Call the question
They (illegal immigrants) should be vaccinated before they get sent back. Then even their 3rd world ****holes will be safer from these
hideous deseases!
Yah. See
Disease Threat From Immigrant Children Wildly Overstated - The Texas Observer
"
Disease Threat From Immigrant Children
Wildly Overstated
"by Rachel Pearson - Published Thu,
Jul 10, 2014
"The
Central American kids arriving in Texas are
likely to be better-vaccinated than children in Texas.
"With thousands of children from Central America arriving at the U.S.-Mexico border, an old plague is once again sweeping the country—the fear of the diseased immigrant.
“Our schools cannot handle this influx, we don’t even know what all diseases they have,” U.S. Rep. Louie Gohmert (R-TX) said recently. “Our health care systems can’t withstand this influx.”
"Fox News commentator Cal Thomas asks, for example, if “the unaccompanied minors pouring over the border…have brought with them proof of vaccination?” Thomas accuses the border-crossers of harboring vaccine-preventable diseases such as “
mumps, measles, rubella, polio, tetanus and diphtheria.”
"Before demonizing undocumented children, we should look at the facts:
The vast majority of Central Americans are vaccinated against all these diseases. Governments concerned about health, and good parents investing in their kids, have made Central American kids better-vaccinated than Texan kids. We fear them not because they are actually sick, but because of powerful anti-immigration narratives that link foreigners to disease.
"Consider, for example,
Guatemala. According to the United Nations Children’s Fund (UNICEF), Guatemalan kids are more likely than Texans to be immunized for most infectious diseases. Guatemala has
universal health care. Vaccines are 100 percent funded by the government.
"By comparison,
one in six kids in Texas is uninsured, and even insured families often must pay for vaccination. That means that many Texas kids fall behind on vaccinations, or miss them altogether when their family can’t afford a doctor’s visit. Other families refuse vaccination.
"Dr. Elizabeth Lee Vliet, a Fox News commentator and former director of the ultra-conservative political group Association of American Physicians and Surgeons, writes in the McAllen Monitor that measles is among the “diseases the United States had controlled or virtually eradicated” that are “carried across the border by this tsunami of illegals.”
Fact check:
UNICEF reports that 93 percent of kids in Guatemala, Honduras and El Salvador are vaccinated against measles. That’s better than
American kids (92 percent).
"Furthermore, it’s absurd to claim that the U.S. has eradicated measles while Central America has not. In fact,
measles outbreaks have resurged in some American cities. By contrast, according to the
World Health Organization, neither Guatemala nor Honduras has had a reported case of measles since 1990."
(My emphasis - more @ the URL)
This is just looking around casually for data. I'm sure there are more up-to-date reports, but this one caught my eye, as it originates in Texas. & apparently governments that actually immunize their children can do an excellent job - something to think about.
