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ARREST OF AFRICAN MAN CAUSES SCARE AT BORDER PATROL STATION
by ILDEFONSO ORTIZ 9 Oct 2014, 1:45 PM PDT 16POST A COMMENT
MCALLEN Texas -- The detention of an illegal alien from the East African
country of Eritrea caused concern Wednesday night at the U.S. Border Patrol
Station because the agents did not have the training to determine if the
man posed a health risk amid the recent concerns for Ebola.
The arrest took place Wednesday night when agents arrested the man and took
him to the McAllen Border Patrol Station which is where agents became
concerned about how to deal with the possibility of a communicable disease,
sources close to the case told Breitbart Texas.
The man didn’t exhibit any symptoms however the concerns come after Thomas
Eric Duncan died from Ebola he contracted in Liberia before traveling to
Dallas.
In the case of the Eritrean man, questions remain about what route he took
to get to the U.S. which in a worst case scenario that he had in fact been
infected could have led to contaminating other aliens along the way, said
Albert Spratte a spokesman for the National Border Patrol Council 3307.
“The concern is real, they don’t give us any training in how to deal with
communicable diseases,” Spratte said. “What happens if you have another
person coming from an African nation who is infected by a dangerous
disease, who did they infect at the stash houses or other people they came
in contact with along the way?”
Currently, any medical issues or questions are brought up at the processing
station which is already too late since any sick person could have been in
contact with other aliens or agents, the union spokesman said.
”CBP and DHS have not provided the agents on the ground any training about
how to deal with this,” Spratte said. “This is not something that they can
teach with a PowerPoint presentation. The fact that an arrest caused a
scare at the station should say something.”
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