September 2019
In deze krachtige, persoonlijke talk deelt auteur en academicus Juan Enriquez verhalen over de immigratiecrisis aan de grens tussen de VS en Mexico,
waardoor dit vaak abstracte debat weer op aarde wordt gebracht -- en toont wat je elke dag kunt doen om immigranten het gevoel te geven dat ze erbij horen.
"Dit gaat niet over kinderen en grenzen," zegt hij. "Het gaat over ons. Dit gaat over wie we zijn, als volk, als natie en als individu."
This talk was presented at an official TED conference, and was featured by our editors on the home page.
About the speaker
Juan Enriquez · Author, academic, futurist
Juan Enriquez thinks and writes about the profound changes that genomics and brain research will bring about in business, technology, politics and society.
GESCHIEDENIS MEXICO - VS
The dark history of "gasoline baths" at the border
In 1917, American health officials launched a campaign to use noxious, often toxic chemicals to delouse immigrants seeking to enter at the US-Mexico border.
The same practice had caused a fire in an El Paso jail the year before and killed 27 people.
17-year-old Juárez maid Carmelita Torres refused to go through it, sparking a protest of thousands of Mexicans at the El Paso border. Although they briefly shut down the border, the campaign would continue for decades -- and go on to inspire Nazi scientists.
This is the second episode of our Missing Chapter series, where Vox producer Ranjani Chakraborty revisits underreported and often overlooked moments from the past to give context to the present. Join her as she covers the histories that are often left out of our textbooks. Our first season tackles stories of racial injustice, political conflicts, even the hidden history of US medical experimentation.
HEDEN - Judges rule
Donald Trump CANNOT use $2.5 billion in military cash to build his border wall - days after he signed a new section
- Appeals judges on the 9th Circuit rule 2-1 that cash allocated to the military by Congress cannot be diverted to building Trump's border wall
- They agreed with a coalition of border states and environmental groups that contended the money transfer was unlawful
- They also ruled and that building the wall would pose environmental threats
- Last July, the Supreme Court allowed the $2.5 billion to be spent while the litigation continued, blunting the impact of the latest appeals court action
- The administration has already awarded much of the money, including a $1.3-billion job in Arizona that was announced last month
- Trump visited Yuma, Arizona,to mark completion of the 200th mile of border wall
- Much of it was built with the transferred military funds that the 9th Circuit panel found illegal
By Associated Press - Published: 26 June 2020
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https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/articl ... -wall.html