Againsheila
Gold Member
So you are saying one quote from the Dept. of Homeland Security validates all other posts by the OP? Inquiring minds would like to know. For starters, the title of this thread is a fallacy.
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No, the op had 3 quotes, one of which was from the Department of Homeland Security. Gunny called all of it "sensationalist crap" and said this was not going to be allowed here. IMO, if you don't like the source, you should provide something to disprove it, not just call it "sensationalist crap" and not allow it. I remember when Clinton was in power "Capital Hill Blue" was considered a biased source and no one believed it, but when it started talking about about Bush, suddenly it was a reliable source. The truth is that the only way you are going to find the real truth is to get it from several sources. I know for a fact that the increase in TB in this country comes from ILLEGAL aliens. Legal aliens have to go through a health check and if they have tb, they can't come, if they have been exposed to tb, they have to take the pills to insure they won't affect the rest of the country. 30 years ago, we didn't have the amount of tb we have now, but then again, we didn't have the number of illegals we have now either. Every American gets a tb test regularly, even in school, or they did when I was a kid. I even got one before I went to Mexico and again when I came back. I traveled all over Mexico, I lived with a Mexican family and I was exposed to TB. I don't think it's sensationalist crap to claim that the increase in TB comes from illegals who sneak into our country and don't have to go through a health check or a background check.
The truth is that while they may not have it when they come here, they most likely were exposed to it in their own country and because of they don't get a health check and don't take the pills, it becomes active here and they infect 100s and 1000s of people. TB can remain dormant for years before an outbreak, that's why we have had regular tb tests in America for years. That's why we give peopel who test positive those pills to take for a year.