Posted on 10/20/2014 1:19:42 PM PDT by SeekAndFind
Sen. Marco Rubio (R-Florida) plans to introduce legislation that would ban new visas for people from the three countries affected by the Ebola epidemic; Liberia, Guinea and Sierra Leone. In a statement from his office on Monday, Rubio described a visa ban as a "common sense" restriction.
"While Ebola’s deadly reach has proven to be a complex and unique international challenge, the many uncertainties surrounding this virus continue to threaten U.S. national security," Rubio said. "Our biggest priority is ensuring that sufficient safeguards are in place to limit the spread of Ebola, contain it at the source, and protect Americans."
Many health experts and officials have come out against imposing travel restrictions on the three nations that are the epicenter of the epidemic. Opponents of travel restrictions have argued isolating the countries battling the most new cases of the virus would actually worsen the situation there. President Barack Obama opposes travel restrictions, but a growing number of lawmakers have called for them.
In his statement, Rubio argued a visa ban would not result in Liberia, Guinea, and Sierra Leone being "completely" cut off.
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Then Rubio will tag this bill with his amnesty bill and walla !!! we will have 50 million more and K-street will give him more donation.
'When an Asiatic cholera epidemic reaches the U.S. in the fall, President Benjamin Harrison has his surgeon general issue an order holding that "no vessel from any foreign port carrying immigrants shall be admitted to enter any port of the United States until such vessel shall have undergone quarantine detention of twenty days, and such greater number of days as may be fixed in each special case by the State authorities."'
A link to this thread has been posted on the Ebola Surveillance Thread
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Post to me or FReep mail to be on/off the Bring Out Your Dead ping list.
The purpose of the “Bring Out Your Dead” ping list (formerly the “Ebola” ping list) is very early warning of emerging pandemics, as such it has a high false positive rate.
So far the false positive rate is 100%.
At some point we may well have a high mortality pandemic, and likely as not the “Bring Out Your Dead” threads will miss the beginning entirely.
*sigh* Such is life, and death...
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Rubio is merely continuing to pad his resume with conservative sounding PR and sound bites. Rubio damn well knows that any bill the GOP proposes may not make it to commitee, would never get out of commitee if it arrived through some fluke or by serving a hidden agenda.
Note Rubio crows about what he will do not what he has done.
A typical tactic used by the testosterone deficient GOP minority polished by McConnell giving cover to appear as conservative to the folks back home.
Rubio exposed himself on amnesty and his chief aide uncovered as a racist hispanic panderer. With this act and numerous others he’s merely trying to pull his sheep disguise over his lupine core.
S’mores for the lo-info voter to lazy to really follow the actions.
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