As unaccompanied minors from Central America who have flooded across President Obama's open borders are dispersed nationwide from Nebraska to Illinois to Massachusetts, concerns have arisen that the nation's health has been put at risk by poor and even absent medical screening.
An internal Department of Defense memo obtained by ABC News reports that the director of refugee health at Health and Human Services "has identified a breakdown of the medical screening processes at the Nogales, Ariz., facility." This may be just the tip of a medical-disaster iceberg.
Officials involved in moving the immigrants from Border Patrol processing centers to Health and Human Services facilities are, according to the memo, "putting sick (fevers and coughing) unaccompanied children on airplanes inbound for (Naval Base Ventura County) in addition to the chicken pox and coxsackie virus cases."
Three unaccompanied minors were reportedly in the ICU at local hospitals in California, and two of them were diagnosed with strep pneumonia. The same naval base has experienced an outbreak of pneumonia and influenza among the unaccompanied minors at its detention facility.
The dispersal of illegal aliens, including unaccompanied minors, throughout the U.S. without proper medical screening is an appalling dereliction of duty by a president and an administration sworn to protect the health and safety of American citizens.
"Most of the border minors are being kept in overcrowded facilities ridden with poor hygiene," Dr. Elizabeth Lee Vliet, a preventive medicine specialist, told Breitbart News recently, adding, "This is the ideal condition for a viral outbreak."
...Border Patrol agents in Murrieta, Calif., have tested positive for tuberculosis. "We had one get bacterial pneumonia a couple days ago," Border Patrol union vice president Chris Cabrera told host Martha MacCallum on Fox News Channel's America's Newsroom Monday. "A lot of our guys are coming down with scabies or lice."
"The Border Patrol is trying to play catch-up, and we're having a lot of diseases coming in, and some we haven't seen in decades," said Cabrera. "We are worried they'll spread throughout the United States, especially if they are being released and have the disease."
We're worried as well.
Rep. Phil Gingrey, R-Ga., who is also a medical doctor, has fired off a scathing letter to the director of the Centers for Disease Control.
"As the unaccompanied children continue to be transported to shelters around the country on commercial airlines and other forms of transportation, I have serious concerns that the diseases carried by these children may begin to spread too rapidly to control," he says.
"In fact, as you undoubtedly know, some of these diseases have no known cure."
Of particular concern, Gingrey continues, are "reports of illegal migrants carrying deadly diseases such as swine flu, dengue fever, Ebola virus and tuberculosis." Also of concern, we would add, is the spread of measles and chicken pox among Americans.
To repeat: President Obama is putting America's health at risk. His open-border policy is enough to make you sick — literally.
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