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She knew.

Remember Andrew Speaker? He’s the TB-infected American who was able to slip through several airline security layers and fly around the globe despite being on a no-fly list in May. There were several other TB/security incidents this year that have fallen down the memory hole.
Looks like we still haven’t learned anything (via SJMercNews):
A Santa Clara [...]

Our ailing homeland security.

Contagious.

Democrats, homeland security, and double standards.

Open borders insanity.

Open borders and tuberculosis.

The national media covered tuberculosis carrier Andrew Speaker wall-to-wall earlier this month. That hubbub has died down, but TB scares across the country continue. Why no follow-up on this national health crisis? Because calling attention to it might earn you the wrath of Geraldo, Lindsey Graham, Linda Chavez, President Bush, and the rest of the [...]

He is Andrew Harley Speaker–and what a selfish, reckless man he is.
Update: A strange new twist…Speaker’s father-in-law is a CDC microbiologist who specializes in TB.
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Related: What’s that I hear? The sound of ACLU lawyers on the way.
Related: The government is investigating how Speaker got across the border:
The government is investigating how a globe-trotting tuberculosis patient [...]

…if a banned passenger can still get on a plane? That’s the question the feds need to answer in the case of the Atlanta man infected with a super TB strain:
An Atlanta-area man — infected with a rare, potentially deadly type of tuberculosis — is under federal quarantine at Grady Memorial Hospital with an armed [...]

I have a feeling the Wall Street Journal is going to get a lot of feedback about this unbelievably muddled piece by a Greenwich, Conn., neurosurgeon who ultimately sings the praises of an illegal alien with tuberculosis.
A social worker tracked down the illegal alien’s friends and family. They all tested positive for TB [...]

The Washington Times ran a special investigative report today on the rise of contagious and other diseases in the U.S. that have been imported from southeast Asia and Latin America. It’s an interesting read. Here’s the intro:
Contagious diseases are entering the United States because of immigrants, illegal aliens, refugees and travelers, and World Health Organization [...]