"Flattening The Curve" And Killing Open Borders -- March 15, 2020

Link here.

The Trump administration has a plan, of course, and limiting travel from areas where the virus is widespread is part of it. The Democrats’ open borders ideology is so deeply engrained that even in the midst of a public health crisis, it prevails over everything else [Biden still calling for open borders; no travel restrictions].

Thursday was also the day when House Democrats quietly shelved their bill limiting the president’s power to restrict foreign travel.

Link here.

House Democrat leaders on Thursday withdrew from the calendar a floor vote on a bill targeting President Trump’s travel restrictions, to the dismay of the Council on American-Islamic Relations (CAIR), which advocates against what critics describe as the “Muslim ban.”

CAIR, which calls itself the nation’s biggest Muslim civil rights and advocacy group, called on Speaker Nancy Pelosi (D-Calif.) and Majority Leader Steny Hoyer (D-Md.) “to recommit to rescheduling a vote” on the legislation, and urged Americans to “ask their member of Congress to support the immediate rescheduling of this important measure.”Although the bill was introduced long before the outbreak of the novel coronavirus, Republicans drew attention to the fact that the legal authority it targets is the authority that enabled Trump to move quickly last month to deny entry to any foreign national who has visited China in the 14 days prior to arrival.

That same authority – Section 212(f) of the Immigration and Nationality Act (INA) – allowed the president this week to expand that restriction to apply to 26 European countries in the Schengen zone.

Democrats pushed back against that criticism, arguing that the bill is aimed at what they call the “Muslim ban,” not the federal government’s response to the COVID-19 outbreak.

Rep. Judy Chu (D-Calif.), who introduced the National Origin-Based Antidiscrimination for Nonimmigrants (NO BAN) Act in April last year, complained that Republicans were being “dishonest” about her bill.

It's amazing how close the US House came to passing a really, really bad bill. Banning travel from Europe and the UK/Ireland pretty much puts the lie to the anti-Muslim / racist overtones. 

Schengen Zone?

Schengen Area, signifies a zone where 26 European countries, abolished their internal borders, for the free and unrestricted movement of people, in harmony with common rules for controlling external borders and fighting criminality by strengthening the common judicial system and police cooperation.

Schengen Area covers most of the EU countries, except Ireland and the countries that are soon to be part of: Romania, Bulgaria, Croatia and Cyprus. Although not members of the EU, countries like: Norway, Iceland, Switzerland and Lichtenstein are also part of the Schengen zone.

And the Dems blame Trump? 

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Case Studies

On February 28, 2020, I wrote the following - case studies for the future:

• South Korea: will be incredibly interesting from many aspects; 
• South Korea may indeed be "the model" for the US
• Italy: could be the model for the EU
• Iran: third world country; method of containment: trucks driving down city streets spraying germicides;
• Russia: a fairly closed society

Update, March 15, 2020: Iran reports biggest single-day jump of coronavirus deaths as president rules out quarantine. Iran is also "working" to keep its borders open. Of course, they can. No other country will allow anyone to return from Iran, and anyone foolish to enter Iran at this time is ... well, foolish.