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US Embassies in Ebola-Stricken Countries Processing Visas for Non-US Citizens (100 per day apply)
DAILY SIGNAL ^ | 10/16/14 | Rob Bluey

Posted on 10/16/2014 6:52:08 AM PDT by Liz

Despite the outbreak of Ebola, it is still possible to get a visa from the three West African countries at the heart of the outbreak, and a key congressman is demanding to know why.

Rep. Ed Royce, Republican-Calif, chairman of the House Foreign Relations Committee, sent a sternly worded letter to Secretary of State John Kerry about the Obama administration’s handling of the Ebola epidemic in Guinea, Liberia and Sierra Leone. Royce said he was “deeply concerned” U.S. embassies in those countries were continuing to process visas for non-U.S. nationals despite the outbreak of the deadly disease.

An estimated 100 people per day are applying for U.S. visas at the three embassies, according to Royce. “Of course,” he added, “once these individuals are issued a visa by the embassy, they are free to travel to the United States.”

Royce urged Kerry to contain the Ebola virus “at its source” in Africa before any additional cases reach the United States.

“I was surprised that the Department of State has not already exercised its authority to suspend consular services, which is standard procedure in countries experiencing a major security disruption,” Royce wrote to Kerry. “This would be a prudent measure to mitigate the risk of Ebola exposure and contain its spread—a bedrock principal (sic) of health crisis management.”

Royce recommended the State Department stop issuing visas for non-U.S. nationals in Guinea, Liberia and Sierra Leone as a “containment measure that may help mitigate the risk of further translocation to the United States.”


TOPICS: Extended News; Foreign Affairs; Government; News/Current Events
KEYWORDS: 113th; bordersecurity; ebola; usembassy
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1 posted on 10/16/2014 6:52:08 AM PDT by Liz
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To: Liz

Are they wearing Hazmat suits while processing the apps?


2 posted on 10/16/2014 6:52:51 AM PDT by RummyChick
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To: Liz
U.S. embassies in those countries were continuing to process visas for non-U.S. nationals despite the outbreak of the deadly disease.

John F'n Kerry in his best Bob Barker voice: "Come on down!"

3 posted on 10/16/2014 6:54:02 AM PDT by Zuben Elgenubi (NOPe to GOPe)
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To: All
Misusing the power of the US govt, Obama's brought the Middle Ages into the 21st century.

It has been verified that our southern/Mexican border has been violated by invaders from 144 antediluvian, disease-ridden countries---all of whom gather in Mexico b/c they know Obama is rubber-stamping them in----no questions asked.

Carriers of TB, Ebola, Chikungunya, Dengue fever, Norovirus. Hantavirus, Swine flu, Varicella. Variola, E-coli.......and carriers of childhood diseases America stamped out years ago.......are all here in our communitities, in our schools, in our stores and restaurants....handling our food and merchandise

The Obama admin has kept top-secret:

<><> medical/contagion conditions of minors transported to US schools....

<><> contagion status of contaminated Border-holding facilities;

<><> contagion status of contaminated public transportation used to relocate minors.......

<><> dangers to Americans from contaminated illegals in the marketplace, handling our food, merchandise...

<><> monetary costs to American taxpayers, forced to subsidize these diseased-ridden parasites.

4 posted on 10/16/2014 6:54:32 AM PDT by Liz ("Sooner or later everyone sits down to a banquet of consequences." Robert Louis Stevenson)
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To: RummyChick

We’ve got idiots in high places.


5 posted on 10/16/2014 6:54:59 AM PDT by b4its2late (A Liberal is a person who will give away everything he doesn't own.)
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To: Liz

Obama and his acolytes are implementing his one world/no borders ideology. They are a clear danger to the health and well being of the American people.


6 posted on 10/16/2014 6:56:17 AM PDT by allendale
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To: Liz

Obama versus America - again.


7 posted on 10/16/2014 6:56:44 AM PDT by BenLurkin (This is not a statement of fact. It is either opinion or satire; or both.)
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To: All
ACTION NOW: BLANKET YOUR CONG/MEN/WOMEN AND US SENATORS WITH MESSAGES---we must remove the Obama henchmen from our govt.

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Obama's chief henchman bringing Ebola to America is Leon Rodrigues at USCIS (a DHS agency). Rodrigues has been rubber-stamping undesirables from 144 disease-ridden countries into the US. Rodrigues also over sees EB-5 visas. Under Rodrigues' purview---EB-5's are said to involve major threats to US national security:

IS OBAMA/RODRIGUES SELLING US CITIZENSHIP TO MEXICAN DRUG CARTELS-ISIS-CONTAGIOUS FOREIGNERS?--In an earlier statement, Sen Charles Grassley (REPUB--IOWA) said ICE identified key vulnerabilities in EB-5 visas

1) Export of sensitive technology/economic espionage.

2) Use by foreign government agents/espionage.

3) Use by terrorists.

4) Investment fraud by regional center.

5) Investment fraud by investors.

6) Fraud conspiracies by investors and regional center.

7) Illicit finance/money laundering.

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PASS THE WORD FAR AND WIDE---HERE'S WHAT OBAMA AND THE DEMOCRATS HAVE IN STORE FOR AMERICANS Secretary of State John Kerry warned of a new surge of illegals, just as Central America is being hit by a new wave of epidemics. No doubt about it: President Obama's open-borders policy is exposing us to disease, too.

In a background press briefing at the U.N. last Tuesday, a senior State Department official said Secretary of State John Kerry told his counterparts from Guatemala, Honduras, El Salvador and Mexico that the pause in minors coming across our southern border was temporary, and that "we have to use this time to put in place more efforts, greater efforts to get at the root cause of this, because we know that those numbers may rise again."

The next wave may be worse than the first, however, because monsoon conditions, a harsh drought and the globalization of transport are ensuring that the 50,000 or so unscreened new entrants will be bringing a raft of new diseases with them.

Though little reported, the Caribbean is on high alert for the spread of chikungunya, known as "the virus of pain." Its Tanzanian-origin Bantu name means "to contort," describing the agony it leaves in joints for years. Some 183,000 cases were detected in the region this year as it spreads from the same mosquitoes that transmit dengue and yellow fever. Central America, according to a report in El Pais, is the epicenter. Puerto Rico has reported 2,000 cases and three deaths.

But the disease has worked its way up to the U.S.; Texas and Florida reported victims who have already contracted it without traveling to the affected regions. INVESTORS BUSINESS DAILY.COM REPORT....Read more at news.investors.com ...

8 posted on 10/16/2014 6:58:05 AM PDT by Liz ("Sooner or later everyone sits down to a banquet of consequences." Robert Louis Stevenson)
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To: Liz

The Obloa Administration is being directly complicit in attempts at mass murder of innocent Americans. Dictators do this. Hitler ,millions. Stalin, millions, Mao, millions. Its who and what they are. Stalin’s famous quote,”If you kill one person its MURDER, if you kill millions its merely a STATISTIC.”


9 posted on 10/16/2014 6:58:24 AM PDT by Don Corleone ("Oil the gun..eat the cannoli. Take it to the Mattress.")
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To: Liz

What about Liberia???


10 posted on 10/16/2014 6:58:49 AM PDT by SierraWasp (Put a plastic shopping bag over the Governor's bald head!!!)
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To: Liz

Criminal. Period.


11 posted on 10/16/2014 6:58:53 AM PDT by Qiviut ( One of the most delightful things about a garden is the anticipation it provides. ~W.E. Johns)
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To: Liz

We are derp.


12 posted on 10/16/2014 6:59:51 AM PDT by caligatrux (...some animals are more equal than others.)
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To: RummyChick

I think people can apply for a visa online.


13 posted on 10/16/2014 7:01:01 AM PDT by Califreak (Hope and Che'nge is killing U.S.)
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To: Liz
There is a border threat -- at our airports.

The risk of someone with ebola crossing the border with Mexico is close to zero at the moment. The risk of someone flying in, legally, to an American airport is practically 100%. Repeating BS claims that immigrants crossing from Mexico are carrying ebola makes this site look nutty, and it ignores the real -- and serious -- threat elsewhere.

14 posted on 10/16/2014 7:02:49 AM PDT by Alter Kaker (Gravitation is a theory, not a fact. It should be approached with an open mind...)
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To: Liz

How are the investigations of Benghazi and the IRS going?


15 posted on 10/16/2014 7:02:49 AM PDT by rfreedom4u (Texas isn't just a state. It's a state of mind!)
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Cong Royce (Republican-Cali) recommended the State Department stop issuing visas for non-US nationals in Guinea, Liberia and Sierra Leone as a “containment measure that may help mitigate the risk of further translocation to the United States.”

"Mind your dam business, Royce. I'll represent who I dam well please."

16 posted on 10/16/2014 7:06:41 AM PDT by Liz ("Sooner or later everyone sits down to a banquet of consequences." Robert Louis Stevenson)
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To: Liz

It will interesting to observe whether this will change on November the 5th.


17 posted on 10/16/2014 7:10:18 AM PDT by Madam Theophilus (iI)
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To: Liz

More evidence that PROVES that 0bama et al are trying to kill Americans and destroy America.

Why don’t they just give visas to bottles of Ebola infected bodily fluids.

PC is only a cover!


18 posted on 10/16/2014 7:10:36 AM PDT by grumpygresh (Democrats delenda est. New US economy: Fascism on top, Socialism on the bottom.)
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To: RummyChick

The CDC is considering adding healthcare workers under observation here for Ebola to the no fly list

But, NOT the 4,500 entering the USA monthly who are from infected countries.


19 posted on 10/16/2014 7:11:16 AM PDT by Sasparilla
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To: Liz

This is why collapse is good. Because under the laws of the country that emerges, these pols will be legally hunted down, charged with crimes against the former republic and sentence carried out immediately.


20 posted on 10/16/2014 7:12:34 AM PDT by Norm Lenhart
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