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Journalists renew attention for crisis at border Panelists discuss causes, changes and next steps in immigration debate in event hosted by Wallace House and Ford School ABBY TAKAS
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“The news is moving so fast. We move week after week, from story to story, from crisis to crisis, from despair to outrage, to not knowing where to turn. Sometimes it’s important to stop and step back, and remember that even if the story at the front of the news has moved forward, the thing that we were talking about one month ago. . . is still very active and still requires our attention,” Lynette Clemetson, director of the Wallace House at the University of Michigan, opened. On Tuesday evening, Wallace House, an organization focused on encouraging civic engagement through journalism and the free press, hosted a panel of journalists at the Ford School of Public Policy to discuss the crisis at the United States-Mexican border. Though it may not be at the forefront of recent headlines, the problem is still affecting thousands of immigrants daily. This panel coincided with the University’s Diversity, Equity and Inclusion Summit, a week-
long event to reflect on and evaluate the initiatives Michigan has taken to improve its racial composition and climate. Social Work student Joanna Jaimes said she came to the event interested in the intersection of social work and politics, having grown up listening to journalist Maria Elena Salinas, who spoke at the event. “Latino students on campus and our representation is important at events like this,” Jaimes said. Salinas is the host of her own news-magazine show, “The Real Story with Maria Elena Salinas,” and has received numerous awards recognizing her work in investigative journalism and the awareness she has brought to the implications of the United States’ immigration policies. Public Policy graduate student Jose Javier Lujano introduced Salinas, praising the fundamental trust she has been able to build with the people she is interviewing. “(Salinas) knew her audience’s stories as if they were her own,” Lujano said. Salinas moderated a panel composed of Ann Lin, associate
professor in the Ford School of Public Policy, Aaron Nelsen, 2019 Knight-Wallace Fellow, and Ginger Thompson, a senior reporter at ProPublica. The panelists discussed the trajectory of current American policies and the political discourse over what immigration laws actually state versus how they are being enforced. Lin claimed the current immigration crisis is a result of the disconnect between the actual policies and a
consideration of their implications. The 1997 Florez v. Reno settlement set restrictions on how long children can be separated from their families while their parents are undergoing court proceedings,
whether that be in the process of applying for asylum, or in the process of being prosecuted for re-entering the United States after originally being deported. Thompson explained the Obama administration
was previously sued by the American Civil Liberties Union for detaining families for too long, violating the Florez settlement. This violation is the reasoning behind the Trump administration separating children from their families; so that the families as a whole are not detained unlawfully. The Trump administration is also separating children from their families in See BORDER, Page 3A COURTESY OF BENTLEY HISTORICAL LIBRARY
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Ginger Thompson discusses the border crisis at the Ford Building Tuesday.
Georgetown professors dissect issues Three new SAFE, La diagnoses related to working class voting base Casa raise
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of mumps alarm ‘U’
Director of UHS urges precautions against “easily transmitted” virus ANDREW HIYAMA Daily News Editor
At least three University of Michigan students were recently diagnosed with mumps, according to a campuswide email sent Tuesday from Robert Ernst, the executive director of the University Health Service, which provides health care services to University students, faculty and staff. “I want to assure you that we are coordinating with campus partners, Michigan Medicine, and state and county public health authorities to identify, treat and prevent mumps,” Ernst wrote in the email. According to a Washtenaw County Health Department fact sheet, the virus, which Ernst said is “fairly easily transmitted,” is spread through droplets in the air, such as from coughing or sneezing. Symptoms of mumps can appear 12 to 25 days after the initial exposure and include headaches, fever, and See MUMPS, Page 3A
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Lecture titled “Don’t Blame the Working-Class” debunks misconceptions KATHERINA SOURINE Daily Staff Reporter
Georgetown University faculty Sherry Lee Linkon, English and American Studies professor, and John Russo, visiting scholar at the Kalmanovitz Initiative for Labor and Working Poor. Linkon and Russo focused on patterns of voting among the working class with an eye on the 2018 midterm elections. The lecture, “Don’t Blame the Working-Class: Understanding WorkingClass Politics and Culture in the Trump Era,” stemmed from the book Linkon and Russo recently co-authored, “Social Costs of Deindustrialization,” about the city of Youngstown, Ohio. Youngstown suffered immensely from the downfall of the steel industry that had been central to their economy. Linkon began the lecture by affirming those who voted for Donald Trump largely came from higherclass demographics, in contrast to popular belief. While the white workingclass did contribute to Trump’s election, she found that Hillary Clinton won by a significant margin among voters of low-income brackets. Trump’s largest margin of victory was from people who made $200,000 or more. Linkon emphasized Check out the Daily’s News podcast, The Daily Weekly
other factors, such as race and education level, as indicators to votes. “The one factor you could most clearly predict for who voted for Trump versus who voted for Clinton was race,” she said. Linkon also explored common misconceptions about why the white working class voted for Trump, such as lack of education,
discontent with being left behind by global economy and racism. According to Linkon, disenfranchisement and lack of trust in politics played a larger part. She referenced a New York Times poll that asked working class voters which elected officials they felt were fighting for them. The most common response was not Democrats or Republicans, but rather, “no
one.” “As we see it, Trump really did appeal to many disaffected voters, but we have to understand that they’re disaffected for a variety of reasons, including people having seen politician after politician come to places like Youngstown and make promises, and then went to Washington and did nothing See VOTING, Page 3A
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Georgetown University Professor Sherry Linkon discusses how deindustrialization has created a cultural shift at the Don’t Blame The Working Class Lecture in Tisch Hall Tuesday.
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mock walls in protest
Annual demonstration challenges violations at Mexico, Palestine borders JORDYN BAKER Daily Staff Reporter
Members of the University of Michigan Students Allied for Freedom and Equality and La Casa gathered in the Diag on Tuesday afternoon for an annual demonstration, focused on the border wall between Israel and West Bank Palestinian territories, as well as the border wall between the United States and Mexico. Two large painted mock walls stood in the Diag, and members of SAFE and La Casa gathered in front of them to chant, sing and listen to experiences of their classmates. One SAFE member, who requested to remain anonymous due to safety concerns, explained the parallels between the two walls, pointing to specific discrimination faced by students because of these borders. “We’re putting them up to raise awareness about the unjust human rights violations that happen at both of these borders,” the SAFE member said. “The same things that are happening at the U.S.-Mexico border are also See SAFE, Page 3A
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