On Fri, 1 May 2009 19:51:34 -0700, Jimmy Ribbitt wrote:
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> "Don Gabacho" wrote in message
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>> On Fri, 1 May 2009 18:34:32 -0700, Jimmy Ribbitt wrote:
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>>> "Don Gabacho" wrote in message
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>>>> Lack of answers raises dangerous question of priorities
>>>> Sam Lister and Mark Henderson: commentary
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>>>> In Egypt they decided to slaughter their pigs. France called for an
>>>> EU-wide
>>>> ban on air travel to Mexico while Argentina and Cuba have stopped
>>>> flights
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>>> This would be unenforceable, as long as the USA still allows air
>>> travel to Mexico. All an EU traveller would have to do is simply
>>> fly to a US destination, then change planes for a Mexico bound
>>> flight
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>> Yes.
>>
>> For 18 days the Mexican Government didn't alert even Mexico much less the
>> world (Spring Break had begun = much U.S. dollars "captured") and to this
>> day refuses to shut down even Mexico City's own airport putting the rest
>> of
>> the world in the position of shutting Mexico out.
>>
>> But then there's Obama: the weak link.
>>
>> He refuses to shut down flights to and from Mexico or even quarantine both
>> passengers and planes arriving stateside from Mexico!
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> Becuase Americans can and will find another way.
Very few. The vast majority of Americans, as they are already and despite
Obama, would not travel to and from Mexico. That vast majority would
compose an element sizeable enough to help retard the spread of the virus.
To buy that much more time until at least a vaccine (actually two now
required as the virus has morphed in Atlanta) can be developed and
deployed.
> And, as I said,
> USA imposed travel restrictions on its citizens ONLY apply to
> those using AMERICAN passports.
Which a neglected declaration of national emergency could certainly have
addressed.
Such national emergency that should have included (and could still) iat
least the directive that all flights arriving to the U.S. from Mexico and
contain bona-fide U.S. Citizens-only traveling on U.S. Passports plus those
flights' planes and passengers to be quarantined until both cleared of the
virus.
To detect passengers and planes having traveled through Mexico or having
transferred passengers prior in Mexico, the directive should also have
included (and could still) that no flights would be allowed to land in the
U.S. without the flight's passenger manifests first being submitted to and
approved by appropriate U.S. authorities.
Given especially 9/11, it would surprise me that the FAA doesn't already
have in place a similar manifest requirement as it is.
> A USA/Mexico dual national
> using his or her MEXICAN passport is NOT SUBJECT to any
> travel restrictions imposed on American citizens.
See above.
You have hit on one of two reasons why Obama and Calderon have made the
preservation of NAFTA, and its subsequent political value to both, the U.S.
and Mexican government's overwhelming priority.
In regard to Obama, no matter the Mexican Government's obnoxious and even
hostile nationalization, in 1996, of Mexico's so-called
"immigrant"-nationals, illegal and legal, stateside, their children born in
the U.S. and even Mexican-Americans resident to the U.S.A. for generations.
The second being the origin-site of the virus' outbreak on a very major
U.S. agri-business pig farm, or anything like it, in Mexico.
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