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[WillyT]

Reports of diseased immigrant children mirror Nazi propaganda
Victor Medina - Cafe Con Leche Republicans
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The surge of refugee immigrant children to America’s southern border has ignited a vehement anti-immigrant tone in reporting by many independent news organizations and bloggers. In an effort to create justification for the deportation of these children without granting refugee status, many of these reporters are echoing propaganda tactics eerily reminiscent of the Nazi campaign against European Jews during World War II.

The techniques used by today’s reporters and bloggers include not-so-subtle characterizations of the children, including the repeated use of the term “illegal alien” over “refugee” or “undocumented immigrant,” which is the far more correct legal designation. The loaded term “illegal alien,” and the often-unfounded implications it carries, is the reason why respected news organizations like Associated Press no longer use the term in general.

A far more insidious technique employed by writers in anti-immigrant press, however, takes a page out of the Nazi propaganda handbook. It involves using legitimate examples of sick immigrant children with various ailments, some serious, and depicting it as far more widespread and dangerous than it actually is.

The website GOPTheDailyDose ran a story titled “TB Outbreak in Sacramento School Is America’s Future Thanks To Obama’s Open Borders” on July 3. It blames a tuberculosis outbreak in a Sacramento school on immigrants, and attempts to link it to the child refugees held at the border. The inflammatory headline was widely shared on social media, but it is not even remotely true. The student responsible for the TB outbreak was not an immigrant, and had no connection to the refugee children. The outbreak actually began in February, long before the border crisis started. While the source of the tuberculosis is still not known, it should be noted that TB vaccines are widely used in Mexico and Central America, but are not given in the United States. TB in the U.S. tends to originate from Southeast Asia, not Central America as the article suggests.

Breitbart News has also jumped on the “diseased children” bandwagon...

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More: http://www.cafeconlecherepublicans.com/reports-diseased-immigrant-children-mirror-nazi-propaganda/

[Scuba]

1. Rove learned from Goebbels.

[Mnemosyne]

9. Goebbels would have been in awe. nt

[Cleita]

2. Right now on Chris Hayes an expert is saying those refugee children are

better vaccinated than most children in Texas and it's the conditions in the confinement centers that are causing the lice infestations.

[WillyT]

3. Saw That... Thanks...

[jwirr]

5. Lice are extremely easy to pass along. All it takes to start and epidemic is one person in a crowded

area who use the same pillows, bedding and combs and it does not have to be one of the refugees. A worker coming in to help could easily have lice. And it is also easy to stop. Proper facilities for showers and the medications to kill the lice. In crowded conditions like this I suspect that there are not enough showers etc. And if they do not have money for medical supplies then it is inevitable. Our kids come home from school about once a year with a note stating that the school has several cases and parents should take effective action.

[maddiemom]

12. When my daughter was in a private pre school/ kindergarten, there was an outbreak of lice.

Believe me, none of her classmates were "dirty," and their parents mostly professionals who could afford to pay for a Montessori kindergarten when public kindergarten was free. The faculty noticed it right away and informed the parents along with proper shampooing instruction. It was quickly taken care of, but no clue as to how it started.

[jwirr]

14. That is how it often happens. I worked as a social worker in a housing unit that had

an outbreak.

It was my job to go into their homes and assure them that they were going to be okay and ask if they needed any extra help. Most of the homes were extremely clean and one of the things that they all said to me was in a bewildered way was "our home is clean". This idea is a stereotype and causes a great deal of anxiety among families that get lice. They do not spread from a dirty house. They spread from person to person and it is often too late to prevent it from spreading by the time the first carrier realizes he/she has picked it up somewhere.

[JI7]

4. i posted about this yesterday

but it was about what i was seeing from the wingnut's posting on different places.

they are spreading this crap about immigrants bringing diseases including Ebola.

these idiots believe this crap . they are also claiming veterans aren't getting care because the money is going for immigrants.

these people are a bunch of ignorant hateful shits.

[bradla]

6. The propaganda works.

Just look at Obama's approval numbers.

When any kind of positive news comes out, the media immediately finds the negative in it and reports it endlessly. When good jobs numbers come out they switch to the labor participation rate being at an all time low. I am sorry, but do people really think more people have simply given up looking for a job than jobs are being created. People have to pay their bills. The labor participation rate has been predicted to go down for years.

The media is worse than when Bill Clinton was president. Go back and look at how long it took the media to start getting on George Bush about the disaster unfolding in Iraq. Now every time even the most minor thing happens, the media turns it into a scandal.
It is sickening.

[Fred Sanders]

11. The media is against any good news of any kind in case Obama gets credit, it is all so obvious. But

who will watch and report on the efforts of the watchmen?

[BillZBubb]

7. The problem is, guys like Medina are republicans and

they only see the republican propaganda for what it is on an issue near and dear to them. On all other issues, they are all in.

[thecrow]

8. So now they're rejecting children that are sick

....shows how mean minded they are. Compassionless jerks.

[mountain grammy]

10. When the loonies completely take over America, we will have the fourth estate to thank.

[LLD]

13. If it can be done.

How easy a drone strike to the train tracks would disrupt a good amount of the flow of immigrants across the border. The thing is if they are refugee's I don't think I would want to slow that flow. Yet Perry calls for the National Guard when they walk across the border into the arms of the border patrol.

[muriel_volestrangler]

15. It's even worse - GOP reps and former reps, both doctors, talking about 'Ebola'

A complete lie, of course - Ebola is in Africa. But here's Ron Paul encouraging this crap, and Phil Gingrey, a Republican rep for Georgia:

“The health thing strikes me as being very major,” Paul noted. “I am, I’m very concerned about this because we’ve already had many problems in Texas and Arizona where individuals come over.”
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“But our hospitals had already been under siege by immigrants,” Paul added. “And with these thousands — tens of thousands, who knows how many — and when you put them all together this is what you can expect. You’re going to see some very serious health problems.”
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“I’m hearing fears of all kinds of — hepatitis, TB, ebola,” Malzberg continued. “I mean, how do we keep a lid on all this?”

“No, you’re not going to be able to,” Paul lamented. “All I know is we spend way too much money worrying about the borders between Syria and Iraq, and those places, and we don’t seem to have any policies that would be more sensible here at home.”

http://www.rawstory.com/rs/2014/07/03/ron-paul-newsmax-hospitals-are-under-siege-by-immigrants-who-might-have-ebola/

Gingrey's own words:

As a physician for over 30 years, I am well aware of the dangers infectious diseases pose. In fact, infection diseases remain in the top 10 causes of death in the United States. However, the United States has been successful in mitigating or eradicating many diseases, and others are not indigenous to this country.

As such, reports of illegal migrants carrying deadly diseases such as swine flu, dengue fever, Ebola virus and tuberculosis are particularly concerning. Many of the children who are coming across the border also lack basic vaccinations such as those to prevent chicken pox or measles. This makes those Americans that are not vaccinated – and especially young children and the elderly – particularly susceptible.

Reports have indicated that several border agents have contracted diseases through contact with the unaccompanied minors. As the unaccompanied children continue to be transported to shelters around the country on commercial airlines and other forms of transportation, I have serious concerns that the diseases carried by these children may begin to spread too rapidly to control. In fact, as you undoubtedly know, some of these diseases have no known cure….

I request that the CDC take immediate action to assess the public risk posed by the influx of unaccompanied children and their subsequent transfer to different parts of the country. I strongly fell that the public should be notified of this risk….

http://politics.blog.ajc.com/2014/07/08/phil-gingrey-border-kids-could-spark-epidemics-in-u-s/

And yet another far right doctor spreading fear about ebola:

Border agents have tested positive for tuberculosis (TB), H1N1 (“swine”) flu and chicken pox. Other diseases like dengue and Ebola virus also may be in this wave of illegals, since people are coming from Central and South America, the Middle East and West Africa. Dengue fever, including the hemorrhagic form, is already raging in Puerto Vallerta, Mexico. Ebola virus hemorrhagic fever is seriously out of control in several West African countries.

http://www.wnd.com/2014/06/tb-swine-flu-assaulting-border-agents-whos-next/