With the media focused on the outbreak right in the middle of the 2014 election. Republican Senators and Republican candidates across the country seized on this global health crisis. No. they didnt swoop in to rescue. in fact. Republicans did nothing to support the actual Ebola response before the elections. Instead. they terrified the American people with totally madeup stories of Ebolainfected immigrants coming across our southern border. They loudly trumpeted a number of dangerous and irresponsible solutions. such as travel bans that would actually make dealing with the problem more difficult. Ebola ravaged West Africa. but only four cases were ever diagnosed here in the United States.
Identified stereotypes
Immigrants are portrayed as carriers of disease (Ebola).