Grayson is certainly not a middling-type Dem. Interesting. Also, this article states that Duncan, Americas Index Patient (first patient diagnosed with an infectious disease, mostly used with high-level diseases, such as Ebola and Margurg), applied for a visa in June and was denied. Then, applied again and was granted a visa in September. This was after USCIS began expediting travel visas from the Ebola-affected countries. The expediting began in August (see article or highlighted quote below in header). ~cj Alan Grayson Called for Ebola Travel Ban in July; Obama Inexplicably Ignored Request On July 29, Representative Alan Grayson (D-FL) became the first member of Congress to formally call on the Obama administration to ban travel from the three countries in West Africa experiencing Ebola outbreaks. In a letter to Secretary of State John Kerry and Secretary of the Department of Homeland Security Jeh Johnson dated July 29, Grayson stated, I write to request the imposition of a travel ban on the citizens of Guinea, Liberia, and Sierra Leone, and any foreign person who has visited one of these nations 90 days prior to arriving in the United States. But both the State Department and Homeland Security ignored his request. Instead, on August 15, Homeland Securitys United States Customs and Immigration Service (USCIS) announced the implementation of a new policy, Ebola Outbreak-related Immigration Relief Measures to Nationals of Guinea, Liberia and Sierra Leone Currently in the United States, that made it easier for citizens of these countries with visas to extend their stay in the United States, as Breitbart News reported on Friday. Specifically, the USCIS stated it would begin [e]xpedited processing of immigrant petitions for immediate relatives (currently in the United States) of U.S. citizens who were living in or citizens of Liberia, Guinea, and Sierra Leonne, the three countries in West Africa experiencing outbreaks of Ebola. The August 15 USCIS announcement came a little more than a month after Leon Rodriguez, a protege of Secretary of Labor Tom Perez and Attorney General Eric Holder, was sworn in as the new Director of the USCIS.... breitbart/Big-Government/2014/10/18/Congressman-Alan-Grayson-Called-for-West-Africa-Travel-Ban-in-July-Obama-Inexplicably-Ignored-Request
Posted on: Mon, 20 Oct 2014 13:28:43 +0000
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