Canadian woman refused U.S. entry because of depression

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73. They might have been concerned Ms Richardson would attempt or commit suicide in the US,

as she now admits border control cited "danger to self or others" considerations when excluding her; see #70

This concern could reasonably have been based on CPIC records originating from her mother's ambulance call at her fourth suicide attempt (by self-poisoning) in 2012

Suicide attempts, and actual suicides, are potentially very expensive, which perhaps accounts for the excludibility from the US of aliens under 8 USC § 1182:

suicides and suicide attempts can involve innocent passers-by, as (for example) when someone jumps from a high place and lands on someone else;

suicides and suicide attempts can produce police and emergency service response costs;

suicide attempts can produce major medical costs, as when person is critically injured in an attempt but survives;

suicides and suicide attempts can produce police investigation costs, in efforts to determine whether some crime-against-persons has been committed;

suicides will produce medical examiner costs, in efforts to determine whether the apparently obvious cause of death is the actual cause of death;

and so on

Although it seems border control was unaware of Ms Richardson's three earlier suicide attempts -- one of which left her paraplegic after she leapt from a bridge -- her exclusion from the US is consistent with the intent of 8 USC § 1182, and a more detailed knowledge of her history will (on first impression) only make her exclusion seem more reasonable under the statute. She is, of course, free to pursue an administrative waiver of the exclusion