Fargo: Lutheran federal refugee contractor kept
information on active TB from public Posted by Ann Corcoran on June 27, 2016
In yet another
in a series of investigative reports on Tuberculosis, and diseases generally,
in the refugee population coming to America, Michael Patrick Leahy now reports
that in Fargo, North Dakota the lead contractor bringing refugees to that state
was not forthcoming about information one assumes they would know—-how many of
the refugees they resettle there have latent and active TB.
Doing well by
doing good! This time last year, LSSND was busy with its grand opening of its
huge brand spanking new headquarters in Fargo. Fargo Mayor Tim Mahoney was on
hand for the ribbon cutting. http://www.kvrr.com/news/local-news/nd-lutheran-social-services-celebrates-grand-opening/33595274
Breitbart: Dr. John Baird, Health Officer for the Fargo
Cass Public Health Department in North Dakota, confirms to Breitbart News that
the agency, which serves all of Cass County, has diagnosed and treated four
refugees with active tuberculosis (TB) between 2012 and 2015.
Baird’s confirmation of active TB among
refugees in the Fargo community comes barely a month after a spokesperson for
Lutheran Social Services of North Dakota (LSSND), the resettlement agency hired
by the federal government to operate the program in North Dakota, denied that
any refugees it has resettled in North Dakota have been diagnosed with active
TB.
“We have a good
working relationship with NDDoH [North Dakota Department of Health], and have
not encountered any issues pertaining to active TB disease among refugees,” an
LSSND spokesperson told Fargo’s local NBC television affiliate, KVLY, as
reported by the station’s Valley News Live program on May 16.
“Based on Dr. Baird’s statement, the LSS
statement to Valley News Live in May was factually inaccurate at best, and an
intentional deception at worst,” Breitbart News said in an email to LSSND,
asking for a comment to explain their statement that they “have not encountered
any issues pertaining to active TB disease among refugees.” Continue
reading here for more
important details in an article that once again shows the complete lack of
transparency on the part of federal contractors and some officials that work
closely with them.
I continue to
wonder if community members who sign up with the contractor (LSS in this case)
to help refugees get settled are given any instructions in how to avoid
exposing themselves to any communicable diseases or parasites. Does
anyone know? Has anyone who volunteered for a resettlement agency been briefed
on health issues?
See also our post
last week about Fargo’s
welcoming Democrat Mayor Tim Mahoney. Fargo has been selected by some
millionaires and billionaires as a Gateway to Growth, here.
On the Bhutanese
refugees Leahy mentions
that the large numbers of Bhutanese refugees (and some Somalis) come from
countries with high levels of TB. For new readers, the Bhutanese (not! Muslims)
are really ethnic Nepalis who had been expelled from Bhutan when that country
sought to keep Bhutan for true Bhutanese people. The refugees’ (we call
Bhutanese) original country is Nepal. Nepal wouldn’t take them back so
they lived in UN camps on the border of Nepal for 20 years or so. We
had no national interest that would lead us to get involved in this refugee
situation…but we did!
In 2007, the George W. Bush Administration
said (heck yeh!) we would help the UN by cleaning out those camps and
‘welcoming’ (the original number was somewhere around 60,000) of them to live
in your towns. I bet we are now up to 80,000 who have been transported on
your dime from UN camps to your cities. And, the camps are still not
cleaned out because more arrive at the camps looking for a plane ticket to the
west!
We have a huge
(and I mean huge!) archive on the Bhutanese here
at RRW (find
more than you ever wanted to know). The big medical issue that brought
them to the attention of the federal government and the CDC was not TB, but the
extremely high suicide rate after resettlement to the US. Why are they
killing themselves asked the CDC and the ORR (Office of Refugee Resettlement)?
Could it be culture shock?
Endnote: Just now I had a look at LSSND’s website. So tell me why a Lutheran
non-profit group is now in partnership to build low income housing in North
Dakota. See here. Forget the humanitarian BS, this
is all a money making racket! Lutherans get paid by the feds to bring in the
refugees and then they make money building them housing!
This post is
filed in our
‘health issues’ category with 304 previous posts. Leahy’s previous reports are
posted there. You will find the Bhutanese suicide posts filed there too.
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