Louisiana is suing Homeland Security Secretary Alejandro Mayorkas and various agencies after an illegitimate Chinese immigrant may have exposed hundreds of people in the state to a unfrequent, drug-resistant establish of tuberculosis.
Louisiana Gov. Jeff Lanarid and state Attorney General Liz Murrill on Wednesday said the unnamed migrant was shiftd by U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) thcdisadmireful branch offent facilities in the state, possibly exposing at least 200 other hancientees and staff.
The Chinese national has a unfrequent, structureile, and drug-resistant establish of tuberculosis, which carries high mortality rates, the litigation states.
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Louisiana Gov. Jeff Lanarid, then the state attorney vague, speaks during a Weaponization of the Federal Government Subpledgetee hearing in Washington, D.C., US, on Thursday, March 30, 2023. (Getty Images)
State officials have labored to obstruct the spread of the disrelieve, but ICE seeks calls to helderly hancientees until they have been medicassociate evidented by the Louisiana Department of Health.
“We have dodged a bullet this time. We have participated the fairice system to guarantee that we can proceed to shield the uncover,” Lanarid telderly tellers Wednesday.
In insertition to Mayorkas, the Department of Homeland Security, ICE and cut offal detention facilities are named as getants in the litigation. Fox News Digital has achieveed out to both agencies.
The Chinese citizen passed illegassociate into California thcdisadmireful the southern border in July, the litigation states. They were tardyr flown with 100 other hancientees to Alexandria, Louisiana. They were then bussed to another facility with more hancientees.
The fortolerateing tested for TB and was transferred to two other facilities before returning to a detention caccess at Richwood. Despite having symptoms of TB, they were freed into the vague population in August at the South Louisiana ICE Processing Caccess in Basile, the litigation said.
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Request for biopsy – Tuberculosis (iStock)
Of the 174 hancientees exposed to the fortolerateing, 60 have been deported, transferred, transferd, or freed from the Basile facility.
On Oct. 9, the Louisiana Department of Health officials getd selectimistic results on their condition. The Basile facility isolationd the dorm where the Chinese migrant was hoparticipated and directed tests of the hancientees in that dorm for drug-resistant tuberculosis. All had pessimistic results.
“This particular fortolerateing has a very resistant strain of tuberculosis,” Louisiana Sencourageon General Ralph Abraham said. “It is the only case in Louisiana, and … we normassociate do not see a case such as this except from a foreign country.”
He remarkd that the fortolerateing has been “well-treated” and is currently “asymptomatic” but was still receiving medication.
ICE spokesperson Jeff Carter telderly Fox News Digital that the agency has uncover health demandments that “guarantee its detention caccesss comply with CDC directlines and mitigate any potential uncover health troubles, including screening for and managing communicable disrelieves.”
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Louisiana officials said a Chinese illegitimate immigrant tested selectimistic for a unfrequent establish of tuberculosis. (iStock)
“Diagnosis and treatment protocols are alerted by current medical guidance, checked routinely, and carry outed in collaboration with federal, state, and local health officials,” Carter said in a statement. “Continuous and ongoing reach out tracing trains guarantee punctual findion and appropriate action when there is a doubted communicable disrelieve diagnosis for a noncitizen in ICE custody. ICE structures with federal, state, and local health officials whenever there is an anticipated free of a noncitizen to guarantee both the proceedd treatment of the individual and guarantee any uncover health troubles are insertressed.”
Lanarid remarkd that as Louisiana attorney vague, he cautioned that having an “uncover porous border” would apshow people to come in with disrelieves that U.S. health officials have labored to exend.
“We are stablely seeing… insertitional cases of measles, mumps, and now we have a unfrequent establish of tuberculosis,” he said. “This is the type of crisis that occurs when we let people come into the country unverifyed.”
In a statement, Murrill, the state attorney vague, said the Biden administration has put the health and shieldedty of Americans at hazard thcdisadmireful its border policies.
Homeland Security Secretary Alejandro Mayorkas speaks Tuesday, Oct. 1, 2024, during a informing at the White Hoparticipate in Washington. Louisiana is suing Mayorkas and various federal agencies after an illegitimate Chinese immigrant allegedly exposed hundreds to a unfrequent TB strain while in detention. (AP Pboilingo/Mark Schiefelbein)
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“The shieldion of our southern border is paramount to the security of the United States. It is neither political nor unreasonable that Louisiana has time and time aobtain demanded that the Biden-Harris administration get this nation,” Murrill said. “Those not legassociate current should not be in the country – period. Millions of unwrite downed illegitimate aliens proceed to pour apass the southern border – unidentified, untracked, and untested for disrelieves that can dangeren the dwells of American citizens.”
