June 6, 2018
By Ron Fonger
Flint, MI -- A new book (click here) on the Flint water crisis by Dr. Mona Hanna-Attisha has landed on Oprah Winfrey's list of the top books to read this summer.
Oprah.com included "What the Eyes Don't See" on its best-book list, saying it "lays bare the bureaucratic bunk and flat-out injustice at the heart of the environmental disgrace -- revealing with the gripping intrigue of a Grisham thriller ..."
Hanna-Attisha is the crusading Flint pediatrician whose research helped expose the consequences of high levels of lead in city water in 2015 -- a doubling of the percentage of infants and children with above average blood lead levels citywide....
April 21, 2018
By Geri Kelley, Ilene Carter and Sarina Gleason
TIME has named Mona Hanna-Attisha, (click here) director of the Michigan State University and Hurley Children’s Hospital Pediatric Public Health Initiative, to the 2016 TIME 100 — its annual list of the 100 most influential people in the world.
The list, now in its 13th year, recognizes the activism, innovation and achievement of the world’s most influential individuals.
As TIME editor Nancy Gibbs has said of the list in the past, "The TIME 100 is a list of the world's most influential men and women, not its most powerful, though those are not mutually exclusive terms. While power is certain, influence is subtle. As much as this exercise chronicles the achievements of the past year, we also focus on figures whose influence is likely to grow, so we can look around the corner to see what is coming."
“Dr. Mona,” - as many call her, captured the 20th spot in the top 100 list, or 1.1 percent of the vote total, alongside U.S. Sen. Elizabeth Warren, talk show hosts Stephen Colbert and John Oliver and German Chancellor Angela Merkel....
1600 border detainees were sent to federal prison?
Sessions and Trump can get out of the human rights abuses if they simply give them ankle bracelets and send them on their way with their children. Otherwise this is pure insanity. Crossing the US border is a misdemeanor.
The border crossers were here to find work as a day laborer and now housing them in federal prison will cost the US millions. The entire idea of any punitive measures other than deportation is escalating out of control. This is starting to sound like the Nazis. There needs to be international inspectors now. Please.
Jeff Sessions needs to get over the verbal abuse of Donald Trump and get some backbone. These people need to be given a bus ticket to migrant worker housing for harvesting. That is all that needs to be done. Please. If any are known criminals by all means detain them, but, this is getting ridiculous and foolish.
Most Americans don’t realize how detaining people, especially in a federal prison, can escalate out of control. If a border detainee is roughed up by another prisoner and fights back, that goes on their prison record. After a time someone who might mix it up in a bar room brawl on a Saturday night finds themselves with a criminal record and a lengthy stay in prison because he or she defended their pride.
These people do not speak English and will not assimilate into a prison population well. Rikers Island has these issues at times. This is not the way to handle border crossers. Send them on their way.
Trump and Sessions are perpetuating their own problems. This has gotten out of hand and the country is suffering international scrutiny for no reason at all. Border crossers are the price Americans pay for freedom and separating them from their families and putting them in federal prison is not the answer. It never has been. Believe me working as migrant laborers is no picnic and has its own downside. If border crossers stay to work as a migrant laborer, what they left behind is a nightmare. The USA needs to pursue the nightmare they are running from not the people running.
