Ebola is here.

[3MTA3]

Anybody who thinks this is just due to incompetence:

http://www.breitbart.com/Breitbart-...isa-Extensions-From-Ebola-Countries-in-August

AUSTIN, Texas -- As Ebola continued to ravage communities in West Africa this summer, U.S. Citizenship and Immigration Services (USCIS), a division under the Department of Homeland Security (DHS) announced "immigration relief measures" for citizens of three countries affected by the deadly virus.

The relief measures, announced on the USCIS website as "Ebola Outbreak-related Immigration Relief Measures to Nationals of Guinea, Liberia and Sierra Leone Currently in the United States," on August 15, 2014, include the following:

• Change or extension of nonimmigrant status for an individual currently in the United States, even if the request is filed after the authorized period of admission has expired;
• Extension of certain grants of parole made by USCIS;
• Expedited adjudication and approval, where possible, of requests for off-campus employment authorization for F-1 students experiencing severe economic hardship;
• Expedited processing of immigrant petitions for immediate relatives (currently in the United States) of U.S. citizens;
• Expedited adjudication of employment authorization applications, where appropriate; and
• Consideration for waiver of fees associated with USCIS benefit applications.

In short, the USCIS has been waiving fees, expediting the immigration process, and allowing extensions of visas for anyone coming from the three designated Ebola-stricken countries, provided that they are in the United States. The Free Republic blog reported that the law firm of Edward W. Neufville, III, LLC, a Washington, D.C. area immigration firm, added a section to their website two days after the USCIS announcement, with more details about how these relief measures would work, including extensions of the time that the foreign national could remain in the United States, additional work permit opportunities, and even forgiveness for failure to appear at required interviews or submit required evidence. According to the Neufville firm, the new USCIS policies mean that "ndividuals from Liberia, Sierra Leone, and Guinea currently in the United States may apply for an extension or change in status due to the Ebola Outbreak, even if their request is filed after the authorized period of admission has expired." Otherwise stated, this means that someone from one of those countries who illegally overstayed their visa can now apply for an extension, or someone who arrived illegally can apply to get legal status.

Thomas Eric Duncan, the Liberian man who died from Ebola earlier this month, had traveled to the United States after his visa was approved in August, the same month that USCIS announced the new relief measures. One of the concerns many have had about the Ebola crisis is the lure those in the affected countries would -- quite understandably -- feel toward the advanced sanitation standards and medical care available in American hospitals, similar to how open borders, social services, and in-state tuition have been criticized as creating "magnets" for immigrants to illegally cross the U.S. - Mexican border. These specific USCIS policies do not apply to those who are not yet in the United States and are seeking a visa to leave Guinea, Liberia, or Sierra Leone, but the more generous rules that await them once they arrive likely create further incentives for them to attempt to travel here.

According to the Washington Post, the number of visas issued to Liberians by the United States has spiked, with about 3,500 visitor visas granted to Liberians last year, and another 10,000 granted to people from Guinea and Sierra Leone during that same time period. The Post also reported that Liberians also have a very high rate of "visa overstays,"the fifth highest after Cuba, Burundi, Eritrea and the Democratic Republic of Congo, according to immigration expert Jessica Vaughn with the Center for Immigration Studies. Vaughn has sharply criticized the Obama administration's immigration policies regarding Ebola, noting that Kenya and other African countries have closed their borders to any travelers from Ebola-afflicted areas.


<broken link removed> more details Thursday about efforts in Africa to halt the spread of Ebola, including how Senegal and Nigeria successfully isolated Ebola patients and imposed travel restrictions so as to eliminate the disease in their countries, with no new cases since August. Ivory Coast, Guinea-Bissau, and Senegal, which share a border with at least one of the three Ebola-afflicted countries covered in the new USCIS policies, have all closed the borders that they share with these nations. In addition to Kenya, South Africa, Zambia, Ethiopia, and Zimbabwe have imposed a variety of travel restrictions, airport screening procedures, and quarantine rules.
So far, despite rising outcry as each new Ebola case has been announced, the Obama administration has been unwilling to impose travel restrictions from the Ebola-affected countries.
[Hat tip: Doug Ross, DirectorBlue]

Follow Sarah Rumpf on Twitter @rumpfshaker.

 

[3MTA3]

 

[U201491]

The Pentagon is now the latest place to suffer from an Ebola scare.
Arlington News reports that a woman began vomiting while on a tour bus at the Pentagon. Pentagon Force Protection Agency spokesman Chris Layman told Arlington News that Arlington County's hazmat team was called out when they learned that the woman was recently in Africa.
The hazmat team was called out of "a complete abundance of caution," Layman told Arlington News.
According to Arlington News, a portion of the Pentagon South parking lot has been cordoned off and that police are telling non-Pentagon employees to avoid the surrounding area.
The woman has been transported to Virginia Hospital Center.
Dallas Nurse: 'Come Party in Md.' | More News
This scare comes as Obama administration officials said a Dallas health care worker who handled a lab specimen from a Liberian man who died from Ebola is self-quarantined on a Caribbean cruise ship and is being monitored for infection.
State Department spokeswoman Jen Psaki said in a statement Friday that the woman had shown no signs of the disease and has been asymptomatic for 19 days.
The government is working to return the woman and her husband to the U.S. before the ship, the Carnival Magic, completes its cruise. The White House said the State Department was working to secure their transportation home.
An administration official who was not authorized to be named and requested anonymity said the cruise ship had stopped in Belize but officials there would not allow the passenger to leave the vessel.
Psaki said that when the woman left the U.S. on the cruise ship from Galveston, Texas, on Oct. 12 health officials were requiring only self-monitoring.
75 Hospital Workers on No-Fly List | More News
One official said it's believed the woman poses no risk but health-care authorities want to get her off the cruise ship and back to the United States out of an abundance of caution.
There have been no restrictions placed on other passengers aboard the ship.
Carnival Cruise Lines said in a statement that the woman, a lab supervisor, remained in isolation "and is not deemed to be a risk to any guests or crew."
"We are in close contact with the CDC and at this time it has been determined that the appropriate course of action is to simply keep the guest in isolation on board," the statement said. The CDC is the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention.

(In Response Obola appoints a Lawyer as Ebola Czar)

How many people on that ship did she come into contact before she reported her symptoms. This is precisely how epidemics get started. It will take 42 days now to tell how many more...................
if any on that ship. You can bet the King Obama won't make that ship stay out of port till the end of that incubation period. Too good of an opportunity for him to spread it around more.

 

[erudne]

Anybody who thinks this is just due to incompetence:

http://www.breitbart.com/Breitbart-...isa-Extensions-From-Ebola-Countries-in-August

AUSTIN, Texas -- As Ebola continued to ravage communities in West Africa this summer, U.S. Citizenship and Immigration Services (USCIS), a division under the Department of Homeland Security (DHS) announced "immigration relief measures" for citizens of three countries affected by the deadly virus.

The relief measures, announced on the USCIS website as "Ebola Outbreak-related Immigration Relief Measures to Nationals of Guinea, Liberia and Sierra Leone Currently in the United States," on August 15, 2014, include the following:

• Change or extension of nonimmigrant status for an individual currently in the United States, even if the request is filed after the authorized period of admission has expired;
• Extension of certain grants of parole made by USCIS;
• Expedited adjudication and approval, where possible, of requests for off-campus employment authorization for F-1 students experiencing severe economic hardship;
• Expedited processing of immigrant petitions for immediate relatives (currently in the United States) of U.S. citizens;
• Expedited adjudication of employment authorization applications, where appropriate; and
• Consideration for waiver of fees associated with USCIS benefit applications.

In short, the USCIS has been waiving fees, expediting the immigration process, and allowing extensions of visas for anyone coming from the three designated Ebola-stricken countries, provided that they are in the United States. The Free Republic blog reported that the law firm of Edward W. Neufville, III, LLC, a Washington, D.C. area immigration firm, added a section to their website two days after the USCIS announcement, with more details about how these relief measures would work, including extensions of the time that the foreign national could remain in the United States, additional work permit opportunities, and even forgiveness for failure to appear at required interviews or submit required evidence. According to the Neufville firm, the new USCIS policies mean that "ndividuals from Liberia, Sierra Leone, and Guinea currently in the United States may apply for an extension or change in status due to the Ebola Outbreak, even if their request is filed after the authorized period of admission has expired." Otherwise stated, this means that someone from one of those countries who illegally overstayed their visa can now apply for an extension, or someone who arrived illegally can apply to get legal status.

Thomas Eric Duncan, the Liberian man who died from Ebola earlier this month, had traveled to the United States after his visa was approved in August, the same month that USCIS announced the new relief measures. One of the concerns many have had about the Ebola crisis is the lure those in the affected countries would -- quite understandably -- feel toward the advanced sanitation standards and medical care available in American hospitals, similar to how open borders, social services, and in-state tuition have been criticized as creating "magnets" for immigrants to illegally cross the U.S. - Mexican border. These specific USCIS policies do not apply to those who are not yet in the United States and are seeking a visa to leave Guinea, Liberia, or Sierra Leone, but the more generous rules that await them once they arrive likely create further incentives for them to attempt to travel here.

According to the Washington Post, the number of visas issued to Liberians by the United States has spiked, with about 3,500 visitor visas granted to Liberians last year, and another 10,000 granted to people from Guinea and Sierra Leone during that same time period. The Post also reported that Liberians also have a very high rate of "visa overstays,"the fifth highest after Cuba, Burundi, Eritrea and the Democratic Republic of Congo, according to immigration expert Jessica Vaughn with the Center for Immigration Studies. Vaughn has sharply criticized the Obama administration's immigration policies regarding Ebola, noting that Kenya and other African countries have closed their borders to any travelers from Ebola-afflicted areas.


<broken link removed> more details Thursday about efforts in Africa to halt the spread of Ebola, including how Senegal and Nigeria successfully isolated Ebola patients and imposed travel restrictions so as to eliminate the disease in their countries, with no new cases since August. Ivory Coast, Guinea-Bissau, and Senegal, which share a border with at least one of the three Ebola-afflicted countries covered in the new USCIS policies, have all closed the borders that they share with these nations. In addition to Kenya, South Africa, Zambia, Ethiopia, and Zimbabwe have imposed a variety of travel restrictions, airport screening procedures, and quarantine rules.
So far, despite rising outcry as each new Ebola case has been announced, the Obama administration has been unwilling to impose travel restrictions from the Ebola-affected countries.
[Hat tip: Doug Ross, DirectorBlue]

Follow Sarah Rumpf on Twitter @rumpfshaker.

 

[erudne]

From the information I've read, the timetable is something like this:
3-10 days ... normal amount of time for symptoms to appear
21 days ... 95% of infected people show symptoms
42 days ... 98% of infected people show symptoms
90+ days ... infection can be passed in semen (and, I assume, vaginal fluids)

SWEET DREAMS

 

[U201491]

From the information I've read, the timetable is something like this:
3-10 days ... normal amount of time for symptoms to appear
21 days ... 95% of infected people show symptoms
42 days ... 98% of infected people show symptoms
90+ days ... infection can be passed in semen (and, I assume, vaginal fluids)

SWEET DREAMS
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The real zombies...........

 

[erudne]

From the information I've read, the timetable is something like this:
3-10 days ... normal amount of time for symptoms to appear
21 days ... 95% of infected people show symptoms
42 days ... 98% of infected people show symptoms
90+ days ... infection can be passed in semen (and, I assume, vaginal fluids)


Well that would ruin my sex life!
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[erudne]

Carnival Magic Cruise Ship Denied Port Entry In Mexico – Ship Returning To Galveston Texas….
Posted on October 17, 2014 by sundance
Trying to cut through the fog and chatter it appears the Carnival Magic cruise ship has been denied entry to Mexico.

….And therein lies the reason for governmental obfuscation and media avoidance of the entire episode.
The political risk is obvious.
Both Belize, and now Mexico, have denied entry for a U.S. cruise ship carrying a healthcare worker who treated Patient Zero Thomas Duncan – yet U.S. President Obama refuses to shut down inbound air passengers from West Africa

 

[erudne]

REPORT: President Obama Planning To Bring Ebola Stricken Foreign Nationals To U.S. For Treatment…
Posted on October 17, 2014 by sundance
If this is accurate it would explain why no travel ban is being considered.
Washington, DC – Judicial Watch has learned that the Obama administration is actively formulating plans to admit Ebola-infected non-U.S. citizens into the United States for treatment. Specifically, the goal of the administration is to bring Ebola patients into the United States for treatment within the first days of diagnosis.
It is unclear who would bear the high costs of transporting and treating non-citizen Ebola patients. The plans include special waivers of laws and regulations that ban the admission of non-citizens with a communicable disease as dangerous as Ebola. Continue reading →

 

[U201491]

Obama fast-tracks Ebola-zone visas to U.S.

http://mobile.wnd.com/2014/10/obama-fast-tracks-ebola-zone-visas-to-u-s/

Amid the spread of Ebola in the U.S. from a 42-year-old Liberian who died after arriving in Dallas from his disease-stricken nation on a commercial airliner through a routine visa process, outrage is growing that President Obama has not shut down travel from West Africa.
Rep. Edward Royce, R-Calif., the chairman of the House Committee on Foreign Affairs, expressed "deep concern" in a letter to Secretary of State John Kerry that visas were still being issued to nationals from the three most affected countries, Guinea, Liberia and Sierra Leone.
"It is my understanding that approximately 100 applicants for visas are visiting these three U.S. Embassies each day. Of course, once these individuals are issued a visa by the embassy, they are free to travel to the United States," he said.
"I would strongly encourage the Department of State to immediately institute a temporary suspension of consular services – particularly the issuance of visas – for non-U.S. nationals…. This is a reasonable and immediately implementable containment measure that may help mitigate the risk [of Ebola]," he wrote.
Royce's view appears to be in line with most constituents, as a new poll shows 82 percent want to quarantine anyone who recently has traveled to the stricken region, and 66 percent would block entry.
Breitbart News reported the Department of Homeland Security even has been "expediting" visas from the "Ebola countries."
The U.S. Citizenship and Immigration Services website said its "immigration relief measures" would include changes or extensions of nonimmigrant status for someone in the U.S., expedited adjudication of requests from students, expedited processing of petitions for immediate relatives and more.
"In short, the USCIS has been waiving fees, expediting the immigration process, and allowing extensions of visas for anyone coming from the three designated Ebola-stricken countries, provided that they are in the United States," the report said.
Commentator Katie Pavlich at TownHall.com said, "Not only is the Ebola crisis continuing to degrade, but the optics of how the White House has handled the situation are getting worse by the day too."
She said the White House "has refused to even put travel restrictions on the table as the crisis in West Africa continues."
"Considering the administration has been encouraging more travel, it's no wonder travel restrictions aren't being considered," she wrote. "CDC Director Tom Frieden said … during testimony on Capitol Hill that his first interest is protecting Americans. If Frieden really means what he said, the folks over at DHS don't have the same priority and clearly aren't on the same page."
Breitbart News said said it's understandable that many in Ebola-affected countries would be lured to the U.S. by its advanced medical care.
The Washington Post reported the number of visas issued to Liberians by the U.S. has spiked, with about 3,500 granted last year. Another 10,000 were given to citizens of Guinea and Sierra Leone.
CDC Director Tom Frieden has admitted that from 100 to 150 people from the Ebola region are entering the U.S. each day.
He reported the figure to a congressional committee:

Royce was unhappy with the status quo.
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Obama won't be happy till he infects half the US. His goals are Anti America and Pro Islam.
Now will all of you do something, or are you just waiting till your wife, kids and parents and grandparents get diagnosed with Ebola.....

 

[BigCat]

I'm 6 and what is this?

 

[erudne]

I'm 6 and what is this?

If you are 6 years old then you lied to gain access here
On the off chance you are allowed here, then this is a play on "The Scream" a widely known work of art

 

[BigCat]

I'm not educated in the field of art. Although I did see the Mona Lisa when I traveled around Europe. Count it!

 

[cookie]

Obama is doing exactly on what he ran for office on . Funny how the president does anything he wants and all those who have taken the oath to protect this country never really do.

 

[erudne]

stock-up on Beans, Blankets and Bingo my friends we have a few weeks left before Martial Law


Halting exponential growth requires extraordinary effort
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[erudne]

 

[Just Jim]

We have the best system of government in the world but bad people running it. We have a chance to elect better people, hope we do.

 

[erudne]

<broken link removed>

From the link

DALLAS — Officials now say that a woman who fell ill at the Dallas Area Rapid TransitWhite Rock Station Saturday afternoon is not known to be a part of any Ebola watch list.
DART spokesman Morgan Lyons said the person exited a northbound Blue Line train at the station and vomited on the platform. She was earlier reported to have a low-grade fever at the facility in Northeast Dallas.
Lyons initially said that the woman was reported to be a resident of the same Dallas apartment complex where Ebola "patient zero" Thomas Eric Duncan became ill after traveling to the U.S. from Liberia. Duncan died on October 8 and two nurses who treated him are now being treated for the virus.
Keep in mind that the blood and vomit in the apt parking lot was cleaned with a pressure washer and that a woman stood near by.

 

[MikeE]

Think of the implications:
http://www.newyorker.com/humor/borowitz-report/fear-ebola-outbreak-make-nation-turn-science

 

[erudne]

Think of the implications:
<broken link removed>

Freaking hilarious, he thinks it's funny because Ebola hit in TX, where all dem stupid rednecks live.
What a Progressive mother bubbleguming bubblegum sucking dick licking pinko commie son of a bubblegum