MOOSERIDER magazine: Now is not soon enough! Ban Travel from Liberia, Sierra Leone, and Guinea

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Thursday, October 2, 2014

Now is not soon enough! Ban Travel from Liberia, Sierra Leone, and Guinea

Also ban travel from Mexico and Central America! m/r Microbes are as deadly as Muslim Terrorists, but not as insidious. m/r

Ban Travel from Liberia, Sierra Leone, and Guinea—Now | National Review Online

By Mark Krikorian

October 1, 2014

Why is anyone from Liberia, Sierra Leone, or Guinea — the source of the Ebola outbreak — being permitted to enter the United States?

The Liberian Ebola victim in Dallas seems to have used a visitor visa to travel here “to visit family members.” The idea that we allow people from those countries to board planes for the U.S. so long as they don’t have a fever is absurd. There are more than 13,000 people from those three countries with visas to enter the U.S. Here’s a list of African countries with travel restrictions on Ebola-affected countries — what’s our problem?

I’ll tell you our problem: Much of our political class is simply uncomfortable with the idea that border and immigration controls should be used vigorously and unapologetically to protect Americans. You can hear the objections now: It would be xenophobic, it might stigmatize West Africans, those countries will object to our State Department that they’re being discriminated against.

The Dallas paper headlined a story today “Ebola’s arrival in U.S. was inevitable, experts say,” …

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