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Former House Speaker Newt Gingrich is the latest anti-immigrant Republican to claim, with absolutely no evidence, that undocumented immigrants could be sneaking across the southern border carrying Ebola, a disease that is currently contained in a handful of countries in West Africa.
Roll Call reports that Gingrich and Tom DeLay, who served alongside him as majority whip, fielded questions about immigration at a reunion last night for members of the House GOP class of 1994: Gingrich and DeLay also fielded questions about immigration policy, though neither acknowledged the growing realization among many of their peers that if the GOP doesnt take some affirmative stance on the issue in the next two years, they could pay for it at the polls in 2016.
Gingrich said a porous border meant undocumented individuals could come into the United States carrying Ebola. Wicker piped in that if Congress were ever to try again to pass a comprehensive immigration overhaul legislation, it would have to be piecemeal, and the very first bill a border security bill would need to be signed into law by the president before lawmakers did anything else.
DeLay said that he didnt support amnesty, per se, but did think the GOP needed to do some sort of visa reform to allow immigrants to come and work honestly in the country. The Ebola claim is just the most extreme manifestation of the anti-immigrant movements baseless attempts to link undocumented immigrants particularly the wave of children fleeing violence in Central America to disease, an age-old strategy meant to stir up anti-immigrant hysteria.
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spanone
(135,844 posts)JustAnotherGen
(31,828 posts)Crazy talk. . . I only wish more people could see how they 'gin up' fear to keep peoples' minds closed.
Erose999
(5,624 posts)Catholicism, he wouldn't be able to dump his wife and kids in the event they contracted it.
wandy
(3,539 posts)I had noticed another Teapublican congress critter and at least one high level source that wished to remain anonymous sing this song this week.
I thought I'd post a few links to the RW message of the week. Wow, pages and pages of links. Basically variations on the same copy.
Use your favorite search engine for.........
Immigrants Could Be Bringing diseases Across The Southern Border
If their is one tool the GOP has that we don't it is that when the master copy comes down from on high they somehow customize the message to their own styil then sing the same song. In 200 part harmony no less.
I wouldn't worry about those awful, awful diseases just yet...
It won't be official until Josie's close border-police friend tells her to call up a radio station.
CaptainTruth
(6,594 posts)... that Newt & Tom are spreading ebola. The odds are about the same.
Wellstone ruled
(34,661 posts)Rethug internals must be showing some big time shift in their trash base. Out comes the Pundits,I mean conspiracy theorist's. What McGrumpy and his guy pal have to say over the week end should be a real mouth full of stupid.
Half-Century Man
(5,279 posts)One of those self approved immigrants could, with the education gotten here, develop a vaccine for ebola.
woodsprite
(11,916 posts)Feral Child
(2,086 posts)Eventually some conservative, desperate for attention, had to scare the TeaBaggers with Ebola being smuggled across the border by terrorists.
This time it's the Newt, desperately trying to get back into politics after his monumental flameout, trying to get noticed with this ludicrous prognostication.
If Ebola gets into this country it's going to be aboard a jet landing at LaGuardia.
Sad little man...
IggleDoer
(1,186 posts)And they would be more correct than Newt.