Not so very long ago New York City effectively shut down its public education system out of fear of a disease that may very well have never killed a single healthy child. Schools were shuttered. Kids were masked. Hysteria reigned.

Now, suddenly, concerns about very real diseases that constitute significant threats to the lives of school children are being shoved aside. The children of illegal immigrants are being pushed into public schools in the nation’s largest city without even a pretense of determining their health status or requirement for immunization. The official policy of the CDC is that they do not track disease by immigration status so good luck trying to get accurate numbers on how many migrants are carrying disease.