Dr. Ashwin Vasan, health commissioner of New York City, is waiving the white flag. Biden’s non-existent border policies are producing contagious diseases not seen for seen for decades.(1) The 2,500,000 recorded migrant encounters at the US-Mexico border in 2023 represents a new all-time high. (2) These individuals come from 160 exotic countries, most with terrible health care standards. Now, illegal immigrants are driving a resurgence of rare diseases once extinct in the US. A prime example is Polio: in 2022, a New York man was paralyzed by polio likely originating from another country. The last previous confirmed polio case in New York was in 1990. Nationwide public health crisis as we head to the polls. Tuberculosis (TB), an airborne bacterial infection, has now been confirmed in every neighborhood in New York City, with 88% of cases in people born outside the US. Florida has seen a 21% increase in TB since Biden was elected. Texas border counties have triple the national average rate for TB. But the list doesn’t stop there: • Chickenpox outbreaks have ripped through migrant shelters in multiple states. • Measles, declared eliminated in the U.S. back in 2000, has been brought back to the U.S. • Malaria was reported by a Maryland resident who contracted it from an individual infected while outside the U.S. • Leprosy is now endemic in the southeast United States. The CDC traced the source to —you guessed it — “international migration of persons with the disease.” (3) And, that’s just the beginning. Migrant-borne illnesses are transmissible and already spiking nationwide. Biden’s No. 1 import: disease.
