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Portrait of a GW Legal Immigrant?

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Anonymous

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What happened to Ellis Island? What happened to having to pass physicals before you got off Ellis Island or else you were on a boat back to where you came from?
If the government is not screening them at all for diseases- somehow I don't get a warm fuzzy feeling that they are doing any screening for political affiliations or if they are terrorist connected- and the last I heard Somalia had a large Muslim population- ala BLack Hawk Down type....

But Tyson/etal needs to have their cheap labor- and the neocon elites need their new semi slave class for cheap pool cleaners, maids, and Romneys construction crew :roll: - and their profiteering is more important than the health and welfare of the common folk......
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Small Towns Grapple with Diseased Immigrants

Sunday, December 9, 2007 1:28 PM

By: Tom Squitieri

The incidence of a Somali meat packer in Kansas who died from tuberculosis has officials calling for better health screening for the waves of unskilled immigrant workers flooding smaller American communities.


In the wake of the January death at a Tyson Foods plant in Emporia, Kan., public health officials found 160 cases of latent TB among the facility’s 500 Somali workers, according to the Topeka Capital-Journal.


Local officials say the case represents only a small part of the growing problem of foreign-born, unassimilated communities with high rates of communicable diseases such as TB and HIV. Many say they need help from Washington, which has been silent on the issue for too long.


“We have not really gotten Congress to engage, which I would like to see occur,” Peggy Mast, an 11-year Republican state representative from Kansas whose district includes Emporia, tells Newsmax. “I have talked with some of the offices and they think it is more of a state issue . . .”


The U.S. government has agreed to resettle more than 12,000 Somalis who fled their war-torn country in the past decade. Many have been living in refugee camps in Kenya prior to coming to America.


Mandatory health screenings are frequently put off for several months after the immigrants’ arrival. Those who blend into the secretive, tight-knit Somali community often do not resurface to be tested for communicable disease, officials complain.


Mast says that all levels of government need to be more pro-active in dealing with the issue of immigration workers, as it has opened up many additional areas of concerns including community safety, cultural clashes, and a long-term financial drain on communities where unskilled immigrants congregate for employment.


“From what I hear, I don’t think Kansas is unique in this,” Mast, 59, said. “These individuals are coming in with latent TB and HIV. This should not be. We are putting the general population at risk.”


The death of the worker at the local Tyson meatpacking facility was first reported by the Emporia Gazette. A town meeting was held on the issue, which opened many other areas of concerns by residents regarding the foreign workers.


Mast said the TB infections in the Somali community Emporia, a city of 28,000 people, the third highest TB rate in Kansas.


“[The Somali community] is dealing with active cases now,” she tells Newsmax. “This population is extremely difficult to track and it is hard to treat them. You have to make sure they are compliant with the medication and make sure they finish it up.”


Originally there were between 70 and 90 Somali workers at the Emporia plant who transferred to Kansas after a similar Tyson facility in Norfolk, Neb., shut down.


Now, Mast says there are some 500 Somali workers and “they are not the same people who came in originally.


“Most are single men from Minnesota and other places, because they heard of the packing plant and the wages of over $11 an hour, which is good for the unskilled population,” Mast says.


Public health officials still can’t determine if the Somali workers were infected while working in the Norfolk facility or elsewhere. What they do know, however, is that latent TB and other infectious diseases are prevalent among Somali and other humanitarian refugees arriving in the U.S.

She said there has been little family reunification among the male workers — something that could occur in the future and further exacerbate the problem and stress the community financially and culturally.


“There have already been several cultural clashes. This is a disservice to the population you are bringing in and you are inviting a cultural clash,” Mast says. “The fact there is such a cultural clash and where you have active TB cases, you only have to guess to imagine the fear that spreads through the community.”


Mast and others argue the federal government must conduct more thorough screenings on refugees entering the U.S. In addition to health concerns, she said there should be mandatory cultural education to help refugees assimilate.

“They do not understand the culture. Men tend not to show respect for women. They are very demanding and do not respect other people’s space,” Mast says. Additionally, she said the limited language skills have caused communication issues beyond simple day-to-day contact.


For example, Mast says most of the Somalis in Emporia are single males who live in a cluster near Emporia State University. She said several female students complained of being “extremely intimidated” by the Somali men’s presence.


Mast complains that Rep. Jerry Moran has advised Kansans that the Somali health and safety issues are state problems. She said she received more help from the mayor of Lewiston, Maine, a city of 36,000 that has a similar enclave of 1,200 Somali refugees — with 50 percent of them unemployed.

“Lewiston has asked Congress for more funding,” Mast says. “We look down the road and see the problems they can create. Unemployed single males with nothing to do.”


Mast says the “inconsistency of some of the authorities does not help create any sense of security.”


She notes that it is cultural for Somalis to marry up to four wives at one time.


“My concern is multiple children: Is our society prepared to take responsibility for caring for that size of the family? [Sponsors] say it will be a major resettlement [in Emporia]. The community is not ready for this,” Mast says.


Mast says even Catholic Charities, which helps with resettlement, could not give her an accurate count of how may refugees will ultimately resettle in her district.


“They do not know who they are, where they came from, what their intent is, and what we are looking at down the road,” she told Newsmax.
 
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Anonymous

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What about this... In 2007 health officials were screaming about all the immigrants (legal and illegal) that GW was letting in that were endangering the public health...

Where was all the outcry then from the ranchers.net cult followers :???:

You want to go find a few more about what a great job old GW done on immigration and health issues...
 

Mike

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You don't remember "ICE" raiding all those meat packing plants back during Bush? :roll:

How many raids have happened since? :???:

OT, you're a stupid, stupid man. And I use the term "man" very loosely. :roll:
 

TexasBred

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Now you worry...how many of your ancestors were quarantined when they arrived?? How many slaves were quarantined "offshore" and checked? He// old man this is nothing new. How many foreign flights land everyday and the occupants go a thousand different directions?
 

loomixguy

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Legal immigrants must undergo a pretty rigorous medical screening before being granted a visa to enter the US....this was so even under Klinton. Some do test positive for TB, but many of those results turn out to be false positives.

Notice I said "LEGAL" immigrants, not future Demmocrap voters.
 

Brad S

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OT, you posted info that criticized the health screening process. Your post didn't make a connection to extreme quantity causing the mistake. You've again been exposed to be a liar.
 
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Brad S said:
OT, you posted info that criticized the health screening process. Your post didn't make a connection to extreme quantity causing the mistake. You've again been exposed to be a liar.

A Resurgence of Deadly Diseases (Excerpt)
by R. Cort Kirkwood
November 27, 2006



Diseases once thought to be nearly eradicated in America, such as tuberculosis and leprosy, are now rising as illegal immigrants bring their health problems to our country.
Illegal immigrants not only drain American healthcare resources but also present a new threat: diseases once thought nearly erased from the American medical dictionary, as well as new ones never before seen, are emerging across the country.


As the late Madeline Cosman demonstrated in the Journal of the American Physicians and Surgeons in 2005, and other newspapers and health organizations have widely reported, illegal immigrants carry loathsome diseases for which American medicine is ill-prepared.

Time was, she wrote, referring to her immigrant grandfather, immigrants were tested for infectious diseases and then quarantined or shipped back to the old country. Anyone who has seen the second Godfather film remembers young Vito Corleone's arrival at Ellis Island. Diagnosed with smallpox, he landed in confinement. Or, like Cosman, many Americans know of the stories of grandparents and great-grandparents fresh off the boat from the old country. The authorities checked them for disease.

"Every legal immigrant before 1924 was examined for infectious diseases upon arrival and tested for tuberculosis," Cosman wrote. "Anyone infected was shipped back to the old country. That was powerful incentive for each newcomer to make heroic efforts to appear healthy. Today, immigrants must demonstrate that they are free of communicable diseases and drug addiction to qualify for lawful permanent residency green cards. Illegal aliens simply cross our borders medically unexamined, hiding in their bodies any number of communicable diseases...."


Well- its quite obvious, to anyone that looks, that they aren't talking about one or two folks causing a problem... You can stick your head in the sand all you want- but illegals have been a health care risk for a long time... In 1975 the illegal Nicaraguans being hauled in by Stanko to work in the local packing plant were causing health care problems for our local and State Health Depts. ... This has been a problem for years and years- and will be until Congress/Administration get together on trying to solve it... I thought it might be handled with the Reagan Amnesty that made it a crime to hire an illegal immigrant-- but then Reagan nor any President after him ever actively enforced it... Mainly because that would touch the wealthy and the corporate powers....
 

loomixguy

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There are enough immigration laws on the books. We wouldn't have this problem if these laws were enforced. OT can do his usual and customary "Blame Bush" routine, but the fact is the current regime has a blatant and habitual disregard for the Constitution and laws that are already on the books, and their telling the folks at Border Patrol and ICE to take a permanent coffee break has made the problem exponentially worse.

The stench of failure and incompetence blankets Dear Leader's regime and supporters (OT included, as he voted for the some beach) like the smell of death and decomposing flesh does a dead wagon on a 105° day in August.
 

hypocritexposer

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Enforcement isn't the only problem...writing executive orders which encourage it, is also an issue.

obama has more or less already granted amnesty, without congressional approval
 
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