The Trump administration dismissed health inspectors at some border stations

On the borders of the country, federal employees maintain the country in many ways: some are investigating diseased passengers. Some examine animals for perilous pathogens. And some check plants for infestation that could spread in this country.

At the end of last week, Trump’s administration sent hundreds of these federal employees with the same message as colleagues from other agencies: their services were no longer needed.

The lack of these federal officers at the borders exposes Americans susceptible to pathogens transmitted by plants, animals and people, and experts warned.

Along the firing, they appear even when the Trump administration is prepared to prepare plans to reverse migrants due to the fact that they can bring diseases such as tuberculosis and measles in the country.

“Screening in terms of infectious diseases in entrance ports is an essential role of public health in order to prevent infectious diseases before entering our country,” said Dr. Carlos del Rio, a doctor of infectious diseases at Emory University.

“Not having public health workers to perform this work is disturbing and makes us less safe and sound,” he added.

Disease control and prevention centers estimate that almost 30,000 aircraft travel and leave the country every day. In 2019, over 400 million travelers came through over 300 entrance ports. About half of people crossed the border between the United States and Mexico.

Border posts are served by employees from many agencies. Employees from the Global Faculty of Global Health Screen People, Animals and Products of Animal’s origin on diseases, respond to reports of diseased travelers and if necessary, they disseminate medicines.

Last week, Trump’s administration rejected an unknown number of people from 20 CDC health stations, leaving some completely unattended, according to three officials they know about the situation.

For example, connections with the port station in San Juan, PR, on Wednesday were redirected at a station in Miami, where a CDC employee who refused to identify, said that no one would be on San Juan Post “for a very long time.”

Other port stations are located in Anchorage, Atlanta, Chicago, Up-to-date York, San Francisco and three cities in Texas.

CDC officers can legally stop or conditionally free people and wild nature suspected of wearing any disease on a long list, which includes measles, tuberculosis, pandemic flu and viral hemorrhagic fever, such as Ebola and Marburg.

The Department of Agriculture employs entomologists, botanists and mycologists – experts in the field of insects, plants and fungi respectively – who check agricultural products for pests and pathogens. Many of these specialists were also released on Friday.

“We are such a critical program, it makes no sense,” said one of the USDA officials with knowledge of the situation that asked for them for them for fear of retaliation.

“If we do not work and these inspections do not happen, everything begins to gather in ports,” added the official.

Animal health experts were particularly concerned about the African fever of pigs and the screwdriver of the Up-to-date World, two diseases that crept closer to the United States and may have a destructive effect on pork and beef industries.

On Tuesday, USDA stated that they incorrectly dismissed several employees working on the bird flu outbreak in the country and tried to hire them, according to this Report by NBC News. It is not clear how many employees returned to their positions.