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Kitty wrote:

> "KenStahl" <ktsahl@yahoo.com> wrote in message 
> news:cPGJh.13010$MG4.8404@fe191.usenetserver.com...
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>>theodoric3@lycos.com wrote:
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>>>On Mar 13, 4:10 pm, "DorE" <90835x...@sneakemail.com> wrote:
>>>
>>>
>>>>Illegal Immigrants Are Spreading Dangerous Diseases Across This Nation
>>>>By Dave Gibson
>>>>
>>>>It is often said that the flood of illegal immigrants into this
>>>>country is reaching 'epidemic proportions.' While that statement is
>>>>true--it is just as true that the illegal immigrants pouring over the
>>>>U.S.-Mexican border are endangering this country with actual
>>>>epidemics. Tuberculosis, hepatitis, dengue fever, chagas, and even
>>>>leprosy are being imported into the U.S. inside the bodies of illegal
>>>>aliens...And you thought they only carried heroin-filled baloons
>>>>inside their bodies!
>>>>
>>>>A 'hot-zone' of disease can be found in this nations border states.
>>>>Illegal immigrants are setting up so-called "colonias" just inside the
>>>>states of New Mexico, Texas, and Arizona. The shanty towns are
>>>>comprised mostly of cardboard shacks and huts made with cast-off
>>>>building materials. They have no sanitation, and are surrounded by
>>>>mounds of garbage. The estimated 185,000 illegals share their
>>>>makeshift towns with armies of rats. Of course, diseases only common
>>>>to Central and South America run rampant in these places.
>>>>
>>>>One of the imports to this country is chagas disease. It is caused by
>>>>a parasite known as trypanosome. It is a blood-borne disease and is
>>>>spread by triatomine insects. The parasite burrows into human tissue
>>>>(usually in the face), where it then begins to multiply. In addition
>>>>to being spread by insects, it can also be contracted through blood
>>>>transfusions.
>>>>
>>>>After cases of chagas were reportedly discovered to have been spread
>>>>by transfusions in Canada, that nation began testing all blood
>>>>donations for the disease.
>>>>
>>>>For 40 years, the number of recorded cases of leprosy within the
>>>>United States totaled 900. Today, we know of more than 7,000 current
>>>>cases of leprosy in the U.S.
>>>>
>>>>Dr. John Levis of New York's Bellevue Hospital's Hansen Disease Clinic
>>>>said of America's documented cases of leprosy: 'There are probably
>>>>many, many more and they are spreading."
>>>>
>>>>Most of those in the U.S. who are suffering from leprosy are from
>>>>Mexico, India, Brazil, and the Caribbean. However, there are a few
>>>>documented cases in which the person became infected with leprosy
>>>>inside the U.S. The majority of the cases have been discovered in this
>>>>nation's northeastern region.
>>>>
>>>>Once thought to be nearly eradicated in this country, TB is now making
>>>>a strong comeback. In a recent interview with Mother Jones Magazine,
>>>>Dr. Reichman of The New Jersey TB Clinic recently said: In the 1990's,
>>>>cases among foreign born Americans rose from 29 percent to 41.6
>>>>percent. Antibiotic resistant strains from Mexico have migrated to
>>>>Texas. Since three years ago, 16,000 new cases of TB were discovered
>>>>in the United States. Half were foreign born. Strains of TB once only
>>>>found in Mexico have migrated to the border states of Texas, Arizona,
>>>>New Mexico, and California. It will move north as illegal aliens work
>>>>in restaurants as cooks, dishwashers, and food handlers. We sit on the
>>>>edge of a potential catastrophe."
>>>>
>>>>In 2001, New York's Tuberculosis Control Program discovered that 81
>>>>percent of that city's new cases of TB were attributed to immigrants
>>>>
>>>>Cases of TB are now being found in many areas of the country, where
>>>>there are high concentrations of illegal immigrants. In March of 2002,
>>>>The Washington Post reported that Virginia's Prince William County
>>>>experienced a 188 percent increase of TB infections over the previous
>>>>year. Yes, the streets of Prince William County are over-run with
>>>>illegal aliens seeking day-laborer jobs.
>>>>
>>>>Last year, the rate of TB in the northern part of Virginia rose 17
>>>>percent. The Va. Department of Health blamed the rise on that region's
>>>>recent flood of illegal immigrants. Many strains of TB are being found
>>>>in certain neighborhoods, which are dominated by illegal Latin
>>>>American immigrants.
>>>>
>>>>The threats posed to our country by illegal immigration are many.
>>>>However, our political leaders will undoubtedly continue to ignore
>>>>them. Our own president is willing to place all Americans at risk, in
>>>>exchange for securing the Latino vote for the Republican Party.
>>>>
>>>>[ed note: they know most Latinos won't vote Republican. It's
>>>>being done to supply slave labor to the upper class and to
>>>>eliminate the white middle class]
>>>>
>>>>If left unchecked, illegal immigration will destroy this nation one
>>>>way or another.
>>>>
>>>>http://www.rense.com/general75/shanty.htm
>>>
>>>
>>>And our worthless government does nothing to stop the flood of
>>>illegals.
>>>
>>>greg
>>>
>>>http://www.newnation.com/index2.html  New Nation News
>>>
>>>
>>
>>That's what we get for having Republicans in the White House.
>>
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> Illegals didn't START sneaking in, on Jan 20 2001
> 
> 
> Kitty 
> 
> 

Some of them did. A lot have done it since then. There were also many 
between 1981-1992.