Invasion of the Lepors? - Illegal Immigration

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There are multiple reasons illegal immigration of any kind is a threat to the United States and it’s citizens. One that doesn’t cross most people’s minds is the treat of disease, like leprosy. In Arkansas there have been problems like TB and leprosy. Makes you feel comfortable? Legal immigration helps to weed out those who could spread contagious diseases among the population. Illegals with such diseases are a real threat.

OUTBREAK:  Leprosy in Arkansas – Brought Here by Whom?

Renee E. Taylor

 

In an emergency room in Arkansas, the patient exhibits dark red boils, her skin numb. Another case of leprosy in America. Not far away, a tuberculosis-infected illegal immigrant coughs while on break at the local chicken processing plant – spreading his infectious germs across the break room table. His children, also carrying the disease, which had been all but eradicated from the United States years ago, join hundreds of children at the local public school. Crossing the Mexican border, in a pickup truck filled with “migrant workers” coming to “do the jobs Americans don’t do” in our fields and food processing plants, is the Islamic terrorist who purposefully infected himself with smallpox in order to spread the deadly disease to unsuspecting Americans nationwide.

 

Fact or fiction? Well over 12 million illegal aliens have invaded our country from our southern border, circumventing the strict health requirements that are enforced for those entering legally – requirements that include ensuring the entrants are free from infectious diseases. Our own government continues its push to give them legitimacy, in some cases welcoming them with open arms under the guise of “they are doing the work Americans just don’t do.” However, we don’t know who they are – or what horrific contagions they may have brought with them.

 

In Northwest Arkansas, the state health department has been tracking nine cases of Marshall Island citizens infected with leprosy. According to a report from KFSM, the CBS affiliate in Fayetteville, Northwest Arkansas has a large population of Marshall Island immigrants who have been brought here to work in the poultry plants in the area. Although, according to Dr. Jennifer Bingham in the KFSM report, leprosy is curable with proper attention to treatment, they are not able to enlist compliance from the patients to complete the process. The report also lists 100 cases of tuberculosis in the Springdale area.

 

In subsequent reports, the Arkansas Department of Health has downplayed the importance of the outbreak of leprosy in Northwest Arkansas, stating that 95 percent of the population is genetically resistant to the disease. Leprosy is a major concern in the Marshall Islands and with residents from the Marshall Islands being exempt from immigration laws – including medical requirements – it is no small surprise that Northwest Arkansas, with a large concentration of Marshall Island residents working in the poultry plants, is tracking nine cases of the disease. 

 

In an effort to calm fears of tuberculosis outbreak, the Ft. Smith, Arkansas, Times Record states that in 2007, there were 106 cases of tuberculosis reported statewide, with 21 – nearly a full quarter – in the Northwest Arkansas area. Spread through the inhalation of infected particles from an infected person who coughs, tuberculosis is easier spread than leprosy. Both stories, regardless of the downplaying from government officials, are reason for concern.

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