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Ted Cruz prods FAA for travel restrictions to keep Ebola out of US, though authority unclear
Dallas Morning News ^ | 10/2/14 | Todd J. Gillman

Posted on 10/02/2014 3:50:19 PM PDT by jimbo123

Sen. Ted Cruz is pressuring the government to clamp down on air travel from West Africa.

Citing the Liberian patient being treated in Dallas for Ebola, Cruz, R-Texas, wrote the Federal Aviation Administration demanding assurance that the FAA is “doing everything within its authority to prevent the spread of this infectious disease.”

Public health authorities have insisted that a travel ban is unnecessary and potentially counterproductive. CDC director Tom Frieden reiterated the point this afternoon. But he and others also concede that screening in Liberia and other nations where Ebola is raging cannot detect or deter every infected traveler — especially those without symptoms.

FAA issued temporary flight restrictions on Israel when rockets were falling near Ben Gurion Airport. But it’s unclear whether this or some other agency — such as CDC or Customs — would have authority to block flights and travelers from West Africa.

“Given the severity of this virus and the fact that its spread to Texas has been associated with travel, it is imperative that the FAA take every available precaution in preventing additional cases from arriving in the United States,” Cruz wrote FAA administrator Michael Huerta in a letter the senator’s office shared with the news media. “As you may be aware, several African nations have already restricted or banned air travel to countries with confirmed cases of the Ebola virus. British Airways, Emirates Airlines and Kenya Airways have also suspended flights due to the rising death toll and deteriorating public health situation in Ebola-stricken countries.”

Cruz’s letter asks for details of any steps FAA intends to take “to limit or suspend air travel to countries that have experienced a significant Ebola outbreak.”

(Excerpt) Read more at trailblazersblog.dallasnews.com ...


TOPICS: News/Current Events
KEYWORDS: amnesty; cdc; cornyn; cruz; ebola; faa; illegals; openborders
And John "Open Borders" Cornyn is still MIA on this situation...



1 posted on 10/02/2014 3:50:19 PM PDT by jimbo123
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To: jimbo123

What “authority” did Mr. Obama and Secretary Kerry use to shut down travel to Israel? Maybe use that same authority?


2 posted on 10/02/2014 3:54:22 PM PDT by 2ndDivisionVet (The question isn't who is going to let me; it's who is going to stop me.)
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To: jimbo123

Ted Cruz: 2nd Shadow President 2012-Present
Sarah Palin: 1st Shadow President 2009-2012


3 posted on 10/02/2014 3:54:44 PM PDT by GraceG (Protect the Border from Illegal Aliens, Don't Protect Illegal Alien Boarders...)
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To: jimbo123

On the authority that the American people don’t want ebola here.

I’m sick of experts telling us why its OK when our constitution doesn’t say anything about “expert” opinions overriding the will of the voters.


4 posted on 10/02/2014 3:59:22 PM PDT by cripplecreek
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To: GraceG

Correction: Ted Cruz, shadow president. Sarah Palin, shadow vice president/energy secretary. John Bolton, shadow secretary of state. Allen West, shadow secretary of the Army. Michele Bachmann, shadow IRS director. Bobby Jindal, shadow health & human services secretary, etc., etc.


5 posted on 10/02/2014 4:07:40 PM PDT by 2ndDivisionVet (The question isn't who is going to let me; it's who is going to stop me.)
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To: jimbo123

Rescind all visas for the three Ebola countries.


6 posted on 10/02/2014 4:18:30 PM PDT by palmer (This comment is not approved or cleared by FDA)
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To: jimbo123

FAA is wrong agency

DHS and specifically CBP should request, based on CDC recommendation

They undoubtedly have a protocol...which Hussein overrode because the cases are coming from the saintly nation of Liberia, inhabited only by the Victims of Evil America


7 posted on 10/02/2014 4:21:58 PM PDT by Regulator
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To: jimbo123

At least we have one elected sane person in our government speaking out for the protection of us all.

Go Ted Cruz!


8 posted on 10/02/2014 4:22:16 PM PDT by jazusamo (Sometimes I think that this is an era when sanity has become controversial: Thomas Sowell)
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To: palmer
Rescind all visas for the three Ebola countries.

Absolutely, like right now!

9 posted on 10/02/2014 4:23:42 PM PDT by jazusamo (Sometimes I think that this is an era when sanity has become controversial: Thomas Sowell)
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To: jimbo123
There must be some kind of infections disease guidelines in place.

It would be hard to fathom nothing in place at all.  Of course lots of things that are hard to fathom take place these days.


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10 posted on 10/02/2014 4:27:09 PM PDT by DoughtyOne (Obama and the Left are maggots feeding off the flesh of the United States.)
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Dallas morning news wants to know by what authority Cruz has to protect the us

The Dallas morning news would rather be the center of this thing. The hotbed than allow Cruz to look like he is good in any way

This is horrible. These liberals are disgusting. But biblically disgusting

By the authority of common sense

And manhood


11 posted on 10/02/2014 4:32:55 PM PDT by stanne
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The US surgeon General has the authority to ban entry by people that have been in hot zones. This one just refuses to do it.

I wrote Cruz, Cornyn, and my Congressman today. The latter responded within hours, saying that he is currently discussing with colleagues about how to legislate a ban. I am glad Cruz is on board.


12 posted on 10/02/2014 5:09:34 PM PDT by justlurking (tagline removed, as demanded by Admin Moderator)
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To: jimbo123

England and several countries have banned flight from those countries -

Lying you no whats -

no problem banning flights from/to Israel for purely political reasons...

Wonder if we’ll have elections in Nov ?


13 posted on 10/02/2014 6:14:55 PM PDT by maine-iac7 (Christian is as Christian does - by their fruits)
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To: jimbo123

14 posted on 10/03/2014 6:54:50 AM PDT by Lazamataz (First we beat the Soviet Union. Then we became them.)
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To: jimbo123

God bless Ted Cruz.


15 posted on 10/03/2014 6:57:30 AM PDT by trisham (Zen is not easy. It takes effort to attain nothingness. And then what do you have? Bupkis.)
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To: cripplecreek

Way to go Cruz!

We should restrict flights there to critical missions and automatically quarantine all return flights with extra care. We USED to have a less goofy policy:


PRESIDENT EBOLA: In 2010 Obama Administration Scrapped CDC Quarantine Regulations Aimed At Ebola
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/3210681/posts

“The CDC had proposed the regulations in 2005 under the administration of George W. Bush, reported USA Today in 2010.”

[Other Ebola threads posted at bottom of Digging Deep ...]
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/chat/2636478/posts?page=150#150


16 posted on 10/03/2014 7:05:01 AM PDT by Arthur Wildfire! March (Powerless? Not with the Liberty Amendments)
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