Tilted Cat Head
Administrator
Location: Manhattan, NY
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This is the simplest reason for not wanting porous borders and just letting people in indiscriminantly.
When Ellis Island was in play, people were screened for illness
ELLIS ISLAND
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During inspection, those immigrants who appeared sick or were suffering from a contagious disease were marked with blue chalk and detained for further medical examination. The sick were taken to Ellis Island hospital for observation and care, and once recovered, could proceed with their legal inspection. Those with incurable or disabling ailments were excluded and returned to their port of departure at the expense of the steamship line on which they arrived. In an attempt to discourage steamship companies from transporting ill, disabled or impoverished passengers, an immigration law of 1903 imposed a $100 fine for every excluded passenger.
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TB in NYC is double the rate of the rest of the US
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Multi-drug resistant tuberculosis accounted for 21 of these cases. Foreign-born New Yorkers continue to be disproportionately affected, accounting for 70% of new tuberculosis cases. "Tuberculosis can be both prevented and cured," said Health Commissioner Dr. Thomas R. Frieden.
"We've made significant progress in reducing the risk of this disease in New York, and in controlling the drug-resistant strains. But New York City's TB rate is still double the rate of the nation, and we have much to do to lessen the impact on foreign-born New Yorkers."
Tuberculosis Diagnoses among Foreign-Born New Yorkers
Foreign-born New Yorkers accounted for 672 new diagnoses of TB last year, a decline of 3% from 690 cases in 2005. However, the TB rate in New York's immigrant community is 28.4 per 100,000 people " more than five times the citywide average for U.S.-born residents (5.4) and more than six times the national rate, which was 4.8 in 2005, the latest year for which national data are available. The most common countries of origin for newly diagnosed TB patients were: China (110 cases), the Dominican Republic (53), Ecuador (50), Mexico (47), and the Philippines (35). Queens and Brooklyn, the boroughs with the largest proportion of foreign-born residents, also have the highest TB caseloads.
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I'm not so worried about the catostrophic, as they will be very little that can be done immediately for them. I'm much more worried about the simplest things we can do which are being eroded because people are "paranoid" or "selfish".
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I don't care if you are black, white, purple, green, Chinese, Japanese, Korean, hippie, cop, bum, admin, user, English, Irish, French, Catholic, Protestant, Jewish, Buddhist, Muslim, indian, cowboy, tall, short, fat, skinny, emo, punk, mod, rocker, straight, gay, lesbian, jock, nerd, geek, Democrat, Republican, Libertarian, Independent, driver, pedestrian, or bicyclist, either you're an asshole or you're not.
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