Along with Illegal Immigrants, Infectious Diseases are Crossing America’s Border

For the past four years, our national borders have been as porous as a sieve, allowing thousands of illegal aliens to cross into America every day. Few are screened for criminal backgrounds, useful skills, intentions toward America, or infectious diseases.

The criminal toll from invading gang members is significant, but not every border crosser is a thief, rapist, pedophile, or murderer.

However, everyone crossing the border could be a carrier of an infectious disease — a walking petri dish of bacteria and other microorganisms that may cause far greater problems than the criminal aliens.

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I am using the description “illegal alien” instead of the more woke terms of “migrant,” “refugee,” “visitor,” “undocumented,” or “immigrant” as a hat tip President Bill Clinton, who, in his 1995 State of the Union address, stated, “All Americans … are rightly disturbed by the large numbers of illegal aliens entering our country. The jobs they hold might otherwise be occupied by citizens or legal immigrants.”

He was spot on, so I honored him by…