Border Patrol Agents Dealt with More Children Under Pres. Bush
Thedeaths of two children in custody in recent weeks have led to a justifiable focus on the numbers of children who enter Border Patrol custody every year. The Department of Homeland Securitytold Congress this week that “more children and families are being apprehended between the ports of entry than ever before.” While the large numbers of children are certainly alarming, it is incorrect that it is the largest number ever. President Bush’s administration apprehended more children with far fewer resources.Figure 1 shows the number of children who Border Patrol apprehended from 2001 to 2018. In Fiscal Year (FY) 2005, ...
Source: Cato-at-liberty - January 8, 2019 Category: American Health Authors: David Bier Source Type: blogs
Why Don ’t They Enter Legally? Trump Won't Let Them
President Trump signedan order today that requires the denial of all asylum claims from people who cross the border illegally. The most important thing to understand about this order is that it is not the beginning of a new policy keeping out asylum seekers, but the conclusion of an existing policy. Here are the steps to Trump ’s asylum sham:Step 1: The Department of Homeland Security (DHS) moves its agents to the exact U.S.-Mexico border line.Step 2: DHS forcibly keeps asylum seekers in Mexico away from U.S. protection, letting no more than 2 or 3 families cross per day.Step 3: DHS prohibits asylum claims from those who...
Source: Cato-at-liberty - November 9, 2018 Category: American Health Authors: David Bier Source Type: blogs
The Migrant Caravan Probably Doesn ’t Contain Many Criminals
Oneconcern about thecaravan of Central American migrants making its way to the U.S. border is that it may contain criminals. Although we don’t know the identities or criminal histories of the actual people in the caravan, we can get an indication by looking at estimates of the incarceration rates of immigrants in the United States who come from the Ce ntral American countries where the caravan originated.Hondurans are likely the largest contingent in the caravan. The Honduran incarceration rate in the United States was 1,130 per 100,000 Hondurans in 2016 (Figure 1). The incarceration rate of native-born Americans is ab...
Source: Cato-at-liberty - October 30, 2018 Category: American Health Authors: Alex Nowrasteh Source Type: blogs
U.S. Whitewashes Saudi War Crimes
There are indications now that the Saudi Arabian government may havemurdered a prominent Saudi journalist who advocated domestic reforms and opposed Crown Prince Mohammed bin Salman. A Turkish investigation concluded that a 15-member “preplanned murder team” killed Jamal Khashoggi when he was visiting the Saudi consulate in Istanbul. Not surprisingly, Riyadh has flatly denied Turkey’s allegation, but that denial seems to have even less credibility than most Saudi statements. Khashoggi has contributed articles to theWashington Post and numerous other prominent Western news outlets, and he has an abundance of influenti...
Source: Cato-at-liberty - October 9, 2018 Category: American Health Authors: Ted Galen Carpenter Source Type: blogs
Socialist Experiments
In the summer of 1982, after the Cato Institute ’s week-long seminar at Dartmouth, I drove to Boston with one of the other attendees. Touring the city, we encountered a protest rally on Boston Common. I don’t remember just what the rally was about – probably the “nuclear freeze” or a general protest against nuclear weapons, which was a strong movement then. As we watched, a young woman approached and handed us flyers calling for socialism. “Like in Russia and China?” I asked her. Unwilling to defend those disastrous results, she responded “We’re more interested in the experiments currently going on in Zim...
Source: Cato-at-liberty - August 3, 2018 Category: American Health Authors: David Boaz Source Type: blogs
When family separations become a threat to existence
The face of a 2-year-old Honduran girl, dwarfed by the adults who only appear as legs in the photo, communicates undeniable anguish. Used to represent the horror of children separated from their parents at the U.S.-Mexico border, the photo became a lightning rod for controversy when it turned out that this particular child was not actually separated from her mother. In an interview for CBS News the border patrol officer involved in the incident explained that they asked the mother to put her daughter down so she could be searched. He explained, “It took less than two minutes. As soon as the search was finished, sh...
Source: Kevin, M.D. - Medical Weblog - July 25, 2018 Category: General Medicine Authors: < a href="https://www.kevinmd.com/blog/post-author/claudia-m-gold" rel="tag" > Claudia M. Gold, MD < /a > Tags: Conditions Pediatrics Psychiatry Public Health & Policy Source Type: blogs
When family separations become a threat to existance
The face of a 2-year-old Honduran girl, dwarfed by the adults who only appear as legs in the photo, communicates undeniable anguish. Used to represent the horror of children separated from their parents at the U.S.-Mexico border, the photo became a lightning rod for controversy when it turned out that this particular child was not actually separated from her mother. In an interview for CBS News the border patrol officer involved in the incident explained that they asked the mother to put her daughter down so she could be searched. He explained, “It took less than two minutes. As soon as the search was finished, sh...
Source: Kevin, M.D. - Medical Weblog - July 25, 2018 Category: General Medicine Authors: < a href="https://www.kevinmd.com/blog/post-author/claudia-m-gold" rel="tag" > Claudia M. Gold, MD < /a > Tags: Conditions Pediatrics Psychiatry Public Health & Policy Source Type: blogs
Blame Mexico First
There are many aggravating tropes that keep reemerging in the debate over immigration policy but one of the worst is that every problem with the U.S. immigration system is the result of the supposedly perfidious Mexico. Changes in Mexican law and policy certainly have an impact on immigration to the United States but it is not true that our laws would operate wonderfully even if foreign governments had policies to support them. Those who blame Mexico should, at the minimum, get their stories straight. In many versions of this tale, the Mexican government is hypocritical because its immigration laws are strict yet it ...
Source: Cato-at-liberty - April 10, 2018 Category: American Health Authors: Alex Nowrasteh Source Type: blogs
Tropical Travel Trouble 005 RUQ Pain and Jaundice
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Guest Post: Dr Branden Skarpiak – Global Health Fellow, Department of Emergency Medicine. UT Health San Antonio
A 35 year old male presents to your emergency room for right upper quadrant pain that has gotten worse over the last 2-3 days. He also describes associated nausea, vomiting, and fevers. He denies other abdominal pain, or change in his bowel or bladder habits. His wife notes that he has started to “look more yellow” recent...
Source: Life in the Fast Lane - March 19, 2018 Category: Emergency Medicine Authors: Neil Long Tags: Clinical Cases Tropical Medicine amebic amoeba amoebiasis amoebic dysentery amoebic liver abscess bloody diarrhoea e.dispar e.histolytica entamoeba histolytica Source Type: blogs
A physician ’s faith in God
My testimony is quite an odd one, similar to my professional journey.
I came to believe in God on a medical mission trip in Honduras when I was about twenty-one years old. A staunch atheist at the time, I was interested in beefing up my medical school application. A local church donated thousands of dollars for my college group’s mission trip; I was stunned. I had never even attended church! Finally, I decided to start listening instead of fighting about whether or not there was a God.
It’s a long story, but ultimately I did accept Jesus as my savior amongst a lot of pain and distress I experienced at that time. I real...
Source: Kevin, M.D. - Medical Weblog - March 8, 2018 Category: General Medicine Authors: < a href="https://www.kevinmd.com/blog/post-author/marissa-lombardo" rel="tag" > Marissa Lombardo, MD < /a > Tags: Physician Hospital-Based Medicine Source Type: blogs
GOP Plan Gives a Citizenship Path to Only Half of Trump ’s 1.8 Million
ConclusionIn the best case scenario, the Senate GOP plan would likely provide a pathway to citizenship to fewer than 900,000 Dreamers —less than half of the president’s promise. Moreover, only an estimated 587,657 would likely naturalize—less than a third of the 1.8 million that some senators have claimed.If Congress wants to fulfill the president ’s promise, it would need to institute a broader legalization program for Dreamers with as few risks and costs, and as little confusion, as possible. Congress would also need to provide legal certainty in some form for their parents to mitigate fear of coming forward. Mem...
Source: Cato-at-liberty - February 15, 2018 Category: American Health Authors: David Bier, Stuart Anderson Source Type: blogs
Was There Fraud in Honduras' Election?
There is a lot of circumstantial evidence pointing to electoral fraud in Honduras ’ presidential election. Yet neither the opposition nor international electoral observers have conclusively demonstrated that such has occurred. In other words, there is a lot of gun smoke in the room, but no smoking gun.Perhapsthe most damning piece of circumstantial evidence so far is a statistical analysis by Georgetown professor Irfan Noorudin at the request of the Organization of American States (OAS). It demonstrates that:The Honduran national election of 2017 experienced a dramatic vote swing away from the opposition alliance and tow...
Source: Cato-at-liberty - December 20, 2017 Category: American Health Authors: Juan Carlos Hidalgo Source Type: blogs
How to Deal with Honduras ’ Quagmire
There are good reasons to believe that fraud took place in Honduras ’ presidential election.The Economistdid astatistical analysis of the election results and found “reasons to worry” about the integrity of the vote—although they were not conclusive. Areport from the Organization of American States Observation Mission points out “irregularities, mistakes, and systemic problems plaguing this election [that] make it difficult… to be certain about the outcome.”At the heart of the controversy is how the results of the presidential election shifted dramatically after a blackout in the release of information that l...
Source: Cato-at-liberty - December 6, 2017 Category: American Health Authors: Juan Carlos Hidalgo Source Type: blogs
Something Fishy Is Happening in Honduras
Honduras ’ presidential election is mired in controversy as the country’s Electoral Tribunal (TSE) suspended the release of results on Sunday night when president Juan Orlando Hernández was trailing left-wing candidate Salvador Nasralla by 5 percentage points, with 58.5% of polling stations counted. The re is no precedent in Honduras for such a blackout on the release of election results and many observers are worried—with good reason—that electoral fraud might take place.First, some context. Juan Orlando Hern ández was barred from running for reelection. Honduras’ constitution is famous in Latin America for it...
Source: Cato-at-liberty - November 28, 2017 Category: American Health Authors: Juan Carlos Hidalgo Source Type: blogs
Zika virus has always been neurotropic
Written with Amy Rosenfeld, Ph.D.
Zika virus has been infecting humans since at least the 1950s (and probably earlier), but epidemics of infection have only been observed in the past ten years and congenital Zika syndrome in the last two. Two hypotheses emerged to explain this new pattern of disease: evolution of the virus, or random introduction into large, immunologically naive populations. Results from our laboratory show that one component of these disease patterns – neurotropism, the ability to infect cells of the nervous system – has always been a feature of Zika virus.
If evolution has selected for Zika...
Source: virology blog - November 2, 2017 Category: Virology Authors: Vincent Racaniello Tags: Basic virology Information congenital zika syndrome flavivirus microcephaly neuroinvasion neurotropism organotypic brain slice culture viral zika virus Source Type: blogs
