Posted on 10/03/2014 7:41:54 PM PDT by markomalley
The Center for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) has issued a level three warning for US citizens to avoid traveling to West African countries experiencing an outbreak of Ebola.
Immigrants from West African countries have entered the US illegally, according to Chris Cabrera with the National Border Patrol Council.
"Not too long ago we did catch some people, I believe, from Liberia," he said.
During the 2013 fiscal year, statistics from the U.S. Department of Homeland Security website show Border Patrol agents apprehended 112 immigrants from Guinea, 231 from Liberia and 145 immigrants from Sierra Leone, which are the three countries currently experiencing the most cases of Ebola.
"Our main concern like it’s always been is the health and safety of our agents," Cabrera said.
He worries agents are not properly protected in the event they come across an immigrant with the Ebola virus.
"Our agents are trained, however, they are not medical professionals," he said.
If an immigrant with the virus does make it past agents, he worries they could possibly pass the contagious virus to other immigrants while in a stash house like they saw recently during a scabies outbreak.
"Some of our agents did contract scabies, and some of the other things that illegal aliens had. Luckily it's not something deadly like Ebola," Cabrera said.
Customs and Border Protection (CBP) confirms agents are trained to recognize signs of illnesses, including Ebola, and are told to contact to the CDC immediately if they find someone they believe to be infected.
The union worries immigrants with the disease may slip by because sometimes symptoms of the virus do not show up for 2-21 days.
"We need to be more pro-active about trying to prevent it from coming in as opposed to trying to contain it once its hear," Cabrera told Action 4 News.
CBP is working with the CDC to develop procedures to identify travelers and immigrants with contagious diseases.
While that is true, remember this-
The virus cares not a whit about newspapers or webpages. It's only goal is to kill. If we don't intelligently protect ourselves, it will mindlessly kill us.
This is true of any of the viruses infesting our nation.
Oh, by the way, here's a map you might be interested in.
Now CDC and UN are saying that it’s probably airborne.
Think about it.
People are getting it even without coming into contact with body fluids.
It’s in air droplets.....spreading just like influenza virus.
Makes one wonder... if obamacare didn't pass, would we be discussing ebola today?
A link to this thread has been posted on the Ebola Surveillance Thread
And how many of them will come forward if they get sick?
Simple solution: Put the illegals in the back of the limo and keep the partition up as they drive them into the country.
I’m sure you have a study, or an official confirmation, or a stack of documents which are not biased and back up that assertion completely.
What happens if there is an ebola outbreak in Mexico and Central America? An open southern border could doom us.
Politico initially reported in August of 2009 that the Obama administration examined Bush administration 2005 quarantine regulations, which were criticized by civil liberty advocates.
In April 2010, Politico reported the administration “quietly dumped quarantine rules that would have required air passengers to submit more information to airlines and strengthened the government's authority to detain travelers suspected of carrying disease.” (Excerpt) Read more at breitbart.com ...
Yup....
Carriers of TB, Ebola, Chikungunya, Dengue fever, Norovirus. Hantavirus, Swine flu, Varicella. Variola, E-coli.......and carriers of childhood diseases America stamped out years ago.......are all here in our communitities, in our schools, in our stores and restaurants....handling our food and merchandise
The Obama admin has kept secret:
<><> medical conditions of minors transported to US schools....
<><> contagion status of contaminated Border-holding facilities;
<><> contagion status of contaminated public transportation used to relocate minors.......
<><> dangers to Americans from contaminated illegals in the marketplace, handling our food, merchandise.
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Obama appointee---Leon Rodrigues at USCIS (a DHS agency)----has been rubber-stamping undesirables from 144 countries into the US. Rodrigues also over sees EB-5 visas. Under Rodrigues' purview---EB-5's are said to involve major threats to US national security:
ARE MEXICAN DRUG CARTELS-ISIS-CONTAGIOUS FROEIGNERS BUYING US CITIZENSHIP--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.
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 ...
And those are just the ones they know about.
“Obama welcomes All Diseases”.
Obama IS a disease!
When is Mexico going to experience her first Ebola case and will the news be suppressed to prevent more vocal demands that the Southern border be closed?
Thanks for the ping!
You’re Welcome, Alamo-Girl!
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