By Emily Trube, 1080 KRLD | CBSDFW.COM
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DALLAS, Texas (1080 KRLD) – The President of the Texas Medical Association is concerned about the public health risk that the thousands of teenagers and children streaming across the border may be posing.
Dr. Ausitn King, head of the Texas Medical Association, is calling on Governor Rick Perry and President Barrack Obama to allow doctors to screen all of the unaccompanied children who have been coming across the border from Honduras and El Salvador.
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Thousands of the kids have been – and are currently being bused – to different parts of the state, and country.
