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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Biden ordered a similar review of  U.S. aid upon taking office

https://www.cfr.org/in-brief/whats-next-foreign-aid-under-biden[/quote]

I have worked in global health since the first Bush administration. Nothing that any president has done to date, including the reviews, comes close to the absolute chaos of the past week. Literally no one knows what these orders mean, including senior State Department and USAID staff. Half of the Missions are telling our organization to do a full stop, including salaries, and the other half are saying to just stop programs and await instruction. Some are telling us to report on DEIA elements, and others are not. What is a DEIA element of a global health program? Is it work with disabled children promote [b]inclusion[/b] and [b]accessibility[/b] of schools? Is it working with ethnic minorities in a certain region who are over-represented in tuberculosis cases? We have no idea, and the Missions have no idea.

This is not just unprecedented, it's wildly under-considered. International development serves the interests of US foreign policy and national security by preventing disease outbreaks, curbing migration, preventing resource wars, and introducing anti-corruption mechanisms that allow more stable alliances. All of that is being torn down in the course of a week. [/quote]

I’d say your mission isn’t working since we got TB, Covid and 8 million illegal immigrants in the last 4 years.

Best to stop throwing good money after bad. [/quote]

8 million--wrong. 
2008-2015 went from 12 million to 11 million (1 year GW, 7 years Obama)
2015 to 2020 went from 11 million to 10.1 (2 years Obama, 7 years Trump but Covid was also a factor for 2020)
2022 10.9 (added 800,000)
2023 11.7 (added 800,000)
No figures for 2024 year but as of 2023 still below 2008 figure
These are official estimates via Census Dept

Turkmenistan is the only country in the world to have never reported a case of Covid, so you can hardly blame immigrants. The first known cases in the US involved recent travelers, and the first human-to-human case was the husband of the second known case in someone who had traveled.

In 2023 there were around 9000 cases of Tb in the US. In 1993 there were 25,000. That's from the CDC.

The Cato Institute--that very non-liberal, very libertarian entity--looked at disease rates (reportable diseases other than Covid) and immigrant populations. More most reportable diseases the correlation was 0. For Tb there were a very small correlation with unlawful immigrant population--but this is not affecting Tb rates among native born and legal immigrants.

Violent crime has been decreasing since 1990.

Highest number of border encounters ever was in 1985.

It's strange how people can be inundated with the vision of things that aren't happening.

One thing I know: a War on Immigrants will give us the same horrible outcomes as the War on Drugs did and continues to do.

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