Laigle’s Forum

Demand an end to politicized health policies

By Donald Hank

Barack Obama refuses to close the border with Mexico and has not changed his policy of encouraging Mexicans to enter the US illegally.

The swine flu pandemic has not changed his mind. His administration’s rationale for this?

The DHHS absurdly points to a study supposedly showing that keeping Mexicans south of the border wouldn’t stop the spread because the flu has already spread to the US.

In fact, US border agents are not allowed to protect themselves by wearing masks! If they do so, they can lose their jobs.

This argument is full of holes, and the policy is hypocritical. Obviously, even though the flu has spread to the US, since there are many more flu carriers in Mexico, closing the border, or at least trying to stop illegal entry at the border, would save lives. All cases so far are directly traceable to Mexico. In fact the President’s delegation to Mexico brought at least one case to the US. One of the Mexican dignitaries who shook Obama’s hand last week died of the swine flu the next day. Here’s where it gets weird: the Administration says Americans should limit their travel to Mexico. But wait. If it is too late to slow down the spread of the disease by stopping Mexicans from entering the US, what good will it do to keep us out of Mexico?

Closing the US-Mexico border or at least quarantining incoming travelers to the US from Mexico would save the lives not only of Americans but also of Europeans and Asians because there would be fewer carriers traveling to Europe and Asia or fewer Europeans and Asians coming into the flu virus in the US and carrying it back to them.

The government’s policies are purely political and are related to the New World Order concept: we are supposed to believe in free travel across borders, in preparation for a no-borders supranational government, similar to the EU, and closing the Mexican border would interfere with the brain-washing of millions of Americans to think of the border as essentially non-existent. Thus it is politically inexpedient to restrict travel into the US or even stop illegal entry from Mexico.

Yet, look at this hypocrisy:

Last year a US citizen who was thought to be infected with a resistant strain of tuberculosis was ordered by the US Department of Health and Human Services to stay in Greece, where he had been honeymooning and not to travel to the US because they feared he would infect others.

Certainly, there were others in the US who also carried the disease, so from the epidemiologic standpoint, this gentleman did not pose more of a risk than Mexicans with swine flu slipping across our border illegally.

Yet they ordered him to stay in Greece. He later claims to have received death threats when he defied the order and his marriage fell apart due to the pressure and negative publicity he received.

Do you see the double standard?

Illegal immigrants are a prized “victim” group that both political parties see as a major future voting bloc.

When politics gets put ahead of the safety and health of the governed, it is time to protest.

The US government is almost immune to protests. It despises the governed. But we must  nonetheless protest.

Foreign governments still have a voice far stronger than that of Americans with the current regime. I therefore have asked my European friends to demand more responsibility from Washington via their own governments and agencies.

I asked them to demand that Washington close the US-Mexico border or monitor it significantly more carefully by initially quarantining travelers from Mexico, as other Latin American countries are now doing. If this demand is not met, they must demand that no travel be allowed between the EU and the US until it is clear that the swine flu is contained and receding and that an efficacious cure or vaccination is available.

Please pass this message on to your countrymen and to your international friends. You can help stop the senseless loss of lives over politics. But you must act quickly.

Above all I would appeal to your common sense and ask you to consider the foolishness — and downright recklessness — of a world without borders.

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