One of my primary resources is “f The Foreignness of Germs: The Persistent Association of Immigrants and Disease in American Society.” from a periodical known as the Milbank Quarterly. It is written by some man—who I’m assuming is backed with credentials (to which I couldn’t find) because the article is Peer Reviewed—by the name of Markel. He describes the history behind the medical screening on immigrants beginning with practically the Stone Age of America. He discusses each President of the United States and their contributions to the policy to which the law now stands. The article takes a change in stance near the middle: He immediately begins to criticize the policies and the damage they are doing to America (despite the fact that they are keeping out diseases). He brings up plentiful statistics about the illegal immigrant population and no matter what the medical screening does, it will not prevent “microbes” from crossing the border. He finishes strongly on this point. He briefly mentions the constitutionality issue—but for the most part leaves that one untouched.
Overall, the article is written well. The man has done his research. It was actually a beneficial article to me (despite the opposition in opinion) and helped me see where the main argument of the issue lied. I think anybody would be well informed after reading it. I do think that he could’ve provided some kind of resolution. It felt biased to no avail. I didn’t feel like it tried pushing anything, other than the fact that medical screening is bad.
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