DR>  DR> MS> The principal cause of the epidemic: 80% of the plants' 900 
DR> Mexican
DR>  DR> MS> immigrant workers were unvaccinated.
DR>  DR> MS> Either most all of the workers involved are wetbacks or 
DR> there
DR>  
DR>  DR> This is a demeaning and racist remark. Kinda blows the whole 
DR> point of
DR>  DR> what you are trying to say. All of this sounds anecdotal anyway.
DR> 
DR>  Well, he did provide a copy of the article afterwards to back up his
DR>  facts, but his use of the racist term "wetback"
    "Wetback" is not a racial slur.  It applies only to illegal aliens, but 
is inapplicable to Mexican-Americans born in East L.A.
    People on other echoes even point out that Mexican-Americans use the term 
for illegally-here Latinos.
DR>  Or a more open mind. It is true that illegal immigrants do bring 
DR> their
DR>  health problems with them. In health care facilities here and in 
DR> Texas I
DR>  have encountered TB, Rubella and a host of other diseases not 
DR> normally
DR>  seen in our "resident" population.
    Look at N.Y.C. for an even bigger example of how illegal immigration (and 
legal immigration with no real medical checks) brings in nonresident 
iseases.
    I favor having every immigrant have his shots again the first day he is 
here!
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