Anyone else irked at the way Texas wants to charge the man with ebola with a crime?

[TorchTheWitch]

63. I thought he only came here on a visitor's visa?

He and his family were (and some members of the family still) have been saying he was just coming for a visit. In the video of the interview with his half-brother I'd posted yesterday his half-brother said that one family member (a nephew?) had said that he was planning on looking for a job here. Visitors coming here on visitors visas are allowed to work in the US, and they can't stay permanently but have to go back to their home country I think it's by two months of being here. I never thought he had any intention of going back to Liberia once here especially now I find out his girlfriend is here.

Other than that, I agree that if he did intensionally lie either on the questionnaire to get on the plane out of Liberia or at the hospital then he should be deported. But if he overstayed a visitor's visa or got a job here he should be anyway.

I'm not getting why taxpayers would be footing the bill for his food and housing though. He either came on a visitor's visa in which he'd have to be dealing with his own food, housing, transportation, etc. or on a worker's visa where he'd still have to be dealing with his own food, housing, transportation, etc., but he'd have a job to be able to do it. If he lives he's already going to be on the hook for his medical bills unless he had some kind of traveler's medical insurance or if the Liberian government takes care of that (which they actually might) though the hospital will likely eat the cost given their mistake in letting him leave in the first place and pass that on to the rest of us since they'd hardly take it out of their profits.

FYI, I used a work with a woman from Canada that would come here to work under the table on visitor's visas, and she did it for a few years before being caught. She'd work for a couple of months (or whatever the time limit was until she had to go back to Canada) go back to Canada and immediately reapply for another visitor's visa and be back in about a month to work again, and on and on until she finally got caught. Of course, nothing happened to the bar we were working at. For six months of that time she even rented an apartment a couple of blocks from the club so she could just walk to work instead of staying in the nearest hostel where she would have had to taxi back and forth. It had nothing in it other than the luggage she brought with her... she slept on the floor with just a little pillow and always ate out.