It's A Third World Country!

David Dorado Roma would like to share with us his belief that illegal immigration is perfectly okey-dokey because his gramma was embarrassed on the border by health inspections...

The war stirred deep feelings of paranoia and anti-foreigner patriotism in this country. Americans were afraid that Germans would launch bombing raids from Mexico. As a protest against Germany, Americans changed the name of frankfurters to hot dogs and sauerkraut to “liberty cabbage.” And to protect the country from the threat of typhus, U.S. Customs agents began the mandatory delousing of Mexican border crossers at the El Paso-Juarez international bridge; 127,000 people were subjected to this procedure in 1917 alone.

All immigrants from the interior of Mexico, and those whom U.S. Customs officials deemed “second-class” residents of Juarez, were required to strip completely, turn in their clothes to be sterilized in a steam dryer and fumigated with hydrocyanic acid, and stand naked before a Customs inspector who would check his or her “hairy parts” — scalp, armpits, chest, genital area — for lice. Those found to have lice would be required to shave their heads and body hair with clippers and bathe with kerosene and vinegar.

My great-aunt, Adela Dorado, would tell our family about the humiliation of having to go through the delousing every eight days just to clean American homes in El Paso. She recalled how on one occasion the U.S. Customs officials put her clothes and shoes through the steam dryer and her shoes melted.

If anything, this kind of treatment at the international checkpoints exacerbated illegal border crossings. Mexican border crossers who didn’t want to subject themselves to the baths chose to avoid the designated entry points. As a result, in 1921, the U.S. Public Health Service created a mounted quarantine guard to bring Mexican immigrants to the disinfection sites.

Okay, well this seems just horrible right? I mean we all know America is just the meanest country ever, right?

Not so fast. What if it was perfectly legitimate to test people at the border, especially if they come from a third world country. And let's remember Mr. Romo is talking about the period from 1917-1921 in his article.

Here's what Dr. Madeleine Pelner Cosman, a noted specialist in immigration diseases has to say on the subject...

By default, we grant health passes to illegal aliens. Yet many
illegal aliens harbor fatal diseases that American medicine fought
and vanquished long ago, such as drug-resistant tuberculosis,
malaria, leprosy, plague, polio, dengue, and Chagas disease.

And that is today! I can only imagine what the situation was almost a hundred years ago. Drug resistant TB is on the rise currently along with a variety of others that we haven't faced in this country for quite a while.

The irony here is that the need to conduct health screenings is more dire today than ever, yet we check almost none of the people coming over the border from Mexico. I realize the PC crowd will probably soil themselves but I need to just come right out and say something.

MEXICO IS A THIRD WORLD COUNTRY!!!

There is no getting around it. Health standards are not the same over there, diseases that are fatal to Americans still flourish over there. This is why all immigration into this country needs to be orderly and controlled.

Mr. Roma makes light of American concerns regarding Germany during WWI. I find that interesting, in light of "The Plan Of San Diego." Maybe Mr. Roma needs to learn a little more about his own history.

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