Post by the Scribe on Mar 28, 2021 12:23:06 GMT
Trump's WALL is EASILY cut with any battery powered reciprocal saw. So what good is it?
A Predictable Time at the Border
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March 26, 2021
A hole cut into Southern California's border fence with Mexico on Wednesday, March 3, 2021. Thirteen people killed in one of the deadliest border crashes on record.
( US Customs and Border Protection / AP Images )
It seems we're right back where we started: a southern border ill-prepared to handle asylum-seekers trying to cross, policy five steps behind what the infrastructure can do, and a political powder keg ready to blow. The result? A media storm about a “crisis at the border.” But what if, in the United States, this is just a regular spring?
Tom K. Wong, associate professor and the founding director of the U.S. Immigration Policy Center (USIPC) at the University of California at San Diego, explains that seasonality is a key factor in understanding when — and why — we see more people coming to the border. It's a predictable uptick, and yet our policies for more than two decades have failed to anticipate it. He explains to Brooke that, until we begin to acknowledge critical trends in the data, our media and our administrations will always be behind — along with our care for the people behind the numbers.
This is a segment from our March 26th, 2021 program, How to Lose Friends and Influence People.
Hosted by Brooke Gladstone
WNYC Studios
Produced by WNYC Studios
A Predictable Time at the Border
www.wnycstudios.org/podcasts/otm/segments/predictable-time-border-on-the-media
LISTEN www.podtrac.com/pts/redirect.mp3/audio.wnyc.org/otm/otm032621_cms1097185_pod.mp3
March 26, 2021
A hole cut into Southern California's border fence with Mexico on Wednesday, March 3, 2021. Thirteen people killed in one of the deadliest border crashes on record.
( US Customs and Border Protection / AP Images )
It seems we're right back where we started: a southern border ill-prepared to handle asylum-seekers trying to cross, policy five steps behind what the infrastructure can do, and a political powder keg ready to blow. The result? A media storm about a “crisis at the border.” But what if, in the United States, this is just a regular spring?
Tom K. Wong, associate professor and the founding director of the U.S. Immigration Policy Center (USIPC) at the University of California at San Diego, explains that seasonality is a key factor in understanding when — and why — we see more people coming to the border. It's a predictable uptick, and yet our policies for more than two decades have failed to anticipate it. He explains to Brooke that, until we begin to acknowledge critical trends in the data, our media and our administrations will always be behind — along with our care for the people behind the numbers.
This is a segment from our March 26th, 2021 program, How to Lose Friends and Influence People.
Hosted by Brooke Gladstone
WNYC Studios
Produced by WNYC Studios