Posted on 10/16/2014 6:06:59 PM PDT by Red in Blue PA
Top lawmakers are ramping up calls for the State Department to stop issuing visas to travelers from West African nations in the wake of the Ebola outbreak.
An estimated 100 people per day are applying for U.S. visas at American embassies in Guinea, Liberia and Sierra Leone, House Foreign Affairs Committee Rep. Ed Royce, R-Calif., said in an Oct. 15 letter to Secretary of State John Kerry.
“Of course, once these individuals are issued a visa by the embassy, they are free to travel to the United States,” Royce said. He added, “This is a reasonable and immediately implementable containment measure that may help mitigate the risk of further translocation to the United States, while not impeding the U.S. response to the epidemic.”
Rep. Michael McCaul, R-Texas, chairman of the House Committee on Homeland Security, also called on the State Department and the Department of Homeland Security to temporarily suspend visas “until the outbreak of the Ebola virus is under control within these countries.”
“Despite the strong public health system in the United States to combat a spread of Ebola, the most recent cases involving the two Dallas health care workers demonstrates the vulnerabilities of our system and steep learning curve public health officials are facing,” McCaul wrote in a letter.
Rep. Tom Price, R-Ga., also added his name to the list of lawmakers urging more caution at the border.
“Denying entry to the U.S., or requiring a period of quarantine prior to entry, to anyone from an affected country ought to be on the table,” Price said in a written statement.
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they don’t want to stop flights then impose a quarantine they should learn from history
Amen!
These flights should have been stopped back in April. The CDC is so caught up in politics, the whole government is all about scamming money or forcing your views on someone, that it cannot do its minimum duty.
How about finishing that wall on the southern border.
The Ebomas believe that it’s not fair that mostly blacks get Ebola in Africa, so ‘white America’ should get it too. I mean, after all, didn’t the white man invent Ebola to wipe out the black population? /s
Fundamental transformation much?
I think you're thinking of a white woman who founded Planned "Parenthood"
Margaret Sanger? No..
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