At the state borders, federal workers keep the country in many ways: some explore sick passengers. Some examine animals on dangerous pathogens. And some inspect plants to infections that could be expanded in this country.
At the end of last week, Trump’s administration sent hundreds of these federal employees with the same message received by colleagues in other agencies: their services were no longer needed.
The absence of these federal officers on the borders leaves Americans vulnerable to pathogens wearing plants, animals and humans, experts warned.
The shooters come even when it is said that Trump’s administration is ready to return a migrant on the basis of having diseases such as tuberculosis and measles.
“An overview of infectious diseases in the entrance ports is an important role of public health to prevent infectious diseases from entering our country,” said Dr. Carlos del Rio, a doctor of infectious diseases at the University of Emory.
“If we don’t have a public health employee who will do this job and makes us less safe,” he added.
Centers for the control and prevention of the disease estimate that almost 30,000 planes travel to the ground every day and outside the country. In 2019, more than 400 million passengers arrived through more than 300 entrance ports. About half of these people crossed the border between the United States and Mexico.
Border columns pass the workers from multiple agencies. Employees from the CDC department for global migration health screen, animals and animal products for diseases, respond to reports of sick passengers and distribute medicines as needed.
Trump’s administration was rejected last week by an unknown number of people from 20 CDC health cells, leaving some completely unattended, according to three officials with knowledge of the situation.
For example, the calls of the Harbor Station to San Juan, PR, are redirected to the Miami station on Wednesday, where the CDC employee who refused to identify said that no one would be on the San Juan Post office.
Other port stations are located in Anchorage, Atlanta, Chicago, New York, San Francisco and three cities in Texas.
CDC officials can legally retain or conditionally release humans and wild animals suspected of carrying any disease on a long list that includes measles, tuberculosis, pandemic flu and viral hemorrhagic fever such as Ebola and Marburg.
The Ministry of Agriculture employs entomologists, botanists and mycologists – insect experts, plants and mushrooms – which inspect agricultural products of pests and pathogens. Many of these experts were also released on Friday.
“We are such a critical program, there is no point in,” said one clerk with the knowledge of the situation, who asked not to be appointed for fear of retaliation.
“If we don’t work, and these inspections don’t happen, things start to pile up in ports,” the clerk added.
Animal health experts are particularly concerned about African pig fever and screws in the new world, two diseases that have approached the United States and could have devastating impacts on the pork and beef industry.
On Tuesday, USDA said he had misleading several employees who worked on the outburst of bird flu and tried to hire them, according to Report author of NBC News. It is unclear how much employee has returned to their positions.
