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Another Reason to Secure Our Borders

As if the already well-known negative effects of illegal immigration, e.g., draining of taxpayer resources, weren't enough to secure our borders, it seems that illegal aliens now pose a public health threat to the people of the United States.

According to the Centers for Disease Control, cases of multi-drug resistance tuberculosis, also known as MDR-TB, are now on the rise even though tuberculosis was nearly wiped out of the American population due to improved hygiene and powerful new drugs.

Several clues point to the fact that the rise in tuberculosis cases comes as a direct result of the massive waves of illegal aliens crossing our borders each and every day.

• Eighty-four percent (84%) of the 407 known cases of tuberculosis were "foreign-born" patients, primarily from Mexico and the Phillipines.


• Legal immigrants to the United States are required to submit to a health exam or provide proof of good health that they are free of communicable diseases and drug addiction. So any cases of tuberculosis coming from "foreign-born" individuals must logically come from those immigrants who have not immigrated legally and proven that they are in good health.


• Until recently, MDR-TB was endemic to Mexico.


• In 2001, the Indiana University School of Medicine traced an outbreak of TB to illegal aliens from Mexico.


• Also in 2001, the Queens (New York) Health Department traced 81% of TB cases to immigrants.

The fact that our borders are not secure has added yet another serious issue that we must all face. (1) The draining of taxpayer resources to provide medical and social services to illegals. (2) The threat of terrorists crossing our borders as illegal aliens and wrecking havoc on our country from inside. (3) Public health threats as the result of communicable diseases being brought into our country by illegal aliens that carry the diseases with them over the border.

Tell me, again, why it has proven impossible to convince our elected leaders that unsecure borders have nothing but negative consequences for Americans?