Swine Flu Found in Illegal Immigrant Children
Saturday, June 28, 2014 10:23 PM
By: Todd Beamon
U.S. Border Patrol agents in Texas have discovered four cases of the H1N1 flu strain among illegal immigrant children held at two detention centers in Brownsville in the past two days, National Border Patrol Council Vice President Chris Cabrera told Newsmax on Saturday.
Medical personnel at each of the centers, the Brownsville and Fort Brown Border Patrol stations, confirmed one case each on Friday and Saturday, he said. The minors are 10 to 12 years old.
"Everybody's who been in contact with them now is suspect that they have gotten it," Cabrera said in an interview. "That's what we're dealing with now."
As many as 120 people have been isolated at the two centers after being exposed to the minors, he said. Medical professionals at the detention centers screen illegals for lice, scabies, and chicken pox — but not everyone receives medical clearance, he said.
"We’ve had to quarantine the area and everybody who came in contact with them," he added. Border Patrol officials have also notified federal health officials of the situation — and agents will have to be vaccinated as a precaution.
"The flu can be dangerous, and swine flu even more so," he said. "We're still crowded. We're still overcrowded."
At least one other case of H1N1 flu has been confirmed at the Lackland Air Force Base detention center in San Antonio, according to KGBT-TV news.
Federals officials began housing illegal minors at Lackland in May. More than 1,800 minors have since passed through there. Other illegals are being housed at military bases in Oklahoma and California.
Republicans have expressed fears of rampant disease at the various Border Patrol detention centers and related facilities since huge numbers of illegals — particularly minors traveling alone — have flooded the U.S. border in recent months.
More than 52,000 unaccompanied children have been arrested entering the U.S. illegally since October, with many of them coming from Mexico and such Central American countries as Honduras, Guatemala and El Salvador.
U.S. Border Patrol agents in Texas have discovered four cases of the H1N1 flu strain among illegal immigrant children held at two detention centers in Brownsville in the past two days, National Border Patrol Council Vice President Chris Cabrera told Newsmax on Saturday.
Medical personnel at each of the centers, the Brownsville and Fort Brown Border Patrol stations, confirmed one case each on Friday and Saturday, he said. The minors are 10 to 12 years old.
"Everybody's who been in contact with them now is suspect that they have gotten it," Cabrera said in an interview. "That's what we're dealing with now."
As many as 120 people have been isolated at the two centers after being exposed to the minors, he said. Medical professionals at the detention centers screen illegals for lice, scabies, and chicken pox — but not everyone receives medical clearance, he said.
"We’ve had to quarantine the area and everybody who came in contact with them," he added. Border Patrol officials have also notified federal health officials of the situation — and agents will have to be vaccinated as a precaution.
"The flu can be dangerous, and swine flu even more so," he said. "We're still crowded. We're still overcrowded."
At least one other case of H1N1 flu has been confirmed at the Lackland Air Force Base detention center in San Antonio, according to KGBT-TV news.
Federals officials began housing illegal minors at Lackland in May. More than 1,800 minors have since passed through there. Other illegals are being housed at military bases in Oklahoma and California.
Republicans have expressed fears of rampant disease at the various Border Patrol detention centers and related facilities since huge numbers of illegals — particularly minors traveling alone — have flooded the U.S. border in recent months.
More than 52,000 unaccompanied children have been arrested entering the U.S. illegally since October, with many of them coming from Mexico and such Central American countries as Honduras, Guatemala and El Salvador.
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