Border Patrol unable to stop multiple-drug-resistant tuberculosis infected man

Spencer S. Hsu at the Washington Post has this story:

The Department of Homeland Security's chief medical officer yesterday acknowledged errors in the federal government's failure to stop a Mexican businessman infected with multiple-drug-resistant tuberculosis from entering the United States 21 times over seven weeks in April and May....

...Armendariz, a Ciudad Juarez resident with a business in the United States, turned in his border card on or about May 31 only after he was confronted by his physician at a Juarez clinic run by Texas's health department....

...Runge acknowledged that it took until June 1 for DHS's Transportation Security Administration to be notified and until the following week for federal officials to place Armendariz's name on a no-fly list despite WHO guidelines against public air
travel by such patients....

...An alert to stop Armendariz was entered into a U.S. border-control computer system on April 16, but the day and month of his birth were transposed when given to the CBP. The date was corrected on April 20, but his two last names were then transposed, Senate aides said. It is not clear why the CBP did not catch Armendariz anyway, since the use of paternal surnames before maternal surnames is a common practice in Spanish and automated name-checking systems can detect such variations....