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The Division of Global Migration and Quarantine has statutory responsibility to make and enforce regulations necessary to prevent the introduction, transmission, or spread of communicable diseases from foreign countries into the United States. Some of the tasks undertaken to meet legal and regulatory responsibilities are:
Quarantine Stations are located in the international airports in New York, Chicago, Miami, Atlanta, Los Angeles, San Francisco, Seattle, and Honolulu. Each Quarantine Station has responsibility for all ports, seaports, and international airports in an assigned region. Since quarantine personnel are not located at every port of entry, the Quarantine Stations train Immigration, Customs and Agriculture Inspectors to watch for ill persons and imported items having public health significance. |
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