The Biden administration has released thousands of illegal immigrant children infected with tuberculosis into 44 states without any attempt of treating the children.
Close to 2,500 children who have been diagnosed with TB have potentially infected thousands of American children within the last year.
The new numbers stem from a report from the US Health and Human Services Department.
The new report revealed, “The government says it can’t treat the children because they are in custody for a short time and treatment requires three to nine months.”
Check out what The Washington Times reported:
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The government is releasing thousands of illegal immigrant children with latent tuberculosis infections into American communities without assurances of treatment.
Nearly 2,500 children with latent infections were released into 44 states over the past year, according to a court-ordered report on how the Health and Human Services Department is treating the children.
About 126,000 total were released, indicating an infection rate of 1 in 50 migrant children.
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The government says it can’t treat the children because they are in custody for a short time and treatment requires three to nine months. HHS releases infected children to sponsors and notifies local health authorities in the hope that they can arrange for treatment before the latent infection becomes active.Those hopes are often dashed.
Per the New York Post:
New York City’s health commissioner announced last week that the influx of migrants from the southern border — more than 50,000 to New York City alone in the past year — is delivering contagious diseases, including tuberculosis and polio, to our neighborhoods.
The same disease threats are also endangering other migrant destinations, including California, Texas and Florida.
In a letter to physicians and health-care administrators citywide, Commissioner Ashwin Vasan explained, “Many people who recently arrived in NYC have lived in or traveled through countries with high rates of TB.”