Thanks to the Government's Refusal to Address Illegal Immigration...

... looks like I'll be moving. Glad I already don't do any shopping or park outings in town.

UPDATE: I've received a request to update this post. So, here's the update. The nine cases of leprosy are old, ninety-five percent of people are immune to leprosy, and the one hundred cases of tuberculosis were statewide.

Well, good. However, that doesn't make it okay that illegal immigrants are skipping immigration medical exams. Nor does it make it okay that there are twenty-one confirmed cases of tuberculosis in the area.

Nor does it mean that I'm not moving. Illegal immigration has brought more problems to town than the possibility of imported diseases.

ANOTHER UPDATE: According to this story from December, things aren't quite so rosy as the current retractions make them appear:

Deputy State Health Officer Dr. Joe Bates testified that between 2000 and 2005, Northwest Arkansas had nine cases of congenital syphilis, six of which involved Marshallese; 38 people with infectious syphilis, 21 of whom were Marshallese; and eight cases of leprosy, all Marshallese.

Bates said the rate of leprosy in the Marshall Islands is the highest in the world, yet no survey has been done to determine the extent of the disease in among Marshallese immigrants in Arkansas.

"We think there are two to three times more cases of leprosy than we know about," he said.

Lonewacko is following the story. Hey, at least the Marshallese are legal. Unfortunately it's the tuberculosis that's the most troubling, not the leprosy. Who knows what's going on within our illegal populations since no one even seems able to figure out how many illegal immigrants there are...