Chicago Alderman Raymond Lopez: Tuberculosis Among Migrants Could Have Been Prevented

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LOPEZ: “There are things that we have tampered down, wiped out, that many of our citizenry have never had to deal with. And to blame tuberculosis and measles on Chicagoans transmitting that to the migrants is absolutely absurd. They came here, oftentimes with infectious diseases, they came here sick and not vaccinated at the border, not vaccinated at the landing site, and now we are seeing the impact of that. This mayor refuses to take any kind of accountability for what has happened because we have warned about this for months. And we have seen where time and time again it’s one bad decision after another. Most recently, when they were trying to put a thousand migrants on a toxic waste dump site to house them.”