Thread: Patient Zero (Ebola and Immigration Standards)

http://american-rattlesnake.org/2014/10/patient-zero/

As Jessica Vaughan of the Center for Immigration Studies points out, there were many reasons why Thomas Eric Duncanshould never have been allowed to enter the United States. It turns out that the simple, prophylactic measures which ensure the fiscal and cultural vibrancy of this country-or which used to do so, at any rate-also have immense public health benefits, e.g. preventing the diffusion of an incredibly fatal pandemic. The fact that lax customs and border procedures have endangered American citizens should come as no surprise to those of us who have been following the epidemiological nightmare which has emerged from this administration’s embrace of the thousands of unaccompanied minors streaming into our country from Central America, via Mexico.
However, I’d like to briefly explore the way in which this case illustrates the fundamental divide that lies at the heart of immigration to the West from the third world. Namely, the desires of those who are mired in poverty-and in this case, who are forced to rely upon parlous healthcare distribution networks-versus the needs of those who are living in developed nations such as the United States and United Kingdom. Leaving aside the dubious ethicality of traveling abroad with the knowledge that you’ve contracted the ebola virus, seeking treatment at first-class medical facilities in the United States made perfect sense to Mr. Duncan as a matter of self-interest and survival, especially when he contemplated the alternative...

Now it has been reported that Liberia wants Duncan back to prosecute him for lying on his boarding info questionnaire about not having been in contact with Ebola ill persons. We will likely give him refugee status rather than send him back.

With 310+million people in the USA we're long over due for better control of our borders and who we allow in with visas, this current Ebola crisis clearly shows our government is doing a poor job at homeland security.