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Hillary’s Open Borders Bring Disease and Terrorism Risks

October 27, 2016 - 6:00am

In normal times, presidential candidates in most countries make campaign promises to protect their citizens and ensure security and national sovereignty for their homelands.

The 2016 election in the United States has, however, taken a strange and potentially deadly twist.

As revealed by Wikileaks, the Democrat presidential candidate, Hillary Clinton, has pledged to work for “open borders” between the United States, Mexico and Canada. In a 2013 paid speech to Banco Itau, a Brazilian bank, Hillary Clinton stated: “My dream is a hemispheric common market, with open trade and open borders, some time in the future with energy that is a green and sustainable as we can get it, powering growth and opportunity for every person in the hemisphere.”

Clinton’s “dream” presumably means the southern U.S. border would be a conduit for untold millions of migrants. It is in stark contrast to the Republican candidate, Donald Trump, who has committed to building a secure border wall to improve security for the United States and improved protection for citizens.

One may argue that more “openness” between North American countries might possibly have some benefits, but the risks to the health and safety of Americans are far greater than the few benefits, and more serious than have been discussed in the media and at the three presidential debates.

Just what are those risks? Three major ones are cost burdens on American taxpayers, terrorism and contagious diseases.

Terrorism is on the rise. Intelligence and terrorism experts in the military and federal agencies have warned that “open borders” increase the risks of terrorists coming into the United States with intent to kill Americans. They may enter legally as “Syrian refugees,” whose identities, backgrounds and actual origin are unknown and cannot be vetted. Or they may come illegally from the Middle East via our southern border in the flood of migrants from Mexico and Central America.

Contagious diseases are increasing dramatically across the U.S. but threats are not being reported in the media. Human migrants carry invisible travelers of viruses, bacteria, fungi, and parasites from under-developed countries lacking proper sanitation and public health services. Americans are now exposed to serious diseases that U.S. public health services had controlled or eradicated years ago. Many physicians are unfamiliar with these diseases, and many lack effective treatment.

Diseases on the rise include tuberculosis (TB), dengue fever, West Nile virus, Ebola, chikungunya, hepatitis, malaria, Chagas disease, leishmaniasis (“flesh-eating” bacteria), and even leprosy.

Medical costs can be staggering. For example, uncomplicated TB costs about $20,000 per person per year to treat. Multi-drug resistant TB (MDR-TB)—the most common form now being brought into the U.S.—costs approximately $120,000 EACH year person for the THREE years of treatment required. Extreme MDR-TB costs a whopping $430,000 per person per year for 3-5 years of treatment. American taxpayers are paying for all these costs.

American children are at high risk. Immigrant children in the 2014 surge from Central America, who were processed rapidly and dispersed into communities across the U.S., appear to be the source of enterovirus D68, the severe respiratory virus that killed many young children in American cities. The EV D68 virus also caused a polio-like paralysis in 120 U.S. children.

As of August 2016, the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) reported 50 cases of acute flaccid myelitis, a paralysis similar to polio, a big increase over 21 cases for the whole year in 2015. This outbreak is thought to be another enterovirus, whose origin is unknown, but may come with immigrant children from areas where the disease is endemic and children have some immunity and therefore only mild symptoms. When the disease is brought to America, our children with no immunity then risk the full-blown polio-like paralysis. Government agencies like the CDC appear unwilling to disclose the immigrant sources that might cause Americans to reject the administration’s resettlement programs.

Cost burdens on taxpayers put a huge strain on working class Americans and our social systems. Even if the large influx of needy foreigners are law-abiding and peaceful, our taxpayers are footing the bills for social services, housing, education, food stamps, and medical care. They are competing with Americans for jobs, which drives down wages. They compete for medical care, driving up wait times for doctors and hospital emergency rooms. Medical facilities, physicians, and paying patients bear the burden of uncompensated medical care for immigrants. Estimates are that immigrants illegally in the U.S. cost taxpayers more than $17 billion per year, in addition to the costs for those allowed here legally under “refugee” status.

Hillary Clinton has indicated her plan to follow in Obama’s footsteps to expand the dream of “open borders,” causing a nightmare for American families who face serious illness and death from the infectious diseases arriving with immigrants.

Democrats continue to be more wedded to their ideology and globalism agenda than to protecting the health and safety of American lives. Hillary’s dream of open borders is a threat to individual lives and to the very survival of America.

Not in my lifetime has a presidential election raised a starker choice: open borders or border security to remain a sovereign nation.

 

Dr. Vliet is an independent physician with an active US medical practice in Tucson AZ and Dallas TX, specializing in preventive and climacteric medicine with an integrated approach to evaluation and treatment of women and men with complex medical and hormonal problems. Dr. Vliet is also Chief Medical Officer of Med Expert Chile SpA, connecting patients to top tier, lower cost medical care in Latin America, focused on medical freedom, patient-centered, individualized care preserving the Oath of Hippocrates. Dr. Vliet is a past Director of the Association of American Physicians and Surgeons (AAPS).

Dr. Vliet is a 2014 Ellis Island Medal of Honor recipient for her national and international educational efforts in health, wellness, and endocrine aging in men and women, and is recognized in the US as a powerful patient advocate, proponent of free market approaches to lower healthcare costs and a motivational speaker on health/wellness.  Dr. Vliet is the recipient of Voice of Women Award from Arizona Foundation for Women in recognition of her pioneering advocacy for the overlooked hormone connections in women’s health. 

Dr. Vliet's consumer health books include: It’s My Ovaries, Stupid; Screaming To Be Heard: Hormonal Connections Women Suspect-- And Doctors STILL  Ignore; Women, Weight and Hormones; The Savvy Woman's Guide to PCOS,  The Savvy Woman’s Guide to Great Sex, Strength, and Stamina.

Dr. Vliet is a member of the International Menopause Society and the International Society for The Study of the Aging Male (ISSAM). She received her M.D. degree and internship in Internal Medicine at Eastern Virginia Medical School, and completed specialty training at Johns Hopkins Hospital.  She earned her B.S. and Master’s degrees from the College of William and Mary in Virginia. 

Dr. Vliet has appeared on FOX NEWS, Cavuto, Stuart Varney Show, Fox and Friends, Sean Hannity and many nationally syndicated radio shows across the country as well as hundreds of Healthcare Town Halls addressing the economic and medical impact of the 2010 healthcare law, as well as seminars on Men’s Health and Women’s Health. She has been the host of several radio shows on health topics.

Dr. Vliet’s medical and educational websites are www.HerPlace.com, and www.MedExpertChile.com. For more on healthcare reform, go to www.AAPSonline.org and http://www.patientpoweramerica.com/

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"Dr." Vliet's bio-suppose no one at SSN bothered to question her dubious credentials. http://mediamatters.org/blog/2014/10/02/the-alternate-universe-origins-of-the-far-right/200992 ### >>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>> .."​Conservative media outlets, including Fox News contributor Laura Ingraham, are fanning the flames of Ebola panic and anti-immigrant sentiment by highlighting the unfounded opinions of fringe medical expert Dr. Elizabeth Vliet, the former director of an organization that claimed that undocumented immigrants caused a leprosy epidemic.>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>> After news outlets reported the discovery of an Ebola patient diagnosed in the United States, radio host and Fox News contributor Laura Ingraham hosted Dr. Elizabeth Vliet to inform listeners about the disease. Vliet used the platform to accuse President Obama of "underplaying the risk" of Ebola and suggested the disease could be transmitted through the air, an opinion that runs contrary to widespread medical opinion.>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>> To make her case, Vliet cited a debunked study from 2012 that studied transmission of the virus between pigs and monkeys.Medical experts also agree that it's highly unlikely Ebola could mutate into a form that changes its mode of transmission. In fact, such a thing has never been observed in medical history, according to Vincent Racaniello, a virologist at the College of Physicians and Surgeons at Columbia University. He writes, "We have been studying viruses for over 100 years, and we've never seen a human virus change the way it is transmitted">>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>> Vliet's medical degree and penchant for hyping anti-immigrant myths has helped develop her reputation as the far right's go-to expert for medical conspiracy theories. In August, Vliet wrote an exclusive column for WND.com titled, "Illegals Bring Risk Of Ebola." In her article, the Vliet parroted other anti-immigrant voices by suggesting undocumented immigrants crossing the southern border were spreading Ebola and that the government was concealing their diagnoses.Despite "zero evidence" that migrants have carried Ebola through the U.S.-Mexico border, Vliet's opinion was cited by Breitbart, Infowars, and Newsmax, a continuation of a long conservative tradition of smearing immigrants as dirty or diseased.>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>> Vliet is also the former director of the Association of American Physicians and Surgeons (AAPS), a group of far-right conspiracy theorists with a history of making false claims about undocumented immigrants carrying disease. Mother Jones reported on the organization's connections to the Tea Party and examined the contents of the AAPS' publication Journal of American Physicians and Surgeons, noting "the journal erroneously claimed that illegal immigration had caused a leprosy epidemic in the US">>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>> The publication's archives present a kind of alternate-universe scientific world, in which abortion causes breast cancer and vaccines cause autism, but HIV does not cause AIDS. Cutting carbon emissions represents a grave threat to global health (because environmental regulation would make people poorer and, consequently, sicker). In 2005, the journal erroneously claimed that illegal immigration had caused a leprosy epidemic in the US, a claim that was reported as fact in more mainstream outlets such as Lou Dobbs' show.​"​ ​

While well aware the SSN is right -leaning and conservative, I sense almost a note of desperation in the content they've recently chosen to run . This article is so filled with blatant falsehoods that I wonder if anyone ever checks veracity. The outrageous statements Vliet makes here read like a Trump campaign tweet. As all SHOULD know, the effluvium that spews from his mouth, the barrage of 45 word myths that flow from his tiny hands, and the continuous mis/dis information -aka-lies-erupting from his campaign staff, have been fact-checked by multiple entities,debunked,and exposed as excrement dropped from a delirious mind. Then again, the Trumpanzees obviously lack the mental acuity to fact check anything. Enjoy the bananas while you can;that tree is almost stripped of its poisonous fruit. Kudos to "Diane".

When are you 'conservatives' going to catch on to the fact you ae spoon-fed lie, after lie, after lie to get you to support candidates/politicians who don't give a rat's patootie about you or your children?...................The writer of this article, Elizabeth Lee Vliet, is a bold-face liar. She doesn't deserve the assumption of simple incompetence instead of a liar, because with her long list of achievements, she would have to be intelligent enough to verify her 'presumption' of Clinton's "open border" before making claims about her presumption. What honest person would simply accept a a document provided by the Russian govt as a supposedly hacked email without attempting to verify? .....................If she had verified the source of the email, she would know her interpretation is a lie............Instead she employs fear to sway her readers against Clinton.................As Clinton explained in the 3rd debate, she was not talking about open borders for immigrants. She was referring to open borders for energy sources.......... Clinton's statement is backed up by her actions/words over the past decade, including votes as a US Senator.................Are you going to buy Vliet's lies or use your own brain and sense of MORALITY to search out the truth?...............From the 3rd debate:......................CHRIS WALLACE: Is that your dream, open borders?................. HILLARY CLINTON. Well, if you went on to read the rest of the sentence, I was talking about energy………………………..You know, we trade more energy with our neighbors then we trade with rest of the world combined and I do want us to have an electric grid, an energy system that crosses borders, I think I would be a great benefit to us. But you are very clearly quoting from Wikileaks and what is important about that is that the Russian government has engaged in espionage against Americans……………………………………………."Here is what she said, per WikiLeaks: “My dream is a hemispheric common market, with open trade and open borders, sometime in the future with energy that is as green and sustainable as we can get it, powering growth and opportunity for every person in the hemisphere.” Fact-checks have debated what exactly this means. While Clinton’s campaign says it’s about energy, reasonable people have disagreed. PolitiFact cited people who said they believed it referred to both trade and immigration. FactCheck.org, meanwhile, believed it “was related to trade, not immigration.” However one interprets this, it is also true that Clinton has not called for “open borders” as a policy during this campaign…………….. Danielle Kurtzleben NPR Politics Reporter ……………………………………..http://www.npr.org/2016/10/19/498293478/fact-check-trump-and-clinton-s-final-presidential-debate

Time to stop with the "smoke and mirrors".

Nice rant based on a lie. Clinton was talking about energy, electricity and oil sharing. Just what kind of doctor doesn't check their facts and so easily fooled by Trump's lies.?.... Especially since this is well known...... But then she is defending thd biggest liar of all, Trump. ...?... It's really why I rarely vote republican any more they lie so much...... You can't be a real conservative based on lies either fiscal or social conservative. Just fiscally and morally bankrupt thst brought you Trump. ... ..Now your party is being distroyed . HA HA.

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