unvetted migrants entering the country has raised fears among Republican governors that the Biden administration's handling of the crisis at the U.S.-Mexico border is propelling COVID-19 outbreaks.  Texas Gov. Greg Abbott, a Republican and ally to former President Donald Trump, issued an executive order Wednesday to "reduce the risk of COVID-19 exposure in Texas by reducing the transportation of migrants throughout [the] state," following reports of a 900% increase in sick migrants crossing the border through the Rio Grande Valley sector.  "The dramatic rise in unlawful border crossings has also led to a dramatic rise in COVID-19 cases among unlawful migrants who have made their way into our state, and we must do more to protect Texans from this virus and reduce the burden on our communities," Abbott said on Wednesday.

Biden hypocrisy endangers American lives on southern border.  Vaccinated family members from Europe are still barred from entering the United States, but President Joe Biden is still welcoming tens of thousands of unvaccinated illegal immigrants into the country every month.  This incoherent, contradictory policy undermines both public health and the rule of law.  And it will get innocent people killed.  Earlier this week, White House press secretary Jen Psaki announced the U.S. will maintain its travel ban on certain COVID-infected countries, including Brazil, China, India, Iran, Ireland, the United Kingdom, and most European Union members.  "The more transmissible delta variant is spreading both here and around the world," Psaki explained.  "Driven by the delta variant, cases are rising here at home, particularly among those who are unvaccinated, and appear likely to continue in the weeks ahead."

Cruz: Latest Mask Guidance Is 'Pure Politics'; Mandates for Americans, But Not for Illegal Aliens?  Telling vaccinated people they should resume mask-wearing, as the CDC did this week, is both unnecessary and "absurd," Sen. Ted Cruz (R-Texas) told Fox News's Sean Hannity Wednesday night [7/28/2021].  Cruz also called out the hypocrisy of Democrats who put COVID-related mandates on Americans while allowing hundreds of thousands of foreigners from Third World countries, untested for disease, cross into the United States.  "Democrats have, from the beginning of this pandemic, treated it as a matter of politics," Cruz said:  [Video clip]

US Releasing Illegal Immigrants Who Test Positive for COVID-19: Texas Police.  Border officers are releasing illegal immigrants who test positive for COVID-19 to a nonprofit organization, Texas authorities said this week.  The immigrants were handed over to the Catholic Charities of The Rio Grande Valley, which arranged for their stay in a La Joya, Texas, hotel that it had rented out entirely, La Joya police officials said.  "We did not know this.  No one told the city of La Joya.  No one told the police department that these people were here.  And no one told us that these people were possibly ill," La Joya Sgt. Manuel Casas told reporters at a July 27 press conference.  The situation came to light on July 26, after a concerned citizen reported to a police officer that she saw members of a family who were coughing and sneezing without covering their mouths at a Whataburger location, and they weren't wearing masks.  Management at the restaurant where the incident was reported said they wanted the family to leave because they were disregarding other people's health.

Whistleblowers Allege Cover-Up of COVID Outbreak at Facility for Illegal Minors.  Volunteers who served at a detention facility for underaged illegal aliens blew the whistle on Wednesday about an alleged plot to cover up the true number of cases of coronavirus among the detainees after an outbreak, as reported by the New York Post.  The claims were made in a filing by the Government Accountability Project, a nonprofit watchdog group; the two whistleblowers were Arthur Pearlstein and Lauren Reinhold, described by the filing as "career federal civil servants" who had been volunteering at the detention facility in Fort Bliss, Texas from the months of April to June.  According to the filing, "COVID was widespread among children and eventually spread to many employees," infecting "hundreds" of children.  However, when volunteers were brief on the situation at a meeting by a senior official at the U.S. Public Health Service, they were told that "if that graph" depicting the number of infections "is going to The Washington Post every day, it's the only thing we'll be dealing with and politics will take over, perception will take over, and we're about reality, not perception."

Texas police learn COVID-positive illegal immigrants sent to local hotels, after Whataburger encounter.  Authorities in South Texas said Tuesday they've learned that illegal immigrants who have possibly tested positive for COVID-19 were being released from federal custody to a Catholic charity, which booked hotel rooms for them without notifying local officials.  The La Joya Police Department said a patrol officer was waved down Monday by someone concerned about a group that appeared to be sick at a Whataburger fast food restaurant.  The officer found a family inside who were coughing and sneezing and not adhering to health guidelines, including the wearing of masks, authorities said during a news conference.  A manager told the officer they wanted the people to leave the establishment because they were making everyone inside "uneasy."  When the officer approached the migrants, they said they had tested positive for the coronavirus and had been apprehended by Border Patrol agents several days prior before being released.

Whistleblowers say they were told to downplay Covid outbreak among migrant kids at shelter.  Two more whistleblowers have come forward to allege that children were mistreated by contractors and senior federal employee managers at a Department Health and Human Services migrant shelter in Fort Bliss, Texas, earlier this year, and also say HHS told them to downplay hundreds of Covid infections among children held at the facility.  "Covid was widespread among children and eventually spread to many employees.  Hundreds of children contracted Covid in the overcrowded conditions.  Adequate masks were not consistently provided to children, nor was their use consistently enforced," the whistleblowers, Arthur Pearlstein and Lauren Reinhold, said in a federal whistleblower complaint filed Wednesday [7/28/2021.]

Texas Gov. Abbott clamps down on migrant transports to stop COVID-19 spread in communities.  Texas Gov. Greg Abbott issued an executive order restricting the transport of migrants in the Lone Star State after news that COVID-positive illegal immigrants were being dumped in a small border community.  The Republican governor's mandate forbids any person other than a "federal, state, or local law-enforcement official" from moving migrants.  The order also directs the Texas Department of Public Safety to "stop any" car or truck in violation of the order and "reroute such a vehicle back to its point of origin or a port of entry." DPS is further authorized to impound cars that refuse to be redirected.  "The dramatic rise in unlawful border crossings has also led to a dramatic rise in COVID-19 cases among unlawful migrants who have made their way into our state, and we must do more to protect Texans from this virus and reduce the burden on our communities," Abbott said in a statement.  "This Executive Order will reduce the risk of COVID-19 exposure in our communities."

COVID-Positive Illegal Aliens in Texas Staying in Charity-Provided Hotel, Infecting People in Restaurants.  Authorities in La Joya, Texas discovered Tuesday that a significant number of illegal aliens are staying in hotel rooms provided to them by charities, and were actively infecting other people with the coronavirus in fast food restaurants and other locations, as reported by Fox News.  Sergeant Manuel Casas of the La Joya Police Department (LJPD) said in a statement that authorities were first made aware of the situation on Monday, when an officer was flagged down by a concerned citizen at a Whataburger in town.  The individual reported that there was a large illegal family inside the restaurant, visibly displaying signs of sickness such as coughing and sneezing without making any efforts to cover themselves, in violation of basic health guidelines.  The manager confirmed to the officer that they wanted the illegals to leave the restaurant, since everyone else inside felt "uneasy" at their presence.

Did the Texas Fleebagger Democrats Bring COVID to Washington From Biden's Unprotected Border?  A little over a week ago my colleague Charlie Martin noted that the Democrat legislators who abandoned their jobs in Texas and flew on a posh private jet to Washington may have created a COVID super-spreader event. [...] Well, here's another piece to add to the Democrats' utterly irresponsible behavior:  They went to the nation's capital from Texas, a border state that Biden has left totally undefended from the historic surge in illegal immigration across that border.  We reported on Wednesday [7/28/2021] about the disturbing discovery of a COVID-positive family of illegals who were found at a Whataburger in La Joya, Texas.  La Joya is a small town of just over 4,000.  But in that town, at least one hotel is fully occupied with COVID-positive illegal migrants.  According to Fox News, they are being housed and presumably fed on the federal dollar under contract with Catholic Charities.  Catholic Charities is assisting people in breaking U.S. immigration law and now endangering an entire community with its management of that motel (and others?).

The Editor says...
The Catholics are helping to import illegal aliens for the same reason the Democrats are.  The newcomers are likely to become Democrat voters, and are probably already Catholic.  This means more money and more power for both groups, but only if the illegal aliens are imported in wholesale quantities.

COVID-infected illegals released without notice into Texas communities.  Is the Joe Biden administration serious about COVID? Doesn't look like it.  Fox News, citing a local incident in La Joya, Texas, found that the Border Patrol is releasing COVID-infected illegals into Texas communities to spread the disease.  That's a curious thing given that Biden drew headlines for supposedly keeping Title 42 in place, which would require the Border Patrol to instantly expel migrants based on COVID concerns.  Based on this kind of news, the order is de facto rescinded whether Biden says so or not.  In this Texas case, illegal migrants had been let in and then handed over to the NGO Catholic Charities in La Joya, Texas, which housed them unguarded in local hotels.  After that, they walked around unencumbered and in one incident, wore no masks and coughed all over locals in a fast-food establishment.

Psaki Talks Restrictions on Americans and Travel While Refusing to Be Transparent About WH Infections.  Jen Psaki admitted today [7/26/2021] that they are in "active discussion" with states about the possibility of reinstating mask mandates because of the rise of the Delta variant.  [Video clip]  On top of that, she said that because of the variant, they would be keeping restrictions in place on people who want to travel into the United States, claiming there was a surge among the "unvaccinated."  [Video clip] [...] The White House is taking that position — talking about once again restricting Americans and preventing legal travel into the United States — while not restricting illegal entry at the southern border, and allowing hundreds of thousands of people to pour in and thank Biden for allowing them in.

Girl, 10, dies from the plague as cases confirmed in six Colorado counties.  Colorado health authorities are investigating a possible outbreak of the plague after a 10-year-old died from the ancient disease earlier this month for the first time since 2015.  The plague, a disease caused by bacteria most often spread by fleas, has been confirmed in six different counties, according to lab results from the Colorado Department of Public Health and Environment.  The deceased child lived in La Plata County in southwestern Colorado.

Illegal alien COV cases surge 900%, lots of fighting age men.  The number of illegal alien COV cases surged 900% along with the rise in numbers coming in illegally.  The number of detainees who tested positive for COVID-19 in the Rio Grande Valley (RGV) Sector alone has increased by 900% on the border, according to information obtained by Fox News.  There were 135 detainees who tested positive in the first two weeks of July alone, marking a 900% increase in confirmed positive cases compared to the previous 14 months.  The RGV sector is one of the main destinations for migrants crossing the border, seeing more than 2000 apprehensions each day and accounting for 60% of confirmed positive detainees in the U.S. Border Patrol custody.

Homeland Security Announces Border and Travel Restrictions for American Citizens Due to COVID, But Border Will Remain Wide Open for Illegal Aliens.  They are rubbing it in our faces now.  As CTH warned yesterday [7/20/2021], this is not hypocrisy — this is the United States Government, Department of Homeland Security, initiating an enhanced and intentional effort to antagonize lawful American people into a place of extreme anger.  This is not hypocrisy.  The Dept of Homeland Security (DHS) is now announcing enhanced travel restrictions for law-abiding Americans, blocking non-essential travel into Mexico and Canada.  Simultaneous to this the same, ironically named, Homeland Security is facilitating a mass influx of illegal entry into the United States.  Stay aware and evaluate this for what it is.  This is an intentional effort to provoke American citizens.  This is Alinsky methods deployed at a federal and institutional level.

CDC monitoring 200 people in 27 states for monkeypox.  The CDC is monitoring more than 200 people in 27 states for possible exposure to monkeypox, after they were in contact with a Texan who contracted the rare disease in Nigeria earlier this month.  No additional cases of the smallpox-related disease have been detected in the US, according to Stat. [...] The patient traveled from Lagos to Dallas with a layover in Atlanta on July 8 and 9, nearly a week before being diagnosed with the rare bug, which can be transmitted through respiratory droplets and body fluids, the CDC said.  The people being monitored include fliers who sat within six feet of the patient or used the mid-cabin bathroom on the overseas flight, according to the article.

Dem Officials in Border City Say Biden Immigration Policy Poses COVID Threat.  The Democrat-run city of Laredo, Texas, claims President Joe Biden's immigration policies blatantly disregard safety protocols implemented to stop the spread of COVID-19 and could risk killing Americans.  The city attorney's office alleged in a July 16 lawsuit that the Department of Homeland Security (DHS) has been releasing migrants into Laredo daily, a policy that undermines public health.  Federal officials told Laredo that Customs and Border Protection plans on doubling the number of migrants brought to the city to manage overflow at other DHS facilities, according to the complaint.  "Not every apprehended person is tested for COVID-19 as part of [DHS's] processing procedure before they are legally released from immigration custody and into the general public," the lawsuit says.  "Therefore, many, if not most, go untested and risk spreading the disease to ... the general public after their release."

Florida Governor Ron DeSantis Points Out During Border Visit Joe Biden COVID Rules Apply to Lawful Americans Not Illegal Aliens.  Holding a press conference today [7/20/2021] in Florida, Governor Ron DeSantis notes a point of stunning contrast from his border visit in Texas.  As the Florida governor notes, lawful Americans are subject to COVID rules and regulations on travel; however, the Biden administration disregards all COVID regulations for illegal aliens.  [Video clip]

CDC Scrambles After Rare Case Of Monkeypox Turns Up In Texas.  CDC health officials are now working vigorously to trace contacts of anyone directly exposed to a Dallas resident who recently returned to the US on a trip to Nigeria.  The man is now in isolation at a Dallas hospital after testing positive for an extremely rare disease known as Monkeypox -- said to be the first ever case of its kind in Texas.  It's also the first case seen inside the United States in two decades, with the last significant outbreak in 2003 including 47 reported human cases.  The infected person flew into Atlanta international airport on July 8, and then on to Dallas Love Field the next day.

The Biden Regime Has Made Us All Enemies of the State.  While the CDC and the White House use the pretext of the China Virus pandemic to arbitrarily close businesses, churches, and civic events of every kind (except those perpetrated by regime-enforcing Antifa and BLM Marxists, of course), other federal agencies have taken advantage of the nation's unenforced borders to send unvaccinated illegal aliens into unsuspecting communities.  Either the severity of the virus is not nearly as lethal as the Washington woke pretend it to be, or else the federal government cares so little about the health and survival of its citizens that it is willing to put lives at risk when doing so can help turn "red" districts "blue."  That might not be quite as shocking as the sight of regime paramilitaries summarily executing dissidents, but it's certainly a step in the same direction.

Signs that the Age of Biden is Upon Us.  [#11] Biden's Open Border:  Biden is changing two Trump policies which not only signal the border is open for a flood of immigrants who cannot be held outside the country while their claims are processed but assure that they will be released to go around the country.  Worse, as the administration warns of a COVID-19 Delta variant (which so impressed Los Angeles and Las Vegas pols that they demand masking again), the rejection of the Trump policies on admitting immigrants with COVID-19 now means that migrants who carry the disease are free to enter the country.

If New COVID-19 Variants Need to Be Taken Very Seriously, Why Isn't Biden Closing the Border?  Last week, it was all about the Delta variant of COVID-19.  Health experts tell us this variant is more transmissible than other variants, but vaccines still appear to prevent severe disease and death effectively.  It also does not appear to be causing severe illness in children any more than the other variants have, which is excellent news.  Researchers earlier in the pandemic felt exposure to COVID-19 in childhood could help build long-term immune responses, making the virus far less virulent over time.  Currently, the Delta variant is raging in the UK.  Yet Prime Minister Boris Johnson has announced that all COVID-19 restrictions will be lifted in the country on July 19, including masks, social distancing, and smartphone apps.  The government will make the final decision on July 12, but Johnson said the country needs to move to a philosophy of personal responsibility and learn to live with the virus.  It seems even he is not held captive by rising case numbers anymore in the absence of significant severe illness.

California taxpayers to pay $1.3 billion to enroll more illegal immigrants in Medicaid.  California taxpayers will soon pay more in taxes to enroll more illegal immigrants in Medicaid, a plan that was part of a recently approved state budget.  Younger illegal immigrants are already enrolled in Medicaid, SNAP and other federally funded programs.  The plan proposed by California Democrats guarantees that low-income illegal immigrants older than age 50 will receive health insurance.  Coverage would take effect in 2022 and cost taxpayers $1.3 billion per year.  It follows a $213 billion taxpayer-funded plan proposed in 2019 to allow low-income illegal immigrants between the ages of 19 and 25 to enroll in Medicaid.  Democrats then estimated that adding 90,000 people to Medicaid would cost taxpayers $98 million per year.

Biden to Shift Covid Funds to Cover Costs for Kids at Border.  The U.S. Department of Health and Human Services plans to reallocate $860 million of funds appropriated to the National Institutes of Health to cover an increase in pandemic-related costs associated with unaccompanied children at the border.  Health Secretary Xavier Becerra notified members of Congress on Tuesday [7/6/2021] that the department would reallocate the funds to cover increased costs in ensuring the safety of children arriving at the Southwest border, as well as staff attending to them at shelters, according to a letter seen by Bloomberg News.  A Biden administration official said that the need for pandemic-related precautions, such as testing and quarantining, has added at least $1.7 billion in costs to the program.

Lawsuit:  Biden [is] Refusing to Disclose Coronavirus Information on Illegal Aliens Released into U.S..  A lawsuit filed last week alleges that President Joe Biden's administration is refusing to disclose information related to the Chinese coronavirus transmission, testing, and treatment of illegal aliens who are then released into the United States interior.  The government watchdog organization Judicial Watch filed a lawsuit against Biden's Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) after they failed to respond to a Freedom of Information Act (FOIA) request which sought coronavirus data records on illegal aliens the administration has continued releasing into the U.S. interior.

Broken bodies are another fallout from Biden's open border policy.  On Friday [6/25/2021], Kamala Harris went to a border town in Texas as far removed from Biden's open border as she possibly could.  El Paso is quite far north and, since it's insulated from the hundreds of thousands of people pouring into Texas, the Democrats there still support the administration.  However, in one hospital in El Paso, things aren't so rosy.  Even in El Paso, there are enough illegal aliens falling over the wall that dozens of them arrive in the hospital with badly broken bodies (and we, of course, pay for their care and repair).

Trauma nurse at Texas border town visited by Kamala Harris reveals her hospital is full of migrants suffering broken legs, smashed spines and shattered hips from falling over the border wall.  An exasperated trauma nurse in the border city being visited by Kamala Harris has revealed her hospital unit is now dangerously packed with migrants injured after leaping from the top of the US-Mexico wall.  Miriam Torres — who works at El Paso's University Medical Center — told DailyMail.com that half her 30 beds are regularly taken by the illegals, who are suffering broken legs, smashed spines and shattered hips.  And she said the medical facility is so desperate for space that it is now issuing contracts to care homes to take in the injured migrants during the latter part of their treatment because it is so overwhelmed.

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If you encounter a 30-foot fence, which was obviously put in place to block your path, and you try climb over it, are we supposed to feel sorry about your broken bones?

Biden's Reversal of Border COVID Rules Is an Act of Sabotage.  Since the Biden Administration assumed power in January, many Americans could be forgiven for feeling like they're being held hostage, tied up in the trunk of a car, and driven to a place they do not want to go.  Nowhere is this more evident than on the immigration problem, where Biden has reversed numerous policies that kept American safe, and it seems he has done so for no other reason than because Donald Trump is the one who put them in place. [...] While COVID-19 may be on the decline in the United States, thanks in large part to the Trump Administration's work on Operation Warp Speed, the same cannot be said for many of the poverty-stricken, underdeveloped countries from which those who most often show up at our doorstep originate.  Just as our nation is turning the corner on a deadly global pandemic, it makes absolutely no sense at this moment to ease up on health restrictions on foreign nationals seeking entry.  Only someone with Machiavellian political motives would propose such lunacy.

Everything was better with President Trump in the White House.  Incredibly, only four months have passed since Joseph Robinette Biden, Jr. was installed as president and in that brief time, he has done more damage than anyone could have thought possible. [...] He stopped the construction of the southern border wall, putting even more Americans out of work and opening the border to over half a million migrants so far.  These border crossers, invited by Biden, are not being tested for COVID; they are not asked for their vaccine passports with which the left hopes to saddle all Americans.  Unvaccinated Americans, unless the GOP puts a stop to their plan, will be shunned, banned from public places, and/or segregated from the vaccinated.  One might wonder if the vaccine is ineffective if they are still to be separated from the unvaccinated.  If Trump were still in the White House, there would be no talk of mandatory vaccines, vaccine passports, or dangerously jabbing kids who are at no risk of serious covid illness.  The tyrannous blue state governors are relishing their power over the people and destroying their states in the process.

Texas hospital claims feds owe $200K for treatment of immigrant kids.  A Texas hospital claimed Thursday that the Biden administration owed it more than $200,000 as reimbursement for treating children who crossed the US-Mexico border illegally.  Midland Memorial Hospital spokesperson Tasa Richardson told Fox News that the facility has submitted claims worth $206,287 but "no claims have been processed."  Richardson added that the hospital has treated 40 illegal immigrant minors since March, when the Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) opened an emergency intake facility in the city of Midland.  Rep. August Pfluger (R-Texas), whose district includes Midland, said in a statement that the children were treated for "barrage of issues including COVID, pregnancy, suicide attempts, and more."

Go north and get your 'vacuna'.  Two months ago, a good friend and his wife flew to Dallas from Mexico City.  We were happy to see them but surprised as well because of COVID.  So I asked him:  "What brought you to Dallas?"  He winked and confirmed what I suspected: "la vacuna," or the vaccine.  He also showed me his next ticket, or the next trip to Dallas for "vacuna numero dos."  I didn't press my friend for details, but this article confirmed what we now called "vaccine tourism."

Illegal immigrants' COVID-19 rate [is] twice that of [the] U.S. population.  The rate of coronavirus cases has plummeted in the U.S., but on the border, illegal immigrants are pouring across with elevated rates of infections, and some of them are still being released directly into communities, a congressman revealed Wednesday [5/26/2021].  Rep. Henry Cuellar, Texas Democrat, said officials in Laredo are seeing a 6% COVID-positive rate among the migrants being shipped to them from the border deeper in Texas.  That's double the rate of the broader U.S. population.  And Mr. Cuellar said the number of migrants has grown so large that Laredo's nonprofits aren't able to handle all the people the Border Patrol is shipping for testing and quarantine.  Some migrants are being released directly to bus stations, where they mingle with the population as they head deeper into the country.

Biden Revokes Trump Border Policy, Welcomes Migrants Without Means for Health Care.  President Joe Biden will reverse former President Donald Trump's policy to require immigrants to have the means to pay for health care so they would not rely on government programs, he said during a meeting with so-called Dreamers on Friday [5/14/2021]. [...] U.S. Customs and Border Protection encountered 178,622 migrants trying to enter the U.S. in April, a 3 percent increase from approximately 172,000 in March, the highest number of encounters in two decades.

Biden tolerates a COVID border crisis.  Dr. Rochelle Walensky, director of the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, doesn't want people to hope that a return to normal life can come anytime soon.  That's despite rising rates of vaccination, evidence of vaccine efficacy, and declining rates of infection.  Walensky said she has a "recurring feeling" of "impending doom" due to COVID-19 variants around the globe that could come to the United States and reignite the pandemic.  The rest of the Biden administration doesn't seem to take the threat of new COVID-19 variants seriously.  You would think it would put policies in place to limit national exposure while we assess the risks, as many other countries are doing.  Unfortunately, the Biden administration's COVID-19 border and travel policies do the opposite, undermining safety precautions and increasing the risks to all people.

Lindsey Graham tells Fauci to go to border and see 'biggest super spreader event in the nation'.  Sen. Lindsey Graham, R-S.C., hit Dr. Anthony Fauci in a series of tweets Friday suggesting the top infectious disease doctor is turning a blind eye to the risk of coronavirus spread among migrants at the border.  "Paging Dr. Fauci:  You need to go to the southern border and witness in person the biggest super spreader event in the nation — President [Biden's] immigration policies," Graham tweeted.  Graham said thousands of migrants from Central America with a "10% COVID-positive rate" are spreading the virus at overcrowded border facilities.  The migrants are staying "on top of each other" and then "dumped off in Texas" and other parts of the country to further the spread of coronavirus, Graham said in a multi-thread tweet.

Fauci Gets Grilled on COVID at the Border, Says He's Too Busy, "I Have More Important Things to Do".  Dr. Anthony Fauci, the father of the COVID lockdowns, joined Neil Cavuto on FOX News on Friday afternoon.  Cavuto pressed Fauci on Senator Lindsey Graham's concerns about COVID at the border.  A report by Noticias Telemundo Investiga this week reported the Biden administration is releasing COVID positive migrants in Brownsville, Texas without testing or quarantine.  The migrants are being tested by local authorities where they gather at a bus stop to travel to other states, however they have no authority to detain them thereby leaving the infected migrants free to spread the virus throughout the U.S.  Dr. Fauci told Cavuto that border is a "difficult situation."  He then added that he's too "busy" to get involved with the border because "I have more important things to do" than acquiesce to their concerns.

Biden in favor of providing COVID-19 vaccines to illegal immigrants.  President Biden is in favor of providing COVID-19 vaccines to immigrants regardless of their legal status, White House press secretary Jen Psaki said Thursday [4/1/2021].  Asked during her daily press briefing about a push in Florida to waive a residency requirement for inoculation, Psaki said the president supports getting vaccines into as many arms as possible.  "The more people who are vaccinated, whether they're undocumented or not, the safer we are as a country, and that's certainly the president's point of view," said Psaki.  Access to the vaccine for illegal immigrants has been a hot-button issue since the shots became available.

Attorney Orly Taitz is seeking individuals who were infected with Covid or other diseases from illegal aliens transported by the Biden's DHS all over the country.  Currently, Biden/Harris administration opened the border and allowed thousands of illegal aliens to pour in.  These illegal aliens are transported by the administration all over the country, even though we are in the midst of the pandemic and many of these illegals are infected with Covid 19.  Similar situation existed during the Obama administration.  At a time Attorney and Doctor of Dental surgery, Orly Taitz, filed a legal action in Texas seeking to stop this practice.  Presiding judge Andrew Hanen was extremely concerned with this practice by the government.  "The Government claims that it should prevail for two reasons.  First, it claims that it has the unfettered right to put illegal immigrants, even those with extremely dangerous infectious diseases, anywhere, at any time, and that no one has standing to question its actions.  Secondly, it claims that Dr. Taitz has not shown that its actions caused her any harm and/or she has not shown that its actions, if halted, would result in redress of Dr. Taitz's injuries.

San Diego Teachers Instruct Migrant Kids With Higher COVID Rates Than Own Students Stuck Learning Virtually.  Unaccompanied child migrants housed at the San Diego Convention Center have an alarmingly high COVID-19 infections rate — but local teachers will be providing them in-person instruction before their own students.  Hundreds of migrant girls have been housed at the facility as the Biden administration is trying to figure out how to handle a crisis of unaccompanied children flocking to the southern border.  Of more than 700 unaccompanied girls transferred to the center, at least 82 have tested positive for the virus as of Tuesday afternoon, the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services told Fox News Tuesday evening [3/30/2021].

Wealthy Mexicans [are] Traveling to [the] U.S. to Get [the] Coronavirus Vaccine.  Americans are being told to wait until it is their turn to get a coronavirus vaccine while wealthy Mexicans are heading north to the United States to get vaccinated.  In Mexico, only five percent of citizens have been vaccinated and the wait time is lengthy.  Taxpayer-funded National Public Radio (NPR) reported on what the leftwing media outlet called "the quest for shots."

Index of Covid pandemic response among 98 countries ranks Mexico second to last.  Mexico has ranked second to last among 98 countries in a "Covid Performance Index" developed by an Australian think tank to measure the effectiveness of pandemic responses around the world.  Developed by the Lowy Institute, the index tracked six measurements in the 98 countries for which data was available:  confirmed cases, confirmed deaths, confirmed cases per million people, confirmed deaths per million people, confirmed cases as a proportion of tests and tests per thousand people.  The period examined spans the 36 weeks after each country's 100th confirmed case of Covid-19 using data available to January 9, 2021.  Mexico recorded its 100th case on March 18 last year.

319 migrant kids in U.S. border facilities have COVID-19: Report.  Hundreds of migrant children detained in U.S. government facilities at the southern border are in medical isolation after testing positive for COVID-19, Axios reported Wednesday [3/24/2021].  Nearly 2,900 unaccompanied minors tested positive for the virus upon entering the U.S. since March of last year and 319 remain in medical isolation, a Department of Health and Human Services official told the outlet.  The population of migrant children in isolation represent less than 3% of the unaccompanied children currently living in government shelters, which is more than 11,500, Axios reported.

Democrat Escobar:  Saying Migrants Bringing COVID into U.S Is 'Racist'.  Democratic Rep. Veronica Escobar blasted Texas Gov. Greg Abbott for saying Joe Biden's immigration policy is bringing the coronavirus into the U.S. [...] Neon Nettle reported earlier this month that overcrowding at Border Patrol facilities showed figures of 500% occupancy over the COVID-19 adjusted capacity.  According to sources, via Breitbart, the detention capacity recommendations are used to provide front-line agents and migrants with a safe environment during the pandemic.  Until Biden took office, illegal migrants were swiftly returned to Mexico under a CDC emergency order.  Abbott slammed Biden for releasing COVID-positive illegal immigrants into Texas with his open border policies.

COVID Infection Rate at Migrant Minors Shelter Nearly Doubles Texas Average.  Federal officials announced it is no longer moving unaccompanied migrant children to the oilfield mancamp in Midland, Texas, after nearly 11 percent tested positive for COVID-19.  The statewide average in Texas is less than 6.5 percent.  U.S. Health and Human Services (HHS) spokesman Mark Weber told the Associated Press they put their plans to move more unaccompanied migrant teenagers to the Midland facility on pause.  The pause followed the finding that 53 of the 485 migrant teens tested positive for COVID-19 after being secretly moved by buses to Midland under the cover of darkness.

Biden Administration Flying Migrants to Northern Border for Processing.  No one should worry.  The Biden administration says there's absolutely, positively, cross-my-heart-and-hope-to-die no crisis in any way, shape, or form at the border.  Claims to the contrary are just right-wing propaganda and misinformation.  So why will ICE be flying hundreds of migrants a day to border facilities hundreds of miles away near the Canadian border?  Perhaps Biden wants us to pretend the border surge is mostly Canadians fleeing the oppressive Ottawa regime.  Or perhaps it's a surge in Eskimo and Aleut peoples fleeing climate change.  I'm sure the president would dearly love either scenario to be true, but alas, they are not.  And his refusal to acknowledge the crisis has become almost comical.

The Illegal Immigration Crisis:  It's All About New Covid Lockdowns.  The bottom line is this:  Covid is a non-threat to 99.7% of the public, and the citizenry is getting wise to this fact.  However, there are certain people that NEED the pandemic lockdowns to continue regardless of what the public wants.  The Biden Administration and its globalist handlers have BIG plans for the next few years, and all of it relies on pandemic fears and totalitarian restrictions.  The "Great Reset", as Klaus Schwab and the World Economic Forum calls it, is never going to happen unless global populations are locked down and placed under control.

Biden wants AMLO to clean up Biden's mess.
Report: Biden [is] quietly telling Mexico to curb [the] surge of migrants.  The Biden administration has been quietly urging Mexico to increase its efforts to stem the flow of Latin American migrants, according to a New York Times report Thursday [3/18/2021].  This report came the same day that the administration announced plans to share millions of AstraZeneca COVID-19 vaccine doses with Mexico and Canada.  At Thursday's press briefing, White House press secretary Jen Psaki said the United States was planning to send 2.5 million doses of the vaccine to Mexico and 1.5 million to Canada, adding that it was "not finalized yet, but that is our aim."

Why is Biden releasing thousands of Covid-positive migrants into the country?  The answer to that question may be in his absurd speech on Thursday when he said "we may have to reinstate the lockdown restrictions" if... If what?  What if the migrants the Biden Administration is allowing to come across the southern border without being tested, even if showing symptoms, then given bus tickets to any American city they hope to reach, is a grand plan to spread this flu throughout the country again in order to reinstate all the unconstitutional restrictions to which millions of Americans willingly submitted?  Chances are that the powers that be never dreamed so many people would give up their freedom to work, shop, eat, go to movies, vacation, have their kids in school, etc. without a fuss... but they did.  The carefully calculated, thoroughly propagandistic fearmongering the media has done over the past year in service of the left was embarrassingly effective.  Too many Americans have lost the ability to question authority and have accepted the covid "mandates" as if we are all subjects of a benevolent oligarchy.  Nothing could be further from the truth.

Biden's DHS Has No Plans to Test the Thousands of Migrants Streaming Across Southern Border.  In August Joe Biden said he'd shut down the country if he had to in order to stop the coronavirus.  That was all a lie.  Joe Biden's first move as US President was to open the US southern border.  In February over 20,000 illegals and fake refugees were flooding across the US border each week.  And now there are reports that DHS has no plans to test all of the fake refugees before they are set free into the US interior.

Biden would bar Granny from traveling but invites COVID-infected illegals to cross freely.  President Biden's health honcho, Rochelle Walensky, announced Monday that vaccinated Americans can visit with others who are vaccinated in small groups at home.  But when Walensky was asked about visiting grandchildren, she said no, unless the kids are local.  Even vaccinated people must avoid traveling, the director of the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention insisted:  "Every time there's a surge in travel, we have a surge in cases in this country."  The Biden administration is making one exception, however.  It's OK to wade across the Rio Grande River and enter the US illegally.  Even if you have COVID-19, you can get on a bus in a Texas border town and travel to any part of our nation.  Never mind how far and wide COVID-infected migrants spread the virus as they fan out.  On the travel question, Biden's double standard is mind-boggling.  It's a firm "No" for Granny, but a warm "Yes" for illegal immigrants.

Some Border Patrol Migrant Detention Centers Show Up to 500% COVID-Capacity.  Sources report that overcrowding at Border Patrol facilities increases daily.  At one Border Patrol Sector in Arizona, Tuesday's detention figures show 500% occupancy over the COVID-19 adjusted capacity.  According to sources, the detention capacity recommendations are made to provide the safest environment for front-line agents and migrants during the pandemic.  Until recently, most migrants entering the United States illegally were swiftly returned to Mexico under a CDC emergency order.  Many migrants, including family units and unaccompanied children (UACs), were returned within two hours of crossing.  The Biden Administration is watering down the application of the CDC order, resulting in the reported overcrowding.

Number of COVID-positive migrants released in Texas surges, officials say.  The number of migrants who have tested positive for the novel coronavirus after being released by the Border Patrol into Texas has nearly doubled, officials say.  Felipe Romero, a spokesperson for Brownsville, tells Fox News that 185 migrants dropped off and rapid-tested at the city's main bus station have contracted the coronavirus — up from the 108 he disclosed last Wednesday.  As of Saturday [3/6/2021], a total of 1,553 individuals since Jan. 25 have been tested for COVID-19 after coming across the U.S.-Mexico border there, Romero added.

How to Ruin America.  I recently had to cancel a long-planned trip to South America, either because the countries I wanted to enter are closed or required up to a two-week quarantine in a hotel.  It doesn't matter that I have been vaccinated and have repeatedly tested negative for COVID-19.  Several countries in Europe I would like to visit are also closed.  Ireland imposes a 2,000 Euro fine for anyone leaving the country.  All of this while the United States is experiencing a flood of people crossing the southern border, including unaccompanied minors.  They are overwhelming Border Patrol agents who are releasing many of them into the country with little chance they will show up for court dates, or temporarily detaining them in "rapid-processing hubs," with a goal, writes the Washington Post, "of releasing them into the United States within 72 hours."  Politicians have flipped positions on illegal immigration but are never held accountable.

CDC lets child migrant shelters fill to 100% despite COVID concern.  The Centers for Disease Control is allowing shelters handling child migrants who cross the U.S.-Mexico border to expand to full capacity, abandoning a requirement that they stay near 50% to inhibit the spread of the coronavirus, Axios has learned.  The fact that the country's premier health advisory agency is permitting a change in COVID-19 protocols indicates the scale of the immigration crisis.  A draft memo obtained by Axios conceded "facilities should plan for and expect to have COVID-19 cases."

DHS won't test thousands of migrants before releasing into US and is relying on border communities.  U.S. border officials have no plans for personnel on the southern border to administer coronavirus tests on migrants, which could risk the spread of the virus as thousands of families and children are released from federal custody into border communities and travel across the United States.  The Biden administration is struggling to respond to the escalating situation on the U.S.-Mexico border, where about 20,000 people were encountered illegally entering the country each week in February.  Border officials are able to send adults immediately back to Mexico, but they cannot return children and some families.  Several border lawmakers are concerned that the government will not test migrants in federal custody before letting people out of custody in communities across the border, where migrants will board buses and flights and then embark to their final destinations around the country.  Border Patrol agents look over migrants for symptoms of COVID-19, but the Border Patrol itself cannot administer rapid coronavirus tests and has not tested anyone.

AZ Sheriff: 'Would Love to Hear Dr. Fauci' on COVID Risk from Border.  On Friday's [3/5/2021] broadcast of the Fox News Channel's "Fox & Friends," Cochise County, AZ Sheriff Mark Dannels (R) stated that the Biden administration's immigration policy "goes against the grain of the CDC.  I would love to hear Dr. Fauci."  And that people entering the U.S. are "being released without being tested into communities."  [Video clip]

Busloads of asylum seekers arriving in Tucson amid pandemic.  Busloads of asylum seekers have started to arrive in Tucson, Arizona, for the first time since President Joe Biden began reversing border policies implemented by former President Donald Trump, city officials said.  Less then 200 people arrived this week, most from Guatemala, Honduras and El Salvador, after being released by Border Patrol in Yuma, The Arizona Daily Star reported Friday [3/5/2021].

After Border Patrol release, asylum-seekers test positive for Covid in Brownsville, Texas.  Miriam Izaguirre, a 35-year-old asylum-seeker from Honduras, crossed the Rio Grande at dawn Monday with her young son and turned herself in to the authorities.  A few hours later she was released, and the first thing she did was take a rapid test for Covid-19 at the Brownsville bus station.  They told her her test came out positive.  "Right now we were tested for Covid and they separated about eight of us because we were positive," she told Noticias Telemundo Investiga.  "We are waiting right now."  She was waiting to catch a bus to Houston.  Other migrant families who also said they had tested positive were waiting to go to other destinations:  North Carolina, Maryland and New Jersey.

Abbott Slaps Back At Biden:  How About Not Releasing COVID-Positive Illegal Immigrants.  Which policy is more Neanderthal in pandemic control — allowing Texans to make up their own minds about masking up, or releasing COVID-positive illegal immigrants into the state?  There might arguably be a bit of glass-house stone-throwing in both directions here, but Greg Abbott didn't start the Neanderthal showdown, either.

108 Illegal Immigrants Released by Border Patrol in Texas Tested Positive for COVID-19: Officials.  More than 100 illegal immigrants released into Texas by the U.S. Customs and Border Protection have tested positive for the CCP virus, or the virus that causes COVID-19, since late January, officials said.  Felipe Romero, a spokesperson for Brownsville, Texas, told Fox News that 108 migrants tested positive for the CCP virus since Jan. 25 — when rapid testing for the virus began.  That represents about 6.3 percent of the total undocumented migrants who were rapid-tested in Brownsville's bus station, the official said.  The Epoch Times has reached out to the Department of Homeland Security (DHS), the agency that oversees the Border Patrol, for comment.  Romero told Fox that the city doesn't have the authority to halt migrants who test positive for the virus from traveling anywhere else in the United States, although officials advised them to quarantine and follow federal health guidelines.

Report: Border Crossers Released into U.S. by Biden Officials Test Positive for Coronavirus.  Border crossers released into the interior of the United States by Department of Homeland Security (DHS) officials have tested positive for the Chinese coronavirus just as President Joe Biden has denied that there is "a crisis" at the U.S.-Mexico border.  After taking office, Biden reinstated the Catch and Release program where border crossers are freed into the U.S. interior while they await asylum and immigration hearings that many do not ultimately attend, instead opting to live illegally in the country.

'Pandemic of people': Border catch-and-release risks spread of COVID-19.  Hundreds of illegal immigrants were nabbed at the border and then almost immediately released into Texas' Val Verde County last week — in some cases dropped off along a roadside — with no coronavirus testing or quarantine restrictions, and only a piece of paper with their court date in hand.  In Yuma, Arizona, migrants caught at the border were turned loose at a Jack-in-the-Box restaurant.  In Cochise County, on the other side of the state, 100 migrants were dropped off in a Walmart parking lot.  Even as the Biden administration talks tough on mask mandates and coronavirus precautions, the Homeland Security Department is releasing thousands of people into the country across the southwestern border.  Many have traveled thousands of miles over weeks, crowded into vehicles and stash houses, with no thought for masks or social distancing.

Joe Biden's HHS Nominee Plans To Make You Pay The Health Bills For Open Borders.  At his confirmation hearings this week before the Senate Health, Education, Labor, and Pensions and Senate Finance Committees, Secretary of Health and Human Services-designee Xavier Becerra will talk about many subjects.  Press reports prior to the hearings indicate he will highlight his claimed efforts as a member of Congress "to strengthen and modernize Medicare and how we finance it" — ironic claims from someone who voted for an Obamacare law that raided Medicare.  But as an in-depth Politico article noted, Becerra has had one health-care cause near and dear to his heart during his three decades in public life:  Extending health coverage to foreign workers who broke U.S. law to enter the United States.  More to the point, as the article observed, if confirmed Becerra "will have the power to make public benefits for undocumented workers a reality" — which would raise taxpayer costs, while encouraging additional law-breaking.

Report: Biden's HHS Secretary Nominee Eyes Healthcare for Illegal Aliens.  President Joe Biden's nominee to lead the Department of Health and Human Services (HHS), Attorney General of California Xavier Becerra, is eyeing plans to provide illegal aliens with taxpayer-funded healthcare benefits, according to a report.  Becerra, who will go before a Senate confirmation hearing on Tuesday [2/23/2021], has long advocated providing roughly 11 to 22 million illegal aliens with American healthcare.

Texas Towns Cope with Migrant Wave Not Tested for Coronavirus.  President Joe Biden's deputies are dropping many poor migrants with coronavirus into Americans' neighborhoods, according to a report in the New York Times.  On February 23, the newspaper reported a statement about the drop-offs they say came from Juan "Trey" Mendez, the mayor of Brownsville:  "If it's several hundred overnight, then that's something that would become overwhelming for us," said Mr. Mendez.  "The administration is very well aware of that — we've conveyed that on numerous occasions."

By Offering Amnesty Now, Democrats Are Setting Up A Massive Immigration Crisis.  Perhaps Democrats could have picked a worse time to unveil their expansive immigration bill that would grant amnesty to millions of illegal immigrants, but not much worse.  The legislation, introduced Thursday by congressional Democrats with the full support of the Biden administration, dubbed the "U.S. Citizenship Act of 2021," comes as President Biden is rolling back border security measures implemented under Trump and the number of illegal border crossings is surging.  Combined with the ongoing pandemic and shortages of food and water in Texas after freezing temperatures left millions of Texans without power last week, a perfect storm is brewing on the border.  Earlier this month, Mexico stopped accepting Central American children and families apprehended at the border.  They had previously been quickly "expelled" under emergency pandemic protocols.  Now, U.S. border officials are releasing them into communities across South Texas, often without conducting COVID-19 tests.

Biden-Induced Border Crisis, Where COVID Meets Catch-And-Release.  Before Joe Biden even took office, DHS reported a surge in illegal border crossings in anticipation of his presidency.  Since taking office, Biden has been busily undoing President Trump's border and illegal immigration policy, effectively opening our borders in the midst of a global pandemic.  In addition to halting deportations and abolishing Trump's "remain in Mexico" policy, Biden has reinstated the disastrous Obama-era 'catch and release' travesty and hamstrung ICE to the point that one official said that Biden has effectively "abolish[ed] ICE without abolishing ICE."  None of this is a surprise since Biden ran — in part — on an open borders agenda, but there is a giant COVID donkey in the room.  Even the left is questioning the wisdom and impact on public health of rashly opening the borders to thousands of migrants in the midst of the Wuhan coronavirus pandemic.

Texas sends 10,000 COVID-19 tests to McAllen, where border agents are releasing migrant families.  A state senator from the South Texas border region told Border Report on Wednesday that the City of McAllen "sounded the alarm" to state leaders over swelling numbers of migrants being released by DHS officials for the past week, and the city has been sent 10,000 COVID-19 tests from the state to test the migrants who are being paroled under the agency's newly reimplemented catch-and-release policy.  This is a unique collaboration with the state that is not happening with other cities along the Texas border with Mexico, State Sen. Juan "Chuy" Hinojosa, told Border Report.  He said it is "a local policy" by the City of McAllen to try to test all migrants released into McAllen, but Hinojosa said that is not necessarily happening in other South Texas cities where migrants are being released.

They're Coming to America (with Covid).  Last Sunday, thousands of Hondurans formed caravans in an attempt to violate Mexico's southern border on their way to our southern border.  Police and soldiers wearing riot gear tried to block them, but the migrants broke through, undeterred by tear gas and batons.  They are likely coming because they are hearing that President Joe Biden plans to deport fewer of them and because relatives have encouraged them to make the risky journey.  They are coming because of poverty and crime in Honduras and other countries.  Many of them had their homes destroyed by hurricanes.  Biden has also said he will not continue construction of Donald Trump's border wall, which the Trump administration touted as having a significant deterrent effect on undocumented people crossing the border.  That, too, sends a "y'all come" signal southward.

Democrats Have to Choose Between Ending the Pandemic and Open Borders.  Democrats are stuck between a rock and a hard place when it comes to the COVID vaccines.  I'm not talking about the fact that they are struggling to try to find a way to steal credit for it — the media will help with that — I'm talking about the choice they have between reopening the country safely and their desire for open borders.  Democrats may not realize it yet, but they can't have both.  The only downside with Operation Warp Speed's success and the speed with which it worked is we have no idea how long the immunity lasts.  Whether it lasts months or years, we won't know for a long time.  If it is temporary, perhaps only six months to a year, that means a constant influx of people from third-world countries could and would easily reintroduce the virus and set us right back to where we are now.  People sneaking across the border from countries with unreliable medical systems and/or corrupt governments will be breeding grounds for false documents claiming vaccination, which would make any official documents unreliable.

Coronavirus Patients from Mexico [are] Crossing [the] Border and Straining U.S. Hospitals.  In late October, the El Paso television station KFOX-14 aired video of fire department ambulances lining up at the international bridge picking up Covid-19 patients who had just crossed from Mexico and driving them to hospitals, the ones now filled to crisis proportions.  Along with the video footage, the local TV station quoted one of the fire department's paramedics describing an assembly-line operation where the whole ambulance fleet at times was pressed into transporting Mexicans from the international ports of entry to El Paso hospitals.  Projecting one of the nation's reddest Covid-19 hotspots, El Paso and its filled-beyond-capacity hospitals are now at the epicenter of national news coverage [...]

Covid-infected Patients Are Fleeing Mexico for American Hospitals.  Last month, Arizona Gov. Doug Ducey uttered forbidden words that drew such hot-stove backlash that neither he nor any other border state governor has dared repeat them.  Mexican Covid patients with dual U.S. citizenship, Ducey told President Trump's coronavirus task force during a June 22 governor's conference call, were driving Arizona's spiking numbers by crossing the border and "seeking the superior healthcare of our system in our border counties."

The Editor says...
If the coronavirus cases are coming across the border into Del Rio, Brownsville, Laredo, and El Paso, and that pushes the state's coronavirus numbers up, it means I have to keep wearing a stinkin' mask (in July!) in Dallas County, which is at least a 6½ hour drive to any of those cities.

Medical directors in Texas border counties:  We're treating patients from Mexico.  Who would have thought it:  That when a neighboring country without stable medical care gets hit by the virus, anyone with the ability to come here would seek care in our hospitals when they get sick?  I've written a six-part series detailing how the border counties have a worse crisis than anywhere else in the country because of a mix of cross-border travel, medical tourism, and dual citizens traveling back and forth.  You can read the series [elsew]here.  Until now we have seen remarkable data that shows the the timing and severity of the surge in relation to the sister cities and states in Mexico.  California hospital directors have gone on the record admitting that they have been treating patients from Mexico.  Now we have on-the-record proof that this is happening in Texas as well.

Trump Cuts Illegal Immigration Strain on American Hospitals by 94 Percent.  President Trump's border controls have greatly reduced the strain that illegal immigration once put on American hospitals near the United States-Mexico border.  Since March 21, when the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention's (CDC) Title 42 order went into effect, U.S. Border Patrol agents have only taken about 230 border crossers to nearby American hospitals for treatment.

Trump aide tried to use disease to close borders before coronavirus outbreak.  From the early days of the Trump administration, Stephen Miller, the president's chief adviser on immigration, has repeatedly tried to use an obscure law designed to protect the nation from diseases overseas as a way to tighten the borders.  The question was, which disease?  Mr Miller pushed for invoking the president's broad public health powers in 2019 when an outbreak of mumps spread through immigration detention facilities in six states.  He tried again that year when Border Patrol stations were hit with the flu.  When vast caravans of migrants surged towards the border in 2018, Mr Miller looked for evidence that they carried illnesses.  He asked for updates on US communities that received migrants to see if new disease was spreading there.

Facing coronavirus pandemic, Trump suspends immigration laws and showcases vision for locked-down border.  President Trump has used emergency powers during the coronavirus pandemic to implement the kind of strict enforcement regime at the U.S. southern border he has long wanted, suspending laws that protect minors and asylum seekers so that the U.S. government can immediately deport them or turn them away.  Citing the threat of "mass, uncontrolled cross-border movement," the president has shelved safeguards intended to protect trafficking victims and persecuted groups, implementing an expulsion order that sends migrants of all ages back to Mexico in an average of 96 minutes.

ICE detainee tests positive for coronavirus in New Jersey.  An illegal immigrant being detained by ICE in New Jersey tested positive for COVID-19, the agency announced Tuesday, forcing a suspension of new detainees at the Bergen County Jail.  Officials did not say how the 31-year-old Mexican was infected, nor did it reveal any other details of the particular case, other than to say the person has been quarantined and is receiving medical care.  "Consistent with CDC guidelines, those who have come in contact with the individual have been cohorted and are being monitored for symptoms.  ICE is suspending intake at the facility until further information is available," the agency said.

COVID-19 Border Shutdown:  Illegal Crossers Will Get Immediately Deported To [Their] Home Countries.  Anyone crossing a US national border illegally will get immediately sent back to their home country for the next 30 days, at least, part of the ban on all border traffic except trade and other essential business.  To do otherwise, the White House argued in its announcement last night, would be to put the entire immigration system at risk.

The Editor says...
During a national health crisis, which was caused by foreigners, the last thing this country needs is more immigration.  The borders should be completely closed for at least a year.

Federal Judge Rules Migrants Must Stay in Detention Center.  A federal judge in Seattle rejected three nonprofits' effort to force U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) to release migrants in a detention center in Washington state because of the threat from coronavirus.  U.S. District Judge James L. Robart on Thursday denied a request for a restraining order requested by the American Civil Liberties Union (ACLU), the ACLU of Washington, and the Northwest Immigrant Rights Project.  The organizations argued that holding migrants who are older or have underlying medical conditions puts them at high risk for contracting the virus.

If We May Need Every Hospital Bed in America, Why Do Dems Want To Give Illegals Free Access to Those Beds Now?  Leaving aside the thorny issue of taking care of American citizens first in a pandemic, which I doubt Trump was talking about — no one should be turned away from a hospital at a time of great need, nor, indeed, is it ethical or lawful to do so — it raises the question of why people who wouldn't necessarily pay into the American health care system to the same extent a citizen would (if at all) should be given free access to that bed in a time of scarcity.  We live in a time of unusual scarcity of finite hospital resources, which is why we keep on talking about flattening the curve.  We want the pandemic to be over quickly, of course, but that would likely require a massive, exponential spike in the number of people who would have it, leading to health care that would be little more than triage for some patients.

DHS links coronavirus to border; 328 Chinese illegals caught so far this year.  Some 328 illegal immigrants from China have been nabbed jumping the U.S.-Mexico border so far this year, according to Homeland Security data that raises the prospect a coronavirus carrier could sneak into the country via the border.  Three other people from South Korea — another country with rapidly spreading cases — have also been arrested at the border, as have 122 people from the Dominican Republican, where the coronavirus has now been detected.  All told, more than 1,000 illegal immigrants a day are caught attempting to sneak in from Mexico, which detected its first case last week, and since has identified five others.

Fact-Check: Obama Waited Until 'Millions' [were] Infected and 1000 Dead in U.S. Before Declaring H1N1 Emergency.  In April of 2009, the H1N1 became a pandemic.  But it wasn't until six months later, October, that then-President Obama declared a public health emergency on what was already a pandemic.  By that time, the disease had infected millions of Americans and more than 1,000 people had died in the U.S. [...] But wait, there's more.  According to Virology Journal, the 2009 H1N1 came into the U.S. from Mexico:  The swine-origin influenza A (H1N1) virus that appeared in 2009 and was first found in human beings in Mexico, is a reassortant with at least three parents.  Six of the genes are closest in sequence to those of H1N2 'triple-reassortant' influenza viruses isolated from pigs in North America around 1999-2000.  Now, about that "racist" wall ...

Immigration Patriots And Vaccine Skeptics — A Natural Alliance?  If GOP strategists really think the party is having trouble with suburban white women because of what they wrongly believe to be a nasty anti-immigrant racial animus, here's an idea: seek common cause with the very many suburban moms worried about mandatory vaccination — and make sure they know that Open Borders and mass immigration isn't helping their cause or the health of their children.  Unvaccinated "migrants" from the Third World bring Third World diseases, some of them fatal.  You can't fight the statist push for more and more childhood vaccinations if a disease-bearing horde is crossing the border every day.

Is California Becoming Premodern?  Californians know that to venture into a typical municipal emergency room is to descend into a modern Dante's Inferno.  Medical facilities are overcrowded.  They can be as unpleasant as they are bankrupting to the vanishing middle class that must face exorbitant charges to bring in an injured or sick child.  No one would dare to connect the crumbling infrastructure, poor schools and failing public health care with the non-enforcement of immigration laws, which has led to a massive influx of undocumented immigrants from the poorest regions of the world, who often arrive without fluency in English or a high-school education.

Stephen Miller: 2020 Democrats Want to 'Sacrifice the Working Class' for Illegal Aliens.  [Scroll down]  As Breitbart News estimated, providing free healthcare to every illegal alien in the U.S. would cost up to $66 billion a year or $660 billion over a decade to American taxpayers.  Already, Americans are forced to subsidize illegal aliens' medical costs to the sum of almost $20 billion a year.  The Urban Institute's Linda Blumberg, a health insurance expert, told the New York Times that such a policy providing free healthcare for every foreign national who crosses the U.S.-Mexico border or overstays a visa would drive a migration of "people with serious health problems" to the country.

Trump Signs Order To Prevent Taxpayers From Subsidizing Health Care For Immigrants.  President Trump on Friday [10/4/2019] signed a presidential proclamation that will prevent U.S. taxpayers from being forced to subsidize health care costs of legal immigrants, who will need to have their own insurance.  In the new rule, which goes into effect Nov. 3, most foreigners who apply for visas will have to have their own employer-based health insurance or a non-subsidized private health insurance plan before they arrive.  The rule does not apply to refugees or those seeking political asylum or nonimmigrant visas.

WSJ/NBC Poll:  Healthcare for Illegals [is the] 'Least Popular' Policy in 2020 Race.  The most unpopular position in the 2020 Democrat presidential primary is a policy forcing American taxpayers to provide free healthcare for 11 to 22 million illegal aliens living in the United States, a new survey reveals.

Feds: Nearly 900 Migrants with Mumps Disease Arrived in U.S. Last Year.  Since September 2018, nearly 900 migrants arriving at the United States-Mexico border have been confirmed or suspected to have mumps, a federal report reveals.  A report by the Center for Disease Control (CDC) details how the contagious mumps disease has spread across 19 states in 57 detention facilities among migrants — those illegally crossing the southern border and those seeking asylum.

Alzheimer's and cancer funds diverted to care for illegal immigrants:  Malkin book.  Even after spending billions of dollars this year, the federal government is running out of money to care for thousands of illegal immigrants crossing the U.S.-Mexico border, forcing the diversion of funds for Head Start and Alzheimer's and cancer research, according to a new book from Michelle Malkin.

CDC: 898 confirmed mumps cases among illegal aliens in ICE custody since last September.  The job of Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) is to enforce immigration law and remove those who violate the laws.  Nothing more, nothing less.  But this past year, ICE was forced to become an ad hoc medical center to treat a highly contagious mumps outbreak, according to a new report from the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC).  Last week, the CDC published a report revealing that there were "a total of 898 confirmed and probable mumps cases in adult migrants detained in 57 facilities" since last September.  In addition, 33 staff members contracted mumps as well.

Mumps sickens hundreds of detained migrants in 19 states.  Mumps has swept through 57 immigration detention facilities in 19 states since September, according to the first US government report on the outbreaks in the overloaded immigration system.

It's a Good Thing I Don't Live in the Country with the 'Best Medical Care'.  [Scroll down]  I do not understand how any voter can consider electing someone who threatens to destroy the health care we now enjoy.  Medicare for all will eliminate private insurance and these moronic politicians also want to give illegal immigrants, who have no right being here to begin with, all the same benefits.  Open borders are just plain suicidal.  Speaking of that horrible word; there has been a rash of suicides in Britain of nurses who are overwhelmed by the NHS with long hours, low pay and shortage of qualified staff.  The NHS is dealing with an average of 1388 patients every three minutes.  Bernie Sanders and the other 2020 candidates expect taxpayers to empty their pockets for their utopian dream that simply will never exist.

California Gives Green Light to Health Care for Illegal Aliens.  California is the first state to allow taxpayer-funded health care benefits to go towards people residing in the U.S. illegally.  Democrat Gov. Gavin Newsom signed a bill into law on Tuesday which would allow low-income adults under the age of 25 to receive state Medicaid benefits through its Medi-Cal program regardless of immigration status.

Expert: Healthcare for Illegal Aliens Would Drive Migration of Foreigners 'with Serious Health Problems' to U.S..  A plan endorsed by nearly every Democrat running for president that would give free taxpayer-funded healthcare to all illegal aliens would drive a migration of "people with serious health problems" to the United States, a health insurance expert tells the New York Times.

Donald Trump: 'We're Not in the Hospital Business' for Migrants.  President Donald Trump defended on Monday [7/1/2019] the treatment of detained migrants and illegal immigrants caught crossing over the border.  "We're not in the hospital business.  We're in the border security business at the border," Trump said.  "And all of a sudden, we're forced to be in the hospital business."  The president spoke to reporters about the flood of migrants crossing into the United States after signing a bill of emergency funding to improve the conditions of border detainment facilities.

Castro: 'We Already Pay for the Health Care' of Illegal Aliens - 'It's Called the Emergency Room'.  Former HUD Secretary Julian Castro told ABC's "This Week with George Stephanopolous" on Sunday [6/30/2019] that Americans already pay for the health care of illegal immigrants — "it's called the emergency room." [...] "And then third, it is the right thing to do.  We're not going to let people living in this country die because they can't see a doctor.  That's not who we are as Americans," he said.

The Editor says...
People who sneak into this country assume the risks for doing so.  We do not owe them free medical attention for their diseases or for the birth of their anchor babies.

U.S. Taxpayers Pay $18.5B a Year for Healthcare for Illegal Aliens.  During the second night of debates for the 2020 Democrat presidential primary candidates, every Democrat — including Joe Biden, Kamala Harris, Bernie Sanders, and Pete Buttigieg — said they supported having American taxpayers pay for free health care for all 11 to 22 million illegal aliens living in the country.  The latest research by Chris Conover from the Center for Health Policy and Inequalities Research at Duke University reveals that every year, American taxpayers pay nearly $20 billion for healthcare for illegal aliens.

The Editor says...
After laughing out loud, I can tell you that I've never heard of a Center for Inequalities Research (!) but I'm only a little surprised.  Why are inequalities worth researching?  What good came come from such a place?

Texas Medical Professional:  Migrants Quarantined with Unknown Disease.  A medical professional on the border in Texas told Big League Politics that the crisis is reaching fever pitch, with three individuals now quarantined at a privately-owned hospital in El Paso with an unknown disease.  The Centers For Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) has not even been able to identify the disease the three migrants have, as the military guards the quarantine area.  "There were some Congolese people caught crossing the border, it was suspected they had Ebola.  In one facility there are three patients being held because they don't know what they have.  The CDC have been here to assess them.  They are isolated, they only have certain specialists who can see them," the medical professional tells Big League Politics.  "We've had an outbreak of mumps over here."  "What scares me is what happens if we someone come over here with Ebola.  We only need one person, and there's a pandemic."

Thousands of Illegal Aliens Infected With Contagious Diseases Detained At the US Border.  At one time mumps, chicken pox, and measles were eradicated in the United States.  Now with hundreds of thousands of Illegal Aliens flooding across the wide open southern border, from every country in the world, those infectious diseases have broken out across the US.  US Immigration and Customs Enforcement have placed 5,200 immigrants, who are infected with mumps, chicken pox, measles, and other infectious diseases, into quarantine in 39 immigrant detention centers nationwide.  The number of quarantined detainees has jumped dramatically from earlier this year; ICE Health Services reported that on March 7th, there were 2,287 detainees in quarantine for "exposure to contagious diseases".

5000+ Quarantined by ICE for Exposure to Infectious Diseases.  The Immigration and Customs Enforcement announced on Friday [6/14/2019] that more than 5,000 migrants exposed to infectious diseases have been placed in quarantine.  The agency said there have been cases of either mumps or chicken pox in 39 different detention centers.

ICE Quarantines over 5K Migrants for Mumps, Chicken Pox.  About 5,200 people have been quarantined after exposure to mumps and chicken pox in Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) detention centers, according to CNN.  About 4,200 detainees have been quarantined for exposure to mumps, 800 to chicken pox, and 100 to both, CNN reports.  The quarantine stretches across many of the 39 immigrant detention centers, where many await their deportation hearings.

U.S. Cities Overwhelmed With Numbers of Illegal Migrants Arriving From Ebola-Stricken Countries.  Some U.S. cities are becoming overwhelmed with the number of illegal African migrants arriving from Ebola-stricken countries, with Portland Maine complaining that they are beyond capacity.  Large groups of migrants are arriving from the Democratic Republic of the Congo, which has been hit by one of the biggest ebola outbreaks in history, with 2,000 recorded cases in the last 10 months.

MS-13 Gang Member Used Chickenpox-Infected Toddler for Fake Family Claim.  An MS-13 gang member utilized an 18-month-old girl with chickenpox to make a fraudulent migrant family claim to gain entry into the U.S., federal officials said.  El Centro Sector Border Patrol agents found a migrant with a small child he allegedly claimed to be his daughter.  The child was determined to be infected with chickenpox, according to information obtained from El Centro Sector Border Patrol officials.

Democrats Fight For Open Borders As Illegals Bring In Crime, Diseases.  After revealing over 140,000 illegal aliens were detained or apprehended at the border last month, the Border Patrol is warning America's immigration system has already collapsed.  One America's Pearson Sharp spoke with Chris Harris, a retired Border Patrol agent, who says America will cease to exist unless we can defend our borders.  [Video clip]

South Texas holding center to reopen after 32 migrants get flu.  U.S. authorities say 32 migrants have tested positive for influenza at a major processing center on the Mexican border that was temporarily closed to stop the outbreak.

Watch aliens pour in illegally, bringing diseases & crime.  Non-Citizens are disproportionately committing crimes and illegal aliens are bringing in diseases, and pouring in at the rate of 4,000 a day from all over the world.  About 70 percent come from Central America after they see ads on TV.  Central American nations are clearing out their welfare recipients, grifters, and criminals.  Undoubtedly many are nice, but they are all destroying our sovereignty.

With illegals surge, Border Patrol officers are catching the measles and mumps and ...  That's the situation with the current border surge, which has seen 109,000 illegal migrants pour into this country without any vetting, medical screening, or paperwork in just the past month.  With little in the way of a wall, a Democratic Party that's encouraging mass illegal migration from abroad, a Democrat-led House that refuses to do anything to halt the current border surge, and numerous incentives from blue states for illegals to enter illegally, at least one end result is this effective standing order for Border Patrol agents to take the diseases the illegals they apprehend are bringing in with them, before releasing them to move about the country. [...] So much for the Democrats' supposed concern for the working man.  So much for Democrats' 'narrative' about being the party of OSHA, living wages, and humane working conditions, something the supposedly mean Republicans are supposedly all against.  Where's their concern for the unprotected Border Patrol agents subject to infectious diseases from unvetted migrants?

Joe Biden:  U.S. Has 'Obligation' To Give Healthcare To 'Undocumented' Immigrants.  Democrat presidential candidate Joe Biden said during a campaign stop in California on Wednesday that the United States has an "obligation" to give healthcare to illegal aliens.  "I think that anyone who is in a situation where they're in need of healthcare, regardless of whether they are documented or undocumented, we have an obligation to see that they are cared for," Biden said in Los Angeles.  "That's why I think we need more clinics around the country."

Thousands of Central Americans Being Released Without Proper Health Screenings.  We are being lied to.  Illegal aliens are being released in droves with communicable diseases, and they are not getting screened or vaccinated.  Yes, they are getting immediate medical attention to protect them, but not long-term screening to protect Americans from communicable diseases.  We the people do not matter.  It's worse than that.  I share with you a supposition I have based on conversations with border officials and examining some data that most of these illegal aliens aren't even asserting a credible fear.  Yet Border Patrol is being told to process them in anyway instead of sending them for expedited removal.

Infectious Diseases Making the Border Crisis Worse.  The so-called "anti-vaccination" movement has been in the news of late. [...] In the midst of this campaign, however, there has been scant attention paid to the dangers of our current border crisis as they relate to the outbreak of serious contagious diseases in the United States.  Interestingly, a recent article from Reuters ("Mumps, other outbreaks force U.S. detention centers to quarantine over 2,000 migrants") failed to make the connection, although it spoke in explicit detail about detained aliens who were quarantined because of exposure to vaccine-preventable diseases.

Autopsy: Migrant child who died in US custody had infection.  The 7-year-old migrant girl from Guatemala who died while detained by the US Border Patrol succumbed to a bacterial infection, according to an autopsy released Friday [3/29/2019]. Jakelin Caal Maquin died on Dec. 8, a day after she and her father crossed the US border into a remote part of New Mexico in a group of 163 migrants.  She was the second child to die in Border Patrol custody in December, which sparked questions about the agency's ability to deal with migrant families.

Catch, and release, and catch the measles and mumps?  In a country as large as the U.S., previously eradicated diseases such as measles, mumps, and whooping cough are making a big comeback.  Religious exemptionists are being set up to take the blame in the press.  The question that isn't being asked is how these epidemics coincide the current migrant surge from Central America, with tens of thousands of unvetted illegal aliens being released into the interior of the U.S. under catch and release.  There's a measles and mumps resurgence in some of those countries, and 1.5 million illegal aliens from largely those countries are expected to roll in here.  Why so incurious?  It's as if the press doesn't want to know, because it interferes with its "narrative."  But as the migrants surge in, the stories of measles and mumps resurging here are all over the local presses now.

Mumps, other outbreaks force U.S. detention centers to quarantine over 2,000 migrants.  Christian Mejia thought he had a shot at getting out of immigration detention in rural Louisiana after he found a lawyer to help him seek asylum.

More than 2,000 migrants quarantined in US detention centers due to disease outbreaks raising concerns of limited access to lawyers.  Christian Mejia thought he had a shot at getting out of immigration detention in rural Louisiana after he'd found a lawyer to help him seek asylum.  Then he was quarantined.  In early January, a mumps outbreak at the privately-run Pine Prairie Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) Processing Center put Mejia and hundreds of other detainees on lockdown.

More than 200 Georgia high school students called in to get tested for tuberculosis.  More than 200 Georgia high school students have been called into the school nurse to get tested for tuberculosis after one student was diagnosed with the life-threatening, infectious disease.  A letter was sent to parents on Friday [3/1/2019] from the principal of Discovery High School, in Lawrenceville, notifying them of the teenager's condition.  The letter also revealed that students and faculty may have been 'in close and continuous contact' with the infected student, reported WSB-TV.

200 Cases of Mumps Confirmed in Texas Migrant Detention Centers.  Texas health officials report that nearly 200 people contracted mumps in migrant detention facilities located across the state so far this fiscal year.  Officials with the Texas Department of State Health Services stated that 186 people in migrant detention centers located in Texas had confirmed cases of mumps.  The cases impacted migrant adults and minors as well as detention center workers, the Texas Tribune reported.

Deputy city attorney says she contracted typhus at City Hall.  Deputy City Atty.  Elizabeth Greenwood was at work in City Hall East last fall when her shin began to hurt.  "I looked down and there were a couple of insect bites," Greenwood recalled.  She thought little of it at the time, she said, but within weeks she was gravely ill with what doctors would ultimately diagnose as the flea-borne illness typhus.

Stop Medieval Diseases With A Medieval Wall.  The media recently reported that Los Angeles County's ongoing typhus epidemic had infected Deputy City Attorney Liz Greenwood.  "Who gets typhus?  It's a medieval disease that's caused by trash," she wondered.  Greenwood is partially correct.  The typhus outbreak, like the hepatitis outbreak, was directly caused by social justice policies that legalized public vagrancy, and leaving trash and human waste on sidewalks.  The piles of trash, human waste and people combine to create horrifying diseased conditions.  Before Greenwood, many Los Angeles patients who had been diagnosed with typhus were indeed homeless. [...] America never had much of a history of typhus, but Mexico did.  And our brief episodes of typhus invariably involved immigrants and migrants carrying the disease from Europe or Mexico.  The first outbreak of the disease in this hemisphere occurred in Mexico back in the 17th century and there have been 22 major outbreaks since then, caused in part by refugees and crowded conditions.

Rats, Fleas, And Garbage Caused A Typhus Outbreak In Los Angeles.  Typhus is a bacterial infection which is spread by lice, chiggers, and fleas.  Usually, those pests find a home on rats.  The rats in most cases have a population boom because of excessive garbage.  And the disease infects people who come in contact with the rats.  That's what is driving the disease in Los Angeles where an outbreak has been traced to homeless encampments.

Flesh eating bacteria found on Central America migrant in Border Patrol custody.  A man who was in Border Patrol custody had to be treated for a flesh-eating bacteria.  The migrant who was already in custody at the Lordsburg, N.M. Border Patrol station told an agent Thursday [1/24/2019] about a growing rash he had.  He was taken to a medical facility for evaluation.  Officials said hospital staff diagnosed the him with a flesh-eating bacteria.  They said need more extensive treatment.

Family-Unit Apprehensions Surge; Sick Aliens Use Nearly 20,000 Hours of Agency Time.  In fiscal 2019, Customs and Border Protection "has seen a surge in Family Unit Aliens compared to the same time from last fiscal year by 280%. Fiscal Year 2018 was a record year and this year will surpass that if the current trend continues without any legislative fixes.  Overall apprehensions between the [ports of entry] are up 81%."  Many if not most of the migrants will file phony asylum claims, but the sheer number of people isn't the only problem.  Many of the illegals are sick, and when they land in large groups, they provide cover for smugglers to bring in drugs.

Cartels deliberately distract Border Patrol agents by using sick migrants, large groups as 'cover'.  The number of illegal immigrants who showed up at the U.S. border in need of medical attention has soared in recent weeks, even as the number of large groups has also surged.  Both trends are proving to be serious impediments to Border Patrol agents, who say they're being taken off line watch duties to either shepherd the sick as they go to the hospital, or have to process the groups of people — leaving other parts of the border unsecured.  In one large group of 247 people, 50 of them had to be taken to the hospital, requiring nearly every available agent to leave the field to tag along.

While Democrats dither over the border wall, deadly fentanyl floods our communities.  Fentanyl can strike anyone, at any age, on account of the unique method by which it can be absorbed: through contact with the skin.  A relative in the Drug Enforcement Administration warned me last year that, because of fentanyl's increasing use and availability, I should wipe the handle of any grocery cart I use.  He explained that people who have developed a tolerance to fentanyl may have handled the cart before me, and that the quantity required for the average adult to overdose and die is just 3 milligrams. [...] Our border crisis is real.  About 90 percent of heroin and 80 percent of fentanyl in the U.S. is sourced from Mexico.  While rehabilitation and addiction recovery services are a key component of the strategy for dealing with America's opioid crisis, we must also address the porousness of our border.

If President Trump were really a racist or a Nazi, then please explain these facts.  Janet Napolitano, the former Homeland Security Secretary, did absolutely nothing to protect our country from illegals entering the country unvaccinated with many having criminal records.  The devastation caused by the war in Syria created hordes of refugees fleeing their homeland to escape persecution by rebels and Syrian militants.  It didn't take long for diminished diseases like measles, polio, mumps, chicken pox and others to reappear.  Unvaccinated immigrants were settled in our schools without the necessary medical documents which were always required for entry to all schools.

California Gov. Gavin Newsom seeks to add more illegal immigrants to state health care plan.  Newly sworn-in California Gov. Gavin Newsom, vowing to provide "sanctuary to all who seek it," has proposed extending state health care coverage to more illegal immigrants living within the Golden State's borders.  Hours after assuming office, Mr. Newsom released sweeping health care proposals to raise the age limit for illegal aliens covered by Medi-Cal from 19 to 26, which would make California "the first state in the nation to cover young undocumented adults through a state Medicaid program," according to a Monday [1/7/2019] release from the governor's office.

Number of sick kids soars at border; tuberculosis, flu, infections land migrants in hospitals.  Border authorities are referring 50 people a day for urgent medical care, including tuberculosis, flu and even pregnant women about to give birth, a top official said Monday [12/31/2018], saying it's unlike anything they've ever seen before.  Most of those in need of care are children, and a staggering 28 percent are under age 5, having been dragged along for the trip by parents who in many cases are hoping to use the children as a shield against speedy deportation from the U.S.

Autopsy:  Dead Guatemalan boy had influenza.  New Mexico authorities say an autopsy performed on the 8-year-old Guatemalan boy who died in U.S. custody shows he had the flu.

Here are the Most Egregious Fake News Stories of 2018.  [#29] Daily Beast claims migrants in caravan don't have diseases:  The Daily Beast claimed that there is "zero evidence" that members of the migrant caravan were bringing HIV and TB into the United States.  The Tijuana Health Department reported a handful of cases of tuberculosis, HIV and chickenpox among the caravan.  Officials with the Mexican state of Baja California disputed that there have been cases of tuberculosis, but confirmed that some migrants are carrying HIV and chickenpox.

DHS Raises Alarms of Growing Mobs of Sick Migrants.  Before the two children died in the past week, no one died.  That is a testament to the great — and expensive — medical care they receive at taxpayer expense.  Despite the obvious invasion, Democrats won't lift a finger to secure the borders.  They also don't care that the people are sick.  Many have serious, contagious diseases.  The Department of Homeland Security (DHS) is requesting that the Center for Disease Control (CDC) investigate the cause of the growing number of sick migrants illegally crossing the U.S.-Mexico border, officials revealed to reporters Wednesday morning [12/26/2018].  A DHS official told reporters that "literally dozens" of sick migrants are being transported to hospitals across the border each day.  There are growing numbers of children showing illness are present in border patrol custody.

Will CDC Trace Polio-Like Outbreak or Just Shout 'Racism'?  The diagnosis of the first cases of AFM, acute flaccid myelitis, in the United States were in 2014, after the dispersal of thousands of Central American children into American schools.  Readers more likely will recall that at the same time there was an outbreak of a deadly respiratory illness that put hundreds of America's children in intensive care.  "Both types of symptoms can probably be caused by enterovirus D68, which happens to be endemic in Central America," opines Dr. Jane Orient.  Are the state's epidemiologists — whose job it is to trace and terminate outbreaks of contagious diseases — following these connections?  An outbreak necessitates the tracing of "Patient Zero," the "single individual who bears the unknowing responsibility for having introduced the disease" to a certain population.

Media Buries Key Facts to Conceal Migrant Health Threat — TB, Hepatitis, HIV.  Here's a great example of the mainstream media distorting information to promote a liberal agenda, an act that is especially pervasive when it comes to immigration coverage.  A story published by NBC news, and reiterated by various other outlets, claims illegal immigrants don't bring disease into the United States. [...] [B]uried deep in the news article the reporter offers this important nugget from the study, only after writing that migrants are less likely than people in their host countries to die of heart disease, cancer, respiratory diseases and other ills:  "The exceptions are hepatitis, tuberculosis and HIV."  Last we checked those are deadly diseases and Judicial Watch has interviewed medical experts that confirm illegal immigrants do indeed pose a serious public health threat to the U.S. by bringing dangerous diseases into the country.  This includes tuberculosis, dengue and Chikungunya.

Reporter Takes Photo Record of Migrants Leaving Filth & Disease.  There are well over 6,000 Central American migrants camped out in Tijuana, Mexico, but with overcrowding and torrential rains heading in, city officials were forced to herd them onto buses to take them to another shelter about 15 miles further away from the border.  Some refused to leave because they want to stay close to the border, the San Diego Union Tribune reported.  Reports say the migrants were conned by leaders, but the con, according to many, was that they could come into the country illegally with ease.  About 2,267 migrants are being treated for health issues, ranging from respiratory infections, tuberculosis, chickenpox and other serious issues.  Over 100 were reported to have lice and other skin infections.

Tuberculosis and chickenpox and AIDS, oh my.  Democrats like to swoon over the sad plights of the suffering masses making their way to America's border right now, saying the poor people of points south are simply trying to do right by their families: find suitable jobs and safe homes and so on.  That's easy to do from the safe distance of Washington, D.C., and that leaves them blind — not to mention immune — to the diseases of these migrants, to the health problems of these wanna-be immigrants.

Lice, hepatitis, TB, chicken pox, scabies plague a third of the caravan migrants - and now there's rain.  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.

Some Caravan Migrants Have HIV/AIDS and TB, Say Mexican Authorities.  Mexican officials stated that more than one-third of the 6,000 caravan migrants currently living in the border city of Tijuana, Baja California, are being treated for health-related issues.  Some are being treated for infectious diseases like HIV/AIDS, tuberculosis, and chickenpox.  The Tijuana Health Department warned that many of the migrants residing in their city are presenting serious health issues, Fox News reported on Thursday morning.  A spokesman for the agency said that more than 2,200 of the estimated 6,000 caravan migrants are currently being treated.

The Migrant Caravan of Diseases.  As the media is incurious about the migrant caravan and illegal immigrants beyond their tweets of outrage and framing the story in a way to inflict maximal damage on President Trump, let's take a closer look at those migrating to our southern border.  Where are the migrants coming from and what diseases might they be bringing to America? [...] Polio has been eradicated in much of the world, but is still endemic in three countries — Pakistan, Afghanistan, and Nigeria.  Polio has also reemerged in the socialist paradise of Venezuela, as reported by CNN.  How many migrants are fleeing the Venezuelan hellhole, bringing who knows what with them?

Open Borders Bring a Higher Risk of Disease.  The Immigration and Nationality Act mandates that all immigrants and refugees undergo a medical screening examination to determine whether they have an inadmissible health condition.  The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention has technical instructions for medical examination of prospective immigrants in their home countries before they are permitted to enter the U.S.  They are screened for communicable and infectious diseases such as tuberculosis, malaria, hepatitis, polio, measles, mumps, and HIV.  They are also tested for syphilis, gonorrhea, and other sexually transmitted diseases.  The CDC also has medical screening guidelines for refugees.  These screenings are usually performed 30 to 90 days after refugees arrive in the United States.

Illegal Alien Convict Accused of Sex Abuse Bankrupts County with $1M Taxpayer-Funded Medical Bills.  A previously convicted illegal alien accused of sexually abusing an underage girl whom he is related to is racking up close to $1 million in taxpayer-funded medical bills while in Utah prison.  A report from the Salt Lake Tribune reveals the extent to which illegal aliens cost the American taxpayer.  Gerardo Valerio-Romero, a 49-year-old illegal alien from Mexico, was arrested and charged with sexually abusing an eight-year-old girl who is a relative of his.  While in the custody of Utah County, the illegal alien was diagnosed with cancer and began receiving treatment.

McDonald's, tossed salad, and toilet paper.  Americans are encouraged to embrace diversity and be culturally sensitive to those who have flouted our laws and invaded our nation.  Meanwhile, illegal aliens arriving in America have no such requirement.  Instead, trespassing tribes relocate, and when they do, rather than assimilate, they transfer habits and activities indigenous to the countries from whence they migrated.  Thus, Americans suffer from illnesses that are easily traceable to third-world bathroom habits (TWBH) and lack of hygiene in the developing world.  It's not news that illegals work in restaurants as food-handlers.  These restaurant workers migrate from countries where, prior to kneading tortilla dough, post-toilet hand-washing is not required.

The Cost of Providing Health Care to Illegal Aliens.  The most objective piece of writing on illegal immigration to emerge from the legacy media last week appeared under the title, "If We Want to End the Border Crisis, It's Time to Give Trump His Wall." It was penned by Andrew Sullivan, of all people, yet he admitted something few progressives have really accepted:  "He won the election.  He is owed this."  Sullivan's regular readers will reflexively disagree, but his reasoning is irrefutable.  So, most will have to revert to the "prohibitive cost" canard.  In reality, the wall will easily pay for itself in savings to our health care system.  The cost of the border wall has been projected by numerous entities, and the estimates vary wildly.  The Trump administration and the GOP congressional leadership have estimated its cost at $12 billion to $15 billion.  Senate Democrats claim that the price tag would be $67 billion.  The Department of Homeland Security (DHS) has projected the cost at $21.6 billion.  Going with the Trump administration figure, the savings to our health care system should pay for the thing in a decade.  Using the DHS figure, it will take far less time than a typical mortgage.  Specifically, about 20 years.  This depends on what we pay for the health care we provide to illegal immigrants and how many will be stopped by the wall.

Study: American Taxpayers Spend $18.5 Billion a Year on Health Care for Illegal Aliens.  According to a report published by Forbes, health care for 3.9 million uninsured illegal aliens costs American taxpayers $18.5 billion annually.  Of that total, $11.2 billion in federal taxes went to subsidizing care for illegal aliens in 2016.  Though current policy prohibits the use of federal tax dollars to fund Medicaid or Obamacare for illegal aliens, with the exception of emergency cases, loopholes in the system have enabled illegal aliens to indirectly receive $2.8 billion of health care funding through state-only Medicaid programs and another $4.6 billion from federal taxes.  New York, Washington, Illinois, Massachusetts, Washington D.C., and California all extend state-only funded Medicaid to illegal aliens.

Abortion Ruling Grants Right To Pregnant Illegals.  An Obama-appointed federal judge made a ruling on Friday [3/30/2018] that declares abortion a constitutional right for illegal immigrants in custody, even if they are underage.  Judge Tanya S. Chutkan of the U.S. District Court in Washington, D.C. claimed that her ruling is the response to the Trump administration having "too many hurdles in the path of teen girls," and by this, she means such young women who have immigrated to the United States illegally.  There is an obvious danger in allowing such a practice.  By permitting pregnant women to have their babies aborted in the United States, it will encourage illegal immigration even further.  This is a threat to national security, the sanctity of life, and the financial health of the country's economy.

NYC Health officials show 86 percent of TB cases are among immigrants.  In 2017, reported cases of deadly tuberculosis rose by an unexpected 10 percent in New York City.  According to the city's health department, it was the biggest increase since 1992. While tuberculosis is usually associated with the lungs, it can also infect and invade the brain, bones, kidneys, spine, and other organs.  The contagious disease, if left untreated, can be deadly. [...] While there were 556 cases reported in 2016, that number jumped to 613 in 2017, according to the Health Department.  Tuberculosis reached a peak of 3,811 in 1992.  No explanation was offered by health authorities in a notice to medical professionals on Monday [3/26/2018].

Hospital Reverses Policy About Denying Illegal Immigrant Liver Transplant After ACLU Pressure.  An Oregon hospital contacted an illegal immigrant on Tuesday and told her she could not be on the liver transplant list.  The hospital stated it "requires proof of lawful presence for transplant services."  Now the hospital has done an about-face after the ACLU and others applied public pressure.

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Evidently the ACLU expects the U.S. taxpayer to provide extraordinary surgery to anyone who can sneak across the border.  This is another reason to deport every single illegal alien as soon as they are discovered.

Aging, undocumented and uninsured immigrants challenge cities and states.  Early on a recent morning, men huddle in the Home Depot parking lot, ground zero for day laborers on the hunt for work.  Cars pull into the lot, and the men swarm.  Among them is Marcos, at 65, wiry and bronzed with a silvery smile.  He's been in the country illegally for 20 years, working construction and landscaping, doing whatever he can get, whenever he can get it.  When he's sick, he just rests, because — like most undocumented workers — he doesn't have insurance.  "I don't know if I have high blood pressure," he said, laughing ruefully, "Because I don't check.  Doctors, you know, are expensive."

That Teenage Illegal Immigrant That Got An Abortion?  Now She's Seeking Mental Health Treatment.  Remember in late October when a teenage illegal immigrant girl in Texas who was pregnant with a 16-week-old baby decided she wanted an abortion, and the D.C. Circuit Court of Appeals ruled against the Trump Administration, which was trying to save the baby?  The girl said through the ACLU, "People I don't even know are trying to make me change my mind.  I made my decision and that is between me and God."  Guess what?  According to the government, after killing her baby, the girl is seeking mental health treatment.

Up to 266 possibly exposed to TB at Durham school.  As many as 266 students and staff at Northern High School may have been exposed to a student with tuberculosis.

Black Death Resurfaces in Multiple Northern Arizona Counties.  The plague, also known as "the Black Death" killed somewhere between 75 and 200 million people as a result of international trade, commerce and transnational shipping.  The disease was thought to be spread by fleas and parasites carried by rats.  The global population took over 400 years to recover.

Plague Is Found in New Mexico.  Again.  The New Mexico Department of Health said this week that two women were found to have plague, bringing the total number of people this year in the state known to have the disease to three.  All three patients — a 63-year-old man and two women, ages 52 and 62 — were treated at hospitals in the Santa Fe area and released after a few days, said Paul Rhien, a health department spokesman.  Health officials in New Mexico have more experience with plague than many might expect:  Every year for the last few years, a handful of people in New Mexico have come down with plague.  One person has died.

Diseased Illegals Spread Norovirus to 32 Schools in Yolo County California.  As Northern California continues to welcome in illegal aliens by the thousands, disases like the Norovirus has spread to 32 schools in Yolo Country of Northern California.  This is Moonbeam Jerry Brown and the California's Democrats dream of open borders in action.

Minnesota Dept of Health needs $5 million to fight infectious diseases in immigrant population.  Hey, since many of the refugees and other immigrants now causing expensive infectious diseases to spread in the state are a result of Obama's migration policy, maybe he could contribute his $3 million speaking fee to Minnesota as a partial payment to handle the crisis!  Here is the latest news generated by the recent Measles epidemic in Minnesota.  As of Tuesday there were 50 diagnosed cases, most (45) are in the 'Somali community.'  And, we are told that refugees don't cost state and local taxpayers a dime!

Seven cases of measles reported in L.A. County.  Los Angeles County public health officials said this week that they're investigating seven cases of measles, a contagious disease that in rare cases can lead to brain damage or death.

Was Nebraska student diagnosed with TB in November a refugee?  I'm wondering if the problems with the US Refugee Admissions Program will hit home once families in resettlement towns and cities find that their kids have to be tested for TB!  And, I've wondered for a long time if volunteers who work with refugees are given instructions on how to stay safe and keep their families safe when interfacing with newly arrived refugees.  Does anyone know?

More than one-third of refugees in Vermont test positive for tuberculosis.  Data from the Vermont Department of Health show that more than one-third of refugees resettled in Vermont test positive for tuberculosis.  Since 2013, about 900 refugees admitted to the Green Mountain State have been tested for tuberculosis, a potentially fatal infectious disease affecting the lungs.  Of that number, 318 refugees, or 35.4 percent, tested positive.  Watchdog.org obtained the health data on Wednesday [6/2/2016] following reporting by Stateline that the disease may be making a comeback in the United States.

First 13 cases of deadly fungal infection emerge in US.  Thirteen cases of a sometimes deadly and often drug-resistant fungal infection, Candida auris, have been reported in the United States for the first time, health officials said Friday [11/4/2016].  The infection, which often spreads in hospitals and other health care settings, can invade the ear canal, urine and bloodstream.  Four of the US patients diagnosed with the infection have died, although the precise causes remain unclear, the CDC said.

Hillary's 'open borders' means yet more disease in U.S..  Clinton's "dream" presumably means the southern U.S. border would be a conduit for untold millions of migrants.  It is in stark contrast to the Republican candidate, Donald Trump, who has committed to building a secure border wall to improve security for the United States and improved protection for citizens.  One may argue that more "openness" between Western Hemisphere countries might possibly have some benefits, but the risks to the health and safety of Americans are far greater than the few benefits and are more serious than have been discussed in the media and at the three presidential debates.  Just what are those risks?  Three major ones are:
  •   cost burdens on American taxpayers;
  •   terrorism; and
  •   contagious diseases.

296 Refugees Diagnosed with Active TB in Minnesota, Ten Times Any Other State; Majority Are Somalis.  Two hundred and ninety-six refugees were diagnosed with active tuberculosis (TB) between 2010 and 2014 in Minnesota, according to the Minnesota Department of Health.  Seventy-one were diagnosed within one year of their arrival, while 225 were diagnosed after the first year.  The number of active TB cases reported among refugees arriving in Minnesota is ten times higher than reported in any of the fourteen other states that have released refugee TB data to the public, or made it available to Breitbart News.

Obamacare firm fined over taxpayer-funded birth care for illegals.  A major Obamacare provider has been fined more than a half billion dollars for using bribes to cash in on illegal immigrant mothers who get taxpayer-funded Medicaid birth services, according to the Justice Department.  Dallas-based Tenet Healthcare agreed to pay $513 million in the bribery scandal.  According to Justice, Tenet and two subsidiaries paid Hispanic health care providers to refer pregnancy cases to their hospitals, where they could run up the Medicaid tab by calling the maternity cases emergencies

Leprosy Scare in California Elementary School.  Two elementary school children may have Hansen's disease — better known as leprosy — health officials in Riverside County, California, say.  Leprosy is a chronic infectious disease affecting the skin, eyes, upper airway, nerves, and mucous membranes that is potentially disfiguring if left untreated.  The disease, which is caused by the bacteria Mycobacterium leprae, occurs in children under the age of 10 in up to 20 percent of cases, but can occur at any age.  According to the Los Angeles Times, nursing staff at Indian Hills Elementary School in Jurupa Valley notified county officials of the suspected infections on September 2.

California Health Official Silent on Immigration Status of Leprosy Patient.  When you ask your child a question and they refuse to answer, you know the answer is something you do not want to hear.  So, when the California Disease Control agency is asked what is the immigration status of the child with leprosy and told that is a question that can not be answered — you know the answer is that the child is a refugee and the health was not vetted prior to being brought by Obama to the U.S.  No not a terrorist — just a kid with a contagious disease that is serious.

Tests confirm Jurupa Valley child has leprosy.  Lab tests have confirmed that a Jurupa Valley child has leprosy, or Hansen's disease, Riverside County public health officials reported Thursday, Sept. 22.  The findings by the National Hansen's Disease (Leprosy) Laboratory Research Program in Baton Rouge, La., supported a local doctor's diagnosis that a student at Indian Hills Elementary School had leprosy.  A second student who may be related to the other child also had been diagnosed with the disease, but lab results did not confirm that the second person has leprosy.

If Islamic terrorists don't scare you, Tuberculosis should!  Michael Patrick Leahy writing at Breitbart reported yesterday [9/13/2016] on yet another case of active Tuberculosis in the refugee flow to America.  I will wager that the vast majority of Americans have no idea that refugees are walking around sometimes for weeks and months with TB (even active TB) interacting with you in schools, stores, and in the workplace.

Parents Demand Answers After Jurupa Valley Leprosy Scare.  Parents and students in Jurupa Valley could be dealing with a rare disease from the Middle Ages.  Scared parents were demanding more information Tuesday after letters were sent went home to parents saying two students at Indian Hills Elementary in Jurupa Valley "might" be sick with leprosy.  School officials say the letter was sent Friday out of what they called, an abundance of caution.  Some parents refused to send their children to school Tuesday [9/6/2016] after receiving the warning from the Jurupa Unified School District.

Jurupa Valley classrooms sanitized after leprosy report.  An outside company has decontaminated the Jurupa Valley elementary school classrooms used by two students after one of their parents reported they have leprosy, which is now being investigated by a national leprosy lab, officials said Tuesday, Sept. 6.  The two cases of leprosy were diagnosed by a doctor but are considered unconfirmed by the Riverside County public health department and Jurupa Unified School District.

School warns parents that some students might have leprosy.  Leprosy, the dreaded Middle Ages disease once believed to be a punishment from God, might have afflicted students in Southern California, officials said.  The Jurupa Unified School District — in Riverside County, east of Los Angeles — sent a letter home with kids last week, saying it had an obligation to keep parents informed about the disfiguring skin disease.  "The school district has received an unconfirmed report that two students at Indian Hills Elementary School have been diagnosed with Hansen's disease (leprosy)," according to the letter inked by district superintendent Elliott Duchon.

TB Spiked 500 Percent In Twin Falls During 2012, As Chobani Yogurt Opened Plant.  The number of active TB cases in the eight county Idaho public health district that includes Twin Falls jumped 500 percent between 2011 and 2012.  One case of active TB was diagnosed in the South Central Public Health District that includes Twin Falls in 2011, and six active TB cases were diagnosed there in 2012, the year Chobani opened the world's largest yogurt factory in the small southern Idaho city with the help of $54 million in federal, state, and local financial assistance.  That same year, 2012, the percentage of active TB cases in Idaho that were foreign-born spiked to 80 percent, or 12 out of 15, up from 50 percent in 2011, or 6 out of 12.  As Breitbart News reported previously, the percentage of active TB cases in the country that are foreign-born is 66 percent.

The Backward Pull of Islamic Health Practices.  [Scroll down]  How far back have we been pulled?  To the 7 century yet?  Not quite, but we're headed in that direction.  We've got invaders sweeping across Europe, and to a lesser degree (though not less enough) the United States, importing a host of highly communicable diseases, many of which had been eradicated in the West long ago, such as syphilis and tuberculosis, along with diseases unfamiliar to the West.

Obama's Illegal Aliens:  Importing Deadly Third World Diseases.  Even as exotic new diseases and nearly-eradicated old ones keep popping up across the nation, the Obama administration is unconcerned, or some would say, recklessly indifferent, to the public health threat that Third World illegal aliens pose to the American public.  This isn't an observation from would-be GOP presidential nominee Donald Trump or some wild-eyed rube — it's a devastating criticism that comes from two public health experts at the government's own Centers for Disease Control (CDC).  It comes as deadly diseases surface or make a comeback in the U.S. Among those ailments are tuberculosis, pneumonia, paralysis-causing acute flaccid myelitis, dengue fever, swine flu, and enterovirus D68.

Eleven Refugees Diagnosed With Active Tuberculosis Around Akron, Ohio.  "From 1/1/2010 through 12/31/2015, 37 cases of tuberculosis (both pulmonary and extrapulmonary) were reported in Summit County," Dr. Margo Erme, medical director of Summit County Public Health, tells Breitbart News in an email.  Of those, "16 were US-born" and "21 were foreign-born." Of the 21 foreign-born, "10 did not come into the US on refugee status, 11 came into the US on refugee status," Erme says.

Ohio: Active TB in refugees there too!  There is money involved in refugee resettlement and local elected officials and their cronies are figuring out how to tap it!  It is your money as developers look to the taxpayer-funded gravy train coming from Washington! [...] Along with the money (for special people) comes other problems, including frightening health risks for all of us.

Measles Outbreak Traced to Unvaccinated Border Staffers.  Health officials in Arizona say the largest current measles outbreak in the United States is in part because some workers at a federal immigration detention center refuse to get vaccinated.

Arizona now has largest measles outbreak in U.S..  Health officials in Arizona attribute the largest current measles outbreak in the United States in part to the refusal of some workers at a federal immigration detention center to get vaccinated.  Authorities have confirmed 22 measles cases in Arizona since late May.  All stem from the Eloy Detention Center, an Immigration and Customs Enforcement facility managed by the private Corrections Corp. of America.  Pinal County health director Thomas Schryer said that the outbreak probably began with a migrant but that detainees have since been vaccinated.  Persuading employees to get vaccinated or show proof of immunity has proved more difficult, he said.

Arizona Is Home To The Largest Current Measles Outbreak In America.  Measles is a highly contagious respiratory infection that causes a severe rash and flu-life symptoms.  Worldwide, it affects more than 20 million people every year, but outbreaks have become scarce in the United States with the advent of the measles vaccine, first developed in the 1960s.  In 2000, the disease was formally eradicated in the United States, meaning it no longer naturally occurs within the country's borders.  Unfortunately, there are still occasional cases being brought over by travelers, and in recent years, the anti-vaccination movement has made potential outbreaks much more potent than they'd be otherwise.  Including, most recently, in Arizona.

Wisconsin the Refugee TB Capital of US: Twenty-Seven Cases in Two Years.  Twenty-seven recently resettled refugees were among the 117 cases of active tuberculosis (TB) diagnosed in Wisconsin in 2014 and 2015, according to the Wisconsin Department of Health Services.  That makes the Badger State the new refugee TB capital of the United States.  Wisconsin replaces Louisiana as the state with the most reported cases of active TB among recently resettled refugees in the country.  As Breitbart News has reported previously, twenty-one cases of active TB were diagnosed among recently resettled refugees in Louisiana between 2011 and 2015.

Migrants Bring Multi-Drug Resistant TB to Wisconsin.  Two refugees and a foreign student on a visa brought multi-drug resistant (MDR) tuberculosis (TB) to Milwaukee, Wisconsin in 2009 and 2011, according to a 2014 article in an epidemiology publication written with the cooperation of the doctors who treated them.  The introduction of MDR TB to the United States represents a serious public health threat, since its successful treatment is uncertain and very expensive.  Active TB can usually be treated successfully in six to nine months at a cost of $17,000 per patient, according to the Centers for Disease Control (CDC), but MDR TB treatment costs more than $150,000 per patient and can take between 20 and 26 months.  The six to nine month treatment regimen for active TB, which has been standard practice in the United States for some 50 years, involves a combination of four drugs:  rifampin, isoniazid, pyrazinamide, and ethambutol.

State officials concealing number of "refugees" with contagious TB.  Epidemiologists at the Vermont Department of Health are concealing the number of refugees with contagious active tuberculosis nearly a month after Watchdog reported that more than one-third of Vermont's resettled refugees test positive for TB.  Earlier this month, Watchdog revealed that 35 percent of Vermont's incoming refugees in the past four years tested positive for tuberculosis.  How many of those cases are contagious and symptomatic, however, remains a secret, as state epidemiologists and top officials at the Health Department have spent weeks blocking efforts to obtain the data.  Refugees brought to the United States take TB tests as part of comprehensive health screening.  For refugees resettled in Vermont, the Department of Health's Refugee Health Program monitors test results and treats patients who have active TB disease.  Unlike latent tuberculosis infection, active TB disease is contagious, symptomatic and even deadly.

Seven Refugees With Active TB Sent to Idaho.  Seven refugees with active tuberculosis (TB) were diagnosed shortly after their resettlement in Idaho between 2011 and 2015, according to the Idaho Department of Health and Welfare.  This makes Idaho the seventh state to confirm to Breitbart News that recently arrived refugees have been diagnosed with active TB.

More active TB cases in the refugee population, Colorado this time.  If you haven't been following the great investigative work that Breitbart reporter Michael Patrick Leahy is doing getting information to the public about the FACT that refugees are permitted entry into the US with Tuberculosis (and other communicable diseases), you should.  Islamic terror attacks understandably make the news, but in the long run the return of diseases (thought to be virtually non-existent) and the arrival of parasites into the US should cause you to lose sleep especially if you are in one of 200 plus 'welcoming' American towns and cities.  Who do you think will be paying for all of the healthcare?

35 Percent of Refugees in Vermont Positive for Latent TB.  Thirty-five percent of the 901 refugees resettled in Vermont by the federal government between 2013 and 2016 tested positive for latent TB infection, according to data provided to Vermont Watchdog by the Vermont Department of Health.  Officials with the Vermont Department of Health, however, refused to tell Vermont Watchdog how many of these refugees, if any, arrived with the active or infectious form of TB, or are currently being treated for active TB.

The Viral and Deadly Diseases of Legal and Illegal Immigration.  According to the latest Census, illegal immigration has exploded 57 percent in less than two years, with at least 550,000 new undocumented aliens pouring into America in a trend that is set to continue growing.  In an analysis of the numbers, the Center for Immigration Studies found illegal and legal immigration have reached over 1.5 million a year, a new 15 year high, and a 39 percent increase over 2013.  Since 2014, 3.1 million new immigrants (legal and illegal) have settled in the United States.

Phyllis Schlafly: Diseases Cross Open Borders.  The spread of the Zika virus has become so alarming that more than 150 health experts from over a dozen countries published an open letter urging the postponement or relocation of the Summer Olympics scheduled for August 5-21 in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil.  Never before in world history have the Olympics been cancelled due to a public health crisis.  "The Brazilian strain of Zika virus harms health in ways that science has not observed before," the scientists warned.  They added that an "unnecessary risk is posed when 500,000 foreign tourists from all countries attend the Games, potentially acquire that strain, and return home to places where it can become endemic."

Health care for illegals: $18.5 billion per year.  [Scroll down]  Some basic math reveals that in 2000, illegal immigrants accounted for $6.45 billion of national medical spending.  Since 2000, "national medical spending" has increased by about 162% (i.e., a factor of >2.6), and the share of the U.S. population from illegal immigrants has — if we take the likely underestimates at face value — increased to 3.5%.  Consequently, crunching the numbers, we arrive at a projected current annual cost from providing health care to illegal immigrants of $18.5 billion.

More on Tuberculosis in US refugee population, feds keeping it secret.  I was about to quit posting for the day and try to answer some e-mails when I spotted yet another story about TB on the rise in America and it is pretty clear that the rise is a result of the increase in the immigrant population.

Is Tuberculosis a ticking time bomb in refugee/migrant flow to America?  While we fixate on a terrorism threat coming from not thoroughly vetted refugees, could there be a more likely security and safety risk with the myriad diseases permitted entry into the US in the refugee population (and in the stream of Unaccompanied Alien Children)?  In fact, when I first began writing RRW, it was a shock to learn that the Allen County (Indiana) health department was being overwhelmed by the number of TB cases among the newly resettled Burmese refugees.  Treating them was breaking the health department's budget.  Be sure to see the Minneapolis Star Tribune of only a week ago where we learn that after 20 years of decline, the US TB rate is moving upward.

22 Percent of Resettled Refugees in Minnesota Test Positive for Tuberculosis.  One of every five refugees resettled in Minnesota by the federal government tested positive for latent tuberculosis in 2014, according to the state's Department of Health.  Only 4 percent of the general population in the United States tested positive for latent tuberculosis in the most recent report provided by the Centers for Disease Control.

Illegal Immigrants Account for $10.7 Billion of Nation's Health Care Costs, Data Show.  House Speaker Nancy Pelosi (D-Calif.) said that "illegal immigrants are not covered" in the health care reform legislation that is now working its way through House committees.  But when asked about illegal immigrants who go to public hospitals for care, Pelosi told CNN's State of the Nation on Sunday the law requires that they be treated.  The cost of treating illegal aliens amounts to nearly $11 billion a year, according to calculations done by the Federation for American Immigration Reform (FAIR), a non-profit group that opposes illegal immigration.  And that cost is not expected to go away if a health insurance reform bill becomes law.  "If you're in this country illegally, should you be able to get health care?  CNN's John King asked Pelosi.  "No, illegal immigrants are not covered by this plan," she replied.

CDC Official Warned Staff of Health, Safety Risks During Influx of Illegal Alien Minors.  A government official warned employees deploying for the influx of illegal immigrant minors about health and safety risks because the new arrivals would have tuberculosis and some were young adults — not children — like the Obama administration proclaimed, according to records obtained by Judicial Watch.  "We might as well plan on many of the kids having TB," states a June 26, 2014 guidance e-mail from a Centers for Disease Control (CDC) environmental health scientist, Alaric C. Denton, as the agency prepared to handle the crisis.  "Most of these kids are not immunized, so we need to make sure all our staff are immunized.  Denton, who is stationed at the CDC headquarters in Atlanta, Georgia, predicts in the directive that the agency will be overwhelmed pretty quickly and that screening requirements will be hard to keep up with.

'Epidemic Alert' As Doctors Diagnose Outbreak of Highly Contagious, Deadly Disease Among Migrants.  A former luxury hotel-turned migrant centre in Austria is the site of an outbreak of a deadly bacterial disease which has seen at least one migrant put into intensive care.  The outbreak of louse-born relapsing fever is just the latest re-emergence of diseases long thought exterminated in Europe, carried back to the continent by a great migratory movement of millions of people from Africa and Asia.  Particularly associated with Ethiopia, Sudan, Eritrea, and Somalia, the extremely contagious bacteria causes severe illness and can be fatal in 30 to 70 percent of cases, according to the Centre for Disease Control and Prevention.

HHS: Immigrants with HIV, STDs welcome.  The Department of Health and Human Services this month opened the borders to those with the STDs, deeming the communicable diseases not a big threat to the United States.  A report from the Center for Immigration Studies said that HHS does not believe that the costs to taxpayers to handle the immigrants with STDs will be significant.  Now, said the Center, the list of inadmissible communicable diseases only includes syphilis, gonorrhea, tuberculosis, and leprosy.

When foreigners bring disease across the border.  When facing the massive problems associated with an open border, deluges of illegal immigration, and now even government sponsored surges of so-called "refugees," we naturally must discuss our concern about terrorism and violent crime.  That, however, is only part of the threat.  The uncontrolled and chaotic violation this nation brought to us by President Obama's immigration and refugee schemes pose a number of threats to the homeland as insidious and deadly as the Islamic jihadi.

Why are many diseases back, decades after being wiped out in the U.S.?  An E. coli epidemic in Seattle and Kansas City and 19 other states?  TB in New York and Manassas, Virginia?  Leprosy in New Hampshire?  Dengue Fever in Laredo?  What's going on here?  If you think data about illegal alien crime is hidden from public, just try to find information on the contagious diseases brought across our borders by illegal aliens from nearly 100 countries.  If we survey the anecdotal and sporadic official data of the past fifteen years, there is no doubt we are being invaded daily by dangerous diseases.  There is good reason to believe the government is minimizing this risk as part of its disinformation campaign to sanitize illegal immigration and to portray all critics as "anti-immigrant."  Although the U.S. Border Patrol publishes frequent reports on the number of individuals apprehended crossing the border, no agency publishes reports on the diseases they bring with them and then carry into our communities.

Emergency rooms are becoming the only dialysis option for the undocumented.  Increasingly in Memphis, and around the U.S., emergency rooms are becoming the source of specialized medical care for undocumented workers.  Not only is it not the best option, medically, it's adding an expensive burden to hospitals forced to cover the cost because they can't legally turn away uninsured.

Hundreds of deported immigrants with mental disabilities may return to US.  Hundreds of immigrants with mental disabilities who were deported from the U.S. after representing themselves in court may be allowed to return to the country under a settlement approved by a judge Friday [9/25/2015].

Obama's Illegal Aliens are Importing Deadly Third World Diseases.  Even as exotic new diseases and nearly-eradicated old ones keep popping up across the nation, the Obama administration is unconcerned, or some would say, recklessly indifferent, to the public health threat that Third World illegal aliens pose to the American public.  This isn't an observation from would-be GOP presidential nominee Donald Trump or some wild-eyed rube — it's a devastating criticism that comes from two public health experts at the government's own Centers for Disease Control (CDC).  It comes as deadly diseases surface or make a comeback in the U.S. Among those ailments are tuberculosis, pneumonia, paralysis-causing acute flaccid myelitis, dengue fever, swine flu, and enterovirus D68.

Emails Reveal CDC Officials Slamming 'Marxist' Obama During Illegal Immigrant Influx.  Emails recently obtained by Judicial Watch reveal disgusted CDC officials griping about the president of the United States, describing him as "the worst pres we have ever had," an "amateur" and a "Marxist."  The two officials traded the emails on June 9, 2014, when the Texas border was being overwhelmed with a massive influx of illegal immigrant minors.  Another email dated June 18, 2014, shows a CDC intelligence analyst describing the situation as a "Leave No Child on the other Side of the Border Policy," referring to the Bush-era education law known as "No Child Left Behind."

Importing a Potential Epidemic.  By now most Americans are familiar with the Obama administration's ongoing effort to force-feed amnesty for illegals to a largely recalcitrant American public.  The most egregious part of this effort occurred during last year's border "surge" when the administration not only embraced the admittance of tens of thousands of Unaccompanied Alien Children (UACs) into our nation, but the purposeful and secret dispersal of them into all 50 states, the District of Columbia, Puerto Rico and the U.S. Virgin Islands.  What Americans don't know is that the Obama administration ignored Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) guidelines that apply to legal immigrants and prevent the unvaccinated, or those with a "communicable disease of public health significance," from entering the country.  As a result, it is quite possible the outbreak of unknown diseases or those mostly eradicated in the U.S. for quite some time is no coincidence.

California Won't Be Able to Pay for All That Free Healthcare for Illegals.  California is working hard to facilitate illegal immigration while other states are looking at immigration enforcement.  They're giving away freebies, including healthcare.  California is a one-party government, like the old Soviet Union, and there's little in the way of effective opposition.  They like to spread around other people's money especially to poor illegal aliens.  Californians already offer health services free or at low cost to the uninsured, low-income residents who don't get it under Obamacare.  Several counties offer the same healthcare to illegal aliens.

Illegal Immigrant with Drug-Resistant TB to Be Released into US, say Congressional Leaders.  On Friday [4/3/2015], Arizona Rep. Paul Gosar, along with Rep. Ann Kirkpatrick (D-AZ) and Senators John McCain (R-AZ) and Jeff Flake (R-AZ), sent a letter to DHS Secretary Jeh Johnson and ICE Deputy Assistant Secretary Saldaña warning them not to release an illegal immigrant with drug-resistant tuberculosis into the general public.

More than 2 dozen people test positive for tuberculosis at Kansas school.  More than 300 Olathe Northwest High School students and staff members were tested after coming into contact with an infected student.

28 Students Test Positive for TB; Media Mum on Cause.  More than 300 Olathe Northwest High School students and staff members were tested after coming into contact with an infected student.

TB Tests Positive for 27 Students at Kansas High School.  Health officials reported that 8 percent of the students and staff at a Kansas high school have tested positive for a tuberculosis infection.  At least 27 people out of 300 tested at Olathe Northwest High School in Olathe, Kansas, were positive for the infection, according to a statement from the Johnson County Department of Health and Environment.  The testing started after an active case of tuberculosis was reported on March 5, according to the local health department.

Those Other Diseased Illegal Immigrants.  While concerns are rightly focused on the infectious disease risk to United States citizens via illegal immigration from Mexico and Central America, illegal immigrants from other regions also threaten the health of legal American residents.  In addition to the large Mexican and Central American illegal immigrant population in the U.S., there are also hundreds of thousands of illegals from countries such as the Philippines (310,000 as of the latest Homeland Security estimate for 2012), India (260,000), South Korea (230,000), China (210,000), Ecuador (170,000), Vietnam (160,000), and about another 1.8 million from other countries.

Vaccination Rates Among Immigrants Are a Legitimate Concern.  The spread of measles in the United States is undoubtedly driven by insufficient vaccination among natives.  But this does not mean that the vaccination rate among immigrant groups is unimportant, or that one must be "anti-immigrant" to worry about it.  In fact, low vaccination rates in the United States, regrettable as they are, make it all the more important to be vigilant about what diseases may be carried across our borders.  It is probably not a coincidence that the current outbreak has been traced to Disneyland, which is a common destination for international travelers.

Ben Carson Blames Measles Outbreak On 'Undocumented People'.  Potential 2016 candidate Dr. Ben Carson, who has expressed support for strict vaccination policies, on Tuesday [2/3/2015] linked the measles outbreak in California to undocumented immigrants.  CNN's Jake Tapper asked Carson if parents' decisions not to vaccinate their children led to the outbreak.  "It is a good example of what happens," Carson responded.  But he then suggested that the outbreak may have started with undocumented immigrants.

Did [the] Border Crisis Trigger [a] Measles Outbreak?  The sudden outbreak of measles across the United States raises questions about how the disease arrived in the country after it was eradicated here in 2000.  A quick review of the U.S. State Department visa requirements for immigrant visas reveals that applicants must be vaccinated for measles prior to their approval.  Measles vaccination is not required for tourist visas, according to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, nor is it required for any other disease.  That leaves three possibilities. [...]

Measles, Virus and Disease — President Obama's Infectious Legacy.  In 2000, the Centers for Disease Control had thought that measles were eliminated in the US, but starting in 2008, cases began to climb.  In 2014, the number of cases exploded to over 600, more than all reported cases between 2009 and 2013.  The CDC also reported that cases reached a 20-year high in 2014.  The CDC determined that the number of cases grew in the US due to an influx of foreign immigrants.  There is no treatment for measles once it is contracted.  Patients should stay hydrated as they ride the illness out.

Blaming Mickey and Other Measles Scapegoats.  Unwilling to put the blame on the thousands upon thousands of unaccompanied minors that Obama encouraged to migrate north last summer or the possibility that an illegal visiting Disneyland is the source, is the CDC actually suggesting the culprit might be a travelling American, or a visitor from overseas, or perhaps Dumbo or even Mickey Mouse?  The CDC is saying "We assume that someone got infected with measles overseas, visited Disneyland park, and spread the disease to others."  In other words, it could have been absolutely anyone, from anywhere!

CDC "very concerned" about potential for large measles outbreak.  Tom Frieden, the director of the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC), said his agency is "very concerned" about the possibility of a large measles outbreak in the U.S. because of the growing number of people who have not been vaccinated against the disease. [...] There are at least 102 reported cases of measles in 14 states, according to CDC statistics.

Maybe The Government Should Stop Lying.  Measles is a nasty disease and one for which there is an effective (but not perfectly effective) vaccine.  You're nuts if you are not vaccinated against this.  But — there's a problem.  We allow undocumented immigrants into this country, including children, and guess what — many of them are unvaccinated.

Another 'Eradicated Disease' Invading U.S..  Dengue hemorrhagic fever has been added to the list of diseases brought by the surge of "unaccompanied minors" who have illegally entered the U.S. this year. [...] The WHO has documented that before 1970, only nine countries had experienced severe dengue epidemics.  The disease has been diagnosed in more than 100 countries in Africa, Latin America, Indonesia, the Eastern Mediterranean, Southeast Asia and the Western Pacific.

Illegal Immigrants Faking Crimes To Stay In Charlotte.  A U-Visa is good for four years and just filling out an application can delay or stop deportation proceedings altogether.  Not surprisingly, that's led to a flood of applications at the Charlotte-Mecklenburg Police Department, where they have had more than 700 thus far in 2014.  But it's also opened the door to fraud.

Another Component of Obama's Legacy: Chagas Disease.  Obama's legacy includes more than the recklessly irresponsible if not deliberate importation of Ebola and enterovirus D-68 into the USA.  Let's not forget Chagas disease: [...] Barack Obama has brought 60,000 children from these countries into the US in this year.  Obama not only brought them in, almost certainly helping to coordinate their transport up through Mexico (considering that the Administration knew in advance how many were coming and when they would arrive).  He quickly distributed the potential vectors to all 50 states and even the US Virgin islands before they could be deported.

Recently Arrived Illegal Alien Minors Spread Deadly Virus.  Virtually nonexistent in the U.S. before the recent influx of illegal alien minors, the lethal Enterovirus D68 (EV-D68) is associated with severe respiratory illness and is known to come from Central America. According to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) from mid-August to the end of October state public health laboratories have confirmed a total of 1,105 people in 47 states and the District of Columbia with respiratory illness caused by EV-D68.  What the agency conveniently omits is that the deadly virus was first discovered in cities with large numbers of relocated illegal immigrant minors, officially identified by the government as Unaccompanied Alien Children (UAC).

Is A Quest For The Latino Vote Really Worth Unleashing Enterovirus?  Is winning new Democratic voters worth the sickening and even death of children?  A new report provides evidence that illegals are spreading enterovirus as a result of Obama's open-borders policy.  If so, it's one of the worst derelictions of duty yet by a White House that's permitted lives to be sacrificed — from Benghazi to the Fast and Furious scandal — for political ends.  Late Friday [10/31/2014], the Daily Caller assembled a long report showing genetic and statistical evidence that links a sudden upsurge in the deadly Enterovirus D68 with its polio-like symptoms to the flood of tens of thousands of unaccompanied minors through our unguarded southern border this year.

How Much Cholera Will Obama's 100,000 Haitians Bring to America?  Obama is doing so well managing Ebola that he wants to step up the game by introducing some Cholera to it with his plan to bring in 100,000 Haitians. [...] The benefits for the Democratic Party are obvious.  The benefits for America much less so.

Illegals Now Bringing in Leprosy.  For the first time in Ohio history, a prison inmate has been diagnosed with leprosy, state corrections officials said Thursday [10/16/2014].  The inmate, whose name was not released, was diagnosed with the chronic bacterial infection on Tuesday at the Chillicothe Correctional Institution, according to the Department of Rehabilitation and Correction.  The infected prisoner is a native of Micronesia, a region of islands in the Pacific Ocean, and has served time at three other Ohio prisons since 2011, according to Stuart Hudson, the DRC's managing director of health care and fiscal operations.

Reported Source of New Virus Killing Kids: Obama's "Unaccompanied Alien Children".  A disease that was once rare in the U.S. is killing Americans, and its rise coincides with the tidal wave of unaccompanied minor children arriving from Latin America under our de facto open-border policy.

How an Obama Administration Policy is Destroying Lives.  Government health officials haven't offered any explanation for the unusual outbreak.  The Centers for Disease Control has pointedly refused to disclose the states where children have died or even specific locations of outbreaks.  State and local officials are similarly closed mouthed.  Except for suggesting routine precautions, public officials largely refuse to offer any details whatsoever, and in some cases have spread misinformation.  And the media seem incapable of penetrating the wall of silence, simply repeating the official narrative.  But there is significant, almost irrefutable evidence that this outbreak is the direct result of this year's illegal alien invasion from Central America.

CDC denies enterovirus link to illegal-alien kids.  The CDC denies a causal link between the surge of illegal-alien children from Latin America and the enterovirus D-68 outbreak in the United States, but government data show the virus was rare in the U.S. before this year.

Scott Brown: Anyone with Ebola can 'walk across' our 'porous' border.  When I reported the other day that GOP Senate candidate Tom Cotton had claimed ISIS is collaborating with Mexican drug cartels to infiltrate the border and kill Arkansans, a number of folks joked on twitter that if Cotton had thrown Ebola into the mix, he would have hit the Fox News Trifecta.  It turns out that at least two GOP Senate candidates are, in fact, linking Ebola to the border, and using that double jolt of fear to attack Dem Senate incumbents.

General: If Ebola Reaches Central America, 'There Will Be Mass Migration into the U.S.'.  [Marine Corps Gen. John F. Kelly] also said with certainty that "there is no way we can keep Ebola [contained] in West Africa."

BP Agent: Nothing Done To Secure Border From Ebola, Apprehensions at 30%.  Border Patrol Agent and National Border Patrol Council #3307 Vice President Chris Cabrera said that "nothing" has been done to secure the border in the event the Ebola virus spreads to Central America, and that the apprehension rate on the border was down to about 30% on Thursday's [10/9/2014] "Your World with Neil Cavuto" on the Fox News Channel.  Cabrera said, "I agree with that 100 percent," when asked whether he agreed with Marine Corps General John Kelly that there would be a "mass migration" to the US if the Ebola virus spread to Central America.

Disease plagues illegal immigrants; lack of medications, basic hygiene blamed.  Communicable diseases continue to be a problem at the New Mexico facility built to house illegal immigrant families surging across the U.S.-Mexico border, and the immigrants themselves aren't taking their own health care very seriously, according to an audit released Monday [10/6/2014].  While the Border Patrol is doing a good job of handling the surge of illegal immigrant children traveling alone without their parents, the families who are being housed at a special facility continue to have health problems and trouble using the bathroom, the Homeland Security inspector general said.

Polio-like illness claims fifth life in U.S..  At least five children infected with the respiratory illness known enterovirus D68 (EV-D68) have died in the U.S. in the past month.  The lastest confirmed victim was a four-year-old New Jersey boy, Eli Waller.  He died at home on September 25.  The Centers for Disease Control (CDC) confirmed the cause of death Friday night.  But health officials say they have no idea how he contracted the virus.  A health official says Eli was "asymptomatic and fine" when he went to bed but died overnight.  He had no known preexisting immune weakness.

Fifth Child Dies To Support President Obama's Illegal Immigration Goals:
Illegal South American Immigrants Introduce Deadly Virus To U.S. Children.  Though the U.S. government is keeping secret the locations of the illegal immigrant children, there are significant numbers of them in both cities in which the current outbreak was first identified, Kansas City, Missouri and Chicago, Illinois, according to local advocates and press reports.

Immigration Expert: Obama Admin Responsible For Letting Ebola Patient Into U.S..  [Scroll down]  The statute explicitly states that "any alien" or legal immigrant or visitor, "who is determined (in accordance with regulations prescribed by the Secretary of Health and Human Services) to have a communicable disease of public health significance" or someone who is "who is determined (in accordance with regulations prescribed by the Secretary of Health and Human Services in consultation with the [Secretary of Homeland Security])... to have a physical or mental disorder and behavior associated with the disorder that may pose, or has posed, a threat to the property, safety, or welfare of the alien or others, or" is considered to be "inadmissible."

Ebola Yes, Bagpipes No.  Thomas Eric Duncan has the distinction of being America's Patient Zero — the first but not the last person to develop Ebola symptoms in the United States.  Is he a US citizen?  No, he's Liberian.  Is he a resident of the United States?  No, he landed at Washington's Dulles Airport on September 20th, in order to visit his sister and having quit his job in Monrovia a few weeks earlier.  So he's a single unemployed man with relatives in the US and no compelling reason to return to his native land.  That alone is supposed to be cause for immigration scrutiny.

Obama Stubbornly Refuses Ebola Travel Ban.  The calls are growing louder for the Obama administration to ban travel from countries dealing with Ebola virus outbreaks.  But, throwing caution to the wind, the White House refuses to even entertain this common-sense first step to protect the United States from experiencing an outbreak of its own.

We Gambled with Ebola and Lost.  Ebola has reached our shores from Africa.  Dozens of children are reportedly suffering paralysis from a deadly virus with unknown origins.  Medical providers across the country have warned of a looming public-health crisis as communicable diseases spread unmonitored and uncontrolled.  Other countries are cracking down.  But America is stuck on open-borders stupid.  The Diversity Visa (DV) program, to take just one glaring example of government insanity, is still going.  On October 1, the State Department opened the annual DV random lottery to applicants from around the world.  Yes, it's completely random, like a Powerball drawing.

Obama proven wrong, wrong, wrong about Ebola in just 2 weeks.  I can't remember a time when trust in government was as low as it is today. Obama now has a reputation as a liar, with the great lies of Obamacare ("If you like your doctor...) forever his legacy. [...] And now with epidemics imported from abroad threatening our health (not just Ebola but Enterovirus), the public has every reason to be distrustful of those offering advice and reassurances.

Ebola Fumble: Obama Fails to Use Legal Power to Deny Entry.  As the Ebola epidemic has spread through West Africa over the last several months, President Obama has not used legal powers he possesses to help prevent the deadly virus from entering the United States.  Federal law gives the president the power to issue a proclamation to seal the borders to any class of aliens who pose a threat to the United States.  The law is broad enough that Obama could have issued a proclamation months ago denying entry to any foreign national from the countries of Sierra Leone, Guinea, Nigeria or Liberia.

'Mystery Illness' Striking Kids Across The Country.  While most folks have had their eyes diverted by the Ebola scare, another illness is hitting hundreds of kids especially hard this year.  Some have become paralyzed by the illness, and others have died.  Calling it the "mystery illness," doctors say it is a strain of viruses called Enterovirus 68, and it has hit kids from California to the East Coast.  First diagnosed in the U.S. in 1962, the virus has been rare here.  But this year it has exploded for unknown reasons.

CDC Refuses to Directly Answer If Ebola Patient A US Citizen.  Tuesday [9/30/2014] during the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention press conference, which confirmed the first case of Ebola in the United States, CDC Director Dr. Tom Frieden refused to directly answer if the man who traveled from Liberia to Texas earlier this month was a citizen of the Untied States.

Open Borders Medical News: Bubonic Plague and Tuberculosis Outbreak in U.S. Southwest.  It's not just an issue of terrorists wandering into the U.S., it's a range of health hazards thought long ago conquered domestically.

A New Border Surge Opens Us To Surge Of Epidemics.  Secretary of State John Kerry warns of a new surge of illegals, just as Central America is being hit by a new wave of epidemics.  No doubt about it:  President Obama's open-borders policy is exposing us to disease, too.

Little [is being] Done About New Diseases Coming Up From [the Mexican] Border.  Amid applause, President Obama has made fighting Ebola in Africa a military priority, to protect U.S. health.  So why is he doing nothing about the raft of new diseases that may be rolling in from our unguarded border?  'We can't dawdle on this one," the president intoned this week, announcing that he would be putting 3,000 boots on the ground in Liberia, Sierra Leone and Guinea, in a $600 million rescue effort for three nations badly hit by the dreaded Ebola epidemic.

Ebola crisis: Yes, we need to help but is Obama ready to keep Americans safe?  America is silently acquiescing to President Obama's extraordinarily expensive and flawed plan to fight Ebola in West Africa.  Tuesday [9/16/2014], Obama announced he is committing $763 million dollars and 3,000 military personnel to taming the outbreak that so far has killed 2,400 people.  Though help is urgently needed there, the plan does too little to protect Americans.  Obama said nothing about temporarily banning commercial air travel between the U.S. and West Africa, in order to help prevent Ebola from coming here.  Some 220,000 residents of West African countries have visas that permit them to enter the United States.

Doctor: Gov't 'Tight-Lipped' on Respiratory Virus, May be From Illegals.  Dr. Jane Orient, Executive Director of the Association of American Physicians and Surgeons, reported that the government has been "real tight-lipped" about the mysterious respiratory illness that has struck children in the United States, expressed concern that the illegal immigrant minors from Central America could be the source, and argued that the government should devote more resources to border security to combat the spread of disease on Wednesday's "Laura Ingraham Show."

Cases of rare and severe respiratory illness enterovirus 68 confirmed in 14 states.  Health officials say 14 states now have respiratory illnesses caused by an uncommon virus — enterovirus 68 which is marked by severe breathing problems and will continue to infect children in more states.

The Immigration Problem: What Are The Health Risks?  Troubling facts concerning health risks related to the wave of illegal immigrants who are crossing our southern border are coming to light despite efforts by the government to keep Americans in the dark. [...] Proponents of accommodating this newest influx of foreigners try to say this immigration wave is no different from those in the past.  They are wrong.  Historically, immigrants who legally sought entry to America (such as those through Ellis Island) went through a structured process that checked them for communicable diseases.  In some cases, those found to present a health risk were quarantined until they no longer proposed a threat.  In other cases, they were sent back to their country of origin.

Hordes of Illegal Aliens Are Sinking Boston Suburb.  When the Obama Regime refused to say where it has been hiding the thousands of largely underage illegal aliens it has been allowing into the country, the curious set about trying to find them.  A massive outbreak of respiratory illness among children in 10 states provided one clue.

Schools Ordered To Waive Health, Immunization Rules For Illegals.  The Virginia Department of Education issued a memo to its 132 divisions this week outlining how schools should handle the expected influx of more than 2,850 illegal immigrant children.  In addition to giving them "homeless" status, which comes with benefits under the Homeless Assistance Act, the state is also ordering schools to "immediately enroll" the students and waive the health and immunization requirements of other students.

The Invasion of Enterovirus EV-D68.  For starters, Ohio, California, and Kansas are just a few of the states already struggling to contain measles outbreaks.  Now, in addition to measles, more than 1,000 children in 10 states — Missouri, Kansas, Illinois, Kentucky, Iowa, Colorado, Ohio, Oklahoma, North Carolina, and Georgia — have suddenly become infected with a rare respiratory virus, not seen in the U.S. since the 1960s, called human Enterovirus EV-D68.  The U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention claim that the rare strain is related to the same rhinovirus responsible for causing the common cold.  The dire prediction is that in the coming weeks and months, Enterovirus EV-D68, origin unknown, is due to spread to all 50 states and afflict great numbers of otherwise healthy children.

Is Thinking Obsolete?  Geraldo Rivera has denounced the Drudge Report for carrying news stories that show some of the negative consequences and dangers from allowing vast numbers of youngsters to enter the country illegally and be spread across the country by the Obama administration.  Some of these youngsters are already known to be carrying lice and suffering from disease.  Since there have been no thorough medical examinations of most of them, we have no way of knowing whether, or how many, are carrying deadly diseases that will spread to American children when these unexamined young immigrants enter schools across the country.

Border agents, family members infected with diseases through illegal immigrant contact.  KFOX14 obtained the July 30 report from the Office of the Inspector General, which states that Border Patrol personnel at the Clint Station in El Paso County and Santa Teresa Station in Dona Ana County reported they were potentially exposed to tuberculosis.  The report also states:  "DHS employees reported exposure to communicable diseases and becoming sick on duty.  For example, during a recent site visit to the Del Rio USBP Station and Del Rio Port of Entry, CBP personnel reported contracting scabies, lice, and chicken pox.  Two CBP officers reported that their children were diagnosed with chicken pox within days of the CBP officer's contact with an unaccompanied minor who had chicken pox."

Are We Being Lied To? — Detainment Center At Artesia New Mexico Claims Lockdown Due To Chicken Pox.  A few days ago we shared the Washington Times story about a facility in New Mexico being closed due to a Chicken Pox outbreak. [...] Is the Chicken Pox story a cover for the more troublesome Tuberculosis outbreak?  Is the New Mexico quarantine really because of Chicken Pox?  If so, why didn't they quarantine the facility as they began x-ray screening for the 89 active skin-test TB cases ?

Unaccompanied illegal immigrant kids exposed federal agents to lice, scabies, tuberculosis and chicken pox, report says.  In two cases, the children of a border patrol agent got chicken pox contracted from their parents' exposure to unaccompanied children with chicken pox, according to the report on conditions of detention centers and border facilities.  The report, the first in a series, is based on 87 unannounced visits to 63 detention centers being used to house unaccompanied alien children (UAC) in Texas, Arizona and California during July 1-16.  "Many UAC and family units require treatment for communicable diseases, including respiratory illnesses, tuberculosis, chicken pox, and scabies," said the memorandum summarizing the report.

Illegal immigrant kids exposed federal agents to lice, scabies, tuberculosis and chicken pox, report says.  Unaccompanied illegal immigrant children with communicable diseases have given or exposed federal agents to lice, scabies, tuberculosis and chicken pox, according to a report issued Thursday by the Department of Homeland Security's Office of Inspector General.  In two cases, the children of a border patrol agent got chicken pox contracted from their parents' exposure to unaccompanied children with chicken pox, according to the report on conditions of detention centers and border facilities.

Feds Struggling to Cope With Medical 'Breakdown' at the Border.  The federal government is so overwhelmed by the current tide of migrants crossing the border it can't provide basic medical screening to all of the children before transporting them — often by air — to longer-term holding facilities across the country, ABC News has learned.

Obama is Recklessly Endangering the Entire Country by the Intentional Release of Communicable Diseases.  The Obama administration has pursued a policy of reckless endangerment by allowing tens of thousands of illegal aliens to enter the United States in direct violation of our sovereign immigration laws.  It has been documented by the federal government that swine flu and pneumonia outbreaks have been a result of this policy.  Tuberculosis, hand-foot-and-mouth disease, Chagas disease and chicken pox have been verified by US border patrol agents.

Outbreak on the Border.  The outbreak of disease among several of the nearly 600 immigrant children at the Naval Base Ventura County, located north of Los Angeles, initially was thought to be caused by deadly bacterial streptococcal meningitis, according to one official close to the issue.  However, a spokesman for the Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) said he was not aware of any cases of meningitis at the base.  The pneumonia cases and meningitis scare last weekend followed two cases of H1N1 swine flu among other child immigrants — one at the California base and another in Texas.  The virus caused a global pandemic in 2009, but officials said it is considered less dangerous than the pneumonia and initially suspected meningitis outbreak that began over the past weekend.

Border Patrol Agent Hospitalized with Pneumonia Caught from an Illegal Immigrant.  A Border Patrol agent from the Laredo, Texas, Sector has been hospitalized for seven days with bacterial pneumonia, which the agent contracted while processing illegal immigrants, officials from National Border Patrol Council 2455 tell National Review Online.  Agent Jarrad Seely, vice president of NBPC 2455, says the agent is expected to have chronic asthmatic symptoms for life, according to information relayed by the agent.

Surge Of Undocumented Minors Includes Pregnant Mothers.  The thousands of undocumented minors in U.S. detention facilities includes an unknown number of pregnant teenaged immigrants.  The pregnant minors have been moved into longer-term shelters operated by the Department of Health and Human Services in order to provide federally funded health care.  As many as 90,000 undocumented minors from El Salvador, Guatemala, and Honduras are expected to enter the United States this year.

Are you ready for a TB epidemic?  Is stupidity or malevolence behind the policy of distributing Central American illegal alien children around the country among the general population?  The question must be asked because alarming numbers of these unfortunates are carrying tuberculosis, a lethal disease that had largely been eradicated from the United States.

America's Impending Tuberculosis Epidemic.  One of the things that changes you, when you become a parent, is the body of knowledge you acquire to protect your spouse and children including things like knowledge of infectious diseases in public schools. [...] In the 1920s TB was the eighth leading cause of death for children 1-to-4 years old.  Since then American public health has been so effective in preventing it that the USA no longer has any "herd immunity" to TB.  This "catch and release" illegal alien policy is horrible from the infectious disease point of view in that phlegm or aerosolized sputum that are contaminated with Mycobacterium tuberculosis are active biohazards that have long latent infection periods.  This makes "exposure" very easy.

Border Doctor: Previously-Deported Illegal Alien with Tuberculosis Ignored by Feds.  Dr. Elizabeth Lee Vliet — a preventive medicine physician and former Director of the Association of American Physicians and Surgeons (AAPS) — has practices in Arizona and Texas.  Vliet claimed that one of her patients, whose name can not be disclosed for confidentiality reasons, called her with fears that the TB-positive immigrant was putting other lives at risk.  Vliet said her patient informed her that ICE and DHS would not take the illegal immigrant — who was previously deported but is now back in the U.S. — into custody.

Doctor Speaks Out Against Feds Silencing Medical Staff on Border.  Early in July it was revealed that doctors and nurses were allegedly threatened with arrest if they disclosed any information about the diseases discovered in federal housing facilities for illegal immigrants.  Many on the left have claimed that by speaking out about their work at the facilities, medical personnel would be violating the Health Insurance Portability and Accountability Act (HIPAA), which "protects the privacy of individually identifiable health information."

Border Patrol personnel infected by illegal immigrant flood.  Along with piteous pictures of children flooding across our borders and being distributed across the country courtesy of US taxpayers come disease vectors.  Maybe flying them around to various parts of the country isn't the smartest idea.

The Editor says...
If the government intends to deport the unaccompanied children (with or without a hearing), then why are they being distributed to the interior parts of the country?  If 10,000 of us sneaked into Mexico, would we be flown to Mexico City?

Border Agent Contracts Scabies After Handling Undocumented Immigrants.  A border patrol agent was diagnosed with scabies after processing undocumented immigrants in Otay Mesa, California, the agent's union representative said.  Ronald Zermeno, health and safety director for the National Border Control Council union, said the agent told him that he observed several people with open sores while screening them in preparation to be released to U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement.  Scabies is caused by a mite that burrows into skin and lays eggs, causing an intense itching and rash, according to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention.

Starnes: Sources Say TB Cases Being Found in Immigrants at TX Facilities.  On Fox and Friends this morning [7/7/2014], Fox News Radio reporter Todd Starnes revealed more tuberculosis infections are being found at camps in Texas that are housing illegal immigrants.  According to Starnes' sources, at least three cases of tuberculosis were found at facility near Austin, while at least four more cases were confirmed in teenagers at a refugee camp at Lackland Air Force Base.  He described the situation at Lackland as "far worse."  The disease can spread quickly in tight quarters. Starnes said it's unclear whether these infections are the drug-resistant type of TB, but that strain is said to be common in Central America.

Letter: Illegal Aliens Who Exposed Border Patrol Agents to Scabies May Have Been Released into Population.  Illegal aliens presumed to have exposed border patrol agents in San Diego, California, to scabies may have been released into the general population, according to a July 4 letter from Ronald Zermeno, director of Health and Safety of a local chapter of the National Border Patrol Council, the union representing Border Patrol agents.

At Least Two 'Border Kids' Have Swine Flu.  [Scroll down]  But some of the fears being expressed were more specific.  Those were the ones that involved communicable diseases — leprosy, tuberculosis, whooping cough, and the other usual suspects you often hear a lot about when you write about immigration.  We're talking about the kind of sicknesses that those of us who live in the United States usually have the luxury of not having to think about — until the Third World crashes the back gate.  The worry was that these border kids from Central America were either bringing in diseases, or contracting diseases while locked in unsanitary and overcrowded holding cells, and then spreading them to other children and incarcerated youth.  At least those viruses could be somewhat contained.  The real worry was those children who had — by mid-June — already been relocated around the country, to unsuspecting communities as far away as California and Pennsylvania?  What then?

Illegal Immigration Bio-Warfare.  In Murrieta, [California,] over the last few months, over 500 illegal aliens a week are being released into the general population, many of these people are children, without a medical screening.  Last weekend that number changed to 200 every 72 hours.  They are being shipped in from other areas around the country to our holding facility, where they do not have the room to house these people, much less give them a proper processing above checking to see if these invaders are known criminals.

Doctor: Risk Of Diseases Brought By Migrants Not Being Taken Seriously.  Earlier this week Breitbart Texas reported on a confirmed case of the Swine Flu, or H1N1, at a facility for young migrants in San Antonio, Texas.  Dr. Elizabeth Lee Vliet — an experienced physician and nationally recognized speaker — told Breitbart Texas that the risks from such diseases being brought over the border are being dramatically downplayed.  Vliet said, "Many people are trying to diminish the seriousness of this.  They say, 'We have these diseases in the U.S.' Well yes, we do, but they've been well controlled, we have good hygiene, and most of our parents keep children home when they're sick."  Most of the border minors are being kept in overcrowded facilities ridden with poor hygiene; this is the ideal condition for a viral outbreak, according to Vliet.

Illegal Alien Flood Brings Killer Swine Flu Back into Texas.  The federal government is reportedly now shipping 2,000 H1N1 vaccines to Lackland AFB to prevent an outbreak.  By the way, Lackland AFB would be a terrible place for an outbreak to occur.  It's only where every single new Air Force recruit undergoes basic training.  It's also where Air Force officer candidates get trained.  It's in San Antonio, Texas' second largest city, and a trade hub between Texas, Mexico and the rest of the country.

Homeland Security Sec: Feds Screening Illegals For 'Contagious Diseases'.  Homeland Security Secretary Jeh Johnson said on Tuesday that the federal government is screening illegal immigrant children flooding across the United States-Mexico border for contagious diseases.  Numerous doctors have expressed concerns that the border crisis can lead to a public health crisis.

Texas Immigration Center [is] a Magnet for Disease.  A Border Patrol official says he's concerned the medical screening at the Border Patrol Station in McAllen, Texas, has grown so porous that a new superbug will make its way into the United States through the station.  Albert Spratte, the sergeant-at-arms of the National Border Patrol Council Local 3307 in the Rio Grande Valley, says the medical screening process involves separating people into one of three separate classifications.  If a person claims to be sick, he or she will see a doctor.  If a person does not claim to be sick, but an Emergency Medical Technician looks at the person and determines he or she has symptoms of some sort of illness, that person will also see a doctor.  But a person who does not claim to be ill or is not displaying symptoms may or may not be seen.

Doctors Warn Of Looming Health Crisis Due To Flood Of Young Illegal Immigrants.  In an exclusive interview with Breitbart News, Dr. Jane Orient, an internal medicine specialist and the Executive Director of the Association of American Physicians and Surgeons (AAPS), said that by admitting these huge groups of children who come from countries where medical screenings are minimal and hygiene is poor, the United States is at risk for epidemics of serious diseases and viruses that the nation has not seen in years.

Immigration Crisis: Tuberculosis Spreading at Camps.  Are the thousands of illegal immigrant kids housed in detention facilities happy and well fed — or are they living in disease-infested compounds shrouded in secrecy?  Well, it depends on who you ask  The Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) seems to think the children coming across the southern border are remarkably healthy.  It's a sentiment shared by BCFS — the Texas-based agency formerly known as Baptist Child & Family Services contracted to run camps at Lackland Air Force Base in San Antonio and Fort Sill in Oklahoma.

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If the grubby little urchins from Central America are "remarkably healthy," then we in the United States are wasting a lot of money every year on vaccinations.

Immigration Bedlam.  Chaos.  That summarizes the situation on America's southern frontier, as well as Obama's freeing of almost 104,000 illegal-alien criminals last year.  He clearly doesn't [care] about shielding Americans from the public-health and public-safety dangers posed by those who breach the border, including deadly felons now walking American streets.  Waves of unaccompanied children are washing over the border with growing intensity.  And many are bearing dangerous diseases.  Illegals are heading into the general population, even after testing positive for tuberculosis.

Scabies-Infected Illegal Immigrants Pass Infestation To US Law Enforcement.  Several U.S. Border Patrol agents in the Rio Grande Valley (RGV) sector have reportedly contracted scabies from contact with detained illegal immigrants.  According to a report by Action 4 News, about 10-15 percent of apprehended illegal immigrants have scabies in the RVG area.  "A lot of people [are] coming in with the disease, and it seems to be spreading, not just within the McAllen station, but throughout the Valley and to some of our agents," Chris Cabrera, a spokesman for the National Border Patrol Council, told the local media outlet.

Feds Spent $26.2 Million On Medicare Advantage For Illegal Immigrants.  The Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services has improperly paid millions of dollars to Medicare Advantage organizations on behalf of illegal immigrants.  In a new report released Friday [4/25/2014], the Department of Health and Human Services' Office of Inspector General (OIG) revealed that for calendar years 2010 through 2012, CMS provided $26.2 million in improper payments to Medicare Advantage organizations for 1,600 "unlawfully present beneficiaries" — or nearly $16,375 per illegal immigrant.

Do Liberals Care if Third World Illnesses Infect Americans?  The Biblical scourge of leprosy, a "slow-growing bacillus... parasite with a tropism for peripheral nerves, skin, and mucous membranes... upper respiratory tract, anterior chamber of the eye, and the testes," is also within our borders.  In 2002, there were only 900 total cases of leprosy in the US.  In the next three years there were 9,000, mostly in states with the largest immigrant populations. [...] So, a word to the wise:  the next time a French fry falls on the table in the food court or the handle of a shopping cart is grabbed, remember that along with open borders and liberal politicians come diseases and various deadly pathogens either formerly eradicated or never endemic to the US in the first place, are waiting for a new host, and you are nominated.

Undocumented immigrants to strain safety-net hospitals in Connecticut.  Undocumented immigrants are expected to make up a larger share of Connecticut's uninsured population next year, putting "new financial pressures on safety-net hospitals" that provide emergency care to everyone, state and national health experts predict.  The Affordable Care Act (ACA) provides coverage options for legal immigrants, but those in the U.S. illegally cannot apply for Medicaid, even if they are poor, or buy coverage at Access Health CT (the new insurance marketplace), even if they have cash.  That means undocumented residents without coverage will continue turning to local emergency departments for care at a time when Connecticut hospitals face the loss of millions of dollars in federal and state subsidies to help defray the cost of uncompensated care.

Illegal Aliens Demand Free Organ Transplants.  Illegal immigrants have boldly demanded everything from civil rights in the U.S. to driver's licenses and government benefits such as welfare and discounted tuition at public universities, so why stop there?

Child birth calls ring in from border.  San Diego Fire and Rescue crews were called to the San Ysidro border crossing for nearly 160 childbirth emergencies in 2012 — one almost every other day. [...] There are no statistics on how many of the moms being rushed by emergency crews to local hospitals are U.S. citizens, as federal laws prohibit emergency crews and hospital teams from asking.  Babies born under the circumstances are U.S. citizens as a birthright.

Centennial Man Calls $7,000 Per Hour E.R. Bill 'Outlandish'.  [Scroll down]  Dr. Mark Earnest, a professor of medicine and health policy with the University of Colorado, said families like the Josephs also face inflated bills to compensate for all the patients who pay nothing.  "If you've got 30 to 40 percent of the people who pay nothing, the people who do have some ability to pay pay a lot more to cover the other guys."  Earnest says estimates of the people who use ER services but cannot afford to pay runs between 30 and 70 percent.