Sick Immigrants Impact On America
Neville 2 Sherry Neville
Jo McEwin
English 111-1101
21 February 2016
Sick Immigrants: The Impact on America's Health Costs and Care
Considering illegal immigrants come to America undocumented, they are not here with sponsorship or have not passed the screening that legalized immigrants undergo. Medical screening is a necessity for any immigrant to be in America to protect Americans from foreign illness. In 2009 an article in the New England Journal of Medicine noted that about 50% of all new cases of tuberculosis in the United States in 2007 were diagnosed in immigrants. The TB infection rate of immigrants were ten times as high as that among native born, nonimmigrants. This article documents the medical testing process for Tuberculosis
Jo McEwin
English 111-1101
21 February 2016
Sick Immigrants: The Impact on America's Health Costs and Care
Considering illegal immigrants come to America undocumented, they are not here with sponsorship or have not passed the screening that legalized immigrants undergo. Medical screening is a necessity for any immigrant to be in America to protect Americans from foreign illness. In 2009 an article in the New England Journal of Medicine noted that about 50% of all new cases of tuberculosis in the United States in 2007 were diagnosed in immigrants. The TB infection rate of immigrants were ten times as high as that among native born, nonimmigrants. This article documents the medical testing process for Tuberculosis