America now is in a precarious state socioeconomically with an
Immigrants with relevant skills/education ENHANCE American socioeconomic quality of life. They should be ENCOURAGED to come to America.
unemployment rate above normal. Yes, there are Americans who are unemployed or underemployed in addition to others suffering socioeconomically(through no fault of their own). Inductive and deductive logic dictates that with the current American socioeconomic crises to keep immigration at a strict minimum until the American economy has somewhat improved. Or better yet, allow only these immigrants who have relevant skills/education to help boast the economy and to add to America's high standard of living and quality of life.
However, such is NOT the case as inverse logic is operating regarding immigration. The "amnesty" program has allowed thousands of illegals in this country, the overwhelming majority of whom have no skills/education whatsoever. In addition to that, many of these illegals are carrying dangerous, communicable diseases, and there are some among them who are criminals. These illegals are using our welfare and social systems at a high cost to the taxpayer. It is time to severely streamline our immigration policy to allow only those immigrants who have relevant educational and job skills as to better and advance the economy, not to accept immigrants who have little or nothing to better/advance the American economy. What are YOUR thought on this?
Conversely, these immigrants/illegals have NO skills/education. They will use our welfare and social systems, SUBTRACTING from American socioeconomic quality of life. They should be DISCOURAGED from coming to America and DEPORTED if they do immigrate to America.Good morning, Grace.
You are wrong. You are so wrong. Your claims stem from false fears and ignorance. It is pitiful to see such hate from my fellow Americans. Those who repeat such obvious lies without first doing some medical research are needlessly spreading hysteria. For America, this brand of ignorance is more dangerous than the non-existing diseases.
Obviously, these fear mongers are not intelligent enough to ask their handlers questions like…
what dangerous communicable diseases?
who are the doctors making these claims?
what is the number of cases being uncovered?
where is the statistical data?
where are the facts?
There are no answers to these questions, Grace. No facts, none, not any, nada. Immigrants entering this country are NOT carrying any diseases on a scale greater than normal. Medical professionals on the Mexican border keep repeating this message but some pathetic ideologues choose not to listen. Anyone unable to back up wild claims with facts usually has no respect for the truth.
With three clicks you can learn that Mexico, Honduras, Guatemala, and El Salvador ALL have vaccination rates for measles HIGHER then the United States. That is right, Grace, vaccination rates higher than in the United States! {1}
Both Mexico and Guatemala have higher DPT vaccination rates than in the United States. {2}
I wonder who is telling you immigrants are disease ridden. It is false. Furthermore, since you can not determine how many immigrants carry disease, you obviously have no way to count the criminal records either.
In short, your post contains the most ill-informed collection of vicious trash that I have seen in a long while. I know you can do better than this.
Those who do not take the steps to verify this slanderous drivel get to share their lack of ethics with the liars.
{1} http://data.worldbank.org/indicator/SH.IMM.MEAS
{2} http://data.worldbank.org/indicator/SH. … /countriesHello Grace.
I am still wondering if you intend to support your vicious claims about “illegals are carrying dangerous, communicable diseases.” Having made the claim, you should be prepared to support it by answering a few simple questions:
What dangerous communicable diseases?
Who are the doctors making these claims?
What is the number of cases being uncovered?
Where is the statistical data?
Where are the facts?
I believe your claims are false and malicious. I am waiting for you to prove me wrong.
Don't listen to reason but when it hits the fan, I am just going to say-TOLD YOU SO, TOLD YOU SO, TOLD YOU SO!
Here are the links:
http://www.wnd.com/2014/07/savage-media … se-threat/
http://www.usillegalaliens.com/impacts_ … eases.htmlHello Grace. My thanks to you for providing these two links.
First, there is no need to promote hysteria if your conclusions are based on solid facts. Facts speak for themselves, they stand on their own merits and they eliminate the need for emotional uppercase shouting.
Following your first link was very informative. WND.com focuses on Michael Savage, a notorious conservative radio personality since 1994 who claims to be an epidemiologist. In 2005, he published Liberalism is a Mental Disorder, a volume more political than scientific.
Did you read this article about Mr. Savage, Grace, and did you notice there is not one actual documented case of disease among immigrants? Like all of your posts, it is all rhetoric and no verifiable facts.
The article quotes Mr. Savage as saying: “Right now, you’re not going to hear this, but we have Tuberculosis, hand-foot-and-mouth disease, Chagas disease – previously eradicated from Southern California – on the rise and testing positive in … Border Patrol agents.” Other diseases emerging among Border Patrol agents, he said, include H1N1 Swine flu and chicken pox. {1}
It seems Mr. Savage warns about several illnesses but documents no cases among immigrants. He also chooses to ignore the reality that all of the illnesses he mentioned occur regularly in the US with or without immigration.
As for incidents involving immigrants, his article does not support your claims and, to the contrary, it answers all of the following questions with “NONE.”
Who are the doctors making these claims?
What dangerous communicable diseases were found among immigrants?
What is the number of cases being uncovered?
Where is the statistical data?
Where are the documented facts?
Your second source has no meaningful bearing on today’s topic. It is a xenophobic attack against all illegal immigrants for causing all the country’s ills “from the costs of education to traffic congestion to the impact of having a bilingual society.” {2}
While certainly verbose, it is far from a scholarly work. It is dishonest, biased, flawed and designed to distort facts in a far-from-subtle attempt to indict immigrants. Your false claims rely on this faulty data.
On the “chapter” covering diseases, I found this:
“In the 40 years prior to 2002, there were only 900 total cases of leprosy in the US. In the following three years there have been 9,000 cases and most were illegal aliens.” {3}
The U.S. Department of Health and Human Services data for Hansen’s Disease (leprosy) indicates the total number of new cases reported from 1962 to 2002, “the 40 years prior to 2002,” was 8,322 not 900 as represented by Mr. Wagner. New cases reported “in the following three years” turns out to be 431 and not 9000! {4}
“9000 cases” in Mr. Wagner’s article appears to be grossly exaggerating the facts, Grace, but it was underlined as a hyperlink to another super biased WND article dated MAY 22, 2005 with the title “ARE ILLEGALS MAKING U.S. A LEPER COLONY?” (I always know I am about to be conned when an article title is in the form of a question instead of a statement of fact!) This article contained more misinformation and more false claims.
A dozen or so paragraphs accuse immigrants in the Southwest of threatening the nation with an epidemic of leprosy and fraudulently scheming to receive free healthcare. Had you burrowed down into your own sources, you would have found the following three sentences at the very end:
“Dr. Denis Daumerie, head of the World Health Organization’s leprosy-elimination program, thinks claims of immigrants causing a spike in U.S. leprosy are overstated.
“There is no risk of an epidemic of leprosy,” he told Columbia. “There’s absolutely no risk that the few immigrants who are affected by the disease, if they are diagnosed and treated, will spread the disease in the U.S.” {5}
Whoops! Just a small fact the source of your emotional posts just chose to ignore.
Even this uninformed graphic in your post lists leprosy as one of the diseases at the border. Well, Grace, here are the real facts about leprosy that you seem unable to determine for yourself:
*A genetic study at the National Hansen’s Disease Program reports that armadillos may be the source of leprosy infection in the southern United States. {6}
*There are currently approximately 6,500 cases in the entire US today and only about 3,300 require active medical management.
*I thought this would be of particular interest to you, Grace. Ninety-five percent (95%) of the human population is not susceptible to infection with M. leprae, the bacteria that causes Hansen's disease (leprosy).
*Patients become noninfectious after taking only a few doses of medication and need not be isolated from family and friends.
*There were only 213 new cases reported in the U.S. in 2009 (the most recent year for which data are available).
Well, Grace, should I panic because Mr. Savage to looking to improve his ratings or should I rely on the facts as I know them. I already know that you choose to panic.
As to the important questions about rampant disease among immigrants, Grace, I continue to wait for your answers:
Who are the doctors making these claims?
What dangerous communicable diseases were found among immigrants?
What is the number of cases being uncovered?
Where is the statistical data?
Where are the documented facts?
I sincerely thank you for posting these two links thinking that they would prove your attacks against immigrants are justified. Unfortunately, they offer no supporting data only more of the same hysterical distortions. Just like your other posts, the authors offer no verifiable data to establish your claims deserve any serious consideration at all.
{1} http://www.wnd.com/2014/07/savage-media … se-threat/
{2} http://www.usillegalaliens.com/
{3} http://www.usillegalaliens.com/impacts_ … eases.html
{4} http://www.hrsa.gov/hansensdisease/casesbyyear.html
{5} http://www.wnd.com/2005/05/30436/
{6} www.hrsa.gov/hansensdisease/
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