What's Wrong with Illegal Immigration

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Gwinnett TB Infected Teen To Be Deported

LAWRENCEVILLE, Ga. -- Officials have begun taking steps to deport a Mexican teenager who was jailed after refusing treatment for tuberculosis.

Francisco Santos, 17, has acknowledged to U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement agents that he is in the country illegally, Gwinnett County Sheriff Butch Conway said Wednesday.

County health officials jailed Santos last week after he refused treatment for an active, contagious case of tuberculosis and threatened to return to Mexico. Santos, who lives in Duluth, has since started taking medicine, but will remain jailed at least until a Sept. 5 hearing on his isolation.

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[Fandango 1,439]

Oh, there's not enough bandwidth to accurately answer that quezzie, Art

[Ban Hammer 13,346]

but he's just seeking a better life

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I work at detention center on the border. I can confirm that alot of the detainees (90% illegals) have contagious diseases. There's been a lot of chicken pox, numerous TB, and deaths of 2 Hondurans that had some unknown disease when they arrived. Most of the diseases are found in the Central and South American detainees. There are also many many cases of AIDS.

[Hilarious Clinton 452]

and no background check as a bonus.

[smoke20 0]

he's just trying to get a buch of racial sh!t started this one started at 9:41 & this one at 10:01.

http://www.visajourney.com/forums/index.ph...p;#entry1167795

don't go for it.

[Pinocchio Liberal 268]

but he's just seeking a better life

Its all about the free ride.

[mawilson 2,133]

I love the part where he "threatened to return to Mexico"

[Hilarious Clinton 452]

he's just trying to get a buch of racial sh!t started this one started at 9:41 & this one at 10:01.

http://www.visajourney.com/forums/index.ph...p;#entry1167795

don't go for it.

racial?

[Pinocchio Liberal 268]

I love the part where he "threatened to return to Mexico"

Damn, I worked so hard to get here. I love the part about the destination.

[peejay 327]

I work at detention center on the border. I can confirm that alot of the detainees (90% illegals) have contagious diseases. There's been a lot of chicken pox, numerous TB, and deaths of 2 Hondurans that had some unknown disease when they arrived. Most of the diseases are found in the Central and South American detainees. There are also many many cases of AIDS.

The open borders illegal alien cheerleading squad often cites any death in any detention center as proof positive of inhuman treatment or wrongdoing by the authorities and a compelling reason not to arrest or detain anyone for breaking any immigration laws. Unfortunately there are gullible people that are deceived by this propaganda. Yes...people do die in custody...but they probably would have died anyway. Hardly a reason not to arrest people for breaking the law.

In fact...the above information should wake people up to the reasons why we should not have open borders or encourage illegal immigration by granting amnesty and failing to enforce the law.

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I work at detention center on the border. I can confirm that alot of the detainees (90% illegals) have contagious diseases. There's been a lot of chicken pox, numerous TB, and deaths of 2 Hondurans that had some unknown disease when they arrived. Most of the diseases are found in the Central and South American detainees. There are also many many cases of AIDS.

The open borders illegal alien cheerleading squad often cites any death in any detention center as proof positive of inhuman treatment or wrongdoing by the authorities and a compelling reason not to arrest or detain anyone for breaking any immigration laws. Unfortunately there are gullible people that are deceived by this propaganda. Yes...people do die in custody...but they probably would have died anyway. Hardly a reason not to arrest people for breaking the law.

In fact...the above information should wake people up to the reasons why we should not have open borders or encourage illegal immigration by granting amnesty and failing to enforce the law.

You are absolutely correct! These 2 men actually died in the hospital. After their condition worsened and was beyond the care of the facility medical department, they were transferred to the local hospital. These two cases happened about 3 weeks apart. The Center for Disease Control came in from Georgia to inspect the facility after much media publicity. The CDC gave the facility a clean bill of health and it was determined that the deaths were not the fault of the facility. These men brought their disease with them when they arrived. There is almost always someone quarantined for TB.

I did want to add that we process at least 80 new illegal entry cases through intake daily. 90% of the inmates at this facility are illegal entries. The facility is expanding, doubling it's size, and due to open the expansion by the end of the month. There is a facility just like this one in just about every Texas/Mexico border town too. Men and women of every imaginable age are detained. (Minors are kept at the Border Patrol facility, although we have 3 male minors aged 16 and 17 at this facility at this time.) It's overcrowded. Of the other remaining 10% of detainees, 3% are ICE detainees. First time entries are periodically flown back to their countries of origin. Repeat offenders are rolled over as US Marshal (federal) offenders and are prosecuted and go to prison. There are also many many cases of LPR's that have broken the law and after serving time for their offense, will also be sent back to their country of origin and lose their LPR status. This is a detention Center where offenders are held before being sent to their final destination, whether it is their country of origin or prison. The remaining 7% are state and federal offenders. I have stories!!!!!!

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Here are 2 links from the local newspaper concerning my aboce post. I feel that I need to add that there was no abuse, physical or other, involved in these illnesses.

http://delrionewsherald.com/story.lasso?ew...a5c747a06bd6823

Jail rumors addressed

By Karen Gleason

Del Rio News-Herald

Published August 18, 2007

Several persistent rumors about deaths and illness at the county jail were addressed by state health authorities Friday.

No one at the jail has died or has been hospitalized as the result of a beating, no jailers or other jail or sheriff’s office staff are sick and there is no tuberculosis “outbreak” at the facility, Dr. Sandra Guerra-Cantu, Region 8 Health Director and state health authority for Val Verde County, said Friday.

The Del Rio News-Herald contacted Guerra-Cantu Friday and asked her to address several rumors the newspaper has received since the report that two men who were former inmates of the jail died at Val Verde Regional Medical Center in late July and the Val Verde County Sheriff’s Office, the GEO Group and the Texas Department of State Health Services opened an investigation.

The newspaper has received telephone calls and mail about the subject.

One of the letters received, read, in part, as follows:

“We find out [sic] that a jail inmate died at Val Verde Regional (Medical) Center after a fight at the local county jail. There has been nothing in the news about this. Some are throwing to the wind that he died of illness but when in reality it was a fight,” the unsigned, typewritten note read.

“Whether there is an investigation or not, something to the effect should be told. Thank God it wasn’t from a prominent family. . .then there would be hell to pay,” the note concluded.

“We didn’t discover any evidence to support that idea,” Guerra-Cantu said Friday.

She said that the official cause of death of the first fatality at the jail, listed as “cardio-pulmonary arrest following illness,” was “non-traumatic.”

A male caller who did not identify himself called Staff Writer Jennifer Killin Wednesday to tell her that a female relative of his was employed at the jail and that his female relative had told him that two jailers who work at the facility have fallen ill since the start of the investigation.

“We have been very fortunate. The last case of illness was the fourth illness we talked about last week. Nobody else has been brought to our attention,” Guerra-Cantu said.

Another rumor making its way around town is that the two men who died at the end of July, died as the result of an outbreak of tuberculosis at the facility.

Guerra-Cantu said tuberculosis is “always a concern” at correctional facilities.

“It’s a concern in any correctional facilities, especially in correctional facilities that hold inmates from countries where tuberculosis is present,” Guerra-Cantu said.

She said of the illnesses at the jail, “I can’t tell you it isn’t tuberculosis,” and added, “The presence of tuberculosis is almost expected in any correctional facility.”

Guerra-Cantu said she and state and federal health authorities investigating the four illnesses at the jail may issue a public statement on their findings at the jail as early as next week.

http://delrionewsherald.com/story.lasso?ew...de6242f7bc987d0

Official: Four jail illnesses not related

By Karen Gleason

Del Rio News-Herald

Published August 24, 2007

Illnesses that recently struck four former inmates at the county jail are not related, a state health official says.

Dr. Sandra Guerra-Cantu, Texas Department of State Health Services Region 8 Health Director and the state health authority for Val Verde County, Thursday discussed preliminary findings of a group of state and federal medical investigators who have been examining the illnesses for about a week.

Those investigators, from the Texas Department of State Health Services (DSHS) and Centers for Disease Control (CDC) in Atlanta, Ga., were called in by Val Verde County Sheriff A. D’Wayne Jernigan after four men recently held in the Val Verde Correctional Facility became sick in late July.

Two of those men died within a week of each other at the Val Verde Regional Medical Center.

Of those two men, one was a Del Rio man in jail on state charges, and the other was a native of Honduras and a federal prisoner in the facility.

Two more men, both of them federal immigration prisoners like the second man, also became ill.

In an interview Thursday, Guerra-Cantu said one of those men has become so ill he has been placed on life support, and the other is considered “recovered.”

“The preliminary conclusion we have drawn is that all these four cases are not related to each other,” Guerra-Cantu said.

Guerra-Cantu said although all four cases at first seemed related because they occurred within a short period of time, and some of the symptoms appeared similar, on closer inspection it was found “that these cases really don’t have the same health issues.”

“These cases are all separate from one another,” Guerra-Cantu added. “These cases were rightly looked at as suspicious, but ultimately, they were not related.”

Although Guerra-Cantu said she could not discuss the specifics of each case because of privacy issues, she said two of the four inmates were infected with HIV, the human immuno-deficiency virus.

“This would make them more prone to severe illnesses that might, in someone else, be very mild. It also made them susceptible to more unusual illnesses,” she said.

Guerra-Cantu said the two HIV-infected men had that condition before they were incarcerated in the Val Verde Correctional Facility.

A third man also had an “underlying medical condition” that existed before he entered custody in the jail, Guerra-Cantu said.

Guerra-Cantu said the DSHS and CDC team investigating the mystery illnesses consisted of about 20 specialists.

“The reason for such a large number of people is that we looked at every possible way a person can become ill,” Guerra-Cantu said.

She said the specialists looked at infection spread from person-to-person or from animals or insects to people.

“We had specialists in all those areas. We also looked at toxicology, purposeful or accidental, and we had them come in and run tests. We looked at environmental factors. Was it something in the ventilation, in the way they were cleaning the place up; sanitation, the way food was prepared, all of those areas,” Guerra-Cantu said.

“We believe we covered all the bases,” she said.

“We had some of the best minds on site, as well as many more people available to us on conference calls, who could tell us what to look for,” Guerra-Cantu said.

Specimens were sent to “five or six” different labs throughout the country, she added.

While all of those results have not been returned, Guerra-Cantu said, “Fortunately we know the results are all negative for exotic diseases, heavy metal poisoning, accidental or purposeful ingestion of substances. Everything we’ve looked at so far has been negative.”

She concluded, “At this point in our investigation, we found the things that are normally found in jails everywhere and there is no way to get rid of those things. There is no ongoing threat to persons at the facility and we’re very reassured by that.”

[Jasman0717 9]

I love the part where he "threatened to return to Mexico"