A Latina Jewish view of the border

The World

Many Jewish activists have been speaking out against the detention centers at the US-Mexico border. Some people have even called them concentration camps. But what does the border look like to someone who is both Latinx and Jewish? The grassroots organization, Jewish Voice for Peace, put out an open letter calling for Latinx-Jewish people’s signatures to put an end to the border camps. Erica Taicz Blandón signed it. She’s a student at Harvard Law School and a child of Central American migrants from Nicaragua, and Holocaust survivors. She speaks with host Marco Werman about her identity, her view of the border and how she can’t separate that from what’s happening in Israel and Palestine.

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