RE: if the US institutes travel restrictions, they will come anyway but most likely illegally over the border and we won’t be able to track them.
Did he explain how an ebola infected person from Liberia without a US visa can come to the USA or even Mexico?
Actually, the best rebuttal I have seen of this is from Chertoff’s WP opinion piece. He made the point that most illegal immigration over the border is handled by smugglers. Those smugglers are very unlikely to want to transport those who they suspect to be ill— it would ruin their very lucrative business.
What I do wonder about is what would happen if there were an Ebola outbreak in Central America. As a recent American general said, this would cause a massive exodus of people flowing into the US — and would be very hard to stop.
Obama’s solution is to let the US be the magnet — because he is so very certain that we can treat however many infected people end up here.