The Trump administration used the welfare of other people’s children as a deterrent, a bargaining chip in an immigration policy debate, and there has been a real cost in human terms. The psychological and health damage done by forcibly separating children from their parents is clear. And now that the country is paying attention to the conduct of its government on the border, we’re starting to see the damage that has been inflicted by this policy. The head of public hospitals and clinics in New York City on Thursday announced the city’s facilities have treated 12 children over the past couple of weeks separated from their parents at the border for a range of physical and mental illnesses, including one child that was suicidal.
Health and Hospitals CEO Mitchell Katz addressed the issue in an open letter Thursday, as well as the “distraught physicians, social workers, and other health care providers in our health system” that “are seeing first-hand the serious health impact to children of immigrants.”
"After separation, some of these children have ended up in our Emergency Departments accompanied by their government-appointed guardians who are often unfamiliar with the children, have no access to medical records, and have no way of getting in touch with a family member to get a medical history. We have seen children as young as five and have treated teenagers who have presented with signs of anxiety, trauma, and stress-related illness, including one extreme case of a teen with suicidal ideations after being separated from his mother. We know the health risks associated with tearing apart children from their families are very real, including an increased risk of anxiety, depression, post-traumatic stress, and attention-deficit disorder. And the demand on health care professionals in NYC and across our country will undoubtedly continue to grow."
The Trump administration used the welfare of other people’s children as a deterrent, a bargaining chip in an immigration policy debate, and there has been a real cost in human terms. The psychological and health damage done by forcibly separating children from their parents is clear. And now that the country is paying attention to the conduct of its government on the border, we’re starting to see the damage that has been inflicted by this policy. The head of public hospitals and clinics in New York City on Thursday announced the city’s facilities have treated 12 children over the past couple of weeks separated from their parents at the border for a range of physical and mental illnesses, including one child that was suicidal.
Health and Hospitals CEO Mitchell Katz addressed the issue in an open letter Thursday, as well as the “distraught physicians, social workers, and other health care providers in our health system” that “are seeing first-hand the serious health impact to children of immigrants.”
"After separation, some of these children have ended up in our Emergency Departments accompanied by their government-appointed guardians who are often unfamiliar with the children, have no access to medical records, and have no way of getting in touch with a family member to get a medical history. We have seen children as young as five and have treated teenagers who have presented with signs of anxiety, trauma, and stress-related illness, including one extreme case of a teen with suicidal ideations after being separated from his mother. We know the health risks associated with tearing apart children from their families are very real, including an increased risk of anxiety, depression, post-traumatic stress, and attention-deficit disorder. And the demand on health care professionals in NYC and across our country will undoubtedly continue to grow."
i felt like my world was falling apart as a little kid when i got lost in the mall for 20 minutes....this is sick.
The House Republican budget, titled “A Brighter American Future,” would remake Medicare by giving seniors the option of enrolling in private plans that compete with traditional Medicare, a system of competition designed to keep costs down but dismissed by critics as an effort to privatize the program. Along with other changes, the budget proposes to squeeze $537 billion out of Medicare over the next decade.
The budget would transform Medicaid, the federal-state health-care program for the poor, by limiting per capita payments or allowing states to turn it into a block-grant program — the same approach House Republicans took in their legislation that passed last year to repeal the Affordable Care Act (the repeal effort died in the Senate, but the GOP budget assumes that the repeal takes place). It also proposes adding work requirements for certain adults enrolled in Medicaid. Changes to Medicaid and other health programs would account for $1.5 trillion in savings.
Social Security comes in for more modest cuts of $4 billion over the decade, which the budget projects could be reached by eliminating concurrent receipt of unemployment benefits and Social Security disability insurance.
The budget also proposes a number of other cost-saving measures, some of which could prove unpopular if implemented, such as adding more work requirements for food-stamp and welfare recipients and requiring federal employees — including members of Congress — to contribute more to their retirement plans. It assumes repeal of the Dodd-Frank Act that regulated banks after the financial crisis 10 years ago, something Congress recently rejected in passing a banking bill into law that softened some of the key provisions of Dodd-Frank but left its overall structures intact. And the budget proposes $230 billion in cuts from education and training programs, including consolidating student loan programs and reducing Pell Grant awards.
The Trump administration feared it would be a “public relations nightmare”: a major federal study that concluded contaminated groundwater across the country, especially near military bases, was more toxic than the government realized. Political aides to President Donald Trump and Environmental Protection Agency head Scott Pruitt pressured the Agency for Toxic Substances and Disease Registry against releasing the results.
“The public, media, and Congressional reaction to these numbers is going to be huge,” an unidentified White House aide wrote, according to Politico. “The impact to EPA and [the Defense Department] is going to be extremely painful. We cannot seem to get ATSDR to realize the potential public relations nightmare this is going to be.” The study was not released.
That is, until Wednesday. Amid a media firestorm about the administration’s immigration policy, the ATSDR—a division of the Department of Health and Human Services—quietly published its 852-page review of perfluoroalkyls, or PFAS, which are “used in everything from carpets and frying pan coatings to military firefighting foams,” according to ProPublica. “All told, the report offers the most comprehensive gathering of information on the effects of these chemicals today, and suggests they’re far more dangerous than previously thought.”
These chemical compounds pose health risks to millions of Americans. They’re in roughly 1 percent of the nation’s public water supply, according to the EPA; in roughly 1,500 drinking water systems across the country, according to the Environmental Working Group. People who drink from these systems, even if their exposure to PFAS is low, now have a potentially increased risk of cancer; of disruptions in hormones and the immune system; and of complications with fetal development during pregnancy.
But military personnel and veterans are particularly at risk, because PFAS compounds are in firefighting foams, which have been used in training exercises at military bases across America since the 1970s. Those foams have leached into the groundwater at the military facilities, and often the drinking water supply. Nearly three million Americans get their drinking water from Department of Defense systems.
In the year ended Sept. 30, 2017, the State Department issued 17% fewer student visas than in the previous year, and 40% fewer than the peak year of 2015, the Wall Street Journal reports.
International students bring in $39 billion in revenue to colleges and universities, according to the Times.
Now how will these low pay low skill jobs get taken care of?
Trump planning to bailout these industries like he did for China?
- Traumatizing children.
- Punishing the poor (mostly women and children) by curtailing their access to food and medical care to pay for tax cuts for the rich.
- Punishing old people by gutting Medicare and Social Security to pay for tax cuts for the rich.
- Gutting educational grants to pay for tax cuts for the rich.
- Punishing working people by gutting ACA protections for pre-existing conditions.
- Allowing oil companies to contaminate oceans by allowing more drilling access and fewer regulations.
- Hiding scientific reports that affect the health of the populace, particularly service members.
Steve King in response to micheal av. posting pic at airport with some detained minors heading towards god knows where
@SteveKingIA
“Young boys” all old enough to be tried as adults or serve in the military and are prime MS-13 gang material & certainly grew up in the culture of one of the top 10 most violent countries in the world."
ted lieu played the audio from propublica on the house floor
had to double check i didn't know facebook had a crowdfunding thing
And now their banking info belongs to Russian spammers and phishers _________________ “We must always take sides. Neutrality helps the oppressor, never the victim. Silence encourages the tormentor, never the tormented.” ― Elie Wiesel
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ani007 wrote:
Steve King in response to micheal av. posting pic at airport with some detained minors heading towards god knows where
@SteveKingIA
“Young boys” all old enough to be tried as adults or serve in the military and are prime MS-13 gang material & certainly grew up in the culture of one of the top 10 most violent countries in the world."
ted lieu played the audio from propublica on the house floor
I think I agree with Steve King's premise. When children come from deeply dangerous places where they might learn barbaric behavior, we ought to incarcerate their parents and take the kids. Let's start with the racist, misogynist, inhumane, polluting, warmongering, anti science (bleep) holes like Iowa... _________________ “We must always take sides. Neutrality helps the oppressor, never the victim. Silence encourages the tormentor, never the tormented.” ― Elie Wiesel
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Posted: Fri Jun 22, 2018 12:31 pm Post subject:
Trump's getting just what he wants, chaos. He thrives on chaos. This administration has been under fire since day one.
He keeps the country focused on boarder issues, financial improprieties, Stormy Daniels etc. Behind the lines he sneaking in harmful environmental bills, deregulation, filling his, his friends and family coffers, so forth and so on.
He has the country watching the right hand and the left is getting the job done because no ones looking. (Not meaning the political left and right) _________________ Be who you are and say what you feel because those who mind don't matter and those who matter don't mind.
America will never be destroyed from the outside. If we falter and lose our freedoms, it will be because we destroyed ourselves.
With the incarceration of more than 2,300 infants, toddlers and children unresolved, Trump’s policy of breaking up families remains an open wound on America’s character and a political crisis for the few Republicans who still believe they can salvage November’s midterm elections.
A conservative former intelligence operative grimly recounted to me on Thursday how much the handling of these displaced children reminded him of the CIA facilities where terrorists were secretly held and interrogated after the terrorist attacks of Sept. 11, 2001: “This reminds me of our black sites, except we were holding 100 or so adult terrorists for the killing of American citizens. Now 2,300 kids are held in unknown locations with unknown individuals inside and absolutely no outside observation.”
Trump’s obsession with wall-building and zero-tolerance has led Americans to this grim political spectacle. His personal cruelty and political ignorance have created a crisis that will kill conservative immigration reform and lead to future Democratic majorities. More troubling is the harsh reality now staring Americans in the face: Their president is a brutish political boss who has cheapened conservatism, sullied the office of the presidency and called into question the very character of a country once seen as the envy of the world. That so many Republicans still support this depraved man and his malignant movement could be the most damning element of this tragic American tale.
Trump's getting just what he wants, chaos. He thrives on chaos. This administration has been under fire since day one.
He keeps the country focused on boarder issues, financial improprieties, Stormy Daniels etc. Behind the lines he sneaking in harmful environmental bills, deregulation, filling his, his friends and family coffers, so forth and so on.
He has the country watching the right hand and the left is getting the job done because no ones looking. (Not meaning the political left and right)
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Posted: Fri Jun 22, 2018 12:38 pm Post subject:
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“Our guys have been in there since the start, grinding it out, and basically no one is noticing it except the smart liberals like Rachel Maddow,” said Stephen K. Bannon, the president’s former adviser, who believes the attack on social programs will be one of Mr. Trump’s most enduring policy achievements.
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Posted: Fri Jun 22, 2018 12:54 pm Post subject:
ChefLinda wrote:
jodeke wrote:
Trump's getting just what he wants, chaos. He thrives on chaos. This administration has been under fire since day one.
He keeps the country focused on boarder issues, financial improprieties, Stormy Daniels etc. Behind the lines he sneaking in harmful environmental bills, deregulation, filling his, his friends and family coffers, so forth and so on.
He has the country watching the right hand and the left is getting the job done because no ones looking. (Not meaning the political left and right)
Yup, this is right out of Putin's playbook.
“We will take America without firing a shot. We do not have to invade the U.S.-We will destroy you from within...”
-Khrushchev _________________ You thought God was an architect, now you know
He’s something like a pipe bomb ready to blow
And everything you built that’s all for show
goes up in flames
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The Trump administration feared it would be a “public relations nightmare”: a major federal study that concluded contaminated groundwater across the country, especially near military bases, was more toxic than the government realized. Political aides to President Donald Trump and Environmental Protection Agency head Scott Pruitt pressured the Agency for Toxic Substances and Disease Registry against releasing the results.
“The public, media, and Congressional reaction to these numbers is going to be huge,” an unidentified White House aide wrote, according to Politico. “The impact to EPA and [the Defense Department] is going to be extremely painful. We cannot seem to get ATSDR to realize the potential public relations nightmare this is going to be.” The study was not released.
That is, until Wednesday. Amid a media firestorm about the administration’s immigration policy, the ATSDR—a division of the Department of Health and Human Services—quietly published its 852-page review of perfluoroalkyls, or PFAS, which are “used in everything from carpets and frying pan coatings to military firefighting foams,” according to ProPublica. “All told, the report offers the most comprehensive gathering of information on the effects of these chemicals today, and suggests they’re far more dangerous than previously thought.”
These chemical compounds pose health risks to millions of Americans. They’re in roughly 1 percent of the nation’s public water supply, according to the EPA; in roughly 1,500 drinking water systems across the country, according to the Environmental Working Group. People who drink from these systems, even if their exposure to PFAS is low, now have a potentially increased risk of cancer; of disruptions in hormones and the immune system; and of complications with fetal development during pregnancy.
But military personnel and veterans are particularly at risk, because PFAS compounds are in firefighting foams, which have been used in training exercises at military bases across America since the 1970s. Those foams have leached into the groundwater at the military facilities, and often the drinking water supply. Nearly three million Americans get their drinking water from Department of Defense systems.
My mother was a young military wife living on the base in Camp Lejeune, NC in the late 60s early 70s. Apparently, if you lived on that base between 1965 and 1985, you were exposed to those contaminants in the ground water and a good number of people have become ill and died from a variant of bile duct cancers. My mother was diagnosed with gallbladder cancer which quickly spread to her liver in September 2012. She passed away June 19th 2013. 6 months after she passed, we received paperwork from the government disclosing this exposure. If you happen to still be alive, they may help with some medical treatment. My 3 brothers and I also received packets because we were either exposed directly or in utero. So we are at an abnormally high risk of getting some catastrophic bile duct cancer at some point in the future. And as I found out recently 2 of my childhood friends also lost their mothers to liver and kidney cancer. We're all military brats so all of us had been in Camp Lejeune at some point during that window. _________________ So glad we gave you your flowers while you were here, Kobe.
The Trump administration feared it would be a “public relations nightmare”: a major federal study that concluded contaminated groundwater across the country, especially near military bases, was more toxic than the government realized. Political aides to President Donald Trump and Environmental Protection Agency head Scott Pruitt pressured the Agency for Toxic Substances and Disease Registry against releasing the results.
“The public, media, and Congressional reaction to these numbers is going to be huge,” an unidentified White House aide wrote, according to Politico. “The impact to EPA and [the Defense Department] is going to be extremely painful. We cannot seem to get ATSDR to realize the potential public relations nightmare this is going to be.” The study was not released.
That is, until Wednesday. Amid a media firestorm about the administration’s immigration policy, the ATSDR—a division of the Department of Health and Human Services—quietly published its 852-page review of perfluoroalkyls, or PFAS, which are “used in everything from carpets and frying pan coatings to military firefighting foams,” according to ProPublica. “All told, the report offers the most comprehensive gathering of information on the effects of these chemicals today, and suggests they’re far more dangerous than previously thought.”
These chemical compounds pose health risks to millions of Americans. They’re in roughly 1 percent of the nation’s public water supply, according to the EPA; in roughly 1,500 drinking water systems across the country, according to the Environmental Working Group. People who drink from these systems, even if their exposure to PFAS is low, now have a potentially increased risk of cancer; of disruptions in hormones and the immune system; and of complications with fetal development during pregnancy.
But military personnel and veterans are particularly at risk, because PFAS compounds are in firefighting foams, which have been used in training exercises at military bases across America since the 1970s. Those foams have leached into the groundwater at the military facilities, and often the drinking water supply. Nearly three million Americans get their drinking water from Department of Defense systems.
My mother was a young military wife living on the base in Camp Lejeune, NC in the late 60s early 70s. Apparently, if you lived on that base between 1965 and 1985, you were exposed to those contaminants in the ground water and a good number of people have become ill and died from a variant of bile duct cancers. My mother was diagnosed with gallbladder cancer which quickly spread to her liver in September 2012. She passed away June 19th 2013. 6 months after she passed, we received paperwork from the government disclosing this exposure. If you happen to still be alive, they may help with some medical treatment. My 3 brothers and I also received packets because we were either exposed directly or in utero. So we are at an abnormally high risk of getting some catastrophic bile duct cancer at some point in the future. And as I found out recently 2 of my childhood friends also lost their mothers to liver and kidney cancer. We're all military brats so all of us had been in Camp Lejeune at some point during that window.
The Trump administration feared it would be a “public relations nightmare”: a major federal study that concluded contaminated groundwater across the country, especially near military bases, was more toxic than the government realized. Political aides to President Donald Trump and Environmental Protection Agency head Scott Pruitt pressured the Agency for Toxic Substances and Disease Registry against releasing the results.
“The public, media, and Congressional reaction to these numbers is going to be huge,” an unidentified White House aide wrote, according to Politico. “The impact to EPA and [the Defense Department] is going to be extremely painful. We cannot seem to get ATSDR to realize the potential public relations nightmare this is going to be.” The study was not released.
That is, until Wednesday. Amid a media firestorm about the administration’s immigration policy, the ATSDR—a division of the Department of Health and Human Services—quietly published its 852-page review of perfluoroalkyls, or PFAS, which are “used in everything from carpets and frying pan coatings to military firefighting foams,” according to ProPublica. “All told, the report offers the most comprehensive gathering of information on the effects of these chemicals today, and suggests they’re far more dangerous than previously thought.”
These chemical compounds pose health risks to millions of Americans. They’re in roughly 1 percent of the nation’s public water supply, according to the EPA; in roughly 1,500 drinking water systems across the country, according to the Environmental Working Group. People who drink from these systems, even if their exposure to PFAS is low, now have a potentially increased risk of cancer; of disruptions in hormones and the immune system; and of complications with fetal development during pregnancy.
But military personnel and veterans are particularly at risk, because PFAS compounds are in firefighting foams, which have been used in training exercises at military bases across America since the 1970s. Those foams have leached into the groundwater at the military facilities, and often the drinking water supply. Nearly three million Americans get their drinking water from Department of Defense systems.
My mother was a young military wife living on the base in Camp Lejeune, NC in the late 60s early 70s. Apparently, if you lived on that base between 1965 and 1985, you were exposed to those contaminants in the ground water and a good number of people have become ill and died from a variant of bile duct cancers. My mother was diagnosed with gallbladder cancer which quickly spread to her liver in September 2012. She passed away June 19th 2013. 6 months after she passed, we received paperwork from the government disclosing this exposure. If you happen to still be alive, they may help with some medical treatment. My 3 brothers and I also received packets because we were either exposed directly or in utero. So we are at an abnormally high risk of getting some catastrophic bile duct cancer at some point in the future. And as I found out recently 2 of my childhood friends also lost their mothers to liver and kidney cancer. We're all military brats so all of us had been in Camp Lejeune at some point during that window.
God, I'm so sorry.
Stay strong hoops. You and your family are in my prayers. 🙏🏻 🙏🏻 _________________ Be who you are and say what you feel because those who mind don't matter and those who matter don't mind.
America will never be destroyed from the outside. If we falter and lose our freedoms, it will be because we destroyed ourselves.
Chris Hayes
@chrislhayes
The only statistically legitimate generalization to be made about violent crime is that in every single society, men commit the overwhelming majority of it.
Trump autographed photos of deceased crime victims....what a bizarre upside down time we live in
looking back at the campaign rallies makes my head spin good footage
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Posted: Fri Jun 22, 2018 2:54 pm Post subject:
Hoopschick… that's terrible. Sorry to hear it, but, at the same time, glad you shared your story. More people need to know that their friends and people they care about go through this stuff. Maybe if we can put a face to these problems, make it personal and not some abstract issue, people will actually start giving enough of a crap to change these things so they no longer happen to you or the people you love. _________________ LakersGround's Terms of Service
Me and my buddy pressed our friend on the issue regarding these camps and detention centers. He (a Trump voter) claimed he didnt know much about it... But he had "heard" that the children were separated to "protect them from pedophiles" within the camps.
What? We tried to ask if he felt it was wrong to separate kids from parents.... Whatever the reason. And he wouldnt answer. He only deflected and changed the subject. Unreal. Its like these people just forget about being humane because of "their country".
Sickening. _________________ "Dread it, run from it... destiny arrives all the same."
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