Stopping Americans from travelling to Mexico and back would be more intelligent than trying to close the borders against non-existent Mexicans who aren’t trying to flee to the US to escape this flu.

If you’re interested, please read- http://www.opednews.com/articles/Pandemic-or-Pig-Farm-Fiasc-by-Colleen-De-Koning-090428-311.html#comment211457

“Neither is there an explanation for how these flies were able to travel hundreds of miles to infect others.”

La Gloria is less than 5 miles from the Granja Carroll farm, and the local officials must have taken the fly infestation seriously enough to have responded to reports of 4-500 people being sickened with respiratory illness to vaccinate all the pigs, all the people of La Gloria, fumigate the farms and the people’s homes, and spray to get rid of the government acknowleged black fly problem at the farm and in the homes— before this was called a pandemic… there are also many huge poultry mega-farms in the area as well, at least one of which suffered a huge avian flu problem recently. The flies did not need to travel hundreds of miles. It’s a hop, skip and a jump in La Gloria to get from a pig farm to a poultry farm to human residences. And that’s not taking into account how many of the locals actually work at either the pig or poultry farm. There isn’t much other industry in the area.

Hate illegal aliens all you want… but be intelligent enough to realize when a news story doesn’t fit in with that hatred.

Handing out harsh legal repercussions for people/businesses who hire illegals for pennies on the dollar would do more towards eliminating illegal aliens than any other action. They come here for jobs, that dishonest greedy businesspeople provide for them here. If those jobs dried up, they would have no incentive to come here. I, for one, would be willing to pay a higher price for my produce in order to see that happen. Would you?

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Why do you blame the immigrants to cross the borders?. You might ask to your governors do not corrupt the latinamerican politicians. Washington is the origin of the economical problems there. Nobody want to leave their country just “looking the american dream”, that is really the nortamerican nightmare. So reciporcally latinamericans should refuse to cross the northamericans to cross their borders if thgey want to travek to Cancun or those beautiful places that belongs to foreigners, thanks to the corruption.

But you have not answered the question, why the flu begun in Texas and CA?

Illegal Mexicans are illegal Mexicans. Close the borders and send them back now. They’re lawbreakers and we don’t need any other reason.

p.s. — hope you feel good, Mr. M. All the news media were going to handle this in a totally non-sensationalistic manner until you planted the idea of formenting mass hysteria in their minds with your last post.
Bad critical thinker! Very very bad! As web persona, you should have learned the first lesson of communication 2.0 — namely, never feed the trolls (or the brain dead zombies).

“But to believe that closing the border to illegals will have any effect on the spread or even containment of Swine Flu is refuted by the facts. It is estimated that anywhere between 500,000 and one million illegals pour across our border every year. Almost the same number - about 650,000 - enter the US legally every day”

If it follows the typical pattern of other flu viruses it will be spread through airborne droplets and bodily secretions. That means that if people coming from an area where they are less likely to treat it effectively i.e Mexico come to another area i.e The U.S they will spread it among a greater number of the population than if we were to have secure borders and health checks. A secure border cannot stop all disease just as it cannot stop all drug trade. It is absurd however to suggest that effective measures at boarder policing have no role to play in preventing faster spread of the disease.

Rick you cite the figures regarding illegal and legal entry into the U.S. Thats all fine and good when those entering are not infected. What happens when say 1 in 10 are infected? Do you expect the spread of disease to be greater or less in the U.S as every infected person becomes a potential risk for new infections? How many of those who come here illegally and are infected might be less likely to seek treatment because they fear being deported and thus are sick longer and are thus greater factors for spread of the disease?

It makes you neither wise or compassionate to state that a secure border is no factor at all in stopping flu transmission. Viruses may not care about barbed wire or 100,000 soldiers but people do. And without people to carry them abroad it matters not a whit what a virus cares about.