"The White House is incompetent and the dumping of illegals is intentional.” Sheriff Joe Arpaio, Maricopa County, Arizona
June 18, 2014
By: Linda Case Gibbons
If laughter really is the best medicine, then you’d better start laughing your socks off! The guy who brought you Obamacare is back, and this time he’s bringing a bag full of diseases with him.
Diseases, you ask? From whence? From whence, indeed.
From our nation’s open borders. With a welcome sign that says "Come on in! You can stay forever!” it is clear to the world that there is no one at the helm in America when it comes to protecting our nation from anything, including disease.
This is the message our commander in chief and the head of Homeland Security have trumpeted to the world. And they have yet to print a retraction.
So "they” did come, "the children,” but they weren’t all "children,” although that is the party line.
"Don’t do nothin’” was the message sent to U.S. Border Agents and anyone connected to Immigration and Customs Enforcement.
And, "If you come here illegally, we won’t send you back, in fact, we’ll meet you at the border, or fly you in, and then transport you to anywhere you want to go in our country – after we give you three squares, patch you up and put you up for the night...
At American taxpayer expense.
"And, by the way, if you attack our Border Patrol Agents, don’t worry. There will be no legal repercussions.”
So how many have accepted Obama’s invitation?
Guessing is the best way to know because, as with the Obamacare sign-up numbers, Homeland Security has been dodging the question of "how many” for the past two weeks.
The guess is more than 40,000 illegal immigrant children have entered the country from October, 2013 to the present, with another 90,000 estimated to enter this year.
By Homeland Security estimates.
How can Homeland Security have estimates, you ask?
Well, because they’ve known about these "guests” since January. In fact, the federal government has been looking for vendors to help escort UAC, unaccompanied alien children, and posted a "help wanted” request on FedBizOpps.gov to that effect.
The ad read: "ICE is seeking the services of a responsible vendor that shares the philosophy of treating all UAC with dignity and respect, while adhering to standard operating procedures and policies that allow for an effective, efficient and incident free transport.
"The Contractor shall provide unarmed escort staff, including management, supervision, manpower, training, certifications, licenses, drug testing, equipment and supplies necessary to provide on-demand escort services for non-criminal/non-delinquent unaccompanied alien children ages infant to 17 years of age, seven days a week, 365 days a year.
"Transport will be required for either category of UAC or individual juveniles, to include both male and female juveniles. There will be approximately 65,000 UAC in total: 25 percent local ground transport, 25 percent via ICA charter and 50 percent via commercial air.”
So what did Secretary of Homeland Security Jeh Johnson have to say about all this? Well, he was darn concerned!
No, not for you; for "the children.” No, not yours. The ones coming from Central America.
And he lost no time springing into action to fix it.
He issued a public plea to the parents of the children coming from Central America illegally, asking them to warn their children that the dangers a child can face in the journey are "far too great.”
But if Secretary Jeh Johnson couldn’t see a problem, surely Congress could see the threat to life and limb and law this unacceptable breach of our country’s borders posed to the safety of Americans?
Well, no.
U.S. Congressman Rep. Hakeem Jeffries’ (D-N.Y) also had concern for "the children.”
No, not yours.
He said "some of the children who have come to this country may not have a valid legal basis to remain, but some will. Yet it is virtually impossible for a child to assert a valid claim under immigration law in the absence of legal representation.”
So House Democrats also lost no time springing into action to fix it. They introduced legislation this week to give "the children” taxpayer-funded lawyers to maximize their chances of not being deported.
American taxpayer-funded lawyers.
Those very same House Democrats, you know the people elected to represent you? Well, they further justified the legislation, pointing out that "illegal immigrant children are not aware of the technicalities they can use to stay in the country and that is why they need the taxpayer-funded legal representation.”
That’s a heck of a lot of billable hours.
And votes.
But what Johnson and Jeffries said hit home. It is about the children!
Why, just the other day I told my 3-year-old, "Ollie. Crossing the border, on your own, to go and live in Mexico, might not be a good idea.
"First of all, you’re not even allowed to cross the street yet, but do you have any idea of the legal technicalities you can use to stay in Mexico as a citizen?”
He didn’t.
The thing is, as the unexceptional nation that we are, we had disease pretty well under control, and we were looking forward to moving on to more sophisticated diseases, like cancer and heart attacks. Now here we are, back at square one with measles and chicken pox.
Remember how it was before 1955, the year Jonas Salk discovered the first successful polio vaccine? Before that the nation was petrified of the threat.
Pictures of little children in iron lungs bolstered the fear. Families stayed away from places where groups congregated in droves. Beaches were deserted. The fear was palpable.
But we beat it, with unexceptional American grit and American taxpayer money.
With wellness testing and vaccines, TB, chicken pox, measles and similarly contagious diseases are a rare occurrence in our country. But that isn't true in Honduras, Guatemala and San Salvador.
The illegal children coming into our country are not only overwhelming our resources, ignoring our borders and our laws, they are bringing diseases we stamped out years ago.
And it is not "if,” but "when” these diseases will be back, better than ever.
Dr. Jane Orient, internal medicine specialist said, "We no longer have natural immunity against diseases such as measles and chicken pox because we haven’t had them in this country for years. Many doctors have never even seen these diseases so many may not recognize them.”
As a bonus the president and secretary of homeland security are offering us a greater variety of diseases.
Ever hear of "chagas” and "dengue fever?” Well you will.
The first causes damage to the heart and central nervous system; the second is a debilitating viral disease causing severe fever and acute pain in the joints. Both have their origin in the tropics, spread by bloodsucking bugs and mosquitoes.
And, oh yeah, there’s also "scabies.” It looks just like how it sounds.
Dr. Elizabeth Lee Vliet, a Tucson and Dallas practitioner says that a public health crisis "the likes of which I have not seen in my lifetime, is looming.”
Hardest hit? The elderly, children, immune-suppressed cancer patients, those with congestive heart failure and chronic heart disease.
It is predicted by physicians that Americans, especially Medicaid patients, will see major delays for treatment.
So, flashback to Kathleen Sebelius. Didn’t a record of never-before Americans eagerly sign up for Medicaid courtesy of the Obamacare sign-up?
And won’t the predictions of Obamacare "death panels” be pretty well fulfilled if the folks most at risk bite the dust from the new influx of border diseases?
The fact is we don’t know who these uninvited "guests” are, but we know that our elected officials owe us. They have sworn an oath to protect American citizens, America’s borders.
Instead the government tells us these illegal immigrants are helpless children, that we would be heartless to send them back to where they came from.
We are told these "Dreamers” along with the other "Dreamers” already here, are the future of our country. The rest of us had better just suck it up.
It must be true. President Obama said so. But what about us?
I think my throat feels scratchy…
Hold the line, America.