If you weren't angry about illegals before....
....you will be after hearing this.
As I stated in a previous post, I'm reading the book, 'In Mortal Danger' by Tom Tancredo, US congressman from Colorado who happens to be making a bid for the presidency.
A summary of some of the facts I've learned in this book:
- From 1996 to 2005 there has been 231 documented incursions across the border involving heavily armed Mexican military, state, or municipal police units.
- The Mexican government distributes kits to illegals preparing to cross the border. Designed to make the trip easier, they include water, condoms, Band-Aids, maps, and food supplies for a day or so.
- Pregnant Mexican women sit in US hospital parking lots waiting to go into labor. Any ambulances that approach the boarder are not subject to search and are allowed to immediately pass through. Sometimes just to deliver women in labor to the US health care system.
- By spring 2005, eighty-four California hospitals had either declared bankruptcy or were closing because they were losing too much money to indigent illegal migrant care.
- They are bringing diseases with them that we eradicated decades ago in the US, including but not limited to:
Tuberculosis
Chagas disease
Leprosy (so rare in the last 40 years, only 900 people were afflicted. Suddenly within the last 3, the US has more than 7,000 cases of Leprosy.)
Dengue fever
Polio
Malaria (was obliterated, but is now reemerging in Texas)
Enviromental Impact:
"For reasons that are sometimes difficult to explain, illegal immigrants often vandalize water lines and wells on ranches, even though many ranchers will leave out cups so they can drink from the well."
Repairing cut fences is now a routine task. The Morin family had to quit keeping horses because it was an impossible task keeping the fences repaired.
" While in Arizona, I witnessed hundreds of miles of broken fences along the border. Electric switches for water pumps were often jammed or vandalized. The Morin ranch lost numerous cattle that died after eating plastic trash bags dropped by trespassers as they passed through the land."
At one 'pick up site' that has been essentially turned into a waste dump, George Morin collected forty-two syringes and discarded drug containers left behind by one group.
Another family, the Vances' who have lived in the area for 29 years have been experiencing the same. In September of 99, the Vances' two dogs were poisoned. They too had to quit keeping horses because their fences would be cut or knocked down the next day. They have to contend with huge amounts of trash left by the illegals and have been forced to construct high chain-link fence around their property and wrought-iron window guards for fear of their safety.
"Bandits prey on helpless illegal victims out in the desert and they occasionally here their screams during the night."
Large chunks of pristine desert along the southern border have essentially been destroyed by foot traffic.
Just to name a few items.
The Bush administration is not only dangerously wreckless concerning this situation but criminal. They couldn't care less about or border states because most of us don't have to deal with it....yet.
As I stated in a previous post, I'm reading the book, 'In Mortal Danger' by Tom Tancredo, US congressman from Colorado who happens to be making a bid for the presidency.
A summary of some of the facts I've learned in this book:
- From 1996 to 2005 there has been 231 documented incursions across the border involving heavily armed Mexican military, state, or municipal police units.
- The Mexican government distributes kits to illegals preparing to cross the border. Designed to make the trip easier, they include water, condoms, Band-Aids, maps, and food supplies for a day or so.
- Pregnant Mexican women sit in US hospital parking lots waiting to go into labor. Any ambulances that approach the boarder are not subject to search and are allowed to immediately pass through. Sometimes just to deliver women in labor to the US health care system.
- By spring 2005, eighty-four California hospitals had either declared bankruptcy or were closing because they were losing too much money to indigent illegal migrant care.
- They are bringing diseases with them that we eradicated decades ago in the US, including but not limited to:
Tuberculosis
Chagas disease
Leprosy (so rare in the last 40 years, only 900 people were afflicted. Suddenly within the last 3, the US has more than 7,000 cases of Leprosy.)
Dengue fever
Polio
Malaria (was obliterated, but is now reemerging in Texas)
Enviromental Impact:
"For reasons that are sometimes difficult to explain, illegal immigrants often vandalize water lines and wells on ranches, even though many ranchers will leave out cups so they can drink from the well."
Repairing cut fences is now a routine task. The Morin family had to quit keeping horses because it was an impossible task keeping the fences repaired.
" While in Arizona, I witnessed hundreds of miles of broken fences along the border. Electric switches for water pumps were often jammed or vandalized. The Morin ranch lost numerous cattle that died after eating plastic trash bags dropped by trespassers as they passed through the land."
At one 'pick up site' that has been essentially turned into a waste dump, George Morin collected forty-two syringes and discarded drug containers left behind by one group.
Another family, the Vances' who have lived in the area for 29 years have been experiencing the same. In September of 99, the Vances' two dogs were poisoned. They too had to quit keeping horses because their fences would be cut or knocked down the next day. They have to contend with huge amounts of trash left by the illegals and have been forced to construct high chain-link fence around their property and wrought-iron window guards for fear of their safety.
"Bandits prey on helpless illegal victims out in the desert and they occasionally here their screams during the night."
Large chunks of pristine desert along the southern border have essentially been destroyed by foot traffic.
Just to name a few items.
The Bush administration is not only dangerously wreckless concerning this situation but criminal. They couldn't care less about or border states because most of us don't have to deal with it....yet.
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Time for people that live on the border to either move,......or start shooting the illegals, and find out what the courts will do.
I am glad I don't live where these stories are coming from,...........but it will come to all of us soon.
Very sad, is all I can say.
The unbelieveable part is many,.........some even here, think it is all fine.
They think they are great people, and an asset to the USA,...........lots like Bush.0 -
But GWB said his job is to keep America safe. My senators and congressman said the top priority for them was a safe America.
Do you mean to tell me they were lying sacks of evil dog guts?
Go figure......0 -
No Bpost,...........they told us the truth!
Things just changed, and the reason they aren't listening to us, is because they know what is best for us.
After they figure it all out,........we will be happy,......I am sure!
Aren't you?0 -
And the deadliest form of TB????
The guy has caused a major scare...who was that???..hmmmmm0 -
quote:Originally posted by BlackRoses
And the deadliest form of TB????
The guy has caused a major scare...who was that???..hmmmmm
It is foreign to the US. Where do you think it came from?0 -
That is making a jump!
The guy is an "ambulance chaser",.........could have gotten it many other places than you are inferring!
Are you suggesting that Andy got this from representing an illegal in a personal injury case?
You should be ashamed!0 -
Patrick Buchanan has been pounding out this message for years. He's written books, been on TV, made public appearances, etc. on this matter. And there's those that think he's a Nazi goof. 0 -
vess..
In the US 49 people were infected between 1993 and 2006 so its not really "foreign" ...
There are many diseases that become drug resistant...including the common flu..0 -
So, BR...may I infer that you are in favor of the invasion by criminal mexicans ??
Doug0 -
Oh my,.......this could become entertaining![:D] 0 -
Doug Wilson...
So where the hell do you get that from?...I was talking about the lawyer with the disease, how many cases were in the US from a certain period and it was not foreign,....SO how do you get that I am in favor of illegal mexicans??..
I never once said a damn thing about where it came from or how it got here, or if it was here and given to other countries...
Are you saying it was an illegal mexican that gave it to him?...Do you know something the medical community doesnt, cause at last report they dont know how he got it...
For cripes sake his father in law could have given it to him, considering the father in law works at the CDC with the TB area..0 -
Believe I was right,........... 0 -
Condoms?
Condoms!!
We don't need no stinking condoms!!0 -
You're only trying to derail the argument. The fact of the matter is that a lot of these diseases that our country fought hard to eradicate (and a lot of people had to die over), are now being reintroduced into our society which contains over double the people to spread it.
It's not only the misery this may eventually cause us, but the COST. Every single thing they do costs us billions.
Not only are they going to spread disease, murder more people than would have been murdered to begin with, kill more people by DUI than would have to begin with, bankrupt hospitals, traffic drugs, use up more food and space, pollute the enviroment, damage property, but they're going to bankrupt the country. Social Security cannot support all of them. It can't support American citizens.
Hospitals are required to give emergency care to illegals for everything. Emergency care is everything down to a cough or a hang nail. Seriously! That's how the law is written and that's why so many offices are packed with them.
43 million US citizens do not have health insurance and they ARE required to pay their bills in full and they just made it harder for the average American to declare bankruptcy. So a prolonged hospital visit can ruin an American family for life while Mexicans get off for free.
This is horse sh!&!!
It would be great if we could provide health care and welfare for the entire world!! But we CAN'T!! We can't properly take care of our own NOW! How's it going to be in another 50 years!?0 -
McConnell had an environmentalist on his program a few mornings ago, who was crying about how building a fence across the border would cause several species of wildlife to be unable to reach water, and several others would have their habitats destroyed by the building process itself.
Several callers mentioned that perhaps our lives might be just a tad more important than a few birds and tortoises, and an ocelot or two, most of whom would find water elsewhere or relocate anyway. She dismissed that idea completely and entered into the usual emotional diatribe.
I listened to the show for an hour, and not once did the enviropuke mention the destruction of the landscape being caused by the invaders, nor the spread of disease and general hardship being inflicted on Americans living in the area.
Gee.0 -
Multidrug-Resistant Tuberculosis Fact Sheet
July 2006
Multidrug-resistant tuberculosis (MDR TB) is a form of tuberculosis that is resistant to two or more of the primary drugs used for the treatment of tuberculosis. Resistance to one or several forms of treatment occurs when the bacteria develops the ability to withstand antibiotic attack and relay that ability to newly produced bacteria. Since that entire strain of bacteria inherits this capacity to resist the effects of the various treatments, resistance can spread from one person to another. On an individual basis, however, inadequate treatment or improper use of the anti-tuberculosis medications remains an important cause of drug-resistant tuberculosis.
In 2004, the CDC reported that 7.8 percent of tuberculosis cases in the U.S. were resistant to isoniazid, the first line drug used to treat TB.1
The CDC also reported that 1.0 percent of tuberculosis cases in the U.S. were resistant to both isoniazid and rifampin.2 Rifampin is the drug most commonly used with isoniazid.
Overall, the number of MDR-TB cases were reported below 100 for the first time ever in 2003 but increased again to 101 in 2004.3
Only 27 percent of primary MDR-TB cases were in U.S. born persons. The percentage of U.S. born persons with MDR-TB has remained stable at approximately 0.6 percent since 2000. The proportion of MDR-TB cases among foreign-born persons has increased from 26 percent in 1993 to 73 percent of MDR-TB cases in 2004.4
The World Health Organization estimates that up to 50 million persons worldwide may be infected with drug resistant strains of TB. Also, 300,000 new cases of MDR-TB are diagnosed around the world each year and 79 percent of the MDR-TB cases now show resistance to three or more drugs.5
A strain of MDR TB originally develops when a case of drug-susceptible tuberculosis is improperly or incompletely treated. This occurs when a physician does not prescribe proper treatment regimens or when a patient is unable to adhere to therapy. Improper treatment allows individual TB bacilli that have natural resistance to a drug to multiply. Eventually the majority of bacilli in the body are resistant.6
Once a strain of MDR TB develops it can be transmitted to others just like a normal drug-susceptible strain. Airborne transmission has been the cause of several well-publicized cases of nosocomial (hospital-based) outbreaks of MDR TB in New York City and Florida. These outbreaks were responsible for the deaths of several patients and health care workers, a majority of whom were coinfected with HIV.7
MDR-TB has been a particular concern among HIV-infected persons. Some of the factors that have contributed to the number of cases of MDR-TB, both in general and among HIV-infected individuals are:
Delayed diagnosis and delayed determination of drug susceptibility, which may take several weeks
Susceptibility of immunosuppressed individuals for not only acquiring MDR-TB but for rapid disease progression, which may result in rapid transmission of the disease to other immunosuppressed patients
Inadequate respiratory isolation procedures and other environmental safety conditions, especially in confined areas such as prisons
Noncompliance or intermittent compliance with antituberculosis drug therapy.8
MDR-TB is more difficult to treat than drug-susceptible strains of TB. The success of treatment depends upon how quickly a case of TB is identified as drug resistant and whether an effective drug therapy is available. The second-line drugs used in cases of MDR-TB are often less effective and more likely to cause side effects.9
tests to determine the resistance of a particular strain to various drugs usually take several weeks to complete. During the delay the patient may be treated with a drug regimen that is ineffective. Once a strain's drug resistance is known, an effective drug regimen must be identified and begun. Some strains of MDR-TB are resistant to seven or more drugs, making the identification of effective drugs difficult. To deal with this problem, it is recommended that newly discovered cases of TB in populations at high risk for MDR-TB be treated with four drugs rather than the standard three as part of initial treatment.10
Treatment for MDR-TB involves drug therapy over many months or years. Despite the longer course of treatment, the cure rate decreases from over 90 percent for nonresistant strains of TB to 50 percent or less for MDR-TB.11
Because it is difficult for some people to successfully complete their tuberculosis treatment, several innovations have been developed. One of these is the use of incentives and enablers, which may be transportation, tokens or food coupons that are given to patients each time they appear at the clinic or doctor's office for treatment. Incentives and enablers are combined with the use of directly observed therapy (DOT). DOT is a system of treatment in which the patient is administered his or her medication by a nurse or other health worker and observed taking the medication.12
FDA has approved Rifater, a medication that combines the three main drugs (isoniazid, rifampin, and pyrazinamide) used to treat tuberculosis into one pill. This reduces the number of pills a patient has to take each day and makes it impossible for the patient to take only one of the three medications, a common path to the development of MDR-TB.13
In June 1998, the U.S. Food and Drug Administration approved the first new drug for pulmonary tuberculosis in 25 years. The drug, rifapentine (Priftin), has been approved for use with other drugs to fight TB. One potential advantage of rifapentine is that it can be taken less often in the final four months of treatment -- once a week compared with twice a week for the standard regimen.
For more information on tuberculosis, please review the Tuberculosis Morbidity and Mortality Trend Report and Lung Disease Data in the Data and Statistics section of our website or call the American Lung Association at 1-800-LUNG-USA (1-800-586-4872).
Sources:
1. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention: Reported Tuberculosis in the U.S., 2004.0 -
There are none so blind as those who will not see.... 0 -
The answer would be simple enough if we had more than a handful of politicians with principles. Both parties are prostituting themselves to curry favor with this group. If the office holders were concerned with the impact these illegal aliens have on our society, they would build the damn fence then deport those they can catch. They would also change the law to say that a child born of an illegal alien does NOT receive citizenship.
It would take a few years and millions of dollars (undoubtedly far less annually than these peasants are costing society at present), but this problem doesn't require rocket science - simply a few brains, some stones and the spines to bind them together. This, unfortunately, does not describe the degenerate form of Americanus politicanus which clearly lacks all three and now dominates at the national level.0
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