News in recent years, i imagine that you, like me, have found it difficult to ignore the topic of refugees. This is an image of a refugees experience fleeing communist vietnam in 1975. But in many ways, it reminds us of images that we might see on the news today. It is hard to ignore the human stories of families perishing it see. Refugees are suffocating in meat trucks. They are crowding onto leaky boats. They are drowning. The bodies of those who are unable to cross to safety are washing up on mediterranean beaches. And refugees have been in the news for the past few years. Particularly related to the crisis in syria. But refugees are being uprooted by conflict all around the world. Were not just talking about refugees coming from syria, but from other war torn regions. Especially in the past couple of years, it has also been very difficult to ignore the public response to refugees. And Refugee Resettlement, like so many other topics today, has become a polarizing topic. On one hand,
Decades. Her class lasts about an hour. Today were going to talk about topic 18 which is Southeast Asian refugee migrations. If youve been following the news, i imagine, you like me, have found it difficult to ignore the topic of refugees. This is an image of a refugees experience fleeing communist vietnam in 1975, but in many ways, it reminds us of images that we might see on the news today. Its hard to ignore the human stories of families perishing at sea, refugees are suffocating in meat trucks, theyre crowding onto leaky boats, theyre drowning the bodies of those who are unable to cross to safety, are washing up on mediterranean beaches. And refugees have been in the news for the past few years particularly related to the crisis in syria, but refugees are being uprooted by conflict all around the world. So were not just talking about refugees coming from syria, but from other wartorn regions. Especially in the past couple of years, its been difficult to ignore the public response t
Rights. The u. S. Supreme court ruled today that a landmark civil rights law protects and transgender people from discrimination in employment. The court decided by a 63 vote that a key provision of the Civil Rights Act of 1964 known as title 7 that bars job discrimination because of one also applies to orientation or gender identity with more we go now to kron fours justine waltman shes live in our newsroom with details just team. Well this outcome is expected to have a big impact for the over 8 million lgbtq workers across the country and i want you to think about this way until todays ruling it was legal and more than half of the states to fire workers for being bisexual or transgender most states do not protect lgbtq people from workplace, discrimination this ruling is considered a defeat for the Trump Administration. The white house would argue that the Civil Rights Act did not extend to claims of gender identity and orientation, but the conservative court disagreed. Governor gavi
Washing up on mediterranean beaches. And refugees have been in the news for the past few years, particularly related to the crisis in syria, but refugees are being uprooted by conflict all around the world. So were not just talking about refugees coming from syria but from other wartorn regions. Especially in the past a couple of years, it has also been very difficult to ignore the public response to refugees. And Refugee Resettlement, like so many other topics today, has become a polarizing topic. On one hand, opposition to refugees has been fierce and even hostile. Politicians at the local, state, and federal level have linked refugees to terrorism and have pursued antirefugee policies in the name of National Security. The most famous of these measures is president Donald Trumps executive orders which ground the federal Refugee Program virtually to a halt in january 2017. His imposition of what is widely known as the refugee ban shortly after taking office initiated one of the sharpe
Lets consider some major events. It was during his presidency that the socalled great sioux uprising, what we call the dakota war, occurred. It was drenched in blood as impoverished and hungry dakota waged war on settlers and faced the wrath of whites, who hunted down suspected culprits tried, convicted, and sentenced to death, 303 men. Lincoln commuted the sentence of most of these individuals but in the end, 38 were hung in what remains americas largest max mass execution. It was during the lincoln presidency that the navajo, or dine, as they call themselves, walkmade to endure a long hundreds of miles from their homeland to a new reservation in eastern new mexico. To convince the navajo, american soldiers burned crops, destroyed livestock, and sacked their homes. They suffered from a lack of food, diseases, and raids. It was during the lincoln presidency that one of the most atrocious episodes in u. S. Indian affairs occurred, and that was the massacre at cheyenne and eastern colora