Swine Flu! Should We Close Mexican Border?
The "swine flu" that has infected more than 1,000 people in Mexico has led a lawmaker on the House Homeland Security Committee to call on U.S. officials to close the southern border. Rep. Eric Massa (D-N.Y.) said the border should be closed until the threat is resolved.
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Diann
QUESTION.....What good does it do to close the border's when the mexicans are still streaming into our country through the open areas??
FastFacts
Okay, so this morning a report comes out on www.AmericanParchment.com that the President of Mexico is telling everyone to stay home. When I looked at the site I didn't see a link but said it was a developing story. Interesting though. If the President of Mexico tells everyone to stay home, that would mean less people should be going across the boarder by walking, flying, or driving, right. So in his own efforts, he has tried to close the border. Something our administration wasn't even willing to do. How can they say it would be ineffective. If you had a cold wouldn't you try every way to keep from getting sick, like taking Zicam, Cold-Ease, drinking a lot of water, etc. Wouldn't closing the border and/or allowing only American Citizens to cross the border after a thorough check help cut down on the possibility of keeping the cold or spreading it to others???
In addition, doesn't a WHO Level 5 Pandemic Protocol call for borders to be closed to stop the spread it the disease?
Anonymous
When are we going to see Geraldo covering the swine flu epidemic while on location in Mexico? I want to see him interview patient zero and squash these internet rumors that a US-owned industrial pig production facility is the source of the swine flu in Mexico. I want to see what kind health care the average Mexican is receiving. I want to see how the Mexican media is handling the swine flu outbreak.
Steve
The Swine Flu is a good reason, but we should have close it a long time ago for the other 100s of reasons.
BOSMAN
IS THAT A TRICK QUESTION?
I'm SURPRISED Obama hasn't hung "Little Welcome Bags" along the Border fence every 500 yards. Each illegal could receive one of these as they SNEAK into the Country. In each bag would include:
1. Disinfectant Wipes
2. A Protective Face Mask
3. a list of All the FREE MEDICAL Walk-in facilities
4. the address of the nearest ACORN satellite office so they can REGISTER to vote.
5. ?????
Anonymous
Sick people and/or family who may have the flu shouldn't be told they should or have to stay at home till they show signs of the illness or are cleared of the flu if they don't do the same at the border.
Anonymous
It makes no sense to suggest people who are sick should stay at home so they won't infect others and to "contain" the virus but then they don't do the same for the borders. Why not just close the borders except for emergency, health officials and medical reasons only?? When animals escape...you don't let the others in the barn go free too..you contain them, while you search for the others...otherwise...you're just running in circles and the animals go everywhere in different directions. How is that helpful? Just because a person doesn't show signs..doesn't mean they don't have it...yet.The poor child who died was at a mall prior to showing symptoms.
Morgan
I hope this is'nt just a big practice run to test our defences,it seems this flu pandemic,does not warrent the reaction it recieved. How well are we really prepared to deal with a big threat ?
Fed up
How ironic! the swine flu comes from pigs, and look at all the pork being spread around the U.S. government . Could this be a sign?
Richard
Epicenter? I do not know, but suspicious of Mexico. We have here in America an estimated 25 million Illegal Immigrants mainly from Mexico. Our politicians have done almost nothing over the years in containing our borders....even the token wall is still not completed. I guess we will have to make them l legal so the new National Health Program will also have to be passed...As R.Emanual states Can't let a crises go pass by...Fantastic plan President/Democrats.
ddh
I think its not mexico we should be suspicious of but our own government. The borders have needed to be controlled for along time and closed down when they were over-running our ability to track them. Now we are at a health risk and our border check agents arent allowed to wear masks to protect themselves because they look too intimidating. When is it enough?
RAM
I would like to know about food, or other products made in Mexico. Two of these are Vicks VapoRub, which is a Proctor&Gamble Product, and Hershey Foods, who recently moved some operations to Mexico. I am sure there are others, but are there products that we shoud be wary of concerning the swine flu?
Ellen
It is to late now to shut the border. What have they done to disinfect the planes that people had been on that came out of Mexico. Nothing I bet or how else could it of spread to fast.
Karen M
Is America working on any kind of vaccine for this?? If they could get one out to us we could nip this thing in the bud now and at least stop it here and we could share with Mexico to stop it from coming back. ???
Michael
Come on now. Once the disease had infected the first traveler, whether legal or not, it was still a minor outbreak and nobody had any reason to think it was a new strain of the flu. Closing the border now would have zero effect on its further spread.
d.wayne
What makes this flu different from an ordinary flu? I mean i understand
an ordinary flu may cause 360,000 deaths or more, within our nation?
is this a gimmick to get obama's nomination in without serious critical
review?
Anonymous
This virus is a unique strain which means nothing anyone has seen before which is why the concern.
Pooster
It's a distraction to get the baby killer supporter in HHS. We can't close the borders to Mexico because then we would have to deport all the MDs that kill over 750,000 people per year in the US. Nobody wants to solve this problem...drug pushers and liars.
weeping willow
The first death from the swine flu has occured. A child who traveled to cal. from mexico. Does that not tell the government to close the border? They tell americans not to go to Mexico, dont go to work, close schools, but leave the border open so more can cross, infect others and die in the US? Is common sense a thing of the past with the government?
calo
also came from italy germany ireland in the early 1900 s just to mention some countries
Anonymous
This is a great reminder that it's important for everyone to wash their hands, carry purell hand sanitizers and use it everytime you touch a door knob or say push a door at a grocery store, cart, fast food, anywhere....you have no idea who was the last person to touch it and honestly...if that person who cough or sneeze 5 people ahead of you had washed their hands before opening/closing, etc. This is spread by coughing, sneezing and by hands, so it's easy to pick up when you don't expect it...people who have this often don't show signs immediately so just be extra careful and practice hand washing..that is just common sense and a way to protect yourself and family.
Anonymous
you needd to stop mexicans are the world you need to appreicate us for all that you dont do mexican run this
Anonymous
It makes no sense that other countries are restricting travel to the U.S. affected areas and Mexico but we aren't doing the same with our borders both north and south; This is a matter of National Security and we can't wait till we are 1. have our health facilities swamped, 2. Deaths begin to rise IF that happens; Has the officials allow thought that we encourage people to stay at home to self-quarantine but yet allowing people who may not show signs of infection YET to still cross the borders..unless we get thermal scanners like in Asia...visual scanning is not reliable. Why increase a problem?
DF
And it starts. The first death in the US was a 22 or 23 month old Mexican national. My heart goes out to the child's parents. Illegal or not ,they came to Huston from Mexico. We will be seeing more and more of this. I bet that all the states along the border will see a dramatic increase in hospital cases concerning illegals that will tax our resources in this country and we, as the taxpayers, will be footing the bill again. The border should be closed, but due to our lax immigration policies and lack of enforcement, the majority of the problems will stem from illegal crossings, not people trying to cross the border legally. Again, too little, too late.
Anonymous
This is no way anti-Mexico or anti-illegal immigrants..even communist countries are quarantining and restricting travel from Mexico; Japan won't accept or issue visas from Mexico...they don't care about illegal immigration;They care about the public health of their countries. Even Mexico has shut down offices, public events and churches...U.S. just acts like this is non-existant. The trouble is that we can't keep thinking we are a cure all; There is a huge cost. It was sad what happen but the truth is...other countries are doing it. They are even using thermal scanners and not allowing people flying in from Mexico to come into their country but get quarantine and you don't see a stink about this...enough with the blame game...time to wake up and see that we have a potential problem that doesn't care about politics.
Kevin
How about we close the border....at Washington, D.C.???
Andrew
Seems like a no- brainer to me, they should have done it days ago. The amazing thing is to have a Dem from N.Y. call for it, thought Shemp Smith's head was going to explode, come to think of it he actually was squeeling like a pig... go figure!
Anonymous
They are making this about politics like everything else and it's really just shows how disinterested the administration is about the welfare of the peasants..er..common people.
This is a virus that is serious particularly to those affected and such a reminder to be proactive, even just making sure we wash our hands and cover our coughs and sneezes and then washing our hands when we do that. Just finding ways to stop the spread and not be a host for the spread.Anyone whose been sick knows how miserable that is and when this is something that can potentially be amplify and easily spread due to politics or just lack of common sense, it just worsens the situation not make it less.
If anything...they need to do more than just visually check; Invest in thermal scanners; Asia can do it why not us? Even communist countries have invested in thermal scanners...where is the common sense anymore?
Wash your hands, cover your coughs and sneezes and stay home if you have even have a slight fever
Anonymous
Keep the border open, you betcha ya! Let all the illegals come in in droves, let every infected Mexican come across the border. That way this can spread faster across the entire country. All the while the heathens in Washington can continue to say it is nothing to be concerned about. This brings new meaning to "swine" on both sides of the boarder.
Anonymous
And comments like THESE above are why you will enjoy your permanent minority status..lol.. good luck and have fun with your God and Guns tradition..
American
Think on this--a combination of swine, bird and human DNA flu..Sounds like a cocktail to me mixed up by an expert in viral warfare. Why not just introduce such a mixture into a 2nd world country bordering the US, within a populace that runs across our borders? That is an easy way to perpetrate this into our country without our government realizing we have been attacked again. Seems like what has happened, and right when our government officials were also in Mexico. I think Mexico has been used to get at us!
Anonymous
Put armed guards along the border with orders to shoot anything trying to cross it.
GBA
Of course, but send these poor people the supplies they need. What are the millionaires that live in Mexico doing for their fellow citizens? I wonder.
NillzKillz
I think we should close the borders due to the fact of that is were the infection is sourced at, i've been watching the news and the cases in the U.S keep going up and up and one way to solve is close the borders. We shouldn't have to take care of those that just cross the border and expect to be treated .
Mrs._C
Napolitano makes no sense (what a shock). How lame is it to say that the flu is "contained" in the U.S., so there's no need to close the borders. Obviously, it's not "contained." Even if it were, why let more in?
It makes no sense to double down on stupidity. Dump Dems in 2010.
Bill
Well said Mrs. C. I can't believe that anyone can be so stupid. I believe Napolitano and Obama want to completely open up our southern border and include Mexico in their new socialist government plan, with or without the threats of a Swine Flu pandemic. Where have all the intelligent gone?
Anonymous
Cuba has closed their borders and their a communist country!! If it's good enough for them to do that to protect their own...why not the U.S. and why not Mexico??
With containment it prevents the spread of even more of the virus, allows officials better chance to survey the different variants and allow better distribution of resources and helps the virus to be contain and to just sizzle out instead finding new hosts to continue and the concern too is that the more its allow to be spread..the greater the chance of it mutating...and that makes getting a vaccine harder..
It's not about politics..its about good sense..whats the point of asking people to quarantine in the their own homes when it can be done on a larger scale to facilitate better use of resources and allow the health officials to better zero in on an effective cure.
LOGIC
Closing the border is the logic thing to do. But because Napolitano does not have any family to care about, she believes that we do not care about ours.
Citrus
Closing the border is not the logical thing to do as it will do nothing. The virus is here in the U.S. it can be spread by Americans, and the DHS are mentally defective. The logic thing to do is wash your hands and listen to the doctors as they went to school for this kind of stuff.
Bridgett
Janet from another planet says it is not necessary to close the borders because the flu is already here. Wake up skunk woman!!! If you close the borders, no more infected Mexicans will come to America. She is an idiot.
Crosscut
This Mexican swine flu could turn into Obama's "Katrina". Too little, too late.
Son of Liberty
The government will never close the border no matter how many American lives it may cost. If they show the border can be effectively closed (and it can), they won't be able to just look the other way as millions of illegal aliens cross the border each year. Americans will just have to perish in order for the open borders movement to continue.
Anonymous
Sadly, communist countries show more commonsense than our own country is.
We don't even have thermal scanners and how hard is it to just stay home if there is a slight fever, wash the hands and cover up coughs and sneezes...no point being the source of the spread versus being the endpoint.
If Cuba can close their borders and other countries that aren't even democratic can do it...we should be able to do it and stop playing politics.
It's hard to play politics with a virus that doesn't care about party affiliation, legal status or race.
Jackson Pearson
You're absolutely correct. Clueless Napolitano has so much as all ready said as much. Everything and every decision this stupido makes, is after the fact...when it's way to late!
KPinTX
Should we close the Mexico Border????????????? DUH!!!!!
YES.............permanently!
SUSANM
COMMENT:
YES, BUT NAPOLITANO WON'T TILL THOUSANDS OF CITIZENS DIE, THEN ITS MAYBE. BUT THEN WE HAVE TO SEE WHAT LA RAZA WANTS TO DO!
Obama's trip to Mexico
Does anyone find it ironic that Obama was in Mexico just prior to the breakout, and he actually shook hands with someone who perished from it?
God is in control....could it be a dire warning from the heavens for Obama to wake up and follow God before it is too late.
Christians keep on praying, God is in control.
KrisF
Obama only understand the "rev wright" type of god. I really don't think he has a clue as to who God really is. He must consult with the allmighty teleprompter for his message.
Anonymous
CLOSE THE BORDERS!!!!!! Then collect all infected swine and dump them in all terroristic countries, all well be well!
Anonymous
I just love the idea of dropping swine on the Taliban,and Al Qeda strongholds.