I don't think you need a NOTAM for that, you could just close the airport directly. And so far this administration hasn't shown itself to be particularly concerned about preventing the spread of infectious diseases like measles.

Without cutting off the roads first? That wouldn't make much sense, right?

People drive too much. Cut off ais travel and only a few care - who drive to Los Cruzes NM to fly. cut off roads and they will in mass break the barricades.

>People drive too much

That doesn't seem like a good argument for instituting a quarantine by blocking air travel but not ground travel. And why block everything including police, cargo and medivac flights for a quarantine?

It is why they won't block ground travel even though they might want to.

Then there's no real infection risk if they'll continue to let people drive out of the area, including let people drive a 4 or 5 hours to another airport to make their trip.

Closing the El Paso airspace will reduce the number of people flying, but not stop it, lots of people will make the drive to Tucson or Albuquerque to catch a flight.

I could maybe see it if it was, say, LAX which is a major travel hub, but shutting down a small regional airport without also shutting down ground travel is "quarantine theater" rather than a real quarantine.

I’m sorry I have to say I have never seen Las Cruces spelled like that.

Disgraphia - the inability to spell (and otherwise write well). Sorry about it.

Well, air travel spreads things harder and faster.

Sure, but people will just drive to the next closest airport and fly. Quarantine makes no sense as an explanation without accompanying roadblocks.

>Sure, but people will just drive to the next closest airport and fly

Tell me you've never been to west Texas.

The next closest airport is Juarez, it's like 6 miles away, full fledged international airport. It's a few hours walk at worst.

They really prefer you have a passport now, and the vast majority of people do not. Also, I doubt this admin would mind if there was suddenly an uptick in one way travel into Mexico

>The next closest airport is Juarez, it's like 6 miles away

...In Mexico, sure. The closest major US airport to El Paso is Albuquerque or Tucson, 4 hours each.

Well, this wins for silliest non-alien theory, with bonus points for the hyperbole of “concentration camp” to describe illegal immigrant detention.

In what way is it "hyperbole"? From the leaks and reporting I've come across it seems like a reasonable description.

It's not labour camps, and not extermination camps, but rather places where people are 'concentrated' while the bureaucracy figures out where to move them next.

If anything it's really weird to present it as having to do with supposedly illicit immigration, since citizens and people with residence permits are vacuumed up as well.

It's almost like these detention centers are holding concentrated amounts of people without due process