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  • The Southern Border: A Humanitarian Crisis

    In January of this year, U.S. Customs and Border Protection impounded 254 pounds of fentanyl—the largest seizure of the drug at any port of entry—at the Nogales Commercial Facility in Arizona. This amount of fentanyl is lethal enough to kill 57 million Americans. A few weeks later, President Trump declared a national emergency on the…

  • Bodies on the Red Market: Organ Trafficking as a Human Rights Concern

    BY RAHMI ELAHJJI One day while playing outside in China’s north-central Shanxin province, six-year-old Xiao Binbin was abducted from the front of his house and taken to a field outside of town where his eyes were harvested. Xiao’s story is not uncommon for people living in developing countries, yet the issue of organ harvesting is…