Posted on 10/10/2014 5:51:14 PM PDT by Tolerance Sucks Rocks
The military’s top official responsible for Latin America says he’s concerned illegal immigrants from West Africa could already be sneaking across the porous southern border carrying Ebola, adding a new potential danger the White House will have to grapple with.
Already, lawmakers on Capitol Hill have panned President Obama’s new proposal to start taking the temperature of passengers arriving from West Africa at five U.S. airports.
The bipartisan group of congressmen told Mr. Obama to issue a full-blown travel ban prohibiting citizens of affected countries from entering the U.S., and imposing a quarantine on any travelers who arrive from West Africa.
But legal channels may not be the only vulnerability. Marine Corps Gen. John F. Kelly, commander of U.S. Southern Command, said he was in Costa Rica last week and encountered an embassy employee who’d run across a handful of Liberian men preparing to be smuggled into the U.S. as illegal immigrants.
“Anything can ride on the network,” Gen. Kelly said this week at the National Defense University in Washington.
He said the danger is two-fold: Not only might illegal immigrants from Africa enter the U.S. unchecked, but if Ebola spreads to Central America it could spark a new wave of illegal immigration to the U.S. that would make this summer’s surge “look like a small problem.”
(Excerpt) Read more at washingtontimes.com ...
PING!
boy do I detest the weak kneed nancy boys who refuse to shut bot the borders and the flow of ANYBODSY form the african continent off ....for the immediate future...
Gen. Kelly will not be looked upon favorably by 0bama and his lapdogs that have been saying it’s no big deal.
Chalk up another general on his way out the door.
øbola very satisfied.
Ebola has now worked its way into the third world countries south of the border. Expect the Kenyan to tell everybody that it is okay to seek refuge in America. America is now the refugee camp to the world. Thanks low information voters! You idiots!
If it does, we need to ship the patients up to Washington DC.
AFAIK, It’s a long trip to travel to go from Africa to Latin America, and when you have the ebola virus, you have a limited time frame of days, before you get sick enough to show the fever, then a short time before you are dead. However, people are going to run to America, with many potential diseases. With them, especially vaccine and antibiotic resistant germs. No restrictions or registration process, drasrically ups the risk.
“Al Arabiya: Experts warn of ‘Ebola suicide bombers’”
If they’re issuing warnings, you can bet it’s already being planned. It crossed my mind this morning - wouldn’t put it past some muslim over there intentionally infecting him/herself with this crap, then coming over here and blowing themselves up in a crowded shopping mall. Double whammy. If the explosion doesn’t get you, the bodily fluids will.
ourr so called news media.....must be bleeding internally,,.. keeping all this mess hidden...
Yes, the obola patients need to be cared for in the sanctuary cities.
Ebola Surveillance Thread
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/chat/3191066/posts
I don’t know why the commercial airlines are still flying to those countries. That is they have not self-imposed a ban on travel there. Is there that much money to be made in flights from those passengers?
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...
"Is there that much money to be made in flights from those passengers?"-netguideIt appears Canadian expats residing in the affected Western African nations are now on notice: CBCNews: Canadians in 3 West African countries advised to leave
The federal government issued a travel advisory Friday aimed at 216 Canadians who live in Guinea, Liberia, and Sierra Leone.
"Today we are asking Canadians living in Sierra Leone, Guinea and Liberia to consider leaving by commercial means while they are still available," Ambrosa said in Edmonton Friday.
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