No, I'm not. You already conceded that you know that what Grok found and I posted was factual.
There are no stats on illegal immigrants, as you would know if you were capable of logic.
Do you need me to explain why?
Invoking that slogan does not automatically win the argument when the mechanism is straightforward and cases have already been linked to the relevant population in specific settings. Correlation is not always causation, but when you have:
known lower vaccination rates in several major source countries,large numbers of people entering without routine immunization checks,documented outbreaks inside migrant shelters and detention centers,
then dismissing any contribution as mere correlation is itself a form of question-begging. It treats the lack of perfect attribution data as proof of zero effect, which is not how public-health risk assessment works.
I know maga haters think they have all the answers but I'll go with the facts.
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Amid an outbreak of the highly contagious measles virus in West Texas, some on social media sought to blame former President Joe Biden’s border policies. A Feb. 26
Threads post said, “Update: Plandemic 2.0 – Mainstream Media pushes fear campaign about measles in Texas, hoping to push more people to get vaccinated and try to make RFK Jr look bad, although this disease was allowed to enter due to Biden’s open borders!!”
The post, which referenced President Donald Trump’s Health and Human Services Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr., was flagged as part of Meta’s efforts to combat false news and misinformation on its News Feed. (Read more about our
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Measles is an airborne viral disease that can cause
serious complications, including a
rash with visible flat, red spots on a person’s body. It is mostly preventable by vaccine. Two doses of the Measles, Mumps, and Rubella vaccine are
97% effective against measles, the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention said.
We found other social media posts blaming Biden’s border policies for the measles outbreak in Texas’ South Plains region. But there’s no evidence that an influx of immigrants is behind the measles outbreak, the source of which is unknown, Texas health officials said.
There were historically high levels of immigration during Biden’s term. About
4.3 million people were released into the U.S. to await immigration court hearings from February 2021 to November 2024, per Department of Homeland Security data. That included children who traveled without parents and people who scheduled appointments at official ports of entry and were given humanitarian parole, a temporary
legal status to live and work in the U.S.
As of March 7, the Texas Department of State Health Services had
reported 198 measles cases, including 23 patients hospitalized and the death of a child.
At a March 3 state House of Representatives health committee hearing, state Rep. Mike Olcott, R-Fort Worth, asked Dr. Jennifer Shuford, Texas’ Health Services commissioner, if an increase in “foreign nationals” could be the source of the outbreak. Shuford said international travel is a common source of measles outbreaks, but in this one, the source is not evident.
“For this particular outbreak, we don’t know the individual who introduced it into the community or what the risk factor was for bringing it in,” Shuford said. “We know that measles is alive and well in other parts of the world, and so all it takes is one traveler to bring it in.”
Olcott pressed Shuford further on the topic, asking if it’s possible the outbreak wouldn’t have happened had there not been a surge in migrants across the southern border. Shuford said she couldn’t “pin it on this” and brought up past examples of how international travel has led to measles outbreaks in undervaccinated communities, citing a 2018-19 outbreak in a New York Orthodox Jewish community that began with someone who had traveled to Israel.
“I don’t have any data that would say yes or no to this outbreak,” about immigrants, Shuford said, noting vaccination rates had been falling in the area for a while and it was “ready for an outbreak.”
“Whether that introduction came from travelers there or travelers from other places, I don’t have any data to say,” Shuford said.
Eighty of the Texas cases were among people who had not been vaccinated against measles. Five others had at least one dose of the vaccine and the vaccination status of 113 others was unknown, the state said.
The bulk of the outbreak’s cases, 137 (69%), were reported in rural Gaines County, where measles vaccination coverage is lower than the
95% rate health experts say is necessary for herd immunity.
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