Insiders Say Tuberculosis Is There
At least a half dozen
anonymous sources, which include health care professionals, at the
Lackland illegal alien processing center are charging that the federal
government is covering up very serious illnesses among those they seek
to ultimately release into the American population.
The official count is not very alarming, probably by design. They claim of 7,000 childrenprocessed
through two induction centers, there have been 119 diagnoses and
treatments for lice, 22 for scabies, and one for H1N1.
Common sense demands that
these excessively positive numbers be questioned. If they are hiding
their operations in complete secrecy behind walls, fences and curtains
and guards, how likely is it that they would then issue press releases
in which they reveal everything as it relates to the most sensitive and
potentially dangerous aspect of their operation? Not very, they
wouldn’t.
Fox News reporter Todd
Starnes has sources inside that paint a very different picture. They
speak of a particularly ominous and dangerous issue that is being
discovered in extremely high numbers among the detainees; tuberculosis.
Starnes said, “The amount
of tuberculosis is astonishing. The nurses are telling us the kids are
really sick. The tuberculosis is definitely there.”
Four teenage illegals in
San Antonio, the home of the Lackland illegal alien induction center
were discovered to be showing classic symptoms of TB, including spitting
up blood, a constant cough and chest pain.
While the Texas Dept of
State Health Services Commissioner, David Lakey, M.D., says that the
state health officials have seen only three cases, Starnes learned that
those were located in Austin. In the interest of future word-parsing,
perhaps they had someone else look at the San Antonio cases.
BCFS is downplaying the
threat level and disputing the numbers, just as they did with the
scabies and head lice, claiming 119 cases total.
One nurse said of the BCFS
claims, “They are lying. We treated that many kids with lice on a given
day. We would put 20 kids in front of us – 10 in each row. You could
see the bugs crawling through their hair.”
She continued, saying,
“They had children in the infirmary that had been there several days,”
the former staffer told Starnes. “You were on your feet nonstop. They
had chicken pox, measles, and there was a concern strep was spreading.”
The health workers
described the Lackland center as being similar to a giant orphanage,
with lice and scabies rampant. Once nurse quoted said, “Lice and scabies
are fixable, TB is the real problem here.”
It is becoming abundantly
clear that these camps are breeding grounds for infestations. There is
no containment possible under the current arrangements, only the
facilitation of further disease transmission through the confined areas
and repeated close contact.
The situation will continue to worsen as the infections spread and more are added to the populations.
There are indications that
premature releases have begun to occur due to the overcrowding, in a
triage sort of situation. Illegals infected with scabies and lice have
already been turned over to the border patrol for release to ICE and
held up by observant, conscientious agents. Some have undoubtedly gotten
through.
The question as to why are
these sick individuals being forwarded to the next custodian needs to
be asked. Is the sheer volume of illegals inflicted with a variety of
medical conditions creating these misdiagnoses and oversights, or is the
magnitude of the Tuberculosis epidemic and other more serious
afflictions creating a situation which demands that all available space
be held for those patients?
Obviously, the least
transparent administration in history isn’t going to tell us. We won’t
know until whistle-blowers bring the wall of secrecy down or the
situation becomes too big and too serious to contain.
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The processing of illegal
aliens at the various sites operates in a state of perpetual overload,
with shortcuts being taken as the conflict for space and the demands of
deadlines take precedent over public safety.
Forty illegal aliens at
one detention center, who are actively infected with scabies, have
already been transported on a public passenger jet from Texas to Chula
Vista, Ca. They arrived on July 4th and were among a group of 140 brought to
Chula Vista to be released. While those forty with scabies and head
lice were discovered and are being held in quarantine, others have
surely slipped through.
A contaminated seat on an
airplane isn’t the only risk that Americans will now be exposed to. The
infected illegals will soon be walking among the rest of us, spreading
their disease everywhere they go.
A Chula Vista border agent
who was forced to deal with the infected illegals told the National
Review that whoever is responsible for the medical screening before they
are transferred from Texas should be fired.
He said, “Management’s
more concerned about processing and getting rid of them as quickly as
possible than looking at decontamination.” He added, “And [the released
illegal immigrants] go out in the community, get on the public
transportation, go where they need to go, and it could result in another
infestation of scabies being spread everywhere.”
This latest infestation
comes on top of another outbreak they were already dealing with at the
San Diego Sector. Two Border Patrol agents at the Brown Field Border
Patrol Station developed rashes on July 3, shortly after processing a
load of illegals from Texas.
Ron Zermeno, the Health and Safety Director of the National Border Patrol Council Local 1613 verified the infestation.
In what appears as a
strong validation of one argument made by protesters, those infected
illegals were actually on board the first buses they blocked from
entering Murrieta, CA.
The first agent infected
was conducting medical screening of all detainees prior to release to
ICE, even though he is not a medically trained professional. It was
during his observations and screening activities that he is believed to
have become infected himself.
Zermeno wrote, “[The
Border Patrol agent] is not a trained medical professional but did the
best he could do. He was not told about any precautions to take such as
decontamination of himself and uniform.”
Not only did the agent put
himself at risk, but also his contaminated person and clothing
endangered his family and those he carpools with. The Scabies mites are
easily transferred and burrow into the skin of their host victim, where
it lives and lays its eggs.
Although FEMA personnel
had supposedly already conducted health screenings on the infected
illegals, there were “several” found with active scabies and other
illnesses.
Director Zermeno wrote,
“We do not know exactly which detainee was infected and processed at
Brown Field that resulted in the agent contracting this disease. We
suspect that they could have been already transferred to ICE custody and
may have already been released in the surrounding communities.”
Zermeno was critical,
saying, “Border Patrol management is aware of the scabies outbreak but
continue[s] to ignore recommendations. I request that your staff not
down play this incident and call it an isolated incident.”
Ten others, mostly children, were taken to San Diego area hospitals with unknown illnesses. Speaking for
his union and membership, Zermeno said that pulling agents could put
national security on the line. He also noted that “The morale is the
lowest I’ve ever seen it.”
He said he just wants to
protect his agents and the border, as well as get the truth out of the
increasing threat of exposure. Zermeno said, “I think the public needs
to be aware. The average citizens [are not] aware because they could be
exposed tomorrow.”
Lee ADDS: This is why Obama refuses to visit the border!
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