Posted on 10/16/2014 6:52:08 AM PDT by Liz
Despite the outbreak of Ebola, it is still possible to get a visa from the three West African countries at the heart of the outbreak, and a key congressman is demanding to know why.
Rep. Ed Royce, Republican-Calif, chairman of the House Foreign Relations Committee, sent a sternly worded letter to Secretary of State John Kerry about the Obama administration’s handling of the Ebola epidemic in Guinea, Liberia and Sierra Leone. Royce said he was “deeply concerned” U.S. embassies in those countries were continuing to process visas for non-U.S. nationals despite the outbreak of the deadly disease.
An estimated 100 people per day are applying for U.S. visas at the three embassies, according to Royce. “Of course,” he added, “once these individuals are issued a visa by the embassy, they are free to travel to the United States.”
Royce urged Kerry to contain the Ebola virus “at its source” in Africa before any additional cases reach the United States.
“I was surprised that the Department of State has not already exercised its authority to suspend consular services, which is standard procedure in countries experiencing a major security disruption,” Royce wrote to Kerry. “This would be a prudent measure to mitigate the risk of Ebola exposure and contain its spread—a bedrock principal (sic) of health crisis management.”
Royce recommended the State Department stop issuing visas for non-U.S. nationals in Guinea, Liberia and Sierra Leone as a “containment measure that may help mitigate the risk of further translocation to the United States.”
Great job!
As Ann Coulter points out in her recent piece.
http://www.anncoulter.com/columns/2014-10-15.html
“At the moment, more than 13,000 West Africans have travel visas to come to the U.S. Having just seen an Ebola-infected Liberian get $500,000 worth of free medical treatment in the U.S., the first thing any African who might have Ebola should do is get himself to America.
Of all the reasons people have for coming here — welfare, drug-dealing, Medicare scams — “I have Ebola and I’m going to die, otherwise” is surely one of the strongest. The entire continent of Africa now knows that this is a country that will happily spend half a million dollars on treating someone who just arrived — and then berate itself for not doing enough.”
What is the going rate for the bribes, I wonder.
Lastly, as a matter of national security and health, find those, even if by single Americans alone and ....
I shut my mouth.
A link to this thread has been posted on the Ebola Surveillance Thread
All very good things to halt this
Here’s something hardly being deliberated:
Can we expect ALL male ebola survivors from Africa to be honorable?
Since male ebola survivors are carriers for up to 80 days ...
Male Ebola survivors told: Use a condom [Reuters]
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/3212396/posts
Do male ebola survivors get VISAs? Are they even instructed to use condoms at US airports? With the power to spread ‘random’ ebola outbreaks [via unprotected affairs], would you trust this policy with our nation’s daughters? Or should male ebola survivors have 80 day quarantines before given their ‘VISAs’? [aka illegal immigration passes]
And are condoms enough protection from a new cluster-’bomb’? Not just the promiscuous woman will be infected. Before she even realizes that she has a fever, God only knows what contact she will have. There’s a window of floundering confusion with every new victim.
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