cross-posted from: https://lemmy.ca/post/38154085

Healthcare services in refugee camps along the Thailand-Myanmar border run by the International Rescue Committee (IRC) were suspended on 27 January 2025, following an order from the new United States (US) President, Donald Trump.

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well, can’t say he’s not following up on his election promises

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Project 2025 baby! 😭 Please let me off this train.

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Except for the lowering grocery prices thing.

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sure, but who cares about that? /s

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Eggs in my area have already gone up like $1/dozen in the last week.

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Now hold my beer for a sec, but isn’t the IRC a NGO?

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Literally the third paragraph, and they are short paragraphs.

The IRC gets about half of its funding from the US government and part of its work is to help resettle refugees in the US.

If you keep reading…

As a result of the IRC’s suspension of healthcare, hospitals in the refugee camps have had to discharge all their patients except for emergency cases and stop seeing outpatients, according to healthcare officials working in the camps.

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Now I see what MAGA stands for. Make America (a) Great Asshole.

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Make America Geriatric Autocracy

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The wealthy need that money WON’T SOMEBODY THINK OF THE WEALTHY 🙏😭

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Remember, any time you see people talking about “the economy”, just replace that with “rich people’s yacht money” and things will start making more sense.

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Why does my gut feeling tell me this is breaking some international laws? Not that anything will be done, just saying this reeks of illegal.

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“International Law” is much different thing from normal law. There is no real enforcement mechanism, so it’s very much a case of “might makes right”. In this particular case, it sounds like Trump pulled funding, which is not the same as shutting it down, even if the effect on the refugees is the same.

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It’s straight up genocide.

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