Posted on 10/04/2014 3:34:38 PM PDT by jimbo123
U.S. Senator John Cornyn (R-TX) today wrote to U.S. Customs and Border Protection (CBP) Commissioner R. Gil Kerlikowske to request additional information on the screening process for incoming passengers to the U.S. following this week’s first confirmed case of Ebola in Dallas:
“Under current protocols, what specific events or indicators would justify an enhanced screening process by CBP? Is CBP currently considering additional plans to increase enhanced screenings of incoming passengers?,” wrote Sen. Cornyn.
“I urge you to coordinate with the CDC to ensure that we are providing accurate, timely, and appropriate information to all passengers arriving into the United States,” Sen. Cornyn continued. “I know you will agree with me that ensuring safe and proper screening of passengers from Ebola-affected regions is a top priority.”
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Marshmallow Man.
Cornyn’s more ‘multi-faceted’ in his positions than even Romney.
The airlines need to institute their own flight ban. If they start importing and transporting Ebola all around the world, then they are all going to go bankrupt and next time we go to Europe it will be by boat.
Screen passengers and have passengers fill out a form and perhaps it should include enhanced procedures? Yep, the idiots are in charge. Am starting to think General George Pickett is running whole show on the TV news.
Where are the calls for this phony conservative to resign? Remember when Freepers were praising him on his conservativeness?
Uh, 41% of Texas Rs voted against him in the primary, so it probably wasn’t us.
Market forces may soon impel a more rational response to this crisis than we are currently seeing. Who in their right mind wants to risk being trapped in a plane with puking ebola victims?
I saw yet another CDC idiot on Fox say that banning the flights would only “harm the region” over there, and of course the economy. The host responded, “So, it would do more harm than good.” “Yes,” of course, was the answer. So in these people’s minds it’s far better for us to be in danger along with those poor people in Africa. If you wrote this stuff as fiction, nobody would buy it.
The same idiot, by the way, said it would be better to just track the people coming in on flights and - I kid you not - follow up with them with a phone call. We are in the hands of madmen.
Until he or one of his fellow elitist gets ebola, then watch the scramble to shut the borders and shot planes out of the sky coming here from Africa.
Screening arrivals is almost irrelevant (yes, the published process is ineffective and stupid, but…).
The issue is arrivals who travel healthy within 14-21 days of exposure. There will be 100 of them for every sick traveler.
I do this stuff for a living, and I have been thinking about this for the past six weeks. I CANNOT UNDERSTAND A POLICY OF ALLOWING ARRIVALS FROM LIBERIA, SIERRA LEONE, AND GUINEA without a 30 day quarantine.
What we are doing is insanity, distilled. No one has defended it, because it is indefensible.
The pilots (as ship captains) have an obligation to ensure the safety of their passengers. Obviously if they have any concern at all that one of the passengers might pose a risk to anyone else on the plane, they have a duty not to leave the tarmac.
These idiots need to be reminded that they are not employees of "the region" -- they are employees of the citizens of the United States. The economic concerns of foreign nations take precedence in their minds (and in the mind of their Dear Leader) over the health and welfare of Americans. Such an agenda is traitorous.
Where are the calls for this phony conservative to resign? Remember when Freepers were praising him on his conservativeness?
Cornyn’s recent comments do not erase his actions in the Mississippi primary.
Typical Cornyn crapola. All talk, no action. Yet another tax collector for the welfare state.
RINO double talk
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