Mass Immigration: Diseases and Parasites to Threaten Food Supply By Chris Knight (Florida)

The mainstream media in the US, and across the West seldom deal with the issue of the diseases that illegal migrants bring to the invaded countries. Yet, these illegals, who are seldom checked for disease, being quickly moved across the country for the purpose of election fraud, do pose a threat to national security from diseases and parasites impacting upon the nation's food supply.

For example, in the past, illegals have spread tuberculosis (TB) to dairy cows in Texas. And many illegals ultimately get work working on farms and in the food industries. According to Dr. Michael Vickers, who has been a veterinarian for about 50 years and served on the Texas Animal Health Commission (TAHC), "These people are just destroying our country. And our food supply is going to be a real critical issue." "We're really just mass releasing these people into the United States that could be carrying multiple diseases that aren't even checked."

Thus, not only are cattle likely to be affected by TB, but people too, will be subjected to this and other exotic diseases from the Third World, as mass immigration makes the West into the new Third World.

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"Mass migration exposes the United States' food supply to diseases and parasites that could ultimately affect national security, animal health experts told The Epoch Times.

With unfettered illegal immigration—some 9 million encounters since 2021—the normal guardrails for inspection are ignored, raising the likelihood of unwanted diseases being brought across the border.

Dr. Michael Vickers has been a veterinarian for about 50 years and served on the Texas Animal Health Commission (TAHC)

The threat to the food supply is already apparent from the past cases of tuberculosis (TB) transmitted from illegal immigrants to dairy cows in Texas, he said.

Concerns are growing that it's only a matter of time before U.S. agriculture experiences a fresh disaster on a grand scale, Dr. Vickers said.

"These people are just destroying our country. And our food supply is going to be a real critical issue," he told The Epoch Times.

In recent years, thousands of Texas cattle have been slaughtered after being infected with drug-resistant TB through contact with illegal aliens who end up working in dairies, Dr. Vickers said.

He recalled two separate instances in which dairy herds were infected with human strains of TB in the Texas Panhandle. Certain strains of TB are zoonotic, meaning that they can be spread between humans and animals.

One Texas herd of about 10,000 was affected in Castro County in 2015, and another 13,000 cattle were affected in Sherman County in 2019, according to TAHC records.

Investigators found that the human strains had originated outside of the United States.

"Most of the dairy herds in the United States are actually milked by people from Central America and beyond," Dr. Vickers said.

The USDA bought the Castro County herd and slaughtered it, he said. The Sherman County herd, which consisted of higher-priced organic cows, continued to be tested for TB, with infected animals removed from the herd.

Dr. Vickers said he learned that 12 illegal immigrants who were working with those dairy herds were infected with TB.

Rules meant to keep people who are carrying disease out of the United States have been sidelined under the Biden administration, according to Ammon Blair, a border security advocate at the Texas Public Policy Foundation and former Border Patrol agent.

"We're really just mass releasing these people into the United States that could be carrying multiple diseases that aren't even checked," he told The Epoch Times.

For the first time in a quarter of a century, a New World screwworm resurgence is underway in Central America—a region that many migrants pass through on their way to the U.S. border.

Dr. Vickers fears that the screwworm could make its way into the United States again.

Susan Kibbe, executive director of the South Texans' Property Rights Association, said she's old enough to remember the screwworm outbreak when she was a teenager in Texas. She recalls having to scrape screwworm maggots out of the bellybuttons of newborn calves.

"It was devastating," she said.

Ms. Kibbe told The Epoch Times that she is concerned about diseases being brought into Texas from mass illegal immigration from South America through the Darién Gap in Panama and into Central America.

She said a fever tick outbreak has already driven some ranchers out of business and that any new disease or parasite outbreak could push more ranchers to the financial brink—and endanger food security."