DOD warns Ebola could cross the southern border

Understandably this warning from the Department of Defense has not made the television news. It's downright scary considering the Obama administration's laissez faire posture toward border enforcement and the communicable pestilence that has been imported by illegal immigrants. Enterovirus D68  was discovered in the 1960's but fewer than 100 cases were identified in this country until the illegal immigration of unaccompanied children Central America and the covert resettling of them throughout the country. It has now become an epidemic by any but the politicized Center for Disease Control's measure.
It could be worse and that is the upshot of the DOD bulletin. It could be Ebola and if the virus finds its way to Haiti or Central America it will soon be in your child's school.

WASHINGTON, Oct. 8, 2014 – The potential spread of Ebola into Central and Southern America is a real possibility, the commander of U.S. Southern Command told an audience at the National Defense University here yesterday. “By the end of the year, there’s supposed to be 1.4 million people infected with Ebola and 62 percent of them dying, according to the [Centers for Disease Control and Prevention],” Marine Corps Gen. John F. Kelly said. “That’s horrific. And there is no way we can keep Ebola [contained] in West Africa.” If it comes to the Western Hemisphere, many countries have little ability to deal with an outbreak of the disease, the general said. “So, much like West Africa, it will rage for a period of time,” Kelly said. This is a particularly possible scenario if the disease gets to Haiti or Central America, he said. If the disease gets to countries like Guatemala, Honduras or El Salvador, it will cause a panic and people will flee the region, the general said. “If it breaks out, it’s literally, ‘Katie bar the door,’ and there will be mass migration into the United States,” Kelly said. “They will run away from Ebola, or if they suspect they are infected, they will try to get to the United States for treatment.” Also, transnational criminal networks smuggle people and those people can be carrying Ebola, the general said. Kelly spoke of visiting the border of Costa Rica and Nicaragua with U.S. embassy personnel. At that time, a group of men “were waiting in line to pass into Nicaragua and then on their way north,” he recalled. “The embassy person walked over and asked who they were and they told him they were from Liberia and they had been on the road about a week,” Kelly continued. “They met up with the network in Trinidad and now they were on their way to the United States -- illegally, of course.” Those men, he said, “could have made it to New York City and still be within the incubation period for Ebola.” Kelly said his command is in close contact with U.S. Africa Command to see what works and what does not as it prepares for a possible outbreak in the area of operations.

This is not Glenn Beck! This is Lieutenant General John Kelly the commander of Southcom which oversees U.S. defense assets in Central and South America. The country is on the brink of a pandemic and the president refuses to secure the border. Ebola could walk across the southern border and Obama doesn't give a damn. As he said, “Make no mistake: these policies are on the ballot. Every single one of them.”