Into the United States. So that cross symbolizes the crossing experience in the title of the book, migration miracle, is basically taken from the words the migrants who often described as successful journey. How did those 400 what were the cause of . The causes ranged from being killed by a smuggler to suffocating in the back of a car, to asphyxiation the drowning in the allamerican canal or in the gulf of mexico. Many died in the deserts. You know, not being able to reach food or water, being left behind. Not really, i mean many of the migrants who travel here without papers are uncertain about their journey. And so its organized increasingly by multiple coyotes, its become much more organized, and its much more difficult for migrants rely, for example, on a Single Person that they may know who has migration experience to take them across the border. So as the borders become heavily militarized and theres more campaigns along the borders to prevent migration, it means that migrants ha
Rights from the churchs perspective. My understanding is obama meets regularly with Church Leaders and regularly with protestant leaders and catholic leaders at the bishops conference. The argument from the religious perspectives argument is that the policies are not humane. They are not fair. Migrants are treated fairly. The state has the right to deport somebody but its often the way its done. Family separation. Somebody picked up a work site in the children are left at home or their children were put into foster care and thats in another increasingly important phenomena. The separated families of the churches concerns are the conditions under which they travel, that they are provided with fair treatment, due process and you know if somebody arrives and works and earned citizenship they should be provided that opportunity to naturalize and become a citizen. Host Jacqueline Maria hagan how did you get involved in this work . Guest the particular project or the migration . Host in gene
From the 70s to the mid1990s. There is a lot of books. I think this one is looking at a post9 11, looking at this kind of rapid expansion, looking at different Civil Liberties issues and i would like to think that its you know, it covers new ground but its definitely on the shoulders of giants as they say. All this great work thats been done around border stuff for years and years and years. My other question is has there have been any interest among legislators in your book, in the issues that it has raised specifically from your work . Beto orourke is from el paso. I mean i dont know but i know beto orourke he is a congressperson based in el paso, texas and i believe he is pretty interested in it and we have had some backandforth. He is a u. S. Congressperson. I know it has reached his year now his desk or his ears and i imagine because he actually communicates with me about it, i imagine that hopefully, hopefully its been seen by other congresspeople as well. None of our congresspeo
Based on the years that i have lived overseas and studied overseas i have never seen anything like it. So if people think their freedoms are crazy good here i have Something Else to tell them. They are not. Thank you. Do we have time for one more question . Sir. I had two questions. First a measure book the first book that has written and researched deeply into the subject . Now, there have been, there are other books. There are some really good books out there. Operation gatekeeper by Joseph Nevins or dying to live. Border games by peter andre is. Timothy dunn wrote about the militarization of the border. From the 70s to the mid1990s. There is a lot of books. I think this one is looking at a post9 11, looking at this kind of rapid expansion, looking at different Civil Liberties issues and i would like to think that its you know, it covers new ground but its definitely on the shoulders of giants as they say. All this great work thats been done around border stuff for years and years an
Just came out a couple weeks ago from the immigration in council that they identified 800 cases and 97 there was no discipline taken. 800 cases that was some sort of abuse and very few of those was anybody disciplined. I have the statement and it may not be a popular position but i grew up in tucson and we went over the border as a kid. Nobody was there to ask and so people from mexico came to work then would go home. They cannot go home now. So they are stuck here when they come up here i think there would like to go home to see their families but they can i think that is a lot of the problem that perhaps this man did not understand that. What you are mentioning it is there is the adn that people, but they feel traditionally it was cyclical for people to come in and go back but now there is a lot of talk out there that it is much harder to do you hear about people you dont go home because they are afraid of the journey because it is so difficult. One more question. I want to say i was