Response to The Out Crowd by Ira Glass

• Migrants in the Border stations used to waited in USA after applying for asylum until this was approved or denied, but now is different they have to wait in Mexico due to a new law called Migrant Protection Protocols (MPP).
• This camp didn’t existed before. It has not water supplements, no proper sanitation only 5 toilets  for 2500 people, some pay for clean bathrooms or go to the woods when toilets get full.
• Nurse Ellen Perry created a medical tent to assist people with decease due to poor sanitations conditions. She is also trying to create a clean water source system from the near by river.
• Volunteers always go to the camps to help how they can with food or other supplies.
• The people waiting in the camps are at risk of being kill, rape and kidnap by the Mexican Cartels.
• Mexican authorities don’t want to help people because they don’t want to create a permanent spot they want all these people to leave or move to government shelters.
• United Nations wont step in unless the Mexican Government invites them in, US is donating money, so they can be housed Mexico.
• USCIS Employees in the border are resigning because they don’t feel comfortable doing their job now, they feel that they are hurting the migrants rather than helping them.
• The new MPP is a fear screening process, people don’t want to apply for Asylum because they are being rejected and sent back to their home country where they fear for their life.
• Those migrants who have to wait for a response on their application outside United States are being kidnapped, some are so afraid to stay in Mexico and returning home is even scarier that they get stock between their home country and the US border.
• I have traveled across the world and US by car and plane and there are plenty of countries and states that are desolated, people who migrate are often looking for a better place to live, where they don’t have to fear for their life and where they can provide for their families. Lot of these people come to work hard and do the job nobody else wants to do. I personally believe that there should not be any border or division between nations where are all humans, despite of speaking other languages and believing in other things could co-exist with each other. We should all be look as one nation and move freely in the world without being denied entry to any place. Yes, there are some places that are better than others, but if there where not individualism and divisions of nations and territories we could have a more balance world where immigration would not be a problem.

Should the united states spend his resources in other things the border patrols and walls?

Should the UN step in and help the migrants to seek asylum?

Is the new MPP law discriminatory?

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Response to :

A People’s History of the United States by Howard Zinn

Social Studies The United States by Scott Forseman

The Movement for Indigenous Peoples Day by  NPR

• A people’s story of the United States by Howard Zinn portraits Christopher Columbus as a selfish and cruel explorer who came to America in the pursuit of gold for his King and Queen. Who promised him “10 percent of the profits, governorship over new-found lands, and the fame that would go with a new title” Page 2.  after searching for gold  and not being able to find any Columbus decided to slave Arawaks (Native Americans) and sell them for a profit. While other Arawaks were force to work continuously searching for gold, many of them died and some were kill and other kill themselves. “In two years, through murder, mutilation, or suicide, half of the 250,000 Indians on Haiti were dead” Page 4. in this quote we can see how devastating was the arrival of Christopher Columbus to America. Las Casas in his book number 2 History of the Indies described in details all the wrong doings and how the Arawaks were desperate that didn’t want to suffer no more “7000 children died in three months. Some mothers even drowned their babies from sheer desperation. . . . In this way, husbands died in the mines, wives died at work” Page 7. Just by this small facts we can see that whatever happened back then was so horrify.

• On the contrary in the Social Studies the United States by Scott Foresman shows Christopher Columbus as an great explorer whose expedition “would lead to powerful changes for the Americas, Europe, and the entire world” in this book they talk about and “exchange” of movement of people, animals, and plants omitting that fact that Native Americans were “slaved, raped and murdered” in masses. In today’s world all of these are considered a human crime that most historians tend to leave out when the refer to the discovery of America. I understand that back then things were different, but even back then this acts weren’t acts of gratification.

• After years of debates and arguments over Columbus being consider an important historical figure in American History in spite of all the death he caused. The podcast from NPR explains how and why Columbus became a national holiday in United States even though Columbus never even make it to North America. In this podcast they also argued that this holiday should be replaced to Indigenous people’s day instead, lot of Italian-American are against this movement, because they argue that it is part of their history and heritage, however most of people in United States don’t really want to honor a mass killer and some state have already changed this holiday without changing the American history, but instead changing who they honor on this day.

Why did it take people in United States so long to realize that Christopher Columbus was a murderer and that he shouldn’t be honored?

Why Columbus Day federal holiday hasn’t changed in United State, while many other countries in America recognize this day as indigenous people’s day since the 19th Century ?

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The image in my header is about me and my childhood friends at the airport in my home country Ecuador before jumping in a plane to start a new life. I am an immigrant who came to this country ten years ago. I speak Spanish and coming to a country where people speak and communicate in a different language than the one you already know is very scary, but at the same time fascinating. That’s the main reason why this picture means a lot to me, it reminds me who I was, where I come from, who I am now and where I am to be. Every time I see this image makes me think about everything I’ve done to be where I am now and it motivates me to keep moving forward and farther in life. I am currently a Data Analyst working for the city of New York something that I never thought I could be.