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		<title>Quarreling with Quarantine</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 07 Nov 2014 05:25:49 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator><![CDATA[Mallory Millett]]></dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[As a survivor of Bulbar polio in my childhood, let me tell you what a real “civil rights” violation is. ]]></description>
				<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p><a href="http://cdn.frontpagemag.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/11/re.jpg"><img class="alignleft size-full wp-image-244508" src="http://cdn.frontpagemag.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/11/re.jpg" alt="re" width="275" height="176" /></a>Now I&#8217;ve heard everything! Quarantines are a violation of civil rights?</p>
<p>Here&#8217;s the civil rights violation: Not quarantining people who have deadly diseases. One of the few mandated obligations of our government is to protect its citizens. Exactly when and how did the sense of this get lost?</p>
<p>It seems every other day there&#8217;s a national argument breaking out because people no longer realize that the government&#8217;s main purpose is to keep us safe from threats both within and without the country.</p>
<p>When I was twelve years old I was diagnosed with Infantile Paralysis. Polio. This struck directly after my graduation from elementary school at the start of what was to be a grand slope of a summer, culminating in the glorious start of high school. I vividly recall that week, which began on such a high note and then unraveled into what we assumed was flu— crushing for such an eager little beaver who was about to step out to conquer the world.</p>
<p>The doctor who delivered me into the world came for a house call and decided it was, indeed, the flu.  However, the next day, it alarmed my well-seasoned mother when the doctor called saying he wanted to come back and take another look.</p>
<p>I tiptoed out of my sickbed to spy while my mother whispered to my sisters, Sally and Katie: &#8220;This is frightening, girls! Never have I had a doctor call <em>me</em> to ask if he could come back to look at my child. Never!&#8221;</p>
<p>This turned out to be the last great summer epidemic of polio.  It was the end of May. Dr. Salk came out with his vaccine the following November. But at that moment people were contracting the disease in droves and dropping like insects on a dog-day August afternoon.</p>
<p>When Dr. Flannigan returned the following day, it was only moments before he called an ambulance to whisk me off to the city&#8217;s public hospital in St. Paul, Minnesota.</p>
<p>Ancker Hospital was the only possible option when one was diagnosed with the dreaded polio. No private hospital would take you. So, in fear and trembling, I was torn from the sanctuary of my childhood bedroom amid sirens blaring and with my traumatized mommy gripping my hands as if it were to be our last moments together on earth.</p>
<p>They took us to an isolated room, attached but separate from the hospital. Tests were performed. One was a spinal tap, which taught me for all time the true meaning of God-awful pain. I learned then and there I could never withstand torture by Nazis or the Japanese as I&#8217;d always fervently believed. My first experience with profound all-engulfing pain taught me well that I would do anything to make such agony stop.  Turn in my devoted mother. Beg them to do it to anyone else.  Just make it stop.</p>
<p>After several tormenting hours we learned that not only did I have polio but that I had the most vicious form of all: Bulbar polio &#8212; the type that lands you in an iron lung. It had a 97% fatality rate.</p>
<p>Here is where my story has true relevance to current history: this was the fifties, the last period in our country when people behaved as adults, acting reasonably and seeing to it that they responded to such crises with care and maturity in order to protect each other.</p>
<p>I was instantly quarantined. My mother and sisters were quarantined in our home. I was placed in the Bulbar polio ward along with everyone else who had the exact same thing as I did. I was tearfully torn away while clinging to my bewildered mother as we both realized it might be the last time we would ever see, smell or touch each other in this lifetime.</p>
<p>I was installed in an open ward with about twelve beds occupied by people of both sexes, all ages. The only segregation was with respect to our particular strain of this killer, crippling disease. We were the Bulbar people. Those with spinal polio were elsewhere.</p>
<p>My mother and sisters were confined to our home, which they could not leave under any circumstances. An enormous yellow poster declaring that the premises were under quarantine was plastered over the front door of our innocent white house and no one could enter or leave for what I believe was thirty days. The groceries were ordered by phone and left on the steps down by the public sidewalk.</p>
<p>Health officials stormed my bedroom and <em>every single thing</em> was removed and burned. My dolls and teddy bears; my desk, bed and radio. Everything was taken from my little-girl room and destroyed.</p>
<p>Meanwhile I plotted like a wily cat to stay alive. Lying in that fevered and terrifying illness my mind raced as to how I could escape the drift of death, which was moving throughout that room. Every night some one or two of my fellow inmates died.</p>
<p>They always died at night, it seemed, and they had the exact same illness as I had. I was twelve years old and my lot was to quietly wait until it was my turn to be wheeled out as a corpse covered in a white sheet. After about a week this became highly notable and so I concocted a scheme to survive.</p>
<p>A patient with Bulbar succumbs under the tsunami of phlegm their body produces. As there were only two suction machines on the floor and half-staff at night, people were drowning in their own mucous.</p>
<p>I figured the only thing that might possibly get me out of that room and back at home would be if I stayed awake all night, every night.  If I just piled high the pillows and sat up very straight maybe I wouldn&#8217;t suffocate in the never-abating ocean of snot.</p>
<p>Another thing which insured my alertness was the specter of the iron lung. There were only four of them in the hospital and they were strung up and down the sides of the hallways, as there wasn&#8217;t space in the rooms for such enormous contraptions. My two goals were to stay alive and then to elude that iron lung.</p>
<p>I stayed up all night every night doing crossword puzzles and reading, and then slept all day. Opening my dazed eyes from time to time I could contemplate the lung’s hideous form with some poor soul captured in its clutches just outside my doorway. Often there would be a heart-pounding stir as health workers suddenly burst into the room to perform an emergency tracheotomy with blood spurting everywhere and the pulsing of a life-and-death drama. This could happen at any time, during lunch or dinner; at midnight, upon whomever death had come to perch.</p>
<p>We were all perfect strangers locked in a sweaty struggle against death and atrophy, which oddly made us instant intimates.  Even as a preadolescent what struck me most profoundly in those days and nights in that desperate room was the unceasing passion, heroism, self-sacrifice, and committed devotion of every person who labored to keep us alive.</p>
<p>I was such a desperate child longing for my family and home, convinced that I would never again see the people I loved. No one was allowed to visit; not even my mother. I was fortunate enough to have a window and in those days you could open them. I think we were on the eighth floor or so. My family would gather on the street corner below and as they waved up at me, I hung out of my window pleading, &#8220;Get me out of here!!&#8221;</p>
<p>Many, many people died in that room with me. Each time someone expired they were replaced by another Bulbar victim. One was a four-year old girl named Bernadette, whom I had befriended and taken under my older wing. The blow of her death stung deeply and I was gripped with shock for weeks.</p>
<p>Nurse Kaci Hickox, who recently returned from treating patients in Ebola-stricken Sierra Leone, is &#8220;fighting for her freedom&#8221;? She says &#8220;no&#8221; to quarantine? Doctor Craig Spencer, who contracted Ebola, lied about his movements after returning to the US? We find out he was out and about all over New York City? What kind of dedicated doctors and nurses are these people? They&#8217;re scientists, no?  We deserve much better.</p>
<p>Nurse Hickox says quarantine is a violation of her civil rights.  No, it is, in fact, your civic duty to accept quarantine. Have we really become such unspeakably self-involved, narcissistic, immature, mindless citizens? What a sad country we have dwindled to. How can it be that it isn&#8217;t commonly understood that quarantine is a vitally important, adult, necessary action in these scenarios? I can hardly contain my outrage at these persons&#8217; indifference.</p>
<p>Back in the days of my childhood it never ever occurred to us to fight or resent or argue with the quarantine. For God&#8217;s sake, neither I at my callow age nor my family of various ages —nor anyone in that room with me— ever would have considered quarreling with the quarantine. On the contrary, I would have been horrified had I infected anyone else; nor did my mother and sisters bristle at their captive state.</p>
<p>They, we, waited it out, grateful to be surrounded by educated, thoughtful, concerned people who took care to confine us along with the disease. The plan worked and I got to walk out free and healed at the end of summer, just in time to attend the first day of high school.</p>
<p>These days I find myself consumed with a deep longing for that time in America when people actually grew into adults. We used to be quite wonderful people. Will we ever again be surrounded, nursed or even governed by caring grown-up fellow citizens?</p>
<p><em>Mallory Millett resides in New York City with her husband of over twenty years. CFO for several corporations, she is a long-standing member of The David Horowitz Freedom Center and sits on the Board of Regents for the Center for Security Policy. </em></p>
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		<title>A Bowla Ebola Idiocy</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 15 Oct 2014 04:54:07 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator><![CDATA[Ben Shapiro]]></dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Why NBC's Nancy Snyderman violated her quarantine to quell a soup craving. ]]></description>
				<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p><a href="http://cdn.frontpagemag.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/10/1413172032725_wps_25_NBC_s_chief_medial_corres.jpg"><img class="alignleft  wp-image-243117" src="http://cdn.frontpagemag.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/10/1413172032725_wps_25_NBC_s_chief_medial_corres-348x350.jpg" alt="1413172032725_wps_25_NBC_s_chief_medial_corres" width="247" height="248" /></a>On Monday, The Daily Mail reported that NBC&#8217;s chief medical correspondent, Nancy Snyderman, had a hankering for a bowl of soup from Peasant Grill in Hopewell Boro, New Jersey. So she hopped in her car with one of her crewmembers and headed over to the Grill. When she got to the restaurant, she had her crewmember run inside, grab the soup, and run back out.</p>
<p>There was only one problem: Both Snyderman and her crewmember were under mandatory quarantine for 21 days. That quarantine was a result of their journey to Liberia to cover the Ebola outbreak, a journey during which cameraman Ashoka Mukpo contracted the disease. The authorities made the quarantine mandatory after another of the crewmembers violated a voluntary quarantine last week.</p>
<p>It&#8217;s one thing for Liberian citizen Thomas Eric Duncan to carry around an Ebola-ridden woman, get on an airplane to Dallas, walk into a hospital with symptoms, and then walk out again. Such behavior can be attributed, at least in part, to ignorance. It&#8217;s another thing entirely for a highly educated medical professional to endanger those around her for some miso.</p>
<p>But that&#8217;s the world of the media, where the proper response to the possibility of contracting Ebola is, &#8220;Don&#8217;t you know who I am?&#8221; Double standards abound here; media members lather Americans into a frenzy over the threat of a disease that has, to date, claimed a grand total of one life in the United States. Then they go out for lunch in public after being told that they could be carrying the virus.</p>
<p>The Snyderman story is truly part of a broader egocentrism in the media. The media didn&#8217;t give one whit about the Internal Revenue Service targeting conservative non-profit applicants — but they went absolutely batty over the Department of Justice targeting reporters.</p>
<p>The media don&#8217;t seem to care very much about demands for transparency from the Obama administration by the American public — but they&#8217;re fighting mad about the Obama administration&#8217;s refusal to let them photograph him golfing. After all, it&#8217;s one thing for normal Americans to get stiffed, and quite another for our betters to feel the effects of government&#8217;s heavy hand.</p>
<p>The gap between the media elite and the general population has a deleterious impact on America&#8217;s political future. Media members seem to have no problem with incompetent government overreach so long as they prosper, which is why so few media members worry over Democratic proposals to limit First Amendment press freedoms to government-designated &#8220;journalists.&#8221;</p>
<p>The American people suffer thanks to this elitism. The days of the adversarial media are ending — most investigative journalism now falls to the blogosphere or the foreign press. The corrupt relationship between media and government means that Americans don&#8217;t find out about overreach and incompetence until far too late for them to do anything about it.</p>
<p>And so the gap grows. No wonder Snyderman went for soup while under quarantine. After all, it&#8217;s not like all those other customers work for NBC, or anything.</p>
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		<title>Time for a New Ellis Island?</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 07 Oct 2014 04:37:17 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator><![CDATA[Michael Cutler]]></dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Lessons from America's former defensive bulwark against foreign diseases. ]]></description>
				<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p style="color: #232323;"><a href="http://cdn.frontpagemag.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/10/aborder.jpg"><img class="alignleft  wp-image-242409" src="http://cdn.frontpagemag.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/10/aborder.jpg" alt="aborder" width="290" height="192" /></a>The open borders/amnesty advocates whom I have come to refer to as the “immigration anarchists,” regularly complain bitterly that Ellis Island was closed. Indeed, Ellis Island was closed on November 12, 1954. However, this hardly meant that the United States was no longer permitting aliens to be legally admitted into the United States which was the message that I suspect those bemoaning the closing of that government facility wanted people to infer.</p>
<p style="color: #232323;">The reality is that while Ellis Island had nearly 70 years ago, other ports of entry scattered across the United States were open and facilitating the entry of aliens into the United States. These ports of entry are to be found along both the northern and southern borders of the United States, at seaports along the coastlines of the United States and at international airports. This coincides with a point I have often made about the United States having 50 “border states.”</p>
<p style="color: #232323;">Last year approximately one million aliens were lawfully admitted into the United States by presenting themselves for inspection at those numerous ports of entry and provided with Alien Registration Receipt Cards (also known as “Green Cards”) to signify their lawful immigrant status in accordance with the alien registration requirement of the Immigration and Nationality Act. These aliens, from virtually every country on this planet, were, upon their day of being granted lawful immigrant status, immediately placed on the pathway to United States citizenship. The number of aliens who were lawfully admitted for permanent residence in the United States was greater than the number of all immigrants legally admitted by all other countries around the world.</p>
<p style="color: #232323;">So much for the wailing about the shuttering of Ellis Island!</p>
<p style="color: #232323;">However, what is almost never discussed by anyone &#8212; especially the immigration anarchists, is that Ellis Island was a <i>quarantine station</i> that was operated by the United States Public Health Service in conjunction with immigration authorities. The fact is that the inspection facility was intentionally located on an island of the shore of New York City to make certain that aliens could not set foot on the U.S. mainland unless they were admitted into the United States and transported to the mainland. This was done to make certain that aliens who suffered dangerous communicable diseases could not sneak into the United States and create an epidemic.</p>
<p style="color: #232323;">Recently the hospital located at the Ellis Island complex of buildings has opened as a new exhibit at the Ellis Island Museum. CNN published a report about the hospital on October 1, 2014 with the appropriate title, <a href="http://edition.cnn.com/2014/10/01/business/ellis-island-hospital-art-exhibition/"><span style="color: #1255cc;">&#8220;New York&#8217;s hospital of immigrants: Where hope and pain collide.&#8221;</span></a> The timing of the opening of that component of the museum at Ellis Island could not have come at a more appropriate time.</p>
<p style="color: #232323;">Concerns about the potential for dangerous diseases crossing our borders have been tremendously elevated in the wake of the recent Ebola outbreak in Africa that has reach historic proportions and with the discovery that a Liberian citizen, Thomas Eric Duncan, had traveled to the United States by commercial airline flight and lied about his exposure to patients who were suffering from the Ebola virus.</p>
<p style="color: #1255cc;"><span style="color: #232323;">The October 3, 2014 report, <a href="http://edition.cnn.com/2014/10/02/health/ebola-us/index.html"><span style="color: #1255cc;">&#8220;Ebola patient&#8217;s leaving Liberia was &#8216;unpardonable,&#8217; its President says,&#8221;</span></a> provided some important details.</span></p>
<p style="color: #232323;">Here is how the report begins:</p>
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<p style="color: #232323;"><b><i>(CNN)</i></b><i> &#8212; Days before he became the first person diagnosed with Ebola on American soil, Thomas Eric Duncan answered &#8220;no&#8221; to questions about whether he had cared for a patient with the deadly virus.</i></p>
<p style="color: #232323;"><i>Before leaving Liberia, Duncan also answered no to a question about whether he had touched the body of someone who died in an area affected by the disease, said Binyah Kesselly, board chairman of the Liberia Airport Authority.</i></p>
<p style="color: #232323;"><i>Witnesses say Duncan had been helping Ebola patients in Liberia. Liberian community leader Tugbeh Chieh Tugbeh said Duncan was caring for an Ebola-infected patient at a residence in Paynesville City, just outside Monrovia.</i></p>
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<p style="color: #232323;">That single lie on that piece of paper was all that was needed for Duncan to board that airliner and enter the United States through a port of entry, potentially putting countless lives in the United States at risk.</p>
<p style="color: #232323;">The immigration inspections process conducted by CBP (Customs and Border Protection) inspectors is supposed to prevent entry of aliens who pose a threat to national security and the safety and well-being of Americans. For this vital mission to succeed, our borders must be made truly secure to make certain that aliens cannot evade that inspections process.</p>
<p style="color: #232323;">The list of such aliens is contained in the following section of the Immigration and Nationality Act (INA): <a href="http://www.law.cornell.edu/uscode/text/8/1182"><span style="color: #1255cc;">Title 8 U.S. Code § 1182 &#8211; Inadmissible aliens</span></a>. It includes various grounds of excludability including criminals, spies, terrorists, human rights violators and others. None of the grounds of excludability make any reference to race, religion or ethnicity. What is not generally known however, is that the list of these grounds for exclusion begin with public health concerns.</p>
<p style="color: #232323;">Here is how this section of law begins:</p>
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<p style="color: #232323;">(a) <b>Classes of aliens ineligible for visas or admission</b></p>
<p style="color: #232323;">Except as otherwise provided in this chapter, aliens who are inadmissible under the following paragraphs are ineligible to receive visas and ineligible to be admitted to the United States:</p>
<p style="color: #232323;">(1) <b>Health-related grounds</b></p>
<p style="color: #232323;">(A) <b>In general</b></p>
<p style="color: #232323;">Any alien—</p>
<p style="color: #232323;">(i) who is determined (in accordance with regulations prescribed by the Secretary of Health and Human Services) to have a communicable disease of public health significance; <a href="http://www.law.cornell.edu/uscode/text/8/1182#FN-1"><span style="color: #1255cc;"><sup>[1]</sup></span></a></p>
<p style="color: #232323;">(ii) except as provided in subparagraph (C), who seeks admission as an immigrant, or who seeks adjustment of status to the status of an alien lawfully admitted for permanent residence, and who has failed to present documentation of having received vaccination against vaccine-preventable diseases, which shall include at least the following diseases: mumps, measles, rubella, polio, tetanus and diphtheria toxoids, pertussis, influenza type B and hepatitis B, and any other vaccinations against vaccine-preventable diseases recommended by the Advisory Committee for Immunization Practices,</p>
<p style="color: #232323;">(iii) who is determined (in accordance with regulations prescribed by the Secretary of Health and Human Services in consultation with the Attorney General)—</p>
<p style="color: #232323;">(I) to have a physical or mental disorder and behavior associated with the disorder that may pose, or has posed, a threat to the property, safety, or welfare of the alien or others, or</p>
<p style="color: #232323;">(II) to have had a physical or mental disorder and a history of behavior associated with the disorder, which behavior has posed a threat to the property, safety, or welfare of the alien or others and which behavior is likely to recur or to lead to other harmful behavior, or</p>
<p style="color: #232323;">(iv) who is determined (in accordance with regulations prescribed by the Secretary of Health and Human Services) to be a drug abuser or addict, is inadmissible.</p>
<p style="color: #232323;">(B) <b>Waiver authorized</b></p>
<p style="color: #232323;">For provision authorizing waiver of certain clauses of subparagraph (A), see subsection (g) of this section.</p>
<p style="color: #232323;">(C) <b>Exception from immunization requirement for adopted children 10 years of age or younger</b></p>
<p style="color: #232323;">Clause (ii) of subparagraph (A) shall not apply to a child who—</p>
<p style="color: #232323;">(i) is 10 years of age or younger,</p>
<p style="color: #232323;">(ii) is described in subparagraph (F) or (G) of section <a href="http://www.law.cornell.edu/uscode/text/8/1101"><span style="color: #1255cc;">1101</span></a> <a href="http://www.law.cornell.edu/uscode/text/8/usc_sec_08_00001101----000-#b_1"><span style="color: #1255cc;">(b)(1)</span></a> of this title; <a href="http://www.law.cornell.edu/uscode/text/8/1182#FN-1"><span style="color: #1255cc;"><sup>[1]</sup></span></a>and</p>
<p style="color: #232323;">(iii) is seeking an immigrant visa as an immediate relative under section <a href="http://www.law.cornell.edu/uscode/text/8/1151"><span style="color: #1255cc;">1151</span></a> <a href="http://www.law.cornell.edu/uscode/text/8/usc_sec_08_00001151----000-#b"><span style="color: #1255cc;">(b)</span></a> of this title,</p>
<p style="color: #232323;">if, prior to the admission of the child, an adoptive parent or prospective adoptive parent of the child, who has sponsored the child for admission as an immediate relative, has executed an affidavit stating that the parent is aware of the provisions of subparagraph (A)(ii) and will ensure that, within 30 days of the child’s admission, or at the earliest time that is medically appropriate, the child will receive the vaccinations identified in such subparagraph.</p>
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<p style="color: #232323;">All sorts of proposals to prevent the spread of the Ebola virus to the United States have been made by our political leaders including ending flights from countries in which patients suffering from Ebola have been found, including Liberia and Sierra Leone, where according to some reports, the Ebola virus is spreading like “wild fire.”</p>
<p style="color: #232323;">Of course people who are determined to leave those countries will likely manage to cross the borders of neighboring countries, potentially further spreading this deadly disease, and then seeking to board airliners for flights to the United States and other countries.</p>
<p style="color: #232323;">Recommendations are being made about how CBP inspectors and other government officials should modify the inspections process at ports of entry. Certainly this makes sense. However, no matter how effective the screening process may be at America&#8217;s ports of entry, we need to remember that our nation&#8217;s borders exist on maps but not in the “real world.”</p>
<p style="color: #232323;">Our nation has, as I have noted on ever so many occasions, 50 “border states.”</p>
<p style="color: #232323;">Our borders must be made secure against those who would smuggle aliens and contraband into the United States. In addition to concern about narcotics and weapons into the United States, even seemingly prosaic substances as meat may provide a deadly threat.</p>
<p style="color: #232323;">On August 21, 2014 Newsweek Magazine published a worrying report, <a href="https://www.google.com/search?q=Smuggled+Bushmeat+Is+Ebola's+Back+Door+to+America&amp;ie=utf-8&amp;oe=utf-8&amp;aq=t&amp;rls=org.mozilla:en-US:official&amp;client=firefox-a&amp;channel=np&amp;source=hp"><span style="color: #1255cc;">&#8220;Smuggled Bushmeat Is Ebola&#8217;s Back Door to America.&#8221;</span></a> Talk about the expression that “One man&#8217;t meat is another&#8217;s poison.”</p>
<p style="color: #232323;">High-ranking officials of the DHS of both the Bush and Obama administrations repeatedly claimed our “borders are secure” while blithely ignoring the massive tsunami of illegal aliens entering the United States each day along with record quantities of narcotics which provide an irrefutable metric that makes the failures of border security crystal clear. The United States is in the midst of the worst heroin epidemic in decades &#8212; perhaps ever. Police departments across the United States have taken to the unprecedented measure of providing their officers with the antidote to heroin overdoses.</p>
<p style="color: #232323;">Heroin and cocaine are not produced in the United States. If our borders were truly secure those substances could not get into the United States.</p>
<p style="color: #232323;">For years our politicians and even high-ranking officials of the DHS have claimed that running our borders is not a crime. The reality is, of course, far different.</p>
<p style="color: #232323;">While it is true that the first time an alien evades the inspections process and, in the jargon of immigration enforcement personnel is an EWI (<b>E</b>ntrant <b>W</b>ithout <b>I</b>nspection), an alien who has been previously deported and then unlawfully re-enters the United States is most definitely committing a felony. The provisions of this section of the Immigration and Nationality Act are contained in <a href="http://www.law.cornell.edu/uscode/text/8/1326"><span style="color: #1255cc;">Title 8 U.S. Code § 1326 &#8211; Reentry of removed aliens</span></a>.</p>
<p style="color: #232323;">Under this statute, the maximum penalty a previously deported aliens faces if he (she) has no criminal history and illegally re-enters the United States is 2 years in federal custody. However, an alien who was deported subsequent to being convicted of committing “aggravated felonies” faces a maximum of 20 years in a federal prison. Certainly any crime that carries a 20-year maximum penalty is a very serious crime, indeed.</p>
<p style="color: #232323;">I am particularly proud of that last violation of law; in the early 1980s I worked with then-U.S. Senator Al D&#8217;Amato to create that particular law and took special delight in making the first arrest of an alien (a convicted narcotics dealer) for violating that statute.</p>
<p style="color: #232323;">Today&#8217;s concerns about our borders being breached by transnational criminals and international terrorists from al-Qaeda, ISIS or Khorasan have been expanded to people entering the United States who are infected with the Ebola virus and other such contagious diseases that are truly the stuff of nightmares. These concerns may even transcend the issue of whether or not an alien evading the inspections process is committing a crime. Given the current circumstances, the bigger issue may turn out to be whether or not by malevolent intent in the case of criminals or terrorists or by being infected with a deadly communicable disease, an alien&#8217;s ability to evade the inspections process may result in massive numbers of casualties in the United States.</p>
<p style="color: #232323;">Our leaders, including event the most ardent open borders advocates, must finally accept the reality that our borders, no matter where they are to be found, are our first and last line of defense against criminals, terrorists and deadly epidemics.</p>
<p style="color: #232323;">Given the magnitude of the dangers, where our borders are concerned, “secure enough” is not secure enough.</p>
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