Trump says we’re in the middle of an epidemic. But an epidemic of what?

Apparently the Trumpies don't plan to bother making even a pretense of following the law:

And they really are looking. Immigration hardcase Stephen Miller is in charge of this operation, and even before COVID hit he apparently tried to use a minor outbreak of mumps to justify a border shutdown. That didn't fly, so he and his allies have moved on:

They have looked at tuberculosis and other respiratory diseases as options and have asked allies inside the Border Patrol for examples of illnesses that are being detected among migrants.

….[Miller] said the new administration intended to use the law, citing “severe strains of the flu, tuberculosis, scabies, other respiratory illnesses like R.S.V. and so on, or just a general issue of mass migration being a public health threat and conveying a variety of communicable diseases.”

They aren't being creative enough. Colds can be dangerous, after all. Shingles, ebola, HIV, hepatitis B, hepatitis C, syphilis, bubonic plague, West Nile, zika, measles, MRSA, bird flu. Pretty much anything will do. All you have to do is convince a judge in the eastern district of Texas, right?

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