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🗓️ 6 April 2018
⏱️ 16 minutes
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In this ITT Extra, Maria and Julio highlight three stories you may have missed this week because... Trump: the missing migrant voices from the coverage of the Central American refugee caravan; the conviction of former Bolivian president Gonzalo "Goni" Sánchez de Lozada for the killings of mostly indigenous civilians during the 2003 gas protests; and the latest police shooting of unarmed black man, Saheed Vassell, in Brooklyn.
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0:00.0 | Hey, this is in the thick. I'm Marianne Hosa. And I'm Huliorica Loberella and this is ITT Extra. |
0:07.6 | Which is Extra, Extra, extra. Read all about it. Because I was like, extra. We're not like, you know, |
0:14.0 | you know, Hollywood. |
0:15.0 | So what is it about? I mean, you want to, we want to highlight some stories. |
0:18.0 | Right, we want to highlight some stories. |
0:20.0 | So we're trying to get out of the Trump distraction mode. |
0:24.0 | Yeah, too much with his tweets and his flip-flopping and |
0:28.0 | we're really going to try to focus on some really substantial stories |
0:32.0 | that have been overshadowed and even though the first one has to do with him, it's kind of a different angle. |
0:38.8 | Right, because everybody is aware of this distraction, which is that Trump has become obsessed again with the |
0:46.2 | red meat to his base, which is to focus on immigrants and the border. |
0:51.1 | And there's been talk about this Central American migrant caravan, which has been happening every year for years. |
0:57.0 | And again, I said that caravans are something particularly Central American since the 1980s because people travel |
1:06.4 | like that in order to be safe. |
1:08.9 | You make a caravan because you're going through very unsafe areas. But of course President Trump has no historical |
1:16.4 | sense at all. So he watches Fox and friends over the weekend. |
1:21.4 | An army of migrants is literally marching or riding or making their way from, is it from Honduras? |
1:28.0 | Then Trump has decided to further militarize the U.Mexico border by sending National Guard troops there. |
1:36.0 | Border security is Homeland Security, which is national security. |
1:41.2 | It's not a partisan issue. |
1:42.4 | It's not something we can separate out. It's core to being a |
1:45.5 | sovereign nation. The President has reiterated this many times. In fact, he has specifically said that a |
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