Louisiana Attorney Gen. Liz Murrill filed an "emergency lawsuit" against several administration officials after an illegal alien from China brought a rare form of tuberculosis into the U.S.
The lawsuit seeks to prevent federal immigration officials from releasing "potentially infected detainees" that come in contact with the Chinese national while she was in the custody of immigration and Customs Enforcement. They say this particular illegal has a "rare, aggressive, and drug-resistant form of tuberculosis which carries high mortality rates.”
Art Arthur is a resident fellow in law and policy at the Center for Immigration Studies.
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"According to AG Murrill's lawsuit, this individual had a highly contagious and highly deadly form of tuberculosis, which if it gets out into the general population, is going to have huge impacts on the American
people. And this case is sort of indicative of everything that's gone wrong under the Biden-Harris administration."
Arthur says while tuberculosis can be treated it is still deadly.
"Many people may have been infected without even knowing it. They won't know it until the first symptoms arise, and then doctors will puzzle around for a bit before they determine what exactly the issue is. So, I think that Attorney Gen. Murrill is on particularly strong ground here. We don't want those individuals to be released into the community, and we certainly don't want them to be released until they've been quarantined and until they've tested negative for tuberculosis."
