From ABCNews.com:
Exclusive: Feds Struggling to Cope With Medical ‘Breakdown’ at the Border
by Jim Avila
The federal government is so overwhelmed by the current tide of migrants crossing the border it can’t provide basic medical screening to all of the children before transporting them – often by air – to longer-term holding facilities across the country, ABC News has learned.
I hope you read that properly: your federal government is placing medically-unscreened illegals aboard various forms of transportation — to include buses and aircraft — in order to move them around the country to other holding facilities.
Diseases and ailments that haven’t been seen in the US for years are being discovered carried by children and other illegal invaders at the border, such as TB, lice, scabies, Hepatitis, chicken pox, meningitis, influenza and H1N1, to name a few.
ABC revealed:
But, according to the memo ABC News reviewed, “Curi Kim [the HHS director of the Division of Refugee Health] has identified a breakdown of the medical screening processes at the Nogales, Arizona, facility. The [unaccompanied children] were initially screened and cleared upon entry into that facility with no fever or significant symptoms. They were not however re-screened and cleared for travel and placement at a temporary shelter.”
So these are the people who are being transported in buses and aircraft that you could potentially be using in the future.
Look for a ramping-up of various diseases in your community, should you be lucky enough to receive this gift from the federal government.
And the kicker, from TheHill.com?
Reid: Southern border is secure
by Alexander Bolton
Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid (D-Nev.) on Tuesday asserted the southern border is secure despite the massive surge of illegal minors from Central America that has overwhelmed federal agencies.
“The border is secure,” he told reporters after the Senate Democrats’ weekly policy lunch. “[Sen.] Martin Heinrich [(D-N.M.)] talked to the caucus today. He’s a border state senator. He said he can say without any equivocation the border is secure.”
Plus:
He also dismissed a bipartisan proposal by Senate Republican Whip John Cornyn (Texas) and Democratic Rep. Henry Cuellar (Texas) to expedite deportations as “too broad.”
“From all the reports I’ve gotten, the answer for me is no, I won’t support it,” he said.
Yes. Expediting deportations is “too broad.”
And there you have it. Harry Reid and the Demorats are clinically insane.
BZ
I personally don’t think a democrat would know honesty if it smacked’em upside their pointy little heads. Unfortunately, but for about 98% of the republicans, the same can be said for them.
Doesn’t leave a person with much hope, does it?
Damn, aren’t you just Mr. Positive… LOL
Seriously Dave, you’re spot on with that assessment…
I submit it is impossible to do any thorough medical screening on such large numbers in such a short period of time. Blood tests for hepatitis alone may take from one day to 2 weeks or more. The nature of screening means asking questions and taking a medical history, something I doubt small children could provide and ‘large’ children’s veracity might be suspect. Diseases have varying incubation periods so one might appear healthy today yet in a few days or weeks might be symptomatic.Screening for TB might require skin testing followed by x-ray.Thus I cannot believe these many thousands are being ‘medically cleared’ in any meaningful way whatsoever. But hey not to worry , we have obamacare.
And if reid is to be taken at his word and the border is indeed ‘secure’, is he then confirming that these illegals are crossing WITH the permission of the government? Cause, you know, if it’s a secure border then no one can cross it unless allowed. Right? Otherwise it’s not secure…
And the kids aren’t getting immunization shots thanks to that c**t McCarthy… This is NOT going to end well…