TB patient to be deported because of illegal status

Four family members also tested positive but are not contagious
By CRAIG SCHNEIDER
The Atlanta Journal-Constitution

Mexican day laborer jailed in Gwinnett County for refusing tuberculosis treatment is an illegal immigrant and officials have begun the deportation process, officials said Wednesday.

Gwinnett Sheriff Butch Conway said Francisco Santos acknowledged to agents of the U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement that he is in this country illegally.

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