Posted on 02/03/2016 5:32:04 AM PST by Kaslin
Latin America's Zika virus is the latest undocumented immigrant to hit our shores, but have no fear. Self-appointed Zika Warrior Prince Charles Schumer has declared that he is here to stop it.
The New York Democrat has a "three-point plan" of attack to build a "firewall" that will prevent an outbreak of the mosquito-borne illness from spreading across our mainland. He's armed with big charts and jabby index fingers, too. Allons!
Five cases of the Zika virus have been identified in the Empire State alone. The CDC says a total of 31 Americans in 11 states and Washington, D.C., have been identified as carriers who brought the miserable disease in from abroad.
The feds' don't worry-be-happy health bureaucrats emphasize that these are "isolated" incidents that can be contained by simply avoiding travel to hotspots like Brazil, where the disease has been linked to an explosion of microcephaly among an estimated 4,000 babies.
But on Tuesday, Dallas County, Texas, reported the first case in a resident based here in the continental U.S. who contracted the condition "through sexual contact with someone who had visited a Zika-endemic country," according to health officials.
When people in Washington tell you not to worry, be alarmed.
I know I'm not the only one who sniggered at the spectacle of the Senate's leading Gang of Eight immigration expansionists now playing Chicken Little about global communicable diseases.
Newsflash: The sky has already fallen. The barn door can't -- or rather, won't -- be closed by those scrambling in front of the cameras to grab headlines about the latest panic du jour. The fundamental policy dissonance is lost on tin-eared Schumer: While he makes theatrical grand gestures to stop foreign viruses from entering through the front porch, he and his amnesty-promoting pals in both parties have left the side and back entries swinging wide open for illegal immigration.
People from Central and South America, ground zero for Zika and other infectious diseases including tuberculosis, dengue, Chagas, Chikungunya and schistosomiasis, make up nearly 15 percent of the illegal immigrant population in the U.S. They flooded the border in record numbers in 2013 as Schumer and company were pushing mass amnesty on Capitol Hill -- and as President Obama was implementing blanket deportation freezes in advance of his executive illegal immigrant waiver policies.
The Democrat-manufactured border surge ushered in a resurgence of tropical diseases across the Southwest. Meanwhile, laborers here illegally and amnestied migrants who have never been screened for disease obtained Obama work permits to hold low-wage jobs in places like Chipotle, which shut down scores of its restaurants over the past three months after two separate E. coli outbreaks.
Now comes news from Texas governor Greg Abbott and Rep. Henry Cuellar, D-Texas, that the Obama Department of Homeland Security plans to cut back aerial monitoring of the southern border by 50 percent. The Texas Tribune reports that the cutback coincides with a new surge in illegal crossings of the Rio Grande.
"From October to December of 2015," the paper reported, "about 10,560 unaccompanied minors entered Texas illegally through the Rio Grande Valley sector of the U.S. Border Patrol. That marks a 115 percent increase over the same time frame in 2014." With spring just around the corner, those numbers will swell again.
And the illegal immigrant border surge will only be strengthened (and public health risks increased) if Obama gives in to left-wing immigrant groups lobbying the White House to extend "Temporary Protected Status" en masse to upwards of 750,000 Central Americans purportedly fleeing violence in El Salvador, Guatemala and Honduras.
TPS is a special amnesty program originally intended as a short-term humanitarian program. As usual, "temporary" means permanent. Example? In 2014, the White House extended TPS status and employment permits for an estimated 90,000 Hondurans and Nicaraguans here illegally "for an additional 18 months, effective Jan. 6, 2015, through July 5, 2016." Who are these TPS winners? They've been here since 1998 -- when Hurricane Mitch hit their homeland. That was 18 years ago. Their "temporary" status has been renewed more than a dozen times since the Clinton administration first bestowed it.
One of the biggest champions of the fraud-riddled, illegal immigration-incentivizing TPS program? Chicken Little Chuckie Schumer.
The Beltway posturing of open-borders engineers is enough to make you sick.
Any opportunity to increase the government.
Keep it in your pants and use mosquito repellent.
Michelle Malkin: brains to match beauty!
She nailed it.
Dallas reports case of Zika spread through sexual transmission
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/3391925/posts
So, what is Schumer’s 3 point plan? Or did I miss it somewhere in the article?
It’s worse than population reduction.
You end up with babies that have suppressed brain growth. They need to be cared for more than your average child. A family rendered miserable and less prosperous.
If this is actually some population control scheme, it’s more sadistic than the Chinese policy of mandatory partial birth abortion.
Frankly, I don’t think this was intended by anyone who plans to live in the US.
It’s the result of corrupt apathy — not giving a rat’s rear about our border safety. You know, guys like Jeb and GW Bush.
“Build the Firewall”!!!!
(Heh, heh, heh!)
You cares about Putzhead’s plan. It failed to include border safey or a quarantine period for immigrants [what used to be standard].
It’s getting so you can’t fart in America without Chuckie Schumer holding a press conference about how the government should step in and do something about it.
I read yestetday that Dallas Texas reported two cases that were sexually transmitted.
Roe v. Wade.
Oh my goodness! Another talking point for abortionists.
That thought had escaped me.
He doesn’t work on Saturday,but drags the media out on Sunday. So that he can get in the Monday morning papers!
You want to stop the Zika virus? There is an EASY solution, and it involves one simple change to federal law: allow the use of DDT.
Carpet bomb the little flying vampires with DDT, and the problem is solved.
You end up with babies that have suppressed brain growth. They need to be cared for more than your average child. A family rendered miserable and less prosperous.
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Oh, you mean our current snowflake population infesting our colleges and universities?
“Carpet bomb the little flying vampires with DDT, and the problem is solved.”
We know why DDT is not being used because it controls the spread of malaria, “not” controlling malaria is depopulation. I read the mosquito responsible for increased spread of zika was genetically modified in an attempt to “control” dengue fever. Of course schumer will not let an opportunity to grow government, control people, legitimize illegal immigration without actually doing anything about the “gift” that gives him this opportunity.
old chuck never met a camera he didn’t like. very little action follows his time on camera.
‘Oh, you mean our current snowflake population infesting our colleges and universities?’
And be sure to legalize pot to keep them good and doped up while they go on field trips to advance liberalism or get As from professors’ beds.
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