
<p class="wp-block-paragraph">Imagine that you are a freshman who has just started medical school at the University of California Los Angeles (UCLA). Among your first assignments is to read a paper describing the crisis at the southern US border as “imaginary.” </p>



<p class="wp-block-paragraph">That’s right, students taking the required course Structural Racism &; Health Equity were asked to read a paper that blames migrants’ poor health on border enforcement and suggests the abolition of all borders as a solution. ;</p>



<p class="wp-block-paragraph">“Rather than acquiesce to the idea of borders as fixed and thus focus interventions on mitigating their harms, we must think about the medical necessity for abolition,” reads the paper.</p>



<p class="wp-block-paragraph">This “woke” curriculum was brought to the attention of medical watchdog Do No Harm, whose Chairman, Dr. Stanley Goldfarb, criticized as ill-informed: “It is clear that medical educators know nothing about the social and economic cost of the current border crisis. For them to instruct medical students in far-left social concepts only further dilutes the quality of medical education and inevitably leads to more social divisions and lower quality of healthcare.”</p>



<p class="wp-block-paragraph">This week, House lawmakers are holding a second vote on whether to impeach Homeland Security Secretary Alejandro Mayorkas for his failure to address a border crisis that is anything but imaginary. Migrant apprehensions soared late last year, reaching 302,000 in December following 242,416 in November and 240,998 in October. The surge prompted high-level talks between Mexico and the US and forced the temporary closure of railroads and entry ports along the border. ;</p>



<p class="wp-block-paragraph">Though apprehensions dropped to roughly 3,000 per day in January, tensions remain high as the Texas Military Department clashes with US Border Patrol. ;</p>



<p class="wp-block-paragraph">“The only thing that we’re not doing is we’re not shooting people who come across the border, because of course, the Biden Administraiton would charge us with murder,” said Texas Governor Greg Abbott (R).</p>



<p class="wp-block-paragraph">In mid-January, a mother and two children drowned in the Rio Grande near Eagle Pass, TX. As I wrote a few weeks ago, the Biden Administration tried to force Texas law enforcement to remove razor wire fences that were erected in that area to prevent migrants from trying to cross the river. <a href="https://punchingbagpost.com/house-speaker-johnson-leads-64-gop-reps-to-eagle-pass-on-the-mexican-border/">Click here to read the full story.</a></p>



<p class="wp-block-paragraph">Another required reading for first-year medical students at UCLA features a 2021 interview with Harsha Walia, a Canadian immigration activist who helped found the nonprofit organization No One is Illegal. ;Walia insists mass migration is caused by factors like colonialism, US imperialism, neoliberalism, border militarization, and climate change and claims border crises do not exist in the US or anywhere else. </p>



<p class="wp-block-paragraph">The very term “border crisis,” is racist, says Walia, because it “invokes a flood of Black and brown people taking over a so-called White man’s country.”</p>



<p class="wp-block-paragraph"><em>Unfortunately wokeism’s infiltration of academia is not limited to the United Sates. As I wrote in December, top physicians in Canada have suggested medical students spend more time studying “anti-oppression, anti-racism, and social justice” and less time studying medicine. <a href="https://punchingbagpost.com/canada-says-more-woke-curricula-and-less-medicine-for-medical-students/">Click here to read the full story. ;</a></em></p>



<p class="wp-block-paragraph"><strong>Sources:</strong></p>



<p class="wp-block-paragraph"><a href="https://www.foxnews.com/media/ucla-medical-school-assignments-call-abolition-borders-says-crisis-imagined-report">UCLA medical school assignments call for abolition of borders, says crisis ‘imagined:’ Report ;</a></p>



<p class="wp-block-paragraph"><a href="https://www.nationalreview.com/news/ucla-med-school-reading-includes-articles-advocating-border-abolition/">UCLA Med-School Reading Includes Articles Advocating for Border Abolition ;</a></p>



<p class="wp-block-paragraph"><a href="https://www.texastribune.org/2024/01/11/texas-border-migrants-greg-abbott-interview-shoot/">Abbott’s immigration rhetoric criticized again after interview response about shooting migrants ;</a></p>



<p class="wp-block-paragraph"><a href="https://www.cnn.com/us/us-mexico-border-texas-military/index.html">Tensions at the border grow as the number of migrant apprehensions drops significantly ;</a></p>



<p class="wp-block-paragraph"><a href="https://www.cnn.com/2024/02/13/politics/alejandro-mayorkas-impeachment-vote/index.html">House slated to vote on whether to impeach DHS Secretary Alejandro Mayorkas again</a></p>



<p class="wp-block-paragraph"><a href="https://www.cnn.com/2024/01/15/us/what-we-know-about-the-drownings-of-3-migrants-in-eagle-pass-texas/index.html">What we know about the drownings of 3 Mexican migrants near Eagle Pass, Texas</a></p>

California Medical Students Taught Border Crisis is “Imaginary”
