Eileen Truax's guest appearances

Eileen Truax

Skylight Books Podcast Series

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AL DÍA News

Conectando con Enrique Acevedo

Sean Fennessey

Jason Concepcion

Shea Serrano

Mallory Rubin

Chuck Klosterman

Benjamin Franklin

Jon Hamm

Kate Schatz

Miriam Klein Stahl

Michelle Tea

Matt Bell

Sarah Ruhl

Amy Stewart

Joanna Angel

Toni Morrison

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La emergencia ha puesto los reflectores en la creciente desigualdad en Estados Unidos y los efectos que tiene en las expectativas de salud de poblaciones minoritarias. Eileen Truax ha dedicado buena parte de su trayectoria como periodista a denunciar estas condiciones. Su trabajo es particularmente importante durante esta emergencia.

La emergencia ha puesto los reflectores en la creciente desigualdad en Estados Unidos y los efectos que tiene en las expectativas de salud de poblaciones minoritarias. Eileen Truax ha dedicado buena parte de su trayectoria como periodista a denunciar estas condiciones. Su trabajo es particularmente importante durante esta emergencia.

Eileen Truax. La pandemia y el olvido de las comunidades vulnerables.

Journalist Eileen Truax was recently invited to Philadelphia by AL DÍA and Temple University as part of the Klein College of Media and Communications Graduate Speaker Series. In her latest book, We Built the Wall, Truax shifts focus away from the much-discussed physical "wall" proposed by President Trump towards the considerably more real and complex bureaucratic wall already set in place to block asylum seekers from gaining entry into the United States.

Journalist Eileen Truax was recently invited to Philadelphia by AL DÍA and Temple University as part of the Klein College of Media and Communications Graduate Speaker Series. In her latest book, <a href="https://www.versobooks.com/books/2606-we-built-the-wall" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">We Built the Wall</a>, Truax shifts focus away from the much-discussed physical "wall" proposed by President Trump towards the considerably more real and complex bureaucratic wall already set in place to block asylum seekers from gaining entry into the United States.

El Muro Ya Existe: A conversation with Eileen Truax

A Mexican-American lawyer exposes corruption in the US asylum procedure and despotism in the Mexican government. From a storefront law office in the US border city of El Paso, Texas, one man set out to tear down the great wall of indifference raised between the US and Mexico. Carlos Spector has filed hundreds of political asylum cases on behalf of human rights defenders, journalists, and political dissidents. Though his legal activism has only inched the process forward--98 percent of refugees from Mexico are still denied asylum--his myriad legal cases and the resultant media fallout has increasingly put US immigration policy, the corrupt state of Mexico, and the political basis of immigration, asylum, and deportation decisions on the spot. Eileen Truax's We Built the Wall is an immersive, engrossing look at the new front in the immigration wars. It follows the gripping stories of people like Saúl Reyes, forced to flee his home after a drug cartel murdered several members of his family, and Delmy Calderón, a forty-two-year-old woman leading an eight-woman hunger strike in an El Paso detention center. Truax tracks the heart-wrenching trials of refugees like Yamil, the husband and father who chose a prison cell over deportation to Mexico, and Rocío Hernández, a nineteen-year-old who spent nearly her entire life in Texas and is now forced to live in a city where narcotraffickers operate with absolute impunity.

A Mexican-American lawyer exposes corruption in the US asylum procedure and despotism in the Mexican government. From a storefront law office in the US border city of El Paso, Texas, one man set out to tear down the great wall of indifference raised between the US and Mexico. Carlos Spector has filed hundreds of political asylum cases on behalf of human rights defenders, journalists, and political dissidents. Though his legal activism has only inched the process forward--98 percent of refugees from Mexico are still denied asylum--his myriad legal cases and the resultant media fallout has increasingly put US immigration policy, the corrupt state of Mexico, and the political basis of immigration, asylum, and deportation decisions on the spot. Eileen Truax's We Built the Wall is an immersive, engrossing look at the new front in the immigration wars. It follows the gripping stories of people like Saúl Reyes, forced to flee his home after a drug cartel murdered several members of his family, and Delmy Calderón, a forty-two-year-old woman leading an eight-woman hunger strike in an El Paso detention center. Truax tracks the heart-wrenching trials of refugees like Yamil, the husband and father who chose a prison cell over deportation to Mexico, and Rocío Hernández, a nineteen-year-old who spent nearly her entire life in Texas and is now forced to live in a city where narcotraffickers operate with absolute impunity.

Eileen Truax, "WE BUILT THE WALL"