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Vintage Diseases Making a Comeback
An anonymous reader writes "MSNBC has a piece on a recent resurgence in some old-timey diseases. Mumps, Whooping Cough, and Rickets are making a comeback, back in style like it's 1955." From the article: "Public-health officials certainly weren't expecting to get 'bitten' by mumps this year. Although the virus has been circulating in British kids since 2000, it hadn't caused much trouble in the United States since an outbreak in Kansas 18 years ago. The Midwest is the epicenter again, but the victims are primarily college students, not children. Once a childhood disease, the virus has now taken hold in university towns. That's partly because crowded dorms and cafeterias are breeding grounds for germs that are spread by sneezing and coughing."
One of the steps in the process of LEGALLY migrating to the United States of America is a health examination. With 5,000 illegal aliens crossing the southern border of my state every day (according to Tuscon Sector Border Patrol reports), we have a population of foreign nationals bypassing our first line of defense against the diseases that, despite being largely eradicated in the USA since the 1950s, continue to affect the third world to this day. Diseases such as tuberculosis are making a big comeback throughout the heartland of America, and especially in border regions.
So when these criminal aliens march down the streets of your city tomorrow demanding civil rights and other entitlements, remember that these people are putting you and your fellow citizens at risk. Not because they are all filthy disease carriers but simply because the kind of vaccination programs we have in place to control disease here don't exist in their country of origin. It would be one thing if this country closed it's borders and prevented new immigrants from moving here, but we _do_ have an established immigration process designed to prevent new immigrants from unknowingly importing a disease that will affect the lives of our citizens. With over 70 visitor and guest worker programs already on the books and immigration policies that enable you to become a legal resident on the path to citizenship within a few years, we should hold no sympathy for the illegal aliens who are now demanding special rights under the law.
Your basic rights are threatened by every foreign national who chooses to ignore our laws. These people threaten your rights to life, liberty, and the pursuit of happiness. Not only when they unknowingly carry in a drug-resistant strain of tuberculosis, infecting you or your family, and destroying your dreams but also when increasing the burdens on your children's school district and vote to raise your property taxes beyond your ability to afford your own house.
Something to think about, anyway..