A Ticking Time Bomb: Diseases that Cross American Borders

RUTHERFORD INSTITUTE.COM ^ | DECEMBER 13, 2004 | JOHN W. WHITEHEAD

[EagleMamaMT]

Read later.

[TomGuy]

More problems than we realize are coming across our borders.

[Final Authority]

for later read

[Jersey Republican Biker Chick]

As I have said many, many times: A nation is never truly safe if its borders are not secure.

[kaktuskid]

A nation is never truly safe if its borders are not secure.

BULLETIN: They NEVER have been!

[tom paine 2]

Please send this story to all of your congress people. The immigration problems are turning our country into a third world s---hole.

[moehoward]

To all those who shout "Illegal Aliens are not all terrorists". I say, does it matter if they kill us with bombs, jets or disease they carry, we are just as dead from those here illegally.

[international american]

BTTT

[ijcr]

In the year 1849 By the terms of the New Passenger Act, 12 & 13 Vict., c.33, no passenger-ship is allowed to proceed until a medical practitioner appointed by the emigration office of the port shall have inspected the medicine-chest and passengers, and certified that the medicines etc are sufficient, and that the passengers are free from contagious disease.

The master, owner, or charterer of the ship is bound to pay the medical inspector the sum of £1 sterling for every 100 persons thus inspected. When the emigrant and his family have undergone this process, their passage-ticket is stamped, and they have nothing further to do, until they go on board, but to make their own private arrangements and provide themselves with outfits, or with such articles of luxury or necessity as they may desire over and above the ships allowance.

All persons who may be discovered to be affected with any infectious disease, either at the original port of embarkation or at any port in the United Kingdom into which the vessel may subsequently put, are to be re-landed, with those members of their families, if any, who may be dependent upon them, or unwilling to be separated from them, together with their clothes and effects.

Passengers re-landed are entitled to receive back their passage-money, which may be recovered from the party to whom it was paid, or from the owner, charterer, or master of the ship, by summary process, before two or more justices of the peace.

It worked in 1849 why not now? Notice there was no government officers involved.

[JustAnotherSavage]

Thanks so much for posting that bit of history. We need to learn from our history. There is an unseemly arrogance about many Americans today, as if they know so much more than all the minds of history.

[JustAnotherSavage]

Good article.

[ApesForEvolution]

Bump for later

[JustAnotherSavage]

BTT

[JustAnotherSavage]

FYI

[FBD]

thanks for the ping.
I'll post links from other illegal immigrant threads to this.

[gubamyster]

ping

[FBD]

Here's a sobering fact about the illegal immigrant crises

[radicalamericannationalist]

Just honest folks carrying diseases Americans are too lazy to catch themselves...

[TheLion]

Good post. Yes, the deseases are coming with the illegals on a scale unprecedented, while Washington and our President are asleep on watch.