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...plight of Jim Dickson, a hospital administrator in Bisbee, is summed up with one image. It's an ambulance that pulls into tiny Copper Queen Community Hospital and discharges illegal aliens injured in an auto accident. The border-patrol officers--on orders from Washington--have refused to take them onto the hospital property after taking them into custody. Instead, the officers have called an ambulance for the injured. If the officers were to arrive at the hospital to make their drop-off, then the border patrol (make that the U.S. government) would be responsible for paying the medical bill...
...Dobbs, who?s broadcasting live from Canc?n this week because he?s so aggravated about it.) NAFTA has not been an altogether bad deal for Mexico; it has buoyed the economy and improved opportunities for workers in the more technologically advanced north. But it has only exacerbated their plight in the nation?s south and midsection-states like Oaxaca and Zacatecas that are hemorrhaging workers to California lettuce fields, North Carolina poultry plants and Chicago restaurants...
...Lewis specifically lamented the plight of women and called for the creation of an international UN agency to deal specifically with women's issues. "Women are at the heart of the pandemic," he said, with women and girls making up 76% of those infected between the ages...
...else murdered once their presence becomes too problematic or unprofitable. The taking of these harmless humanitarians served, if nothing else, to remind that there?s only so far good intentions will take you in Iraq. That they bore no ill will, were staunchly non-violent, sympathetic to the Iraqis? plight, earnestly assimilating, and even anti-American in a barely veiled way, meant nothing. They were still snatched, still held for months, and Fox was still brutalized and executed. With ever more chilling surety, there is barely any quarter being given in this war. Every foreigner breathed a gentle sigh upon...
...whether it is appropriate for us to be the moral arbiters for a distant culture. And so on, until we have plagued ourselves with self-doubt. Certainly, the unelected clerics of Iran depend on enough of us doing that. But those of us who are sincerely concerned with the plight of Iranians cannot satisfy ourselves through further abdication. It is crystal clear that something has to be done.Even people halfway around the world can accomplish something important for Iran. In an interview with a German newspaper, one of Iran’s leading reformers, Fatemeh Haghighatjoo, said...