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6/25/14, "Swine Flu Confirmed at Shelter for Unaccompanied Minors," Breitbart, Kristin Tate, Houston, Texas
"An unaccompanied minor from Central America who entered the U.S.
illegally has been confirmed as having the Swine Flu, also known as the
H1N1 flu.
A spokesperson from the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services
confirmed that the sick child is at the Lackland Air Force base in San
Antonio, according to KRGV. 2,000 H1N1 vaccinations are being brought to the air base, where more than 1,000 illegal immigrant minors are currently staying.
Congressman Louie Gohmert told Breitbart Texas that the U.S.
Department of Health and Human Services--the agency currently caring for
many of the unaccompanied minors--is not doing an adequate job of
screening and treating diseases....
This is not the first time health concerns have been raised regarding the illegal immigrant population. Breitbart Texas previously reported on an outbreak of scabies among the migrants. Several Border Patrol agents contracted the skin infestation.
Rio Grande Valley Border Patrol spokesman Omar Zamora told Breitbart
Texas, "We don't screen for diseases. All we are is a processing center,
so we don't do that.""
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4/6/14, "Jeb Bush says illegal immigration often 'an act of love'," Reuters, Peter Cooney
.
The Republicans, said Knapp, wanted to turn the Tea Partiers into a
source of grassroots muscle for the GOP, and sought to stymie any effort
by the activists to create a third party -- an idea Knapp supported.
According to Knapp, one female Republican media specialist at the
meeting flatly declared: "Our biggest fear is that the Tea Party will
evolve into a third party." Such an occurrence would be a "death knell"
to the already shrinking state GOP, the woman said, according to Knapp.
"It was very clear that they didn't want this movement to get out of
their control," he said.
But not everyone in the group was as opposed as Knapp to working with
the GOP. Soon afterwards, he said, one local leader of the group,
conservative radio host Mark Williams, signed on with the Tea Party
Express (TPE), the movement faction created by a team of high-level California Republican consultants, which loudly backed Scott Brown in this week's Massachusetts Senate election. Williams has since become a prominent TPE spokesman.
Eight months later, the philosophical divide that roiled Knapp's
Sacramento-based group is being replayed on a national scale. The Tea
Party movement still has not come close to resolving the question of
what its relationship with the Republican party should be -- and the
issue is creating turmoil in Tea Party circles across the country. "I
think what we have in the movement is the GOP trying to take control,
and a lot of the groups are trying to fight them on this," Robin
Stublen, a Tea Party Patriots (TPP) volunteer, told TPMmuckraker
recently.
Stublen's fears appear well-founded. Powerful and well-connected
forces within the movement seem determined to harness its grassroots
energy for the benefit of the Republican party. But that's not to say
it's always a one-way street.
Next month's National Tea Party Convention, organized by the Tennessee-based Tea Party Nation, will feature speaking roles
for the party's vice presidential nominee, Sarah Palin, and for two
Republican members of Congress, Michele Bachmann and Marsha Blackburn.
One of the confab's organizers, Mark Skoda, recently told TPMmuckraker he'd support inviting RNC chair Michael Steele.
Meanwhile, in the wake of the Scott Brown victory, the well-funded
TPE -- created by many of the same Republican consultants who launched the 2003 movement to recall California governor Gray Davis -- is becoming an ever more prominent piece of the movement.
In Florida, one Tea Partier who's active with his local GOP organization is suing
a Republican political consultant and his ally after they registered
the Tea Party as a third political party in the state, then asserted
rights to the Tea Party name. Both sides are bitterly accusing the other -- with some justification -- of having ties to the Republican party.
And even the Tea Party Patriots, perhaps the organized faction of the
movement that most loudly proclaims its political independence, can't
escape the party's reach. In putting together the rallies that brought
tens of thousands to Washington last year, it worked closely with FreedomWorks, the conservative advocacy group run by former Republican Majority Leader Dick Armey.
But many of the rank-and-file Tea Partiers whose energy helped launch
the movement last spring -- and among whom a more libertarian ideology
often prevails -- remain deeply wary of getting into bed with the GOP.
And lately, they've started speaking out.
In an impassioned cri de coeur
that reverberated around the movement last week, Kevin Smith, a
Nashville activist who had worked with Tea Party Nation, denounced the
organizer of the national convention as a patsy for the GOP. "What
began as cries for true liberty and a public showing of frustration with
the big government policies of both Democrats and Republicans," Smith
lamented, "has now been co-opted by mainstream Republican demagogues
determined to use this as their 2010 election platform."
Shane Brooks, a Texas-based Tea Partier, echoed that message in a recent web video,
fondly recalling the early days of the movement last year, and warning
"We must not allow the Tea Parties and other patriotic grassroots
movement to be hijacked by the GOP."
And several other Tea Partiers have piled on lately to slam the convention in interviews with TPMmuckraker and others, in part because they see it as too tied to the Republican party.
Even Mark Meckler, a Sacramento-based Tea Party Patriots leader, who
at one time, according to Knapp, expressed interest in working with the
local Republican party, now steers clear of that idea.
"The major
parties in this nation haven't represented the American people," he told
TPMmuckraker in an interview, explaining why TPP was keeping its
distance from the GOP. Indeed, a central feature of the acrimonious split between TPP and TPE has been the latter group's Republican patrimony.
As for Knapp, he said he's now working with some of the disaffected
Tea Partiers from Tea Party Nation to start building a nationwide third
party movement based on Tea Party principles -- with no ties whatsoever
to the Republican party. And he denounced his fellow Tea Partiers who
have tried to work with Republicans. "They're living in Disney Land,"
he said, "if they think they can reform the GOP.""
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Jim Knapp quoted in above TPM article comments below in article about the Tea Party fake Judson Phillips (a guy who apparently needed some kind of a job) who organized Tea Party Nation:
1/12/2010, "On the Backs of Tennessee's Middle Class (or, The Story Behind Tea Party Nation's Dishonest Beginnings)," Posted by
"Jim Knapp
Kevin, I would like to talk to you offline.
btw I was misquoted in the TPM article. But overall I believe they framed the issue very well.
http://tpmmuckraker.talkingpointsmemo.com/2010/01/tea_party_dilemma_to_gop_or_not_to_gop.php?ref=fpb"
Jim Knapp
overlytaxed@gmail.com"
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