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Originally Posted by TexaninVA
General Kelly is the 4-Star, chief of US Southern Command ... he recently said the following:
"The Pentagon’s top commander in South America has warned that if Ebola surfaces in Central America or the Caribbean, there will be a stampede of people heading north across the Rio Grande to the U.S. to escape the disease.
“If it breaks out, it’s literally, ‘Katie bar the door,’ and there will be mass migration into the United States,” Marine General John Kelly, chief of the U.S. Southern Command, said Tuesday. “They will run away from Ebola, or if they suspect they are infected, they will try to get to the United States for treatment.”
That is a very possible event. Since you like to pose questions to others - I would like to hear your solution that would prevent such a "mass migration" that would be feasible right now. We agree, of course, that a high fence could be put all along the southern border but that would take a long time to construct and still would be permible in many areas. What else? Thousands of National Guard on 24/7 duty with shoot to kill orders (since putting illegals in detention is not an option)?
Please reply with your solutions. (ie a request made by Sandtrap328)
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Actually Sandtrap, you have done a nice job in describing the gist of what’s required so you didn’t really need to wait for my reply to share your thoughts. But, since you asked, here’s my response.
First of all, this is not a hard problem to solve in terms of identifying what is needed. The difficult part is mustering up the courage, political will, and leadership, to make the unpleasant choices. Remember, we are talking about what is needed to protect the US in the event General Kelly’s “Katie Bar the Door” scenario comes to play.
http://www.defense.gov/news/newsarticle.aspx?id=123359
Thus, as soon as solid evidence exists that Ebola has spread to Central America or Mexico, the very first thing that’s needed is for the President to make a nationally televised speech to the Congress and inform that world that, due to Ebola and other reasons, the US border is now closed. Legal immigration will be allowed (with appropriate screening, quarantine etc), but illegal entry of any type will be denied “using any means necessary, including deadly force.” The latter is the key phrase.
At that point, the US military will be deployed in force to protect the entire Southern border. Inevitably, someone will try to enter any way. That’s when warning shots will be used. If that doesn’t work, destroy the target. After several instances of this, illegal border incursions will largely stop, and have the beneficial effect of reducing further casualties caused by firearms. It may also be necessary to send troops on limited incursions into Mexico if needed to seek our armed intruders … eg drug cartels and smugglers as one example.
At the same time, and in a more strategic sense, we finally get serious about building the border wall. No more excuses. It can be done, and solutions developed as with any other large project if given the resources and requisite leadership.
Now, consider the alternate to NOT doing the above. You then have hundreds, or at some point potentially thousands, of Ebola infected illegals moving into the southern states and then throughout out the country. This will overwhelm our resources, and literally destroy the US economy in the process. Thus, should General Kelly’s scenario come to pass, closing the border by any means necessary becomes a survival issue … either protect the border and let Ebola burn itself out in Central America, and Africa or, let them all in and let it burn out in the US as well.
To put it bluntly, many of us and our families would then be destined to meet a most unpleasant fate … all because the border was left open for "noble" reasons that won’t matter much by then. Some may be comforted however in that the virus won't discriminate on race, creed, national origin or philosophical views on income inequality and social justice.