A quarantine is not a voluntary thing you can decide about. So, yeah, I guess hypothetically US citizens could be locked up in an emergency ward while hordes from all over the world with who-knows-what diseases get no resistance from invading the US.
It's giving Obama the power to punish any citizen who publicizes the fact that they have come down with a disease communicated by illegal aliens with an indefinite quarantine that uses public heath provisions for epidemics that suspends many constitutional rights to those under quarantine
The scumbags in the White House never miss a trick
Military's Role in a Flu Pandemic By David Brown
Washington Post Staff Writer
Wednesday, October 5, 2005
President Bush said yesterday that he would consider using the military to "effect a quarantine" in the event of an outbreak