12 days until christmas. Oh, we can start counting down. On the first day oh, i did not mean to open that pandoras box. Yes, you did. Erica grow in for Raphael Miranda. You dont sing, do you . Ill spare you right now. But you made me think. If this is the first day of christmas, my friend gave to me 60 degrees . Still 60 degrees in central park. We didnt lose much of the heat we got during the day yesterday. We broke record highs throughout much of the tristate. Were only down to 51 in danbury. 54 in farmingdale. Long branch right now at 57 degrees. On Storm Tracker satellite and radar, this is a threehour loop. You can see a couple sprinkle popping through sullivan county. Not a lot of rain in our area today. Right now it is 60 degrees under mostly cloudy skies. Were going to stay in the 60s all day long. Of course, but when were starting out this warm, we dont have far to go before we already reach a record high. The record high for this date is 64 set in central park back in the 193
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
One of the interesting things about the shift of policy one of the interesting things is those different operations brought more Border Patrol and concentration of technology but this observation by the head of the and Naturalization Service 1993 and she said looking at operation hold the line in el paso that brought more agents side by side by side by side on the borderline ben brought a lot to all tasso the oh pass so the idea with all these agents nobody would cross. Then was replicated in arizona then southern texas and there is a reasoning behind this operation that door is split it the it i am paraphrasing but the north American Free trade agreement at least we will have a shortterm and a median term search of a of immigration into the United States so we have to put up a more strict enforcement. She was right. Look at the post 1994 exodus coming from mexico averaging a baby 1. 500,000 maybe at one point is that 2 million farmers lost their jobs. This comes from 1996 but 2 millio