Medical staff warned: Keep your mouths shut about illegal immigrants or face arrest
By Todd
Starnes
Published July 01, 2014
A government-contracted security force
threatened to arrest doctors and nurses if they divulged
any information about the contagion threat at a refugee
camp housing illegal alien children at Lackland Air
Force Base in San Antonio, Texas, sources say.
In spite of the threat, several former camp
workers broke their confidentiality agreements and
shared exclusive details with me about the dangerous
conditions at the camp. They said taxpayers deserve to
know about the contagious diseases and the risks the
children pose to Americans. I have agreed to not to
disclose their identities because they fear retaliation
and prosecution.
My sources say Americans should be
very concerned about the secrecy of the government
camps.
“There were several of us who wanted to talk
about the camps, but the agents made it clear we would
be arrested,” a psychiatric counselor told me. “We were
under orders not to say anything.”
The sources said workers were guarded by a
security force from the Baptist Family & Children’s
Services, which the Department of Health and Human
Services hired to run the Lackland Camp.
The sources say security forces called
themselves the “Brown Shirts.”
“It was a very submissive atmosphere,” the
counselor said. “Once you stepped onto the grounds, you
abided by their laws – the Brown Shirt laws.”
She said the workers were stripped of their
cellphones and other communication devices. Anyone
caught with a phone was immediately fired.
“Everyone was paranoid,” she said. “The
children had more rights than the workers.”
She said children in the camp had measles,
scabies, chicken pox and strep throat as well as mental
and emotional issues.
“It was not a good atmosphere in terms of
health,” she said. “I would be talking to children and
lice would just be climbing down their hair.”
A former nurse at the camp told me she was
horrified by what she saw.
“We have so many kids coming in that there was
no way to control all of the sickness – all this stuff
coming into the country,” she said. “We were very
concerned at one point about strep going around the
base.”
Both the counselor and the nurse said their
superiors tried to cover up the extent of the illnesses.
“When they found out the kids had scabies, the
charge nurse was adamant – ‘Don’t mention that. Don’t
say scabies,’” the nurse recounted. “But everybody knew
they had scabies. Some of the workers were very
concerned about touching things and picking things up.
They asked if they should be concerned, but they were
told don’t worry about it.”
The nurse said the lice issue was epidemic –
but everything was kept “hush-hush.”
“You could see the bugs crawling through their
hair,” she said. “After we would rinse out their hair,
the sink would be loaded with black bugs.”
The nurse told me she became especially alarmed
because their files indicated the children had been
transported to Lackland on domestic charter buses and
airplanes.
“That’s what alerted me,” she said. “Oh, my
God. They’re flying these kids around. Nobody knows that
these children have scabies and lice. To tell you the
truth, there’s no way to control it.”
I don't mean to upset anyone's Independence Day
vacation plans, but were these kids transported to the
camps before or after they were deloused? Anyone who
flies the friendly skies could be facing a public health
concern.
The counselor told me the refugee camp
resembled a giant emergency room – off limits to the
public.
“They did not want the community to know,” she
said. “I initially spoke out at Lackland because I had a
concern the children’s mental health care was not being
taken care of.”
She said the breaking point came when camp
officials refused to hospitalize several children who
were suicidal.
“I made a recommendation that a child needed to
be sent to a psychiatric unit,” the counselor told me.
“He was reaching psychosis. He was suicidal. Instead of
treating him, they sent him off to a family in the
United States.”
She said she filed a Child Protective Services
report and quit her job.
“I didn’t want to lose my license if this kid
committed suicide,” she told me. “I was done.”
The counselor kept a detailed journal about
what happened during her tenure at the facility.
“When people read that journal they are going
to be astonished,” she said. ‘I don’t think they will
believe what is going on in America.”
So it was not a great surprise, she said, when
she received a call from federal agents demanding that
she return to the military base and hand over her
journal.
She said she declined to do so.
“I didn’t go back to Lackland,” she said.
Both workers told me while they have no
regrets, they want to remain anonymous for fear of
reprisals.
“They’re going to crush the system,” the nurse
told me. “We can’t sustain this. They are overwhelming
the system and I think it’s a travesty.”
Baptist Family & Childen’s Services
spokeswoman Krista Piferrer tells me the agency takes
“any allegation of malfeasance or inappropriate care of
a child very seriously.”
“There are a number of checks and balances to
ensure children are receiving appropriate and adequate
mental health care,” she said.
Piferrer said the clinicians are supervised by
a federal field specialist from HHS’s Office of Refugee
Resettlement. She also said BFCS have 58 medical
professionals serving at Lackland.
“Every illness, whether it is a headache or
something more serious, is recorded in a child’s
electronic medical record and posted on WebEOC – a
real-time, web-based platform that is visible to not
only BFCS but the U.S. Department of Health and Human
Services,” she said.
As for those brown shirts, the BFCS said they
are “incident management team personnel” – who happen to
wear tan shirts.
My sources say Americans should be very
concerned about the secrecy of the government camps.
“This is just the beginning,” one source told
me. "It is a long-term financial responsibility.”
Todd Starnes is host of Fox News &
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