Vaccines among migrant children spark controversy in NY public schools

Staten Island’s borough president is taking aim the New York Department of Education.  

Vito Fossella says the city’s public schools will start the year with thousands newly arrived migrant children, who may be unvaccinated.  

All children must be immunized to attend school in New York Public Schools. But this school year, there’s a lot of new students. Over 100,000 migrants from Central and South America, Hati and oversees arrived in the city last spring, bringing with them more than 20,000 children.

“If you’re going to impose a standard on ordinary citizens, then that same standard should be imposed on individuals from 120 different countries and want to show up on day one for school,” said Fossella at a news conference Saturday, where a handful of Staten Island leaders and residents stood in front of P.S. 038, arguing that migrant children who can’t prove they’ve been inoculated against diseases like Diphtheria, Tetanus, Polio, Hepatitis B, Measles and Chickenpox, shouldn’t be allowed to start school next week. 

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Aime Hart
Aime Hart
1 year ago

It’s way more diseases than the list names. Chagas disease is one big disease I would personally worry about but it’s the third world diseases like typhoid and malaria to name a few.
Of course Bill Gates re introduced Malaria in at least Florida already anyway.

Jane
Jane
1 year ago

Did any of these children receive medical exams? Lice, parasites, etc. All children were required in my day to have a medical exam before entering the new school year.
(My day: 1950’s and 60’s). Are we insane? They forced masks and lockdowns on children two years ago, traumatized children! Do these migrant children know English? Lord have mercy. Public school hell on wheels.

tom finley
tom finley
1 year ago
kal
kal
1 year ago

These migrants (illegals) will bring any number of diseases to their fellow students. Of course, you must realize that is the plan. A democrat (WEF) method of eliminating Americans. Child brings a disease home, perhaps the parents become ill as well, and should it be deadly, voila, less Americans.

Martha
Martha
1 year ago

NO special favors! All children need to have the minimum required of vaccinations. If they are unable to prove it, then we err on the side of caution and revaccinate them. Shouldn’t be that difficult.