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Suicide rates for Americans reached record high last year
On Wednesday, the CDC released devastating data that 2022 was the highest year of suicide deaths ever recorded in America. The National Center for Health Statistics recorded roughly 50,000 suicides last year, which was up 2.6 percent from the prior year, at a rate of 14.3 per 100,000 Americans.
Men 75 and older had the highest rate of suicide in 2022, at nearly 44 per 100,000 people. According to the data, aging adults are at the highest risk of suicide due to loneliness, bereavement and declining health.
National Review reports Suicide rates for young people returned to pre-pandemic levels in 2022 after soaring in 2021 amid the social isolation and financial stress caused by the pandemic and resulting lockdowns. Suicide rates for children aged 10-14 declined by 18 percent in 2022, and rates for young people aged 15-24 declined by 9 percent.
Men are four times more likely to commit suicide than women, although women are more likely than men to have suicidal thoughts. Males make up half of the U.S. population, and they account for nearly 80 percent of suicides.
Women aged 55-64 are at the highest risk of suicide. For women 75 and older, poisoning (including drug overdose) is the leading mechanism of suicide, followed by firearms and suffocation.
National Review adds that suicides play a major role in flattening the U.S. life expectancy curve, along with drug overdoses and homicides. Chronic illnesses like obesity, diabetes, and heart disease are still the leading factors holding back America’s life expectancy rates, which had been steadily increasing for a century until 2010, when the curve began to flatten.
In a unanimous decision, a three-judge panel of the Ninth Circuit Court of Appeals upheld the federal government’s authority to deport foreign nationals in the U.S. illegally. The decision came after objections from local jurisdictions, and therefore reaffirms federal immigration enforcement capabilities, and deals a blow to sanctuary policies aimed at obstructing deportations.
The case centered on a 2019 executive order issued by King County Executive Dow Constantine, which barred the use of King County International Airport, near Seattle, for U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) deportation charter flights. The airport is adjacent to a major ICE operational base in Seattle, writes The Center Square.
Constantine’s order sought to prevent airport services from supporting ICE deportation flights, citing concerns about family separations, racial disparities in enforcement, and other human rights issues. The federal government, under the Trump administration, sued, arguing that the order violated the Supremacy Clause of the Constitution, the intergovernmental immunity doctrine, and a WWII-era Instrument of Transfer agreement allowing federal use of the airport.
A district court ruled in favor of the federal government, and King County appealed. Writing for the Ninth Circuit, Judge Daniel Bress, joined by Judges Michael Hawkins and Richard Clinton, affirmed the lower court’s decision.
The panel ruled that Constantine’s order improperly targeted the federal government and its contractors, violating the intergovernmental immunity doctrine by “singling out the federal government and its contractors for unfavorable treatment.” The court further found that the order increased ICE’s operational costs and created imminent risks of further injury, thereby giving the federal government standing to sue.
Additionally, the judges upheld the claim that the order violated the Instrument of Transfer under the Surplus Property Act of 1944, which explicitly allows federal use of the airport.
Constantine defended the order as consistent with King County’s commitment to inclusivity and human rights. He argued that deportations conflict with the region’s values, including protecting families and promoting equity. However, the Ninth Circuit held that such ideological arguments could not override federal law and constitutional principles.
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