Democrats Call for an Investigation of US Customs and Border Policies Following the Death of 7-Year Old Migrant Girl

New Mexico: Jackelin Amei Rosmery Caal Maquin, 7-year old girl from Guatemala, died last week while in the custody of US Customs and Border Protection that reported she was severely dehydrated.  Jackelin was picked up along with her father and 163 other migrants in a remote stretch of the New Mexico desert, and after seven hours, she was put on a bus to the nearest Border Patrol station, but soon began vomiting.  She stopped breathing and was revived, but died in a hospital from cardiac arrest.  Democratic lawmakers, who favor mass immigration, are questioning border authorities’ policies and blaming the Trump administration.  The people who brought the young child on the dangerous trek are to blame if reports are true that she had not been given anything to eat or drink for days, her father signed a form declaring that she showed no signs of trauma or distress when she was detained, and extreme efforts were made to save her life. 

The media is in the midst of exploiting the death of a 7-year-old immigrant child. The child was detained along with her father after crossing the border illegally. She died in government custody. Based on the facts as they stand now, there is absolutely no reason at all to blame her tragic demise on Border Patrol, despite the Left’s attempts to do so.

Here are those facts:

1. She died only hours after entering government custody.

2. Reportedly, she hadn’t been given anything to eat or drink for days beforehand.

3. According to a Border Patrol form, apparently signed by her father, the girl was showing no signs of trauma or distress when she was initially detained.

4. Hours later, she started vomiting. When she stopped breathing, she was revived by medics and airlifted to a hospital in Texas.

5. She died at the hospital, despite desperate efforts to save her life.

No honest or even decent person could look at this list and find any substantial reason to point the finger at Border Patrol. Barring some unknown information coming to light, it would appear that the responsibility for her death lies on the shoulders of those who took her on this perilous trek across the Mexican desert and did not provide her the basic necessities during the journey.

Incidentally, the girl was detained along with 163 people. As mentioned above, her father was in the group. But this raises a question: were the adults in her company also dangerously dehydrated and underfed? If not, it would seem that the group did have enough food and water for the trip, they just didn’t give enough to the child. Whose fault would that be? Border Patrol? And if they didn’t have enough food and water for anybody, and indeed many others in the group were in need of medical attention, then, again, whose fault is that? Who carries the blame for bringing a child on a hazardous trek through the desert without appropriate provisions?

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Christian Group with 60 Million Members Warns Big Tech to Stop Censorship Or Face a Torrent of Lawsuits

Earlier this month, Jerry Johnson, the President of the National Religious Broadcasters (NRB) sent an ultimatum to the CEOs of Apple, Facebook, Google, and Twitter, warning that if the big tech giants continue their censorship of Christian and conservative viewpoints, he would lead his organization’s 60 million members in a campaign to remove legal protections Congress gave to these companies.  Under Section 230 of the Communications Decency Act, tech companies have been given immunity from being sued so long as they are neutral public forums.  Johnson set the deadline to comply by December 31, 2018. 

On Thursday, National Religious Broadcasters (NRB) President Jerry Johnson sent a final ultimatum to the CEOs of Apple, Facebook, Google, and Twitter, warning that if the big tech companies do not cease their censorship of Christian and conservative viewpoints, he would lead his organization’s 60 million members in a campaign to remove legal protections Congress gave these companies under Section 230 of the Communications Decency Act.

The companies deny their patterns of bias against conservatives and Christians, but Johnson begged to differ.

“We have documented over many years that they are consistently censoring political debate between conservatives and liberals, religious and philosophical debate between Christians and non-Chirstians, on issues like life, marriage, and Islamic terrorism,” Johnson told PJ Media on Monday. He also insisted that none of the companies responded to his letter.

That letter reiterated an ultimatum from September, in which Johnson set a concrete deadline of December 31, 2018.

If Apple, Facebook, Google, and Twitter “do not take concrete action against censorship of Christian and conservative viewpoints by the end of this calendar year, then NRB will be calling for new hearings,” Johnson said in a statement Monday. “Specifically, we will call for a review of the ‘Good Samaritan’ section of Section 230 of the Communications Decency Act.”

“We prefer not to do that,” the NRB president told PJ Media. “We are asking them to acknowledge the problem and adopt a voluntary free speech charter which would say, ‘This is a free speech zone.'”

The companies did not acknowledge the problem, however. “We’ll review the letter, but I want to emphasize that we apply our rules equally across the platform,” a Twitter spokesperson told PJ Media. The representative pointed to a post from July denying the practice of “shadow banning” on Twitter and a link to Twitter CEO Jack Dorsey’s September testimony.

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26 People with Ties to the US Embassy in Havana, Cuba Suffered “Health Attacks” from Weird Noises


Since 2016, at least 26 American diplomats and CIA agents in Cuba reported “health attacks” after they complained of weird noises and sensations that caused dizziness, ear pain, and difficulty concentrating, and many claimed concussion-like brain damage.  Doctors examined some of the people affected by the noises and determined that the injuries are real, not hysteria, and have caused neurological damage and the problems with balance in the inner ear.  Many suspect a microwave weapon was used.  Similar reports have come out of China and at least 11 Americans were evacuated over the summer. 

The American government employees in Cuba who suffered mystifying symptoms — dizziness, insomnia, difficulty concentrating — after hearing a strange high-pitched sound all had one thing in common: damage to the part of the inner ear responsible for balance, according to the first doctors to examine them after the episodes.

Two years after Americans posted at the United States Embassy in Havana began experiencing the peculiar phenomenon, doctors at the University of Miami on Wednesday published a scientific paper that confirms what these patients have said all along: Their condition is real, not the result of mass hysteria, a response to intense news media coverage or a stress reaction to being evacuated, as doctors in Cuba had suggested.

“These people were injured,” said Dr. Michael E. Hoffer, the director of the university’s Vestibular and Balance Program and lead author of the study. “We’re not sure how. The injury resulted in ear damage and some trouble thinking.”

To some of the 26 people affected, the episode felt like something out of “Star Trek”: A few minutes of a high-pitched noise, often accompanied by a high-pressure sensation, described as a “force field,” felt in their homes and hotel rooms in Cuba over several months starting in late 2016, changed their lives and, in some cases, ended careers.

The dizziness and cognitive problems that followed — including severe insomnia and nausea when using a computer — were so intense that at least one State Department employee went into early retirement this year. Another person who experienced a similar phenomenon in China went on leave. The State Department would not say how many people had returned to work.

Identifying the specific nature of the damage means that the patients could potentially be treated with physical therapy, the doctors said. It isn’t clear yet whether the injury is permanent.

The study, which also included work by a professor from the University of Pittsburgh and was published in the journal Laryngoscope Investigative Otolaryngology, is the first to document the earliest symptoms of a medical mystery that started in Cuba, damaging relations between that country and the United States, and may have spread to China.

Doctors found that all of the people affected by what was initially — and inaccurately — thought to be an acoustic attack had damage to the otolith, the organ that manages balance and the sensation of gravity.

The doctors found that it was unlikely that the affected diplomats and C.I.A. officers had suffered traumatic brain injuries. An earlier study from the University of Pennsylvania suggested that the patients showed signs of traumatic brain injury without ever experiencing a concussion.

The authors of the University of Miami study said it was the only one to document the medical examinations that took place soon after the sounds were heard, before news media reports or workers’ compensation claims could have affected results. The study does not offer any theory as to what caused the injuries, but Dr. Hoffer, who specializes in concussions, said he now felt confident that doctors can screen for the condition — and treat it.

He said the patients had described a “force field” sensation that they could physically feel. Some prolonged their exposure by walking around in search of the source. When they opened their front doors, it was gone, they told him.

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