A personal plea for humanity at the US-Mexico border | Juan Enriquez

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🗓️ 9 October 2019

⏱️ 10 minutes

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In this powerful, personal talk, author and academic Juan Enriquez shares stories from inside the immigration crisis at the US-Mexico border, bringing this often-abstract debate back down to earth -- and showing what you can do every day to create a sense of belonging for immigrants. “This isn’t about kids and borders,” he says. “It’s about us. This is about who we are, who we the people are, as a nation and as individuals.”

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0:00.0	This TED Talk features author and academic Juan Enriquez.
0:05.1	Recorded live at TED Salon, Border Stories, 2019.
0:11.2	This one's personal.
0:14.4	I know what it's like to have the government say,
0:18.2	we're going to kill you in the morning.
0:21.6	I know what it's like to leave a country on six hours of notice
0:24.7	and land on someone's couch.
0:27.3	Because of that, I wrote a book on why countries do well and why they don't.
0:32.5	Let me summarize 250 pages.
0:35.4	Countries have to be compassionate, they have to be kind,
0:38.0	they have to be smart, they have to be brave.
0:41.0	You want to know what doesn't work?
0:42.6	When you govern through fear
0:43.8	and you govern through cruelty, it just doesn't work.
0:47.6	You can play Genghis Khan for a while,
0:49.2	you can play Stalin for a while,
0:50.5	you can play Pinochet for a while.
0:52.9	It does not work in the long run.
0:56.1	And it doesn't work in the long run
0:57.7	because to govern through fear and cruelty,
1:00.9	you have to create a division.
1:03.4	You have to take big chunks of the country
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