President-elect Donald J. Trump appears poised to justify sealing the border with Mexico using public health as a reason, even without an evident public health crisis. His team is exploring historical associations of disease with immigration.
Trump's aides have been investigating various diseases, including tuberculosis, to support their narrative, reflecting a long-standing racial stigma that migrants may carry unknown illnesses, a notion many public health officials find problematic.
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