El Paso, Texas (CNN)By the time Dr. Roberto "Bert" Johansson saw the toddler in the emergency room, she was vomiting, feverish, dehydrated and desperately ill with acute gastroenteritis. The girl had been in Border Patrol custody for two days before agents rushed her to El Paso Children's Hospital. Johansson told CNN he admitted her and put her on an IV line, fluids and other treatment. "She lived, but her illness had been missed," he said of that day three months ago. "We need to get to these kids earlier." Pediatrician Roberto "Bert" Johansson says medical screenings for migrant children in custody are "inadequate." Since September, at least six migrant children have died in federal custody, including at least three children taken into Border Patrol custody around El Paso. Read More In recent days, public attention has focused on how some 250 children recently held for as long as three weeks at the Border Patrol's station in Clint, Texas, southeast of El Paso. During … [Read more...] about Doctor says Border Patrol often misses early signs of illness in migrant children
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Democrats lash out at DeVos over proposed changes to loan forgiveness plan
Education Secretary Betsy DeVosElizabeth (Betsy) Dee DeVosThe Hill's Morning Report - Sponsored by AdvaMed - House panel expected to approve impeachment articles Thursday New College Scorecard still has madness in its method DeVos overruled Education Dept. staff on student loan debt relief: report MORE came under intense scrutiny from congressional Democrats on Thursday for refusing to fully forgive student loans for people who say they have been defrauded by for-profit colleges.DeVos has instead proposed a loan forgiveness plan based on income and employment status.“If claims are false, or students did not suffer financial harm, then hardworking taxpayers, including those who scraped and saved to pay their own student loans, should not have to pay somebody else’s student loans, too,” DeVos said at a hearing called by the House Education and Labor Committee.ADVERTISEMENT“Simply discharging all of these loans, as some on this committee suggest be done, is not … [Read more...] about Democrats lash out at DeVos over proposed changes to loan forgiveness plan
Column: Two billionaires explain why they shouldn’t pay more taxes, unlike you poor saps
Statements by billionaires explaining why they already pay plenty in taxes and shouldn’t have to pay any more have become so much a part of the political landscape that they deserve a “Jeopardy!” category all to themselves.A new op-ed on this theme, penned for the Tuesday Wall Street Journal by Home Depot co-founder Bernard Marcus and New York supermarket magnate John Catsimatidis, sets a standard for the genre that other tycoons will shoot for in vain. Let’s take a look.In their very first sentence, the authors declare, “The two of us are quite rich” -- thereby instantly establishing their piece as the Platonic ideal of Wall Street Journal op-eds. Every additional dollar the government takes from us is a dollar less for this critical process of expanding America’s wealth and job-creating businesses. Billionaires Bernard Marcus and John Catsimatidis Advertisement The rest of the piece, which is headlined “Making Money is a Patriotic … [Read more...] about Column: Two billionaires explain why they shouldn’t pay more taxes, unlike you poor saps
