Posted on 10/03/2014 3:12:14 AM PDT by markomalley
Ebola has reached our shores from Africa. Dozens of children are reportedly suffering paralysis from a deadly virus with unknown origins. Medical providers across the country have warned of a looming public health crisis as communicable diseases spread unmonitored and uncontrolled. Other countries are cracking down. But America is stuck on open-borders stupid.
The Diversity Visa (DV) program, to take just one glaring example of government insanity, is still going.
On October 1, the State Department opened the annual DV random lottery to applicants from around the world. Yes, it's completely random like a Powerball drawing. Up to 55,000 lucky winners will snag permanent residency visas (green cards), which put them on the path to American citizenship ahead of millions of other foreigners patiently waiting to come to this country.
The green card lotto winners' spouses and unmarried children under 21 all get golden tickets into the country, too, no matter where they were born.
Illegal aliens are eligible if a legal family member wins the jackpot. Applicants don't even need a high school education. No outstanding abilities, training or job skills are necessary. A handful of countries are excluded if they no longer qualify as "underrepresented." But if you come from a terror-sponsoring or terror-friendly nation — such as Iran, Syria, Sudan, North Korea and more than a dozen officially designated terror enablers on the State Department's list — no worries. Thousands from these breeding grounds for jihad will walk through our front doors.
This is what happens when bipartisan panderers in Washington get their way. The visa lottery was championed by left-wing social engineer Sen. Ted Kennedy and signed into law by President George H. W. Bush in 1990 to admit more "underrepresented" immigrant minorities into the U.S. Although originally intended to give a leg up to Irish illegal aliens who had overstayed their visas, most of the winners now hail from non-Western terror hot spots and hostile territories.
You know who else will get in? Untold numbers of "diversity" petitioners from Liberia, Sierra Leone and other West African countries where the Ebola virus is epidemic.
If you think the feds will ensure that foreign visa-seekers with communicable diseases stay out, think again. The State Department now allows applicants with HIV to apply and enter. Those who suffer from tuberculosis, leprosy or other afflictions "of public health significance" can apply for waivers.
Reports indicate that before his departure from Liberia to Texas last week, Ebola carrier Thomas Duncan lied at the airport about being in contact with someone exposed to the disease. So far, the White House refuses to impose any travel restrictions from West Africa. It's also not clear whether the U.S. has re-screened West Africans who won last year's DV game and are flying into the country now.
As I've reported for the past 12 years, enforcement and screening procedures are shoddy. The General Accounting Office deemed the DV program a national security risk in 2008, while State Department and Homeland Security officials blamed each other for reckless incompetence.
"Consular officers at six of the posts reviewed — Accra (Ghana), Addis Ababa (Ethiopia), Dhaka (Bangladesh), Kathmandu (Nepal), Lagos (Nigeria) and Warsaw (Poland) — reported that the availability of fake documents, or genuine documents with false information, such as birth certificates, marriage certificates, and passports, presented significant challenges when verifying DV applicants' identities and the relationship between the principle DV applicants and their spouse and dependents," the GAO reported.
The Diversity Visa lottery program is a public health hazard and a national security risk that leaves our safety to random chance. But pleas to curtail or end the program since the 9/11 attacks have fallen on deaf ears.
In the wake of the Ebola scare (not to mention renewed jihadi threats from abroad), worried Americans are heading to the drugstore to stock up on facemasks, hand sanitizer and gloves. New vaccines are in the works for emerging global contagions.
Unfortunately, there is no antidote for our government's blind and deadly diversity worship. Political correctness is a plague on us all.
Unfortunately, there is no antidote for our government's blind and deadly diversity worship.Oh yes there is, but the cure may be worse than the disease.
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 ...
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NOTEWORTHY: It has been verified that the border-jumpers, emanating from 144 antediluvian disease-ridden countries, are carriers of TB, Ebola,Chikungunya, Dengue fever, Norovirus. Hantavirus, Swine flu, Varicella. Variola, E-coli.......and childhood diseases America stamped out years ago.
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.
No, we can’t end it. We have this lottery in the first place, to prove how liberal we are.
If we did away with it, liberals would howl how we are turning back the clock and all that. Liberals have decided that diversity is a good thing in all situations, thus, we are incapable of revisiting a policy such as this. Just won’t happen.
The vote-crazed ding-a-long will say anything to get votes.......slapping down America seems is his last resort as he faces a midterm deluge.
MIDTERMS ON HIS VOTE-CRAZED MIND "America is not Congress," he says.....when he managed to unglue his mouth from latino rears---at a soiree of caged illegals.
Oh really? Does this "constitutional scholar" understand how "govt of the people" works---that actual people elect reps to go to Congress to represent them?
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Obama told latinos "no force on earth can stop us."
"If I were you, I would not put real money on that, el president."
We’re diverse enough, thanks. Stay in your hell-hole.
The GOPe will make political issue of this self destructive policy any minute now.
Diversity is a despicable word that is used to inflict guilt and shame in those who are shown to be against it or question it when it is used with ethnicity, illegal immigrants, the color of your skin or now in this case disease stricken foreignors who make thier way to this country unimpeded. The American family and way of life is being attacked deliberately by this new program as well as the many before by inside and outside forces. They want to dilute or render the majority which is white anglo saxon christians into a lesser minority or fade it out completely.my view
'nuff said!
Is that Whoopie Gberg under that machete blade?
The 'cure' is to vote the "American Hating Democrats" out of office - now and forever...
You have more faith in a FedGov under the GOP, than I do, especially when it comes to sensibly fixing immigration policy. The last big immigration blowup in Congress was led by George Bush and John McCain.
Without a doubt the WORST aspect of our immigration law, and one desperately in need of reform.
An engineer with his PhD from India could spend 7-10 years in process trying to get his green card, and in the end, still might not get approved.
Meanwhile a goat herder from Yemen with terrorist sympathies can walk up to our embassy, toss his name in a hat, and may win.
All the handiwork of Teddy the Swimmer, BTW.
Let's remember that.
But you're right... we have some in the Republican party who want to see themselves as 'heroes of the third world'... They're the same folks on our side who want to give away the treasure of the United States so people will be 'grateful' to them personally. They use ideas to make themselves look good - puff themselves up. BUT HERE'S THE GOOD THING - WE ONLY HAVE A FEW... WITH DEMOCRATS IT'S EVERY ONE OF 'EM...
Trump just announced he’s ending the diversity lottery program!
Winning!!
Trump ain’t fooling around and heading the issues head on....thank God he is POTUS!!
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