Republican congressman: Immigrant children might carry Ebola

[Judi Lynn]

Source: CBS News

By/Lindsey Boerma/CBS News/August 5, 2014, 5:14 PM

Republican congressman: Immigrant children might carry Ebola

The unaccompanied minors crossing into the United States from Mexico in crisis-level numbers could be imperiling Americans by exposing them to the highly contagious Ebola virus that's killed upwards of 800 people in West Africa this year, a Republican congressman warned Tuesday.

Speaking with an Indianapolis radio station, Rep. Todd Rokita, R-Ind., cited heart surgeon and Rep. Larry Bucshon, R-Ind., as a sage authority on the subject: "He said, look, we need to know just from a public-health standpoint, with Ebola circulating and everything else," Rokita said. "No, that's my addition to it, not necessarily his - but he said we need to know the condition of these kids."

No human has ever contracted the deadly illness in the Western Hemisphere. Still, staying vigilant amid the worst outbreak of Ebola in history, the Office of Refugee Resettlement assured the Times of Northwest Indiana that every one of the 30,000-some undocumented children who are placed with U.S. family members has been screened for medical maladies.

But the superior course is to keep the minors in one place, Rokita argued, cautioning for good measure that if they're released into the U.S. population, "ultimately your property taxes are going to go up" because they'll be able to enroll in school.


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[CaliforniaPeggy]

1. Omigod, they are grasping at straws. Talk about invoking the boogeyman!

[randys1]

3. These are dumb racists filled with hate and fear

If one of them is a physician he should have his license revoked instantly

[Louisiana1976]

12. Exactly! They are ignorant, bigoted assholes.

[randys1]

2. Everyday and in every way punks like this embarrass decent Americans like myself

[louis-t]

5. Am I dreaming or did your post say

"embassy" at first?

[randys1]

7. it did LOL damn spell check

[louis-t]

4. I'm surprised teabaggers didn't show up at the airport

and scream at the poor heroes who were treating ebola victims in Africa. I was really half expecting it.

[AngryDem001]

9. Shhhh.

Don't put ideas in their tiny minds!

[LynneSin]

6. Yes because those children traveled from Central America thru West Africa then into Mexico....

before reaching our borders

[Dr Hobbitstein]

8. Well, duh...

It's common knowledge that all brown people carry infectious diseases...

[ohnoyoudidnt]

10. .

[mysuzuki2]

11. And republican congresscritters might all have the clap.

[Louisiana1976]

13. Excellent point. Especially the studly congresscritter of the neighboring district.

[MFM008]

14. lower than low

the gop will go.

[Fred Sanders]

15. Ebola is being sold to the usual stupid asshats as a "black mans disease", therefore more potent to

the delicate white body.

[Jack Rabbit]

16. Republican Congressmen might carry rabies

!!

[VA_Jill]

17. Rabies?

Well, we know they got cooties and they're batshit crazy!

[Jack Rabbit]

18. Haven't you ever seen a Republican congressman foam at the mouth?

Senator Helms used to do it all the time.

[rickyhall]

19. Could be space aliens masquerading as children, too

[DeadLetterOffice]

20. GOP = Group Of Peabrains

[3catwoman3]

33. Stealing...

...this.

[DeadLetterOffice]

34. Go for it!

Every time they open their mouths, teh stupid just falls right out...

[Turbineguy]

21. Democratic voter: Republican congressman definitely carries the stupid.

[SummerSnow]

22. This fear mongoring is going to have

right wing extremist saran wrapping their windows and building trenches in their homes. Scared to come outside.

[kentauros]

28. Good!

Then they can't vote!

[VA_Jill]

40. Damn!

You beat me to it!!!!!

[Gormy Cuss]

23. "... with Ebola circulating and everything else,"

it's too bad that insufficient blood is circulating in his brain.

[onehandle]

24. Onehandle: President Ronald Reagan Was The Original Source For Ebola.

Congress immediately reacts by renaming Ebola, 'Reagan Virus.'

[BootinUp]

25. FEAR! FEAR! FEAR! nt

[Marrah_G]

26. Everytime I think they can't get more stupid, they prove me wrong

[Warpy]

27. Yeah, they swam over to Africa just to pick it up!

These assholes have no legal or moral leg to stand on, so they're playing the fear card to the stupidest people in the country.

Sadly, it just might work.

[McCamy Taylor]

29. Because they use their frequent flyer miles to journey across the Atlantic by plane?

[Fritz67]

30. Ungh. I had to be in this tool's district for two years...

...So I thought I knew what a stupid asshole he was. Boy was I giving him too much credit.

[Warpy]

31. Glad you got out alive

It must have been touch and go considering he had to be elected by a majority in that district.

[olddad56]

32. then so might leagl immigrants from other parts of the world.

[3catwoman3]

35. I am wondering how soon...

...a parent from my peds practice will ask if I think their child has Ebola.

[Ecumenist]

36. Wow, I didn't know that the refugee CHILDREN were huffing it from CENTRAL AFRICA!!

Their bigotry is really open and on display for EVERYONE to see. I notice they don't say anything about the COUNTLESS EUROPEAN ILLEGALS who often come here on visitor and student visas AND stay!! I guess their white skin and they habit of coming into the country via airliner and over the Canadian border has a little to do with that....

[LibertyLover]

37. Reston virus

Somebody better tell these idiots that a strain of Ebola already exists in the US and in northern Virginia no less. Tell them to Google Reston virus. Maybe they will start screaming about keeping northern Virginians out of the US.

[valerief]

38. GOP congress members might carry Ebola. All their corporate-paid exotic junkets to

the far corners of the globe. God knows what they pick up (in addition to bribes).

[AllyCat]

39. Bull! Why doesn't the media call them on this garbage?

Never mind. Don't answer that.