The top five health drivers that explain most of the future trajectory for premature mortality are high blood pressure, high body mass index, high blood sugar, tobacco use, and alcohol use, Foreman said.

Actually, free trade and globalization has been a huge factor in reducing poverty worldwide:

The US is party to agreements requiring it to accept people who have valid claims of asylum.

Ha ha ha never reply to me again

If you had trouble understanding my single sentence summary of your Randian belief system, you’ve got some serious problems.

The point is that a predetermined outcome is not providing due process. If you’ve determined in advance that everyone who applies for asylum will be denied, you are depriving them of due process

So people should return to countries where they almost certainly face rampant violence and crushing poverty so they can avoid the horrors of a low paying job?

Don’t you have a rapist to defend somewhere

I don’t know why you thought it necessary to literally re-state what I just typed.

HamNo is most likely an NPC.  Either that or he only knows one chord and plays it HARD.

wealthy business men who are, almost invariably Republican.

These fuckers have nowhere else on this ball of rock to run. Not even Europe. They have nowhere to run and nowhere to hide and the sooner Americans start realizing this, the better.

HamNo’s articles aren’t for solutions, they are for clicks. Even when he offers ‘solutions’ it essential boils down to Robin Hood Economics - As soon as someone is richer than you, take it from them and give to the poors.

Got it. You think discriminating based on race is “ridiculous”,

Okay, cool, willing to believe you aren’t racist.

You’re assuming an awful lot about those people in the caravan. Who’s to say they have ‘minimal skills?’ There are likely a great number of highly skilled people in that pack...

Good for you: you have a work ethic. And good for you for having lived long enough to remember the days when the ‘sole breadwinner’ in a ‘Murrikhun household could, in fact, support a family on the wages paid by such jobs.

if the biggest reason those jobs don’t pay a viable wage is because they are seasonal. If you pick fruit for a living you probably have at least 2-3 jobs.

You haven’t once admitted that some of these people might be, even on the smallest level, worthy of asylum. You didn’t say “I want them to go through the proper legal system and if they fit what the law deems as acceptable for asylum, grant them asylum, otherwise deny them”

Right? I mentioned we were partially to blame but it doesn’t fit his narrative, so he skipped it. Shock to no one.