Tag: Mark Greenberg

Funding redirected to pay for immigrant detention centres

 Volume 392, Number 10157   

27 October 2018

 

WORLD REPORT   A plan to expand immigrant children detention centres requires money from medical research and
health programmes. Susan Jaffe, The Lancet‘s Washington correspondent, reports
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Trump administration officials told congressional leaders last month it will transfer as much as US$466 million from cancer research, meals for older adults, preschool for toddlers, HIV/AIDS prevention, and other initiatives that are central to the agency’s mission to protect Americans’ health. “These transfers are only a temporary solution to the sad consequence of a broken immigration system”, said HHS Deputy Secretary Eric Hargan. [Continued here.]