Hello and welcome to Background Briefing, available 24-7 at Background Briefing.org.

I'm Ian Masters, and today we'll look into a number of stories and issues in the news

we'll begin with the cultural political division in the country on display at yesterday

Super Bowl half-time with Bad Bunny the main event which most of the world saw in a joyous

tribute to Puerto Rico and Latin American culture all in Spanish at a time when simply speaking Spanish,

could get you deported.

In contrast, there was the counter-programming by Turning Point USA featuring a washed-up right-wing

maga-relic Kid Rock, which was about as big a hit as the Melania movie was.

Joining us from Puerto Rico is Luis Martinez Fernandez, a professor of history at the University of Central Florida.

He is an historian of Latin America and the Caribbean who focuses on the histories of Cuba, Puerto Rico, and the Dominican Republic.

He was born in Cuba, graduated from a Puerto Rican university, and currently lives and teaches

in Orlando, Florida, which has one of the world's highest concentrations of Puerto Ricans.

Then since we all saw Border Patrol officers paper spray and beat to the ground, then shoot

an unarmed white American citizens

ten times in the back. We'll examine the history of the Border Patrol and speak with

Reese Jones, a Guggenheim fellow and political geographer who studies the relationships between

states, borders, and peoples on the move. He is a professor of geography and environment at the

University of Hawaii and the author of several books including White Borders, the history of race

and immigration in the United States from the Chinese exclusion to the border wall, and most recently

nobody is protected, how the Border Patrol became the most dangerous

police force in the United States.

He has an article at the New York Times we will discuss, the Border Patrol is the problem.

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