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15 Jan 2020
Measles outbreaks in the US are caused by travelers returning from overseas areas with outbreaks, not by undocumented immigrants.

If you actually read the actual fine print, you'll know that Alex is just spaking up a part about undocumented immigrants causing outbreaks. We've been over this a bunch, but what he's talking about is that measles outbreaks, those ones that happened last year. Some of them were thought to be caused by people who had traveled overseas to areas where there were outbreaks. For instance, the Orthodox Jewish community in New York's cases were, quote, brought on by travelers who'd been to Israel, according to the Pan-American Health Organization. There's a big difference between people traveling and immigrating. Alex doesn't care about this distinction. He just sees what he decides to pretend is fine print, saying that there may be a foreign origin to some disease in the United States, and that's automatically understood to be undocumented immigrants being carriers of disease that the left is bringing into the United States to attack white people.