Do Mexican Immigrants Bring Disease Into The US? Donald Trump Says They Do, But Stats Say Otherwise
Do Mexican Immigrants Bring Disease Into The US? Donald Trump Says There’s A Health Scare, But Statistics Say Otherwise
By Philip Ross
Not only are Mexican immigrants wreaking criminal mayhem in America, they’re also unleashing their diseases on the country, according to real estate mogul and White House hopeful Donald Trump, who defended his recent explosive claims about immigrants being rapists and felons with more outrageous allegations, saying they pose a public health threat. In reality, the idea that immigrants pose such a threat is a notion as tenuous as Trump’s political prospects.
Immigrants from Mexico and Central America pose very little risk to U.S. residents in terms of spreading disease.
Immunization rates for common infectious illnesses in Mexico and in other countries from which most U.S. immigrants originate are actually relatively high -- in some instances, Mexican and Central American immigrants are even better protected against diseases than Americans. While some immigrants crossing the U.S.-Mexico border are indeed ill, very rarely are there cases of swine flu, dengue fever or tuberculosis, as politicians have previously claimed.
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Immigrants tend to arrive in the U.S. tired, dehydrated and with injuries like twisted ankles, not dangerous diseases. The chance an unauthorized Mexican immigrant has been vaccinated against common infectious diseases is pretty high, given that Mexico has a relatively robust immunization program and healthy immunization rates. The country has a 99 percent vaccination rate for measles, which is actually higher than the U.S. rate of 92 percent. For other infectious diseases, the U.S. and Mexico have comparable immunization rates, according to the World Bank.
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