Thanks for joining us. Tonight, among mexicanamericans in the southwest, theres a saying. They didnt cross the border but rather the border crossed them. A simple truth about the long and bitter history of their heritage and their land, seized and claimed by the u. S. Its the latest in our series on reparations. But first some background from abcs whoopi goldberg. Many people think of the dividing line between the u. S. And mexico as fixed, as something thats always been there, but 172 years ago, what we now consider the southwest wasnt part of the u. S. At all. It was actually the northmost part of mexico. But the u. S. Was not content with what it had, pushing west ward to seize the land that many president s believed was americas destiny. To reach that goal, president james polk provoked war with mexico, after a long and bloody battle. The u. S. Occupied much of mexico. The two countries decided to work up an agreement, and ceded half their country to the united states. This part wa
Committee held a confirmation hearing for chad wolf to formula become head of the Homeland Security department. Mr. Wolf has been serving as acting dhs secretary since november of last year. Answered questions on election interference, domestic terrorism, and Human Trafficking, among other topics. This is just under two hours. Meeting toe are consider the nomination of acting secretary of Homeland Security, chad wolf, to be the confirmed secretary of the department of Homeland Security, which is an enormous task. This in the past, i truly appreciate anybody who was willing to undertake such enormous responsibility. I would ask my written opening remarks be entered into the record, without objection. I will keep it short. I know which got time restraints we have got time restraints. The secretary of Homeland Security manages 240,000 people in the department. The responsibilities for Homeland Security are vast. Starting with the Emergency Management agency, which has to do with deal with
I worked for many years in los angeles at the Los Angeles Times. I have written for the new york times. Currently i write for the los angeles review of books and i am on the board of directors of the National Book critics circle. I am also the author of a book lapoetry, that deals with causa. At this time i would like to introduce miriam. Miriam is the former Pulitzer Prize winning editor. She spent 25 years working at newsday and to the Los Angeles Times. Her book, the crusades of cesar a biography is the First Comprehensive biography of the charismatic leader. She has written the union of widely acclaimed into nuanced history of chavez is United Farmworkers Movement and nuanced history of a United Farmworkers Movement. She recently received an endowment for her work on the chavez biography. Please welcome miriam pawel. [applause] thanks, gregg. Gregg hi miriam. Gg. Iam hi, gre gregg i want to ask you something i feel is important what brought you through the writing about cesar chave
The. Clashes and arrests in the russian capital as protests following the surprise inauguration of president alexander lukashenko. Good morning from moscow on kevin the World News Center with the latest this thursday morning 1st refusing in every possible way it seems to respond to moscows requests for information on the alleged poisoning of alexina that is the claim from russias permanent representative to the chemical weapons watchdog the o. P. C. W in an interview to. The Russian Federation has been waiting for answers from our german colleagues the general Prosecutors Office has sent 2 requests for Legal Assistance unfortunately we have not received any answers there were various explanations from the german side firstly there were references to National Secrets the germans said they were afraid of revealing secrets and german technologies during our specialists acquaintance with the results of the analysis in a boon to swear laboratory then our german colleagues started talking ab
A full lockdown. For an argentina where many people say theyre barely surviving and claim the pandemic that in a Failing Health cast. So its a decision thats been described as outrageous and offensive the grand jury in the United States has decided not to charge Police Officers in louisville in kentucky for the death of Briana Taylor the black medical worker was killed in march when police raided protests have been held in several cities to denounce the criminal Justice System the grand jury did indicts one of the officers for endangering taylors neighbors and Louisville Police used tear gas on the crowd into Police Officers was shot 100 reports now from the. Anger in a sense of justice denied spilled over into the streets of louisville. Police. Demonstrators in one American City after another acted quickly. Think its a slap in the face to everybody who believes in justice and goodness and rightness. The least of the charges that you could imagine happening. That dont even mention. Nam