A medical transparency group claims that first-year medical students at UCLA’s medical school were given readings by activists and educators advocating for the removal of borders.
The readings were assigned for the mandatory course “Structural Racism and Health Equity,” according to Do No Harm. National Review received copies of the materials on Thursday.
In a passage taken from the academic work “Beyond border health: Infrastructural violence and the health of border abolition,” the writers advocate for a system of “no borders that privileges liberatory solidarity with migrants.”
The authors demand that borders be abolished as a “medical intervention” to address the issue of health disparities among migrants.
“To undo rather than mitigate the effects of existing infrastructure, border health advocates must broaden their gaze to embrace a global framework that is shaken free from the constraints imposed by violent borders and traditional professional practice.” UCLA Medical School suspends “anti-racist” exercise that segregated students following a civil rights complaint. They contend that rather than accepting borders as unchangeable and concentrating treatments on lessening their negative effects, we should consider the medical need of abolishing borders.
Students are also obliged to read a 2021 interview published in The Guardian featuring Canadian immigration campaigner Harsha Walia, who advocates for the elimination of borders.
Walia claims that colonialism and US imperialism are to blame for mass migration, just as she did in the first reading. she claims that there isn’t a “border crisis” in the US or any other country.
