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Hate Escalates at the Border: Setting the Stage for 2024

By ACoM

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The Expanding Surveillance Dragnet

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Was Live Friday, Aug 4, 2023 | 11 am PT

Guest Speakers

  • Manuel Ortiz Escámez, Sociologist, Journalist, and Documentary Filmmaker, ACoM and Peninsula 360 Press
  • Gianna Borroto, Senior Litigation Attorney at the American Immigration Council
  • Cal Jillson, Professor of Political Science at Southern Methodist University and Author of several books including the upcoming “Race, Ethnicity, and American Decline”

Event Overview

The news that Texas authorities were deploying razor wire at the border and allegedly ordering local agents to push exhausted and hungry asylum seekers back into the river barely made a blip in the news. Hateful rhetoric and actions against immigrants by those who seek political gain are a constant theme in US history, involving both sides of the political spectrum. But the overt cruelty is getting bolder, particularly in places like Texas and Florida.

Our panel will discuss what is going on at the border in that southern state, a new lawsuit against limiting migrants ability to file for asylum, and what these actions portend for a new presidential election in 2024.

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