1/ Néstor y Melvin son una de las 5,500 familias separadas por la política de cero tolerancia del presidente Trump. Ellos se han reunido, pero su futuro todavía es incierto. NPR presenta una investigación de su historia y el trauma que persiste. npr.org/1007605800?liv…
2/ Las familias que migran a los Estados Unidos de América Central y América del Sur en busca de asilo saben que dejan atrás sus seres queridos.
Lo que casi 5,500 de esas familias no sabían es que cuando llegaran a la frontera estadounidense-méxicana, serían separadas.
3/ Néstor y Melvin son un ejemplo de las familias separadas por la política de cero tolerancia del presidente Trump. Esto era parte de una estrategia para disminuir la inmigración legal e ilegal que los defensores de los inmigrantes han criticado como psicológicamente traumática.
4/ Melvin, de 33 años, y Néstor compartieron con NPR algunos detalles de su historia mientras continúan procesando lo que les sucedió y su caso de asilo llega a las cortes.
The federal government has known about inhumane conditions in tribal detention centers for nearly 2 decades. One watchdog even called the facilities a “national disgrace.”
But we found the system is still leading to inmate deaths. trib.al/ywGZJbk
17 years after a federal probe revealed widespread deaths, inmate abuse and attempted suicides in many of the more than 70 detention centers across the U.S., our investigation found continued neglect, disrepair and inaction.
Brandy Skunkcap was part of a string of deaths at one facility.
A guard decided to lock her up while intoxicated, failing to note her jaundice and complaints of illness. When she was found unresponsive after an apparent seizure — guards failed to initiate immediate first aid.
1/ For decades, police misconduct records were secret in California. In the first episode of our police accountability podcast, On Our Watch, we find out what a new transparency law reveals about internal affairs. spotify.link/OnOurWatch1
2/ One officer used car inspections to hit on women. Another used police resources to run checks on women he was pursuing sexually.
But after they were quietly fired, no criminal investigation followed. Why hasn't #MeToo reached policing? spotify.link/OnOurWatch2
3/ After police shot and killed his son, Rick Perez runs into a wall of legal secrecy, and becomes convinced something is being hidden. On a new episode of On Our Watch, he tries to piece together what happened, and fights for greater police transparency. spotify.link/OnOurWatch3
1/ The 2021 Atlantic Hurricane Season officially begins today and the National Hurricane Center has designated 21 storm names for the six-month period ending November 30. trib.al/CV68zhV
2/ Just like the previous seven years, the season got an early start when Tropical Storm Ana formed in the Atlantic on May 22 .
Forecasters say that short-lived storm is a likely sign of what's predicted to be another above-average season.
3/ Tropical trivia:
Storm names repeat every six years — unless a storm is particularly destructive and then its name is retired.
There are no storms that begin with Q, U, X, Y and Z because of a lack of usable names.
Each season's storm names alternate between female and male.
Asian Americans are still perceived as the “model minority.”
But this is a myth — one that flattens diverse experiences and doesn’t align with current statistics.
Here are misconceptions that have arisen from the trope. trib.al/DGACdBc
MYTH #1: Asian Americans are a monolith
More than 22 million people of Asian descent live in the U.S. While those of East Asian and Southeast Asian descent make up the largest shares — no group makes up a majority.
A huge variety of ethnicities exist within regional groups.
MYTH #2: Asian Americans are high earners
A 2016 Pew study found Asian Americans were the most economically divided racial or ethnic group in the U.S. — with Asian Americans in the top 10th of the income distribution making 10.7 times more than those in the bottom 10th.
In March, a man attacked a 65-year-old Filipino woman outside of an apartment building in Manhattan. Surveillance footage shows two men inside who saw — and did not help her.
It sparked a discussion about bystander intervention.