Test. Test. Test. Resettle my families as well. These are dark days for america. Because these are dark days for immigrants to this country, those seeking Refugee Status or asylum, those who are undocumented aliens, or even those helping them. Lets not forget that the fits assassin killed 11 jews at the tree of life synagogue to retaliate against the life saving refugee work. Our country has been in this circumstance is the of hell before. Think of the very antiimmigrant no Nothing Party in the 1840s. The chinese exclusion act of 1882, the 1924 racist quota law aimed the immigrants in europe and the refusal to provide sanctuary to people fleeing hitler and the failure to open its doors wide at that time. Todays antiimmigrant and antiforeign afury Shows Progress is not inevitable. Over the past two and a half years, we have hurdled backwards as a nation repeating some of the cruellest, most bigoted moments in our history. This has no shame. It is bold and brazen. Tryings to shut down im
President ial library and museum. Im so excited for you to be here today. We are commemorating the refugee act of 1980 signed by president carter in march that year. On behalf of president carter, who was unable to be here, i just want to welcome you first, welcome you to the carter president ial center. We say center because theres two fabulous entities here, the federal entity is the Library Museum which is where you are now and a few feet away is the Carter Center which is an ngo. Together president carter looks at us as the center. We provide him with data, research, camaraderie, advice and we work really, really hard for him as well. The refugee act is an amendment to the earlier immigration and nationality act and the migration of the refugee assistant act. The goal was to provide permanent and consistent admission to people who were suffering in other nations and to provide asylum. That was the whole point of it. This is what makes it so exciting to be here today too. We are par
Test. Test. Captioning performed by vitac so when lewis and clark met the shashonis the horses had spanish brideless, they said where did you get them, they said we got them from the spanish. 12 days ride away. As i understand it smallpox take 14 days for the symptoms to appear. So if you are the shashoni you can be home sleeping with your wife, kissing your babies before the smallpox erupts. It goes pretty much everywhere. Black feet get it from shashonis, goes across the northern plains, goes to the villages which are a central trade network. In the winter 1783, 84, hudson bear Company Traders on the shores of hudson bay who are used to indian people coming in and bringing their pelts, nobody comes. So they go out into indian villages and people are dead. And they talk about going into the lodges and gathering the beaver pelts themselves because their customers and hunters are all dead. Its the same epidemic that broke out in mexico city four years away. Who knows how many people die
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