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Lately, CHD has not wanted to
get in the way of the prolific “Operation
Pipeline”, so we took a couple weeks off from heavy
patrols to watch and see just how effective they were in their
efforts to close the border to illegal activity.
Here is what we have
discovered. The Naco sector, from east of the San Pedro to the
west side of the Huachuca Mountains, the hotspot of the illegal
invasion of the United States. Agents in vehicles on the roads,
miles from the border. Millions of dollars are being spent on
chasing lawbreakers through bushes, mountains, washes,
backyards of homeowners and on our streets and roads. Still
they come. Border Patrol is so proud of the numbers they are
now catching, something in the neighborhood of 13,000 people
have been caught breaking into the country illegally through
the Naco sector since October first. Record amounts of drugs
have been seized. Great job Border Patrol! We are proud of you.
But what about the border?
Now remember, this is about a
60 mile section of the border: we wonder how many more got
through.
Monday morning CHD ran a
patrol on the San Pedro. 7:30 a.m.—not a Border Patrol
agent in sight on the border. We were out for 15 minutes and,
wouldn’t you know, we spotted a group of seven men, all
dressed in black, all carrying backpacks, walking right along
the San Pedro.
We called B.P.; they responded to our
call, then deployed agents on the ground and ran around for a
few hours before they caught the group we spotted. They
even found another group of five in the same location we have
told them about for over a year now —they still
won’t put permanent patrols in the area, and the illegals
continue to breach the weak spots.
It’s back to work for
Civil Homeland Defense—we are still not satisfied with
the federal government’s assertiveness on the border. I
wonder how many illegals John McCain and Tom Ridge will catch
on their Blackhawk helicopter tour of the border on Wednesday?
CHD volunteers will give them
a wave and thumbs up as they fly over our area. We want them to
know we appreciate the job they are doing, even though I am
embarrassed to see my government so strong in “whooping
butt” in other countries, yet so weak in protecting our
own borders.
When will they realize the
only way to stop the madness is to deploy U.S. troops to our
backyards to save the lives of and preserve the quality of life
for citizens of Arizona?
2,140 assists - The mission
continues.
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By Sam Francis
Among the many benefits of the mass
immigration the Open Borders Lobby has invited into the country
are the diseases that would probably all but have vanished from
American and Western society but for the presence of Third
World immigrants.
Tuberculosis, rubella (German measles) and
hepatitis are among the most serious, but last week the New York Times science
section disclosed yet another Third World plague immigration
has contributed to the scrutiny of medical science and public
hygiene. It makes tuberculosis look rather like a summer cold.
[Rare Infection Threatens to Spread
in Blood Supply by Donald G. McNeil
Jr., New York Times, 17 Nov 2003]
This one is known as Chagas disease, which
flourishes in Latin America and operates mainly by “threatening the United States blood
supply,” according to the
public health officials the Times interviewed.
It is not yet common in the United States,
but thanks to immigration it may soon be.
Indeed, only nine cases of Chagas
transmitted by blood transfusions are known in the United
States and Canada in the last 20 years, but perhaps you see the
problem despite such encouraging news.
The problem is that as immigration from
Latin America increases, and more Latin Americans donate blood,
the greater the chance for the disease to enter blood supplies
whence the disease may come to you and your family.
As the Times reports,
“Because the disease is most common
in rural areas from southern Mexico to northern Chile, the
threat is greatest in American cities with many immigrants from
those areas.”
Well, it just shows how really provincial
America is. In “Mexico,
Central America and South America,” the Times reports, “18
million people are infected, and 50,000 a year die of
it.”
Moreover, the more immigrants from such
places are around, the more infections there will be. In the
United States as a whole, the risk of getting a transfusion of
infected blood is a mere 1 in 25,000; according to scientists
at the American Red Cross pretty good odds. But in Miami, in
1998, where Latin immigrants are common, the risk is 1 in 9,000
not quite such good odds. In Los Angeles the same year, the
odds are 1 in 5,400 even worse odds but not quite what they
were only two years earlier: 1 in 9,850.
So what does Chagas do exactly? Well,
it’s transmitted by cute little insects fetchingly known
as “assassin bugs,” which live in the thatch in your roof.
Many Americans do not have thatch in their
roofs, but the Open Borders lobby is working on that.
The assassin bug is attracted to the open
mouths of sleeping humans, crawls in and sucks some blood. In
exchange it gives the sleeper a microbe that the sleeper
sometimes rubs into the wound. The microbe causes Chagas.
As to what the disease actually does,
well, those who get it “will
die when their hearts or intestines, weakened by the disease,
explode.” But
that’s only 10 to 30 percent of those who get Chagas,
which is the good news.
It’s hard to say what the bad news
is since there’s just so much of it.
First, despite the disease’s rarity
so far, “hundreds of blood
recipients may be silently infected already.”
Second, there is no way to tell yet, since
the disease can lie dormant for 10 to 30 years before your
internal organs start celebrating the Fourth of July.
Third, there’s no test available yet
to determine whether blood supplies are infected.
The Food and Drug Administration has not
approved a reliable test for the presence of the disease in
blood supplies, and no such test seems to be known anyway. One
researcher at a major pharmaceutical company told the Times she
doesn’t expect a test to be available until 2005.
The danger for Americans, of course, is
not that assassin bugs will crawl into their mouths but that
they’ll need blood transfusions for ordinary reasons and
the blood they’ll get will be infected and no one will
know until some day 10 to 30 years in the future you start
spilling your guts quite literally.
Of course the Open Borders lobby, which
has crooned about the wonderful gifts that immigrants from the
Third World are bringing us, never knew about Chagas or the
problems like mass epidemics that the disease might cause, even
though critics of mass immigration for decades have warned
about its impact on public health.
It might have been helpful if the Open
Borders crowd had paid some minimal attention to the realities
of the Third World.
But since they refused, it would be
helpful today if everyone else ceased paying attention to them
at all.
As for Chagas, it may be rare today, but
as the Times reports, “Experts
expect it to become better known as new tests are
developed.”
You can bet your roof thatch.
COPYRIGHT CREATORS SYNDICATE, INC.
[Sam Francis [email him] is a nationally
syndicated columnist. A selection of his columns, America Extinguished: Mass Immigration And The
Disintegration Of American Culture,
is now available from Americans For Immigration Control.
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