So when the federal government refuses to inoculate detained migrant families–many of whom are mothers and small children–from deadly diseases while keeping them in cramped conditions, what outcome can we expect?

They are going to fulfill the xenophobic myth Fox News and other right-wing hate media promulgated in the lead-up to Donald Trump’s election and last year’s mid-term elections that asylum seekers are exposing us to communicable diseases like smallpox we eradicated years ago.