Calling the Caravan's Migrants "Diseased" Is a Classic Xenophobic Move
It would be extraordinarily difficult\u2014impossibly difficult\u2014for any one of the several thousand asylum-seeking refugees in the so-called migrant caravan now on the border between Guatemala and Mexico to have smallpox. A global vaccination campaign eliminated the disease from the world at large in 1980. Yet that\u2019s what a guest on the Fox Business Network show Lou Dobbs Tonight said earlier this week.