Thread: Obama team mulls new quarantine regulations

Obama team mulls new quarantine regulations

By JOSH GERSTEIN | 8/5/09 4:12 AM EDT

The Obama administration is quietly dusting off an effort to impose new federal quarantine regulations, which were vigorously resisted by civil liberties organizations and the airline industry when the rules were first proposed by the Bush administration nearly four years ago.

White House officials aren’t saying what their rules might ultimately require. But the previous administration proposed giving the federal government the authority to order a “provisional quarantineâ€

Obama team mulls new quarantine regulations

What's the real reason behind this facade?

[quote="ELE"]Obama team mulls new quarantine regulations

What's the real reason behind this facade?[/quote]





Exactly.

They allow how many illegal aliens to come, and remain, in this country every year bringing and spreading how many communicable diseases......yet they want to quarrantine for flu?

They are dropping restrictions on legal immigrants suffering from communicable diseases entering the US, but we need quarrantine restrictions for a comparatively minor illness which the vast majority of the population never catches, let alone dies from?

Yeah.....they make a lot of sense.

[quote]“The proposals to limit liberty represent a dangerous precedent to constitutional theory, particularly when there’s almost no evidence it will matter. ... It wouldn’t surprise me if they try to sneak this past in August, when people are away.â€