Supplemental Brief filed with Judge Hanen, additional information in regards to the spread of Tuberculosis by refugees transported by Obama administration
Posted on | May 23, 2016 | 13 Comments
- ORLY TAITZ, ESQ
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TAITZ, ) Case # 14-cv-00119
V ) HONORABLE ANDREW S. HANEN PRESIDING
JOHNSON, ET AL )
SUPPLEMENTAL BRIEF
NEW INFORMATION IN FAVOR OF REQUESTED INJUNCTIVE RELIEF
The case at hand filed by Dr. Orly Taitz, who is a doctor -participant in Federal programs, where immigrants are treated. Dr. Taitz provided this court with evidence that individuals with deadly infectious diseases, including. but not limited to deadly drug resistant Tuberculosis are being transported by the Obama administration, including offices of DHS and ORR (part of HHS). Dr. Taitz is seeking an injunctive relief, whereby immigrants are quarantined and checked by the defendant agencies before being released into the general population. Plaintiff provides additional information below, which points to the need of the injunctive relief as requested by the plaintiff.
Exhibit 1 is an article disclosing that refugees with open Tuberculosis were transported by ORR (Office of the Refugee Resettlement) to the state of Indiana.
Exhibit 2 is an article stating that 22% of the refugees transported to Minnesota have Tuberculosis.
Respectfully submitted,
/s/ Dr. Orly Taitz, ESQ
05.23.2016
Exhibit1
Breaking: Four Obama Refugees Diagnosed with Active Tuberculosis in Indiana
Jim Hoft May 22nd, 2016 1:55 pm 12 Comments
Four refugees were diagnosed with active tuberculosis in Indiana.
Four refugees sent to Indiana by the federal Office of Refugee Resettlement in 2015 were diagnosed with active tuberculosis once they arrived in the Hoosier State, according to the Indiana Department of Health.
Active tuberculosis (TB) is infectious, while so-called “latent TB” is not infectious. But 10 percent of those infected with latent TB develop active infectious TB.
In 2015, almost 400 migrants with latent TB settled in Indiana, according to state records. The state’s TB rate had declined for the 54 years up to 2010, but it now increasing as more migrants settle in the state.
“Tuberculosis is one of the most lethal infectious diseases in history,” Dr. Jane Orient, executive director of the Association of American Physicians and surgeons, told Breitbart News last week. “It is easily transmitted, say on a public bus [and] increasingly, it is becoming highly resistant to all our antibiotics,” she said.
The disease is airborne and is “caused by a group of bacteria called Mycobacterium tuberculosis. General symptoms may include a prolonged, productive cough, blood-tinged sputum, night sweats, fever, fatigue, and weight loss,” the Indiana Department of Health reports.
Breaking: Four Obama Refugees Diagnosed with Active Tuberculosis in Indiana
EXHIBIT 2
22 Percent of Resettled Refugees in Minnesota Test Positive for Tuberculosis
Jim Mone/AP
by MICHAEL PATRICK LEAHY17 May 201610,661
One of every five refugees resettled in Minnesota by the federal government tested positive for latent tuberculosis in 2014, according to the state’s Department of Health.
Only 4 percent of the general population in the United States tested positive for latent tuberculosis in the most recent report provided by the Centers for Disease Control.
The April 2016 edition of the Refugee Health Quarterly, published by the Minnesota Department of Health reports that:
Minnesota had 150 cases of TB in 2015, compared to 147 cases in 2014 (a 2 percent increase). The most common risk factor for TB cases in Minnesota is being from a country where TB is common.
TB screening is offered to all refugees during the domestic refugee health exam.
In 2014, 22 percent of refugees screened tested positive for LTBI (latent tuberculosis infection).
26 percent of all foreign born cases of tuberculosis in Minnesota were from people born in Somalia. Somalians almost exclusively enter the state through the refugee resettlement program.
More than 70,000 refugees have been resettled in the United States annually for the past three decades by the federal government. It’s not just tuberculosis being brought in by these resettled refugees. Measles, whooping cough, diptheria, and other diseases that were on their way to eradication are also coming in across the borders of the United States.
A recent outbreak of measles in Memphis, Tennessee, a center for refugee resettlement, began at a local mosque, as Breitbart News reported previously.
The alarming public health report from Minnesota comes on the heels of news from the Centers for Disease Control that in 2015, the incidence of tuberculosis in the United States increased.
“Data from 2015 show that the number of TB cases has increased (by 1.7 percent) nationally [in the United States] for the first time in 23 years, with a total of 9,563 TB cases reported,” the Minnesota Department of Health reports.
As the Star Tribune, Minnesota’s largest daily newspaper, reports:
The CDC is still trying to determine the reason for the uptick.
The goal set by the CDC, in 1989, of eliminating TB by 2010 — defined as less than one case in a million people — remains elusive. Even if the trend of declining cases had continued, the United States would not have eliminated TB by the end of this century, the CDC said.
“We are not yet certain why TB incidence has leveled off, but we do know it indicates the need for a new, expanded approach to TB elimination,” said Dr. Philip LoBue, director of the CDC’s Division of Tuberculosis Elimination, in an email.
A dual approach is needed: continue to find and treat cases of disease and evaluate their contacts, as well as identify and evaluate other high-risk persons for latent TB infection, he said.
There may be a positive correlation between the increase in the number of refugees resettled in the United States during this period and the sudden increase in the incidence of tuberculosis, a disease that many thought was on the path to eradication in the United States.
As the Centers for Disease Control report:
In 2014, a total of 66% of reported TB cases in the United States occurred among foreign-born persons. The case rate among foreign-born persons (15.4 cases per 100,000 persons) in 2014 was approximately 13 times higher than among U.S.-born persons (1.2 cases per 100,000 persons).
“Today four states – California, New York, Texas and Florida – have more than half the nation’s active TB cases, though they have only a third of the country’s population. The four states have the highest numbers of foreign-born residents,” according to the Star Tribune.
A person with latent tuberculosis is not infectious and does not have symptoms of the disease. A person with active tuberculosis is infectious and has symptoms of the disease.
Ten percent of those with latent tuberculosis develop active tuberculosis if not treated,according to the World Health Organization.
As the Star Tribune reports:
TB is an airborne infectious disease caused by bacteria that spreads through the air, person to person, when someone coughs or sneezes. One in three people worldwide have latent TB, according to the World Health Organization. In the United States, up to 13 million people have been exposed to TB and could develop the disease.
Every year, tuberculosis claims 1.5 million lives worldwide and 500 to 600 in this country.
“Tuberculosis (TB) has surpassed HIV as the leading cause of death from infectious disease worldwide,” the Minnesota Department of Health reports.
Tuberculosis is airborne and can be spread when a person active tuberculosis coughs, sneezes, or otherwise transmits the infection to a previously uninfected individual.
Treatment for tuberculosis is long and expensive. If caught early, it typically takes about nine months for a person with active tuberculosis to improve to latent tuberculosis. Not everyone diagnosed with active tuberculosis, however, improves. Mortality rates for those with active tuberculosis are much higher than health professionals would like, even in the United States.
According to the Star Tribune:
Treating TB patients is labor intensive. To ensure that TB patients complete the course of drugs that lasts six months or longer, Directly Observed Therapy programs require a health care worker – not a family member – to watch patients with active TB swallow every dose. If a patient cannot get to a clinic, a health care worker goes to the person’s home. The worker monitors patients for side effects and other problems.
Care also involves communication and cultural challenges. In Michigan, where the number of active TB cases rose from 105 in 2014 to 130 last year, the health department reaches out to Detroit’s large Arab and Bangladeshi populations. In other parts of the state, Burmese immigrants have different needs, said Peter Davidson, Michigan TB control manager.
“Some local health departments have strong partnerships with translation services. Some rely on a less formal mechanism – a private physician or someone on staff at the hospital who speaks the language,” Davidson said.
The cost of treating an active TB case that is susceptible or responsive to drugs averages $17,000, according to the CDC. Care of patients with drug-resistant TB, which can result from taking antibiotics prescribed before TB was properly diagnosed, costs many times more: $134,000 for a multidrug-resistant patient and $430,000 for an extensively drug-resistant one.
Minnesota public health officials point to the high treatment rate of those refugees diagnosed with latent tuberculosis as a reason for optimism.
“Eliminating TB in the U.S. will require increased attention to the diagnosis and treatment of latent TB infection (LTBI),” the April 2016 Refugee Health Quarterly reports.
“Minnesota’s LTBI treatment completion rate for refugees who start treatment is one of the highest in the nation at 86 percent in 2013,” the report adds.
An alternative public health policy–one that the United States used for decades in the latter part of the nineteenth century and early twentieth century–is to test immigrants and refugees for infectious disease before they are allowed into the country.
In that earlier era, those who tested positive were sent home. Today, however, many are welcomed in and pose a risk of infecting the rest of the American population.
(Note: Valley News Live in Fargo, North Dakota was the first broadcast outlet to reporton the 22 percent incidence of latent tuberculosis among refugees in Minnesota.) https://www.breitbart.com/big-government/2016/05/17/22-resettled-refugees-minnesota-tested-positive-tuberculosis/
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May 23rd, 2016 @ 11:40 am
Well, this is completely unacceptable!
Obama is responsible for this medical fiasco and should pay a very severe price!
The states should ban together and get the top attorneys on this and file whatever and get these people deported, ASAP!!!
This is America and we have the right not to allow disease carriers in our Nation!
May 23rd, 2016 @ 11:44 am
I hope Judge Hanen will come down on them, with as much legal authority as he can muster!
These countries that have allowed these carriers to come here, should have all of their goodies taken away from them, on a permanent basis!
These other nations should become an example for the rest of the 3rd world!
America doesn’t need to become a dumping ground for the trash of the planet!
May 23rd, 2016 @ 12:19 pm
America always has been a dumping ground for the trash of the planets. And most of them still are trash.
May 23rd, 2016 @ 4:51 pm
https://refugeeresettlementwatch.wordpress.com/2016/05/23/another-tb-shocker-from-breitbart-over-200-active-tb-cases-in-arizona-began-as-latent-tb/
May 23rd, 2016 @ 5:53 pm
Poster #3:
[America always has been a dumping ground for the trash of the planets.]
Initially, Americans have been former British. They have built the American States.
Then they have won the Independence War under the articles of Confederation—a unique document.
From it the USA Constitution was created with some drawbacks such as term limits have been removed from the Articles of Confederation. Then a lot of progress has been made until Abraham Lincoln unleashed the Civil War in 1860s.
There is no problems with legal immigrants. They are normally the salt of the Earth. Like Albert Einstein, Dr. Von Neuman Dr. Orly Taitz, and really a huge mass of Top Notch people.
[And most of them still are trash.] This is a groundless claim. Note that Mr. O is supposed to be in Jail not in WH, if Constitution is followed.
May 23rd, 2016 @ 6:26 pm
ihv since its that half breed queer illegal who brought them here i think a few hunded people need to take those 4 people and force obastard to house them in the whitehouse along with his own family and cabinet…. and make sure he dont leave
May 23rd, 2016 @ 6:27 pm
Judge Napolitano on the case (now on Kelly File):
“They (id est DOJ lawyers) LIED 4 TIMES.”
“And then they lied about lying.”
“Who would trust them (DOJ) another time in the courtroom?”
“He (judge) should kick them out of the courtroom and remove them from the case.”
“The consequences of misleading the court are DRACONIAN.”
May 24th, 2016 @ 11:20 am
Poster #5:
Americans from England were not trash! They were Patriots!
Where are you from?
And I’m glad that they stopped the people from being President no more than twice!
Can you imagine what we would be going through if this were not the case?
May 24th, 2016 @ 11:27 am
The states with these TB cases ought to do whatever they can to send these carriers back where they came from!
The people in these states don’t have hardly anything to figure out why!
They don’t know, due to the black out from the controlled news media!
See how important this is to spread Orlys’ Site to every part of America!
These people in Congress should do whatever they can to stop this insanity…
OR they should come down with a severe case of TB, to teach them a lesson!
May 24th, 2016 @ 12:21 pm
Poster 5;
The war for independence was fought under the Declaration of Independence dated July 4, 1776.
Get your facts straight before climbing on your high horse.
May 24th, 2016 @ 12:39 pm
Wait until all the Zika cases bust out.
May 24th, 2016 @ 2:12 pm
Wow! Trumper, please read:…
Sessions would be the top choice for V.P., here’s why…
Gingrich has messed with the American public in the past…that Contract with America…was a lying fiasco!
Every (4) years, Gingrich pops up to see if he can con the voters! He is NOT to be trusted!
He would be the eqivelant to Bush on the Reagan ticket! And we almost got the NWO in 1984, with the attempt on Reagan’s life!
But Sessions is someone that they would not want to mess with, since he’s an attorney, former prosecutor, and he’s a real conservative, to be of help to you (and be {trusted}, too!) with bills in Congress/Senate!
Gingrich is not to be trusted, IMO! He’s just another “silver tongue” in Congressional history!
Please have Sessions become the V.P., as insurance for you…!
You and Sessions, Mr Trump, will become a great tandem!
May 24th, 2016 @ 10:41 pm
Zika is a bigger problem. Let’s not forget that.