Cornyn, McCaul want Ebola screening at D/FW and Houston IAH, too
WASHINGTON – Ahead of today’s first congressional hearing on the response to Ebola’s arrival in Texas, top lawmakers are prodding the government to add the state’s busiest airports to the list of those screening passengers arriving from West Africa.
Sen. John Cornyn and House Homeland Security Chairman Michael McCaul, R-Austin, issued the demand in a letter to U.S. Customs and Border Protection Commissioner R. Gil Kerlikowske. They ask that Dallas/Fort Worth International Airport and Houston George Bush Intercontinental Airport be included in the new screening procedures.
Those procedures apply only to the five airports that account for 94 percent of passengers arriving from Liberia, Sierra Leone and Guinea: John F. Kennedy in New York, Newark, Chicago O’Hare, Atlanta, and Washington Dulles. Dulles is where Thomas Eric Duncan, the Liberian who died in Dallas on Wednesday of Ebola, arrived from Brussels before heading to DFW.
On Wednesday, the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention and the Department of Homeland Security announced fever checks and questioning for travel history for anyone from the Ebola-affected countries. About 150 such people arrive each day in the United States, officials say.
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[font color=green]Airport envy?[/font]
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