More than 2,000 people in ICE custody quarantined for contagious diseases

[Dennis Donovan]

Source: CNN

(CNN)More than 2,000 people in Immigration and Customs Enforcement custody are being quarantined amid an outbreak of mumps and other diseases.

The numbers of immigrants in custody with a contagious diseases has spiked in the past year. For the previous two years, the agency has not encountered a single case of mumps among its detainees.

"As of March 7, 2019, there was a total of 2,287 detainees cohorted for exposure to a detainee with a contagious condition," said ICE spokesperson Brendan Raedy in a statement.

In the past 12 months, there have been health investigations at 51 ICE detention facilities for mumps, chickenpox and influenza, according to Raedy.

Read more: https://www.cnn.com/2019/03/11/politics/ice-custody-disease-quarantine-health/index.html

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Jesus!

[Miguel M]

1. Hold it! you mean that post-coup Honduras doesn't have a top notch vaccination program for the poor?

Wow. Who woulda thunk that?

[Igel]

9. No.

Not a whole lot changed after the "coup".

These are largely adults who weren't vaccinated over the last 20+ years.

Since so many argued that they weren't a reservoir of disease, the only proper deduction is that they acquired the illnesses after arrival in the US.

[Miguel M]

11. One of Zeleya's major initiatives was a full national vaccination program.

Of course, that kind of socialism doesn't sit well with some in the US, so instead of a vaccination program, Hondurans got this ...


Soldiers entered the presidential palace in the capital, Tegucigalpa,
and disarmed the presidential guard on Sunday

[world wide wally]

2. It has become embarrassing to be an American thanks to fucking Trump

[dixiegrrrrl]

3. At least they are quarantining them.

So far.

[Igel]

10. At least two groups of them.

Those who turn themselves in and are identified.

Those who are apprehended and are identified.

That leaves some not quarantined.

[EarthFirst]

4. That'll really chew into that $700/day stipend from the federal government... nt

[moonseller66]

5. Uh huh

Wonder how many of the anti-psychotic they were given contained ONLY anti-psychotic medication?

New York Subways of the 50s ring a CIA bell?

What better way to experiment? Sounds like (Steve) Miller Time!

Bastards!

[LuvLoogie]

6. Infect them, then send them back to their "shit hole" countries

Given the recent GOP hyperbole of Democrat Baby Killers, it only seems natural that they are once again projecting to cover for another heinous crime.

[DRoseDARs]

7. Meanwhile millions of anti-vaxers roam free... n/t

[Rhiannon12866]

8. This just continues to get worse every damn day!

How anyone can justify what has been happening here is totally beyond me, and not just in this country, but in the eyes of the rest of the world...