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El Paso ICE Camp East Montana under quarantine after measles outbreak

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I'm no fan of ICE or immigration controls, but presume I was. Wouldn't unvaccinated people and outbreaks strengthen my case for ICE and dumping these people into quarantined facilities? Stopping people unvaccinated from deadly disease from entering the country, and then placing them in facilities where they can be deported (if found in country), seems to be one of the more defensible uses of ICE, even if not one I agree with. If there are measles outbreaks in these facilities, it would seem it means ICE is doing their job.

There are plenty of unvaccinated people this side of the border and it seems to be a growing trend. If the government is going to intern people in close quarters then they should probably make sure to vaccinate them. I would not be optimistic about the level of medical care sick patients will have access to in this scenario.

Even accepting that argument, ICE's job is to get them out of the country, not to kill them. They are responsible for their physical safety until they get them out of the country, which requires them to keep them in conditions that prevent spread of disease within the camp.

Both sides are rife with contradiction. Yeah this is one case where the anti-vax party will celebrate how important preventing measles is, but then act like it is not a big deal when it comes time for vaccinations.

Anyway sorry you will get obliterated with downvotes.

Concentrating people in one spot with minimal hygiene available so that infectious diseases spread as much as possible does not seem to me to be ICE "doing their job".

> Wouldn't unvaccinated people and outbreaks strengthen my case for ICE and dumping these people into quarantined facilities?

Way to discriminate against neurotypicals.

So a camp near the westernmost point of Texas is named East Montana.

East Montana is also near an international border, and therefore is a "reasonable" place to have an ICE camp. Also, ice and camps.

None of this is confusing.

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