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Out of Eden Walk: Is the world closing its doors?
Migration is as old as humanity itself. In today’s world, it ebbs and flows as nations change their border policies with the times. Paul Salopek is a National Geographic Explorer who has been retracing the global path of the earliest humans on foot for the past 13 years. In that time, he has witnessed significant migration in real time. He joins Host Marco Werman to share his observations on how migration’s role in the global zeitgeist has changed.
For this mother and daughter, separated a year ago at the southern border, Trump’s ‘zero-tolerance’ policy isn’t new
The Trump administration has recently implemented a policy of separating migrant children from their parents if they cross the southern border other than at a checkpoint. But they began testing a similar policy a year ago.
This is what the ‘zero-tolerance’ policy on the border means for people fleeing violence
A pregnant woman from Honduras and her young daughter broke away from a caravan and crossed the Rio Grande to get to the US. Had she done so just a few weeks later, she would have been arrested and separated from her child under a new DHS policy.