West Wing Reads Baltimore Murder Rate Worse than Honduras, El Salvador, Guatemala, Driving Asylum Surge

Baltimore Murder Rate Worse than Honduras, El Salvador, Guatemala, Driving Asylum Surge “The Baltimore murder rate is higher than the three Central American nations driving the border surge by migrants seeking to flee crime and murder back home,” Paul Bedard reports in the Washington Examiner. “In an analysis of the murder rates done after President Trump criticized Baltimore Rep. Elijah Cummings over the weekend, Baltimore's was reported at 56 per 100,000. The city is on track for 340 murders. By comparison, said the Princeton Policy Advisors analysis, the murder rate in El Salvador was 50, in Guatemala it was 22 and Honduras was 38.” The bottom line: “That Baltimore's murder rate is higher than the most dangerous countries' in Central America is frankly appalling on many levels, and as someone who grew up in Baltimore, I believe increased accountability is long overdue,” Princeton Policy President Steven Kopits said. Click here to read more. “The Trump administration announced plans to allow the importation of drugs from other countries, a major part of President Trump's agenda for lowering the cost of prescriptions,” Cassidy Morrison reports for the Washington Examiner. “This is the next important step in the Administration’s work to end foreign freeloading and put American patients first,” Health and Human Services Secretary Alex Azar said yesterday. In The Daily Caller, Surya Gunasekara and Mandy Gunasekara write that President Trump’s newly confirmed UN Ambassador, Kelly Knight Craft, is America’s best hope for saving the once-proud institution. For years, American tax dollars have been wasted allowing authoritarian regimes, including Iran, to hobnob in the Big Apple. “While member states willingly turn a blind eye to these fundamental problems, they continue to pass anti-Semitic resolutions denigrating the one true beacon of hope and key ally the U.S. has in the middle east — Israel.” “As capital comes back home to the U.S., we are seeing President Trump’s tax reform pay off bigly for our country,” former Reagan economist Art Laffer writes in Fox Business. “Not so long ago, companies viewed the U.S. as a poor choice for headquartering international business operations. This was because the U.S. had one of the highest corporate income tax rates in the world,” he says. No longer—and the results prove it. USMCA is a chance to modernize North America’s outdated trade agreement, “with higher standards, and better policies that will help workers and businesses be even more competitive in the 21st-century economy,” writes Jon Barela, CEO of the Borderplex Alliance, in the El Paso Herald-Post. “The next step is congressional action to ratify this critical agreement. We need our U.S. Representatives and Senators in Congress to immediately declare their support and vote to ratify the accord soon.”