No Deportation for Immigrant in Same-Sex Marriage
By KIRK SEMPLE
Published: June 29, 2011
In a decision that could have far-reaching effects on immigration cases involving same-sex couples, federal officials have canceled the deportation of a Venezuelan man in New Jersey who is married to an American man, the couple’s lawyer said Wednesday.
The announcement comes as immigration officials put into effect new, more flexible guidelines governing the deferral and cancellation of deportations, particularly for immigrants with no serious criminal records.
Immigration lawyers and gay rights advocates said the decision represented a significant shift in policy and could open the door to the cancellation of deportations for other immigrants in same-sex marriages.
“This action shows that the government has not only the power but the inclination to do the right thing when it comes to protecting certain vulnerable populations from deportation,” said the couple’s lawyer, Lavi Soloway.
Colchine has been used to treat gout for decades. Gout is a relatively common painful kind of arthritis. Colchicine has been around so long that nobody had ever bothered to patent it. It was a few pennies a pill and very effective. In steps URL Pharmaceuticals. They realized it didn’t have a patent so they quickly did some studies to determine its effectiveness. Of course the studies showed that it was safe and effective. They took their studies to the FDA who quickly approved “their” colchicine. URL then had exclusive rights to sell colchicine as a branded drug at over $5 a pill. And then they successfully sued the companies who had been making colchicine as a generic for years. They’ve won the cases. And now people who depended on colchicine for their daily lives must pay $5 a pill instead of 5 cents.
Now a few members of Congress want answers.
Too late. What URL Pharmaceuticals did was just business right? That’s the American medical industry…
illustration by James Gillray
June 22nd, 2011, in Pennsylvania, United States, one of the groups of indigenous North American activists walking across the country to Washington DC to raise awareness about the abnormally high incidence of diabetes among indigenous people in the United States. Due to the destruction of traditional diets and lifestyles indigenous populations in euro-colonized areas around the world suffer from much higher incidence of diabetes than the white settler populations. In the United States indigenous people are more than twice as likely as white people to have diabetes. “In 2001, the age-standardised prevalence of self-reported diabetes among Indigenous Australians was 11% compared with 3% among the non-Indigenous population.” Rates of diabetes are increasing worldwide and are associated with urbanization and a “western-style” diet.
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