7 people with TB?
Wow- that is an epidemic.....
You RWNJ are so ignorant.
Refugees are tested for TB before they arrive- but tests cannot detect latent TB- that emerges afterwards.
Which is why there is follow testing- which ta da! Discovered the TB in refugees after they get here.
Yes- people from other countries can bring in TB to the United States.
Do you think that is a reason to stop all immigration to the United States?
Because latent TB can not be detected in refugees, until after they get here and infect those around them, what would be the prudent thing for America do? Stop importing people. The melting pot is full.
Yes, bringing killer diseases here to spread to our classrooms is an excellent reason to stop immigration. So is importing bomb makers, mass murderers, jihadists............ all good reasons to halt their access.
We haven't been importing bomb makers - they have been home grown.
But if you think we should stop all importation- because of 7 cases of TB- that is certainly one American way to deal with things.
We haven't been importing bomb makers - they have been home grown.
We imported their parents. Who in turn radicalize their children here instead of Afghanistan. And rightly so. Here is where their enemy is.
When they asked Willie Sutton why he robbed banks he told them, "Because that is where the money is."
Muslims are coming here because here is where their target is. We can continue to let them in, or we can keep them out.
Muslims are coming here for many of the same reasons Irish came here-
Extremist Muslims terrorists are mostly terrorizing other Muslims- look at what happened in Turkey yesterday- and are in large part responsible for the refugees you want to deny safety to. After other Muslims, they are mostly targeting Europe and Africa.
- To escape persecution
- To escape poverty and starvation
- To provide for their families
- For the American dream
I absolutely believe we should keep out terrorists- and potential terrorists. I just don't think we should assume every immigrant is a terrorist.
Here are some M&M's. One of them is poisoned. Go ahead and eat a handful. Not all M&M's are poison.
Is it prudent to let them all in and try to figure out after a mass murder, which ones are poison? Don't bring the threat here and then try to contain it. That is not working in Europe, and it won't work here. Europe is our test dummy.
By that measure we wouldn't have ever let in any Irish.
There is no guarantee that any immigrant won't ever turn bad, that every immigrant is perfectly healthy. But we have always brought in immigrants and we have welcomed refugees in need like the Irish.
There are about 3 million Muslims in America. If all Muslims are such a threat why don't we have thousands and thousands of Muslim Americans attacking here each day?