Fox News medical contributor Marc Siegel discusses how migrant crossings could be contributing to the outbreak of measles across the U.S. on ‘The Ingraham Angle.’

All the presidential trips to the southern border in the world won’t change the fact that the border is porous, that there have been more than 7.3 million illegal immigrants who have reportedly crossed there over the last three years. I believe this constitutes a public health emergency, especially when you consider that migrants cannot be screened for diseases before entering the U.S.

And not only do migrants come originally from countries where rates of potentially deadly illnesses like measles, polio, drug resistant tuberculosis or chicken pox are higher than in the U.S., at the same time, the vaccination rates are lower and the compliance rates among migrants lower still.

I spoke with Dr. James Hodges, a prominent internist who works in Laredo, Texas at our southern border. "In Texas, we are seeing people without documented vaccinations. We have seen an uptick in childhood diseases like measles and mumps. We are seeing some unusual skin conditions like resistant cutaneous leishmaniasis from Central America. We have always seen resistant TB, but there is more in the last two years. Mostly, we are seeing a huge increase in sexually........

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