One reason we need to support agencies like ICE rather than demonizing and attempting to defund them as Democrats do is that not everyone who comes into our country can be counted on to behave responsibly. Some may even try to smuggle monkeypox into the USA.
Via FOX2 in Detroit:
Vincent Munster and Claude Kwe were working for the [National Institutes of Health] at the Rocky Mountain Laboratory and are accused of smuggling the viral pathogens into the US from The Congo at Detroit Metropolitan Airport in Romulus.
At least they work for the NIH and not the IRGC.
Munster, a citizen of the Netherlands, 53, is the Chief of the Virus Ecology Section, Laboratory of Virology at the Rocky Mountain Laboratory in Hamilton, Montana. Claude Kwe, a citizen of Cameroon, 38, is a research fellow in Munster’s section.
They have been researching how emerging viral pathogens cross between species.
On January 25, 2026, Munster and Kwe arrived at the McNamara Terminal at DTW from Brazzaville, Republic of Congo, where an outbreak of monkeypox was occurring.
They attempted to get their contraband into the country by telling border security that a large case they were carrying held diagnostics and testing equipment.
But subsequent investigation by CBP and FBI agents revealed that the case actually contained 113 vials in Styrofoam coolers.
Most of the vials that have been tested contained monkeypox.
At least Boston will be ready for future monkeypox outbreaks — which may be expected during Pride Month.
On a tip from abcanc.