Posted on 10/20/2014 5:52:49 AM PDT by bestintxas
In an interview yesterday with CNN's Candy Crowley, Senator Ted Cruz made numerous points about Ebola, speaking like a true leader, brushing off her snark.
He advocated for common sense measures including a temporary freeze on visas from West African nations where Ebola is raging and for stopping all commercial air travel from those countries until the disease is under control.
Cruz also shined a light on an issue less often discussed, which is the disaster that would unfold here in America if Ebola were to take hold in Central and South America. If such a scenario were to develop, people would be fleeing these regions in droves, crossing our border.
Everyone in the GOP needs to be hammering away on this point. (Would that they hammered away on anything.)
If you can stomach Crowley, the entire 18-minute interview is worth a listen.
(Excerpt) Read more at americanthinker.com ...
Ted Cruz is Winston Churchill in 1938. But it won’t take two years for his predictions to come true.
EXCERPT--Regarding actions you are planning that you believe would comply with the Constitution, the least the Administration can do is give Americans the opportunity to see the recommendations that you are considering before you take any actions, said the letter, which was signed by House Judiciary Committee Chairman Rep. Bob Goodlatte, Rep. Trey Gowdy, Rep. Lamar Smith, Rep. Steve King, Rep. Louie Gohmert and Rep. Jim Jordan.
Whether its now or November, it is never acceptable for the Executive Branch to ignore the Constitution and unilaterally give amnesty to unlawful immigrants, said the letter.
We therefore ask that you immediately release to the public all the recommendations that you have received for administrative action from Secretary Johnson, from Attorney General Holder, and from the interest groups with whom you and your Administration have met. And we ask that you continue to release additional recommendations as you receive them.
"This could go some way toward repairing the damage to the American political process caused by the secrecy with which your Administration has considered changes to our immigration system.
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ANALYSIS The letter was directed to Obama---but it is intended to reach the hearts and minds of midterm voters. As midterms loom, nervous Democrats contemplate life without a wealth-producing Congressional seat.
Now is a good time for Americans to demand their government and its legislators escape the Third World stranglehold burdening us. America belongs to its lawful citizens---not a bunch of greedy criminal invaders salivating to board the US gravy train.
ACTION ALERT: USCIS is headed by Obama appointee---Leon Rodrigues--Obama's errand boy. Rodrigues is rubber-stamping undesirables from 144 countries into the US....including those from contagion-ridden Central America and Ebola-stricken countries. During FY 2013, the DHS website showed US Border Patrol agents apprehended 112 immigrants from Guinea, 231 from Liberia and 145 immigrants from Sierra Leone,----three countries currently experiencing the most cases of Ebola.
SIGNIFICANTLY USCIS Rodrigues also oversees EB-5 visas. Under Rodrigues' purview---EB-5's are said to involve major threats to US national security:
ARE OBAMA/RODRIGUES SELLING US CITIZENSHIP TO (a) MEXICAN DRUG CARTELS-(b) ISIS TERRORISTS---(c) CONTAGIOUS ALIENS ?--
In an earlier statement, Sen Charles Grassley (REPUB--IOWA) said ICE identified key vulnerabilities in EB-5 visas
1) Export of sensitive technology/economic espionage.
2) Use by foreign government agents/espionage.
3) Use by terrorists.
4) Investment fraud by regional center.
5) Investment fraud by investors.
6) Fraud conspiracies by investors and regional center.
7) Illicit finance/money laundering.
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Rodriguez's confirmation hearings revealed he was a board member of Casa Maryland---a latino-centric advocacy group---pushing for unlimited immigration, and has connections to nationwide immigrant groups.
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ACTION--CONTACT FBI TIPS PAGE WEB SITE---YOU MAY REMAIN ANONYMOUS---https://tips.fbi.gov
<><> Taxpayers demand Rodriguez, USCIS, the Congressional Hispanic Caucus, La Raza, and other tax-funded latino groups, be investigated. Supboena official filings, phone records, emails, snail mail copies, hard drives, bank accounts, checking accounts, credit cards, debit cards, wire transfers, social media contacts, and the like.
<><> Taxpayers demand to know if tax-paid Leon Rodriguez, and the aforementioned tax-funded groups, (1) are consorting with violent organizations advocating the overthrow of the US govt, (2) and/or are paid agents of foreign governments.
<><> TAXPAYERS demand to know who these people are communicating with, and who is directing their activities.
INVESTORS BUSINESS DAILY.COM REPORTED Secretary of State John Kerry warned of a new surge of illegals, just as Central America is being hit by a new wave of epidemics. No doubt about it: President Obama's open-borders policy is exposing us to disease, too.
In a background press briefing at the U.N. last Tuesday, a senior State Department official said Secretary of State John Kerry told his counterparts from Guatemala, Honduras, El Salvador and Mexico that the pause in minors coming across our southern border was temporary, and that "we have to use this time to put in place more efforts, greater efforts to get at the root cause of this, because we know that those numbers may rise again."
The next wave may be worse than the first, however, because monsoon conditions, a harsh drought and the globalization of transport are ensuring that the 50,000 or so unscreened new entrants will be bringing a raft of new diseases with them.
Though little reported, the Caribbean is on high alert for the spread of chikungunya, known as "the virus of pain." Its Tanzanian-origin Bantu name means "to contort," describing the agony it leaves in joints for years. Some 183,000 cases were detected in the region this year as it spreads from the same mosquitoes that transmit dengue and yellow fever. Central America, according to a report in El Pais, is the epicenter. Puerto Rico has reported 2,000 cases and three deaths.
But the disease has worked its way up to the U.S.; Texas and Florida reported victims who have already contracted it without traveling to the affected regions. (Excerpt) Read more at news.investors.com ...
The whole problem is we have a POTUS who does whatever the hell he wants and nobody does anything about it. I was just talking about this in another thread, I have a friend who works in Washington and he told me the problem is Obummer never ever listens to ANYBODY, especially the military, he does whatever the hell he wants and considering his experience it’s like giving the keys to the Kingdom to a little kid who lives in fantasyland. If Republicans take the Senate, we HAVE to get on their ass night and day until they impeach this punk ASAP because after the election he’s going to go into overdrive to achieve his “fundamental transformation” which as we have seen is based on utter lunacy. If Republicans have the Senate they will have absolute no excuse then, just constantly pressure the piss out of them, this guy is completely out of control and I praying this election turns out good.
Ted Cruz is a guy who gets things.
America needs someone in leadership, who gets things.
Yeah, well the last elections resulted in a “conservative” majority in the House. Wasn’t that repeal of obamacare wonderful?
Senator Cruz made a total hash of the disgusting Crowley's idiotic and Obama administration approved list of 'gotcha' questions.
A link to this thread has been posted on the Ebola Surveillance Thread
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