Calling the Caravan's Migrants "Diseased" Is a Classic Xenophobic Move
Calling the Caravan's Migrants "Diseased" Is a Classic Xenophobic Move
Science, Spoken · SpokenLayer
November 1, 20188m 21s
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Show Notes
It would be extraordinarily difficult—impossibly difficult—for any one of the several thousand asylum-seeking refugees in the so-called migrant caravan now on the border between Guatemala and Mexico to have smallpox. A global vaccination campaign eliminated the disease from the world at large in 1980. Yet that’s what a guest on the Fox Business Network show Lou Dobbs Tonight said earlier this week.
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