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Related: About this forumTop U.S. general says Ebola outbreak coming through Central America is real threat
http://latino.foxnews.com/latino/news/2014/10/08/top-us-general-says-ebola-outbreak-coming-through-central-america-is-real/Top U.S. general says Ebola outbreak coming through Central America is real threat
By Bryan Llenas/
Published October 08, 2014/
Fox News Latino
A top U.S. general admitted that a potential Ebola outbreak in Central America is a real threat to the United States and a scenario which could result in a mass migration across the U.S./Mexico border, as thousands would attempt to flee the deadly virus. The immediate thing that really keeps me up awake at night, I tell you, its the Ebola issue, said Marine Corps Gen. John F. Kelly, the commander of U.S. Southern Command, to an audience at the National Defense University on Tuesday. Theres no way you can keep Ebola in West Africa.
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If Ebola breaks into Haiti, and Central America, I think it is literally Katie by the bar in terms of the mass migration of Central Americans into the United States, Kelly said, of the thousands he foresees fleeing countries like Honduras, El Salvaldor and Guatemala if an Ebola outbreak there were to occur. These populations will move to either run away from Ebola or, in the fear of having been infected, to get to the United States, where it would be taken care of.
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But airport screenings do little to stop the robust sex trade and human trafficking business operating through a decentralized but efficient criminal network that carries hundreds of tons of drugs, weapons, money, and people through Latin America into the U.S.
We see a lot of West Africans moving on that network.
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A CBP report published online earlier this week on Breitbart.com broke down where undocumented immigrants are coming from and, between January and July of this year, at least 71 people reportedly arrived from the three West African nations hit with the current Ebola outbreak.
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nitpicker
Oct 2014
OP
LOL Tell them that I can't get worked up about their stupid Ebola theories
Live and Learn
Oct 2014
#2
lob1
(3,820 posts)1. SCARESCARESCARESCARESCARE(neverhappen)SCARESCARESCARE
SCARESCARESCARE(Foxnews)SCARESCARESCARE!!!!!!!!!!!!!111111111111
Live and Learn
(12,769 posts)2. LOL Tell them that I can't get worked up about their stupid Ebola theories
(that the experts say are unrealistic), especially in light of the fact that they don't care about climate change (that the experts say is real and is dooming us anyway).
Wonder if this might change their minds about everyone being entitled to health care? Or should we just allow Ebola victims to be dying in the streets exposing the masses?
DontTreadOnMe
(2,442 posts)3. Military General or Surgeon General?
If I wanted "military intelligence" I would have asked John McCain!
Run for the Hills... Ebola is coming!