Border Patrol Treating At Least 50 People Per Day For ‘Serious’ Illnesses

By all means. Continue to list the reasons we should allow these people to waltz into our country illegally. I’d love to hear ’em.

Border Patrol is treating at least 50 migrants a day for “serious” illnesses. We’re even talking about tuberculosis. Neat, huh?

Most of those in need of care are children, and a staggering 28 percent are under age 5, having been dragged along for the trip by parents who in many cases are hoping to use the children as a shield against speedy deportation from the U.S.

Don’t mind them. They’re just putting their kids’ health at risk to try to creep into our country. NBD! Border Patrol agents are clearly the heartless ones!

By the way, the majority of these people are already sick by the time they arrive to the border. Heck, some of them leave their home countries, KNOWING that they’re sick.

“Many were ill before they departed their homes,” CBP Commissioner Kevin McAleenan said. “We’re talking about cases of pneumonia, tuberculosis, parasites. These are not things that developed urgently in a matter of days.”

Agents have spotted a new trend in the traffic from Central America to the U.S., with smuggling organizations using commercial buses to get people through the journey in less than a week. That’s far faster than the 25 to 30 days it takes most migrants who walk or take a mixture of transportation to get from Guatemala, El Salvador and Honduras through Mexico and to the border.

Mr. McAleenan said the commercial buses are also delivering migrants to parts of the border such as western Texas and New Mexico that have traditionally been less afflicted by the flow of immigrants crossing into the U.S. illegally.

The faster trip also makes it easier for sick people to come, and provides “confidence for parents to bring younger children” along as well, he said.

As of Monday, 17 of the people referred for medical care were still hospitalized, Mr. McAleenan said.

Not cool. Not cool at all. It is absolutely NOT OK to use sick children as pawns. Shame on those parents for putting their kids in those positions in the first place.

h/t Washington Times