{"id":6160,"date":"2014-07-03T09:46:31","date_gmt":"2014-07-03T09:46:31","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/stateofthenation2012.com\/?p=6160"},"modified":"2014-07-09T20:25:26","modified_gmt":"2014-07-09T20:25:26","slug":"medical-staff-warned-keep-your-mouths-shut-about-illegal-immigrants-or-face-arrest","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/stateofthenation2012.com\/?p=6160","title":{"rendered":"Medical staff warned: Keep your mouths shut about illegal immigrants or face arrest"},"content":{"rendered":"
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By\u00a0Todd Starnes<\/a>\u00a0\u00a0

FoxNews.com<\/a><\/div>\n

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\nA government-contracted security force threatened to arrest doctors and nurses if they divulged any information about the contagion threat at a refugee camp housing illegal alien children at Lackland Air Force Base in San Antonio, Texas, sources say.<\/p>\n

In spite of the threat, several former camp workers broke their confidentiality agreements and shared exclusive details with me about the dangerous conditions at the camp. They said taxpayers deserve to know about the contagious diseases and the risks the children pose to Americans. I have agreed to not to disclose their identities because they fear retaliation and prosecution.<\/p>\n

My sources say Americans should be very concerned about the secrecy of the government camps.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

\u201cThere were several of us who wanted to talk about the camps, but the agents made it clear we would be arrested,\u201d a psychiatric counselor told me. \u201cWe were under orders not to say anything.\u201d<\/p>\n

The sources said workers were guarded by a security force from the BCFS, which the Department of Health and Human Services hired to run the Lackland Camp.<\/p>\n

The sources say security forces called themselves the \u201cBrown Shirts.\u201d<\/p>\n

\u201cIt was a very submissive atmosphere,\u201d the counselor said. \u201cOnce you stepped onto the grounds, you abided by their laws \u2013 the Brown Shirt laws.\u201d<\/p>\n

She said the workers were stripped of their cellphones and other communication devices. Anyone caught with a phone was immediately fired.<\/p>\n

\u201cEveryone was paranoid,\u201d she said. \u201cThe children had more rights than the workers.\u201d<\/p>\n

She said children in the camp had measles, scabies, chicken pox and strep throat as well as mental and emotional issues.<\/p>\n

\u201cIt was not a good atmosphere in terms of health,\u201d she said. \u201cI would be talking to children and lice would just be climbing down their hair.\u201d<\/p>\n

A former nurse at the camp told me she was horrified by what she saw.<\/p>\n

\u201cWe have so many kids coming in that there was no way to control all of the sickness \u2013 all this stuff coming into the country,\u201d she said. \u201cWe were very concerned at one point about strep going around the base.\u201d<\/p>\n

Both the counselor and the nurse said their superiors tried to cover up the extent of the illnesses.<\/p>\n

\u201cWhen they found out the kids had scabies, the charge nurse was adamant \u2013 \u2018Don\u2019t mention that. Don\u2019t say scabies,\u2019\u201d the nurse recounted. \u201cBut everybody knew they had scabies. Some of the workers were very concerned about touching things and picking things up. They asked if they should be concerned, but they were told don\u2019t worry about it.\u201d<\/p>\n

The nurse said the lice issue was epidemic \u2013 but everything was kept \u201chush-hush.\u201d \u00a0<\/p>\n

\u201cYou could see the bugs crawling through their hair,\u201d she said. \u201cAfter we would rinse out their hair, the sink would be loaded with black bugs.\u201d<\/p>\n

The nurse told me she became especially alarmed because their files indicated the children had been transported to Lackland on domestic charter buses and airplanes.<\/p>\n

\u201cThat\u2019s what alerted me,\u201d she said. \u201cOh, my God. They\u2019re flying these kids around. Nobody knows that these children have scabies and lice. To tell you the truth, there\u2019s no way to control it.\u201d<\/p>\n

I don’t mean to upset anyone’s Independence Day vacation plans, but were these kids transported to the camps before or after they were deloused? Anyone who flies the friendly skies could be facing a public health concern.<\/p>\n

The counselor told me the refugee camp resembled a giant emergency room \u2013 off limits to the public.<\/p>\n

\u201cThey did not want the community to know,\u201d she said. \u201cI initially spoke out at Lackland because I had a concern the children\u2019s mental health care was not being taken care of.\u201d<\/p>\n

She said the breaking point came when camp officials refused to hospitalize several children who were suicidal.<\/p>\n

\u201cI made a recommendation that a child needed to be sent to a psychiatric unit,\u201d the counselor told me. \u201cHe was reaching psychosis. He was suicidal. Instead of treating him, they sent him off to a family in the United States.\u201d<\/p>\n

She said she filed a Child Protective Services report and quit her job.<\/p>\n

\u201cI didn\u2019t want to lose my license if this kid committed suicide,\u201d she told me. \u201cI was done.\u201d<\/p>\n

The counselor kept a detailed journal about what happened during her tenure at the facility.<\/p>\n

\u201cWhen people read that journal they are going to be astonished,\u201d she said. \u2018I don\u2019t think they will believe what is going on in America.\u201d<\/p>\n

So it was not a great surprise, she said, when she received a call from federal agents demanding that she return to the military base and hand over her journal.<\/p>\n

She said she declined to do so.<\/p>\n

\u201cI didn\u2019t go back to Lackland,\u201d she said.<\/p>\n

Both workers told me while they have no regrets, they want to remain anonymous for fear of reprisals.<\/p>\n

\u201cThey\u2019re going to crush the system,\u201d the nurse told me. \u201cWe can\u2019t sustain this. They are overwhelming the system and I think it\u2019s a travesty.\u201d<\/p>\n

BCFS spokeswoman Krista Piferrer tells me the agency takes \u201cany allegation of malfeasance or inappropriate care of a child very seriously.\u201d<\/p>\n

\u201cThere are a number of checks and balances to ensure children are receiving appropriate and adequate mental health care,\u201d she said.<\/p>\n

Piferrer said the clinicians are supervised by a federal field specialist from HHS\u2019s Office of Refugee Resettlement. She also said BCFS have 58 medical professionals serving at Lackland.<\/p>\n

\u201cEvery illness, whether it is a headache or something more serious, is recorded in a child\u2019s electronic medical record and posted on WebEOC \u2013 a real-time, web-based platform that is visible to not only BCFS but the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services,\u201d she said.<\/p>\n

As for those brown shirts, the BCFS said they are \u201cincident management team personnel\u201d \u2013 who happen to wear tan shirts.<\/p>\n

My sources say Americans should be very concerned about the secrecy of the government camps.<\/p>\n

\u201cThis is just the beginning,\u201d one source told me. “It is a long-term financial responsibility.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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