Posted on 08/21/2019 8:29:29 AM PDT by Olog-hai
U.S. Customs and Border Protection agents and their medical contractors do not administer influenza vaccines to migrants being held at detention centers along the U.S.-Mexico border, reports said Tuesday.
“In general, due to the short-term nature of CBP holding and the complexities of operating vaccination programs, neither CBP nor its medical contractors administer vaccinations to those in our custody,” the agency told The Hill in a statement. Children receive the flu vaccine once they are transferred from CBP to Health and Human Services (HHS) custody, the CBP spokesperson said.
Earlier this month, doctors from Harvard, Johns Hopkins and other medical groups wrote a letter to two top House Democrats, asking for a congressional investigation into conditions at border detention centers ahead of flu seasons. The doctors argued a “rapid turnover of detainees increases the spread of influenza” at centers.
The doctors said at least three of the six children who died in CBP custody this year were at least partially affected by the flu, according to their autopsy reports. …
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Talk about tying one's hands behind their back, such a view makes finding a solution unnecessarily more difficult.
Clearly, there are two major parties, R and D. The R party is sitting there available to anyone who wants it.
That the R party has been seduced or minimalized is the result of a lack of testosterone or warrior spirit on the part of its leaders and members combined with the non-participation of other Americans.
Each of us should ask, "What have I been doing to help the R party succeed?"
The New Deal, Dean Acheson wrote approvingly in a book called A Democrat Looks At His Party, “conceived of the federal government as the whole people organized to do what had to be done.” A year later, Mr. (Arthur) Larson wrote A Republican Looks At His Party, and made much the same claim in his book for modern Republicans. The “underlying philosophy” of the New Republicanism, said Mr. Larson, is that “if a job has to be done to meet the needs of the people, and no one else can do it, then it is the proper function of the federal government.”Sorry to repeat myself, but there really is a Uniparty. This has been going on for a long time, and in spite of how much conservatives participate in the Republican wing of this one-party system.
Here we have, by prominent spokesmen of both political parties, an unqualified repudiation of the principle of limited government. There is no reference by either of them to the Constitution, or any attempt to define the legitimate functions of government. The government can do whatever needs to be done; note, too, the implicit but necessary assumption that it is the government itself that determines what needs to be done. We must not, I think, underrate the importance of these statements. They reflect the view of a majority of the leaders of one of our parties, and of a strong minority among the leaders of the other, and they propound the first principle of totalitarianism: that the State is competent to do all things and is limited in what it actually does only by the will of those who control the State. …
— The Conscience of a Conservative (1960), Chapter 2, page 15
Even Barry Goldwater, who you cite as authority, disagrees with you. Recommend you take a second look at his words you offer here for your "we are screwed" perspective:
"They reflect the view of a majority of the leaders of one of our parties, and of a strong minority among the leaders of the other...
Yes, there are indeed two parties and it is our fault one is dominant over the other. The means to correct that condition are on the table right in front of us.
Take a look at the overwhelming number of R counties across the nation. The solution is to effectively increase activity at the local level in a way that influences action at the federal level. That, of course, requires some "stand up" level of guts.
Thinking there is a single uniparty only supports the "why even try" view.
You can have the last word.
My wife had to produce an Immunization Record before getting a Green Card, why are they being given Special Treatment?
So did I when I lived in a foreign country for a number of years.
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