#FDA
* Risky Medications: The FDA has given more than 20 foreign factories a special pass to continue sending drugs to the U.S. even though they were made at plants that the agency had banned.
* Troubled Factories: The medications came mostly from plants in India where inspectors found contaminated drugs, filthy labs and falsified records.
* FDA Secrecy: The agency did not proactively inform the public when drugs were exempted from import bans, and it did not routinely test the medications to ensure they were safe.
https://www.propublica.org/article/fda-drug-loophole-sun-pharma
#ICE #Dreamers
"Questions are surfacing about the immigration detention of a 19-year-old college student from Utah after a traffic stop in Colorado this month.
Caroline Dias Goncalves, a student at the University of Utah, was driving on Interstate 70 outside Loma on June 5 when a Mesa County sheriff's deputy pulled her over.
The Mesa County Sheriff’s Office did not say why. Relatives told The Salt Lake City Tribune the deputy claimed she was driving too close to a semi-truck.
The stop lasted less than 20 minutes, and 'Dias Goncalves was released from the traffic stop with a warning,' the sheriff’s office said in a news release Monday.
Then, shortly after she exited the highway, Immigration and Customs Enforcement agents stopped her, arrested her and took her to an immigration detention center.
'She has no criminal record and she was not shown a warrant,' her attorney, Jon Hyman, said in an email.
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Dias Goncalves was born in Brazil and was brought to the United States as a 7-year-old. She has lived in Utah since she was 12 and has an asylum case pending.
Friends and relatives question how immigration authorities were alerted to her location.
As part of an ongoing 'full administrative review,' the Mesa County Sheriff’s Office determined that the deputy who stopped Dias Goncalves was part of a communication group that included local, state and federal law enforcement partners participating in 'a multi-agency drug interdiction effort focusing on the highways throughout Western Colorado.'
'We were unaware that the communication group was used for anything other than drug interdiction efforts, including immigration,' the sheriff's office said. 'We have since removed all Mesa County Sheriff’s Office members from the communication group.'
Colorado law restricts coordination between local law enforcement and federal immigration authorities, but it does not fully prohibit it."
https://www.nbcnews.com/news/latino/ice-detains-utah-university-student-traffic-stop-colorado-rcna213231