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University Writing Center (UWC) - Analyzing Visual Images

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You can analyze and evaluate how visual images communicate using the technique of rhetorical analysis.

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Syrian artist paints world leaders as refugees.

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Syrian artist Abdalla Al Omari is painting world leaders in an unexpected light: as refugees.

In " The Vulnerability Series ," Omari depicts President Donald Trump as an exhausted refugee, with a sleeping pad on his back and a child in his arms. The rest of the paintings, currently on exhibit at a Dubai gallery , show former President Barack Obama, German Chancellor Angela Merkel and several other world leaders as "disenfranchised or displaced civilians," per the gallery's release.

"Initially I was driven by my own experience of displacement and the anger that I felt, like any other Syrian, while the situation in Syria escalated," Omari said in a video on the series that he sent to HuffPost. "It was a personal desire in the beginning to imagine how would those supposedly great personalities look like if they were in the shoes of refugees, displaced."

Omari, who fled Syria after the start of the Syrian civil war in 2011, was granted asylum in Belgium, reports Reuters. Currently living in Brussels, Omari started working on the series over two years ago, he said in the video sent to HuffPost.

After six years of the Syrian war, more than 5 million Syrians are now refugees, per the United Nations. Many refugee children have been suffering from mental health issues as a result, some wetting the bed and others even attempting suicide, according to a recent report from Save The Children.

In April, the Trump administration launched missiles at a Syrian air base in response to a deadly chemical weapons attack, for which it said Syrian President Bashar al-Assad's regime was responsible . In the wake of the attack, Russia confirmed its continued support for Assad by stepping up military aid.

Omari depicts Assad and Putin as refugees in his series.

"I found myself obliged emotionally and consciously to get involved and to deliver a message to those leaders, who are partly responsible on the displacement of a mass of Syrians," Omari said in the video sent to HuffPost. "Maybe they will feel what it is to be vulnerable when they see it in the mirror, when they see it in themselves."

You can see more of Omari's paintings below, and on his .

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Syrian Artist Paints World Leaders As Refugees

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Syrian artist Abdalla Al Omari is painting world leaders in an unexpected light: as refugees. In " The Vulnerability Series ," Omari depicts President Donald Trump as an exhausted refugee, with a sleeping pad on his back and a child in his arms. The rest of the paintings, currently on exhibit at a Dubai gallery , show former President Barack Obama, German Chancellor Angela Merkel and several other world leaders as "disenfranchised or displaced civilians," per the gallery's release.

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ou might not know it, but a crisis is looming on the business parks, industrial estates, construction projects and farms of Britain. As the Brexit process dominates politics - and diverts Westminster's energy away from virtually every other issue - businesses are struggling to fill vacancies and to find the people they need in order to grow.

In some sectors firms report that labour shortages have reached critical levels. A combination of record employment levels for UK-born people, significant falls in immigration following the devaluation of sterling in 2016, and the total absence of job candidates in some areas is biting hard. British Chambers of Commerce surveys show nearly three-quarters of firms trying to recruit are experiencing difficulties - this is at or near the highest levels since our records began more than 25 years ago.

The simple fact is that many businesses can't afford to wait much longer for a clear UK immigration policy to emerge

Pragmatic solutions are needed to this acute and immediate problem. Job vacancies at all levels in the workforce are being left unfilled, damaging not only individual businesses and their growth prospects but also supply chains and the wider economy. While many firms report they are investing long term in the training and development of their workforce, this will take years to have the desired impact, particularly for very highly skilled roles. We cannot afford any gap in the supply of skills and labour. Businesses that have not planned ahead for their future needs will be wishing they had.

Yet, with few exceptions, businesses tell us that breezy Whitehall assumptions about artificial intelligence and automation remain years away from fruition. While some jobs may change or disappear in future, businesses will always need people because they are more flexible and adaptable than robots to the fast pace of change in the workplace. There's no doubt, in the here and now, that UK firms require continuing access to labour, from Europe and farther afield, to plug the gaps.

Amid all the uncertainty our businesses and communities face, the UK government must act swiftly to define an open and responsive immigration policy. Businesses accept that, in future, there will be some form of registration for European workers, but they are equally clear that they must be able to access skills and talent from the European mainland with minimal costs, barriers and delay after Brexit - irrespective of the final settlement between the UK and the EU.

Taking back control of immigration should not mean pulling up the drawbridge. It means knowing who's coming in and out, and ensuring that only those who are entitled to work in the UK can do so. Tighter enforcement of the law, with individuals and with rogue employers, alike, is much more important to addressing legitimate public concerns over immigration levels than an expensive, draconian and damaging visa or work permit regime. At the same time, firms across the country must demonstrate, day in and day out, real civic commitment to train and invest in staff here at home. We in business must hold up our side of the deal, too.

Civic-minded businesses aren't making the case for immigration because they're seeking cheap labour from abroad. Despite the oft-repeated myths, our research clearly shows that a tiny percentage of businesses consciously recruit outside the UK for reasons of cost. Businesses in the communities I represent are far more likely to try to address skills shortages locally, by investing in their workforce or seeking new employees through word-of-mouth advertising or UK recruitment agencies. Firms in a small number of areas, such as agriculture and personal care, do advertise overseas - but only because they fail to recruit local workers to do the jobs on offer.

These skills gaps won't disappear after Brexit, but many firms' production targets will be scaled back, and expansion plans shelved, if the loathed and expensive system used for non-EU recruiting is expanded across the board. The current rationing of non-EU work permits is already a clear and present threat to investment in our business communities, and extending that cumbersome system to European workers would make a difficult situation even worse.

A brave government would either unilaterally keep a preferential approach, or adopt a level playing field that radically reduces costs and administrative burdens across the board, rather than put them up.

In recent months, the Home Office under Amber Rudd has made welcome efforts to open up after years of defensiveness, and talk more to businesses about the UK's future immigration rules. The migration advisory committee is also taking a clear-eyed look around the country at different communities' future workforce needs. This enhanced engagement, rather than dictation, is a major step forward. Ministers must now avoid an unwelcome and untimely step backwards to an expensive and bureaucratic immigration system - and make a bold commitment to meet the needs of the economy.

The simple fact is that many businesses can't afford to wait much longer for a clear UK immigration policy to emerge. This makes it all the more troubling that the planned immigration white paper, meant to cover the short to medium term, is now delayed. As the prime minister herself has repeatedly noted, workers of all skill levels from Europe play a huge role in the success of British businesses and communities. Now it is up to the cabinet as a whole - including Theresa May - to send a clear and swift signal that businesses can access the people and skills needed to remain competitive in a global market.

A failure to act swiftly would hamstring UK firms' competitiveness, and even send some to the wall. It's not just about "the best and the brightest" coming to work in the City, our universities and the creative industries. If ministers wish to avoid the sight of unfinished urban buildings, fruit rotting in Herefordshire fields, and care homes and hotels from Bournemouth to Inverness shutting their doors, as well as manufacturers investing in their overseas operations instead of here at home, the time to act is now.

* Adam Marshall is director general of the British Chambers of Commerce
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Contact author ou might not know it, but a crisis is looming on the business parks, industrial estates, construction projects and farms of Britain. As the Brexit process dominates politics - and diverts Westminster's energy away from virtually every other issue - businesses are struggling to fill vacancies and to find the people they need in order to grow.

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The Economics of Immigration: Crash Course Economics #33

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An exchange is the act of  giving or receiving something in substitution for something else. In today’s modern-day world these exchanges can take several forms:  economic – work exchanges, exchange of goods, trading across borders,  cultural – exchange of ideas, information, education,  movement of people – immigration, student exchanges, gap years…  Our modern-day world is changing quickly and seems to be a smaller place due to improvements in technology and communication.  These different cultural, economic, sociological and language interactions have transformed and characterized our modern-day world – sometimes for better, sometimes for worse.

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U.S. Society > A Nation of Immigrants

taken from http://usa.usembassy.de/society.htm

The Golden Door

The first European immigrants in American history came from England and the Netherlands. Attracted by reports of great economic opportunities and religious and political freedom, immigrants from many other countries flocked to the United States in increasing numbers, the flow reaching a peak in the years 1892-1924. During the late 19th century, the government operated a special port of entry on Ellis Island; it was in operation from 1892 until 1954 and is now preserved as part of the Statue of Liberty National Monument. The Statue of Liberty, which was a gift from the people of France to the people of America in 1886, stands on an island in New York Harbor, near Ellis Island. Between 1820 and 1979, the United States admitted more than 49 million immigrants.

Limits on Newcomers

In 1924, the first laws were passed that set limits on how many people from specific countries would be admitted to the United States. The limits were based on the number of people from that country already living in the country. In 1965, immigration quotas were established according to who applied first; and national quotas were replaced with hemispheric ones. Preference was given to relatives of U.S. citizens and immigrants with specific job skills. In 1978, Congress abandoned hemispheric quotas and established a worldwide ceiling. The United States accepts more immigrants than any other country; in 2007, its population included 38.1 million foreign-born persons (that is appr. 12.6 % of the total population.) The revised immigration law of 1990 created a flexible cap of 675,000 immigrants each year, with certain categories of people exempted from the limit. That law attempts to attract more skilled workers and professionals to the United States and to draw immigrants from countries that have supplied relatively few Americans in recent years.

The Legacy

The steady stream of people coming to America's shores has had a profound effect on the American character. It takes courage and flexibility to leave your homeland and come to a new country. The American people have been noted for their willingness to take risks and try new things, for their independence and optimism. If Americans whose families have been here longer tend to take their material comfort and political freedoms for granted, immigrants are at hand to remind them how important those privileges are.

Immigrants taking the oath as new U.S. Citizens, immigrants also enrich American communities by bringing aspects of their native cultures with them. Many black Americans now celebrate both Christmas and Kwanzaa, a festival drawn from African rituals. Hispanic Americans celebrate their traditions with street fairs and other festivities on Cinco de Mayo (May 5). Ethnic restaurants abound in many American cities. President John F. Kennedy, himself the grandson of Irish immigrants, summed up this blend of the old and the new when he called America "a society of immigrants, each of whom had begun life anew, on an equal footing. This is the secret of America: a nation of people with the fresh memory of old traditions who dare to explore new frontiers.... "

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"Give me your tired, your poor,
Your huddled masses yearning to breathe free,
The wretched refuse of your teeming shore.
Send these, the homeless, tempest-tost to me,
I lift my lamp beside the golden door!"

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What does the word space evoke to you ?

What about reciprocity ?

Fill in the missing words in the text :

worse transformed education giving immigration economic receiving

The Notion of Space and Reciprocity

An exchange is the act of  _________________or _____________________something in substitution for something else. In today’s modern-day world these exchanges can take several forms:

_______________ work exchanges, exchange of goods, trading across borders,  cultural – exchange of ideas, information,

_____________, -  movement of people

______________ - student exchanges, gap years…

Our modern-day world is changing quickly and seems to be a smaller place due to improvements in technology and communication.  These different cultural, economic, sociological and language interactions have__________________and characterised our modern-day world – sometimes for better, sometimes for__________________.

Look at the following words and think of a title :

illegal alien boundary frontier citizen common purpose community welfare customs immigrant/emigrant expat, expatriate expel fluent ghetto integrating

illegal immigrant keep out let in living space melting pot multiultural society

peaceful coexistance political refugee seek political asylum social background tax exile

territory upwardly mobile territory welcome work permit visa

What do you think this sequence will be about ?

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Watch a speech about Barack Obama

What does the statement below mean to you ?

« Unless you're Native American, you came from someplace else."

Finish what you can from the audio

Irish

Germans

Scandinavians

Polish

Russians

Ellis Island

Angel Island

Before they were us they were them

Finish the phrases below :

Immigrants faced..........

Daily lives.......

Did their part to......

Einsteins, Carnegies........

All came here.....

The faith that....

Imagine what it would have been like immigrating to another country.

How do you think many immigrants felt  coming over?

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"Unless you're Native American, you came from someplace else."

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American Voices / Immigrant America 03 - Land of Opportunity

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The newly-arrived immigrants find their feet in a world of promise and possibility. (5'55") Testimonies adapted from the files of the Federal Writers' Project, available online through the Library of Congress.Herman Kischbaum played by Teddy Kempner. Tony the Greek played by Peter Polycarpou. Katherine Korona played by Devon Scott.

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American Voices / Immigrant America 02 - Arriving in New York City

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American Voices / Immigrant America 01 - From the Old World to the New

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Two early 20th Century immigrants to the USA describe their motivations for leaving the Old World. (4'41") Testimonies adapted from the files of the Federal Writers' Project, available online through the Library of Congress. Katherine Korona played by Devon Scott. Herman Kischbaum played by Teddy Kempner. Written and Directed by Andrew Chater.

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TeacherTube - A Virtual Voyage to Ellis Island

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Homework Session 2– Space and Reciprocity

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Ellis Island – immigrants and their experience

Why did people immigrate?

- economic reasons

- political refugees (asylum)

- in search of religious reasons

- join their families

1. Watch a video and take a virtual tour

2. Answer the questions

3. Be ready to talk about it in class.

https://www.nps.gov/elis/index.htm

How far would you travel to find a better life? What if the journey took weeks under difficult conditions?  If you answered "Whatever it takes," you echo the feelings of the 12 million immigrants who passed through these now quiet halls from 1892 to 1954. Ellis Island afforded them the opportunity to attain the American dream for themselves and their descendants.

Watch a video about Ellis Island and write the questions to the answers given:

1.

Ellis Island 1892 – 1924

2.

12 Million

3.

Economic Opportunities

Religious/ Political Oppression

To rejoin family members

4.

To build a better life for their families.

5.

Ellis Island First Introduction to America

Symbol of Immigrations

Cultural richness

6.

Greece/Turkey/Amrmenia/Hurgary

Listen to 1 of the 3 videos "American Voices" on this page : HOMEWORK Session 2
https://padlet.com/atraumatlfa/z0r7p4mpykms
about people talking about their trip over to the USA and their life here

Be ready to talk about all of this in class

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To my Jewish, Irish, Asian and Italian friends, let's remember:

Your ancestors were lower than dirt when they arrived here.

Italians were referred to - openly - as a subhuman race of rats and criminals.

Irishmen were apes and monkeys.

Laws were passed to keep Chinese women out of the country, so that the Chinese males who were brought over for menial labor couldn't produce offspring.

Jews were spat upon in the streets and routinely excluded from polite society.

Unhire-able. Undesirable. Laws were passed to allow for the mass discrimination and segregation of your great grandparents, not much more than a century ago.

It's nice that you now view yourselves as "Real Americans." Just yesterday, your kind were anything but. And I don't mean in the deep south or in obscure corners of the country. Your forebears were considered human garbage on the streets of New York, Philadelphia and Boston. It wasn't all that long ago when mainstream politicians were actively seeking ways to get rid of you too.

Here's Uncle Sam being swallowed by Chinese and Irish immigrants, many of whom came over in the mid-1800's to work on the railroads:

In "The Evolution of the Murphy", an Irish child begins life as a potato, then becomes a vagrant, a cop and finally a corrupt political official:

Here's an Irish ape, swinging a bottle of rum, rocking back and forth on a barrel of gunpowder:

A ship filled with big-nosed Jews, being ridiculed for fleeing the pogroms and sporadic outbursts of homicidal rioting against them across Russia and Eastern Europe. You'll notice the ship itself is given a giant Jew nose for a prow, nice touch:

Here are Chinese locusts infesting America. In 1882, the Chinese Exclusion Act was signed by President Chester A. Arthur. It mandated a 10-year moratorium on all Chinese immigration into the United States. Amazingly, the US didn't fully repeal the restrictions on Chinese immigration until 1943, as a check on Japanese attempts to weaken American-Chinese relations during the war:

Here's an Oregonian settler offering a choice to the Chinamen who were inhabiting the west when he arrived - you can go or stay:

The irony of a country built by immigrants building walls to keep out specific types of immigrants should be lost on no one. Here you see a former African slave, a Civil War vet, another Irish ape, a Frenchman and a Jew building a wall to keep out whatever might come in behind them:

In 1915, Congress passed a law stating that immigrants had to pass a literacy test to come into the country. President Wilson vetoed it, but a much harsher measure passed two years later. Here was the list of undesirables banned from entering the country - word for word: "alcoholics", "anarchists", "contract laborers", "criminals and convicts", "epileptics", "feebleminded persons", "idiots", "illiterates", "imbeciles", "insane persons", "paupers", "persons afflicted with contagious disease", "persons being mentally or physically defective", "persons with constitutional psychopathic inferiority", "political radicals", "polygamists", "prostitutes" and "vagrants". Here's the "Americanese Wall":

The first mass migration of Italians were the Sicilians - many of whom first arrived in New Orleans. It was said that Roman Catholics could never be real Americans because their loyalty would always be first and foremost to the church. There were conspiracy theories that they were planning to set up a Papal State within the US. Below is a casual instruction manual to deal with their kind and drown them like rats:

An Italian with the features of a monkey shines the shoes of a dandy. Southern Italians in particular were looked down upon for being "not quite white":

President McKinley (top left) believed in open immigration. Here's Uncle Sam, at his direction, looking on as Italian rats "directly from the slums of Europe" pour into the country. Sound / look familiar?:

The American "fool pied piper" leads more Italian rats toward Ellis Island as the cheering European aristocracy rejoices in the background. You can imagine some demagogue back then saying "they're sending us their worst people", can't you?:

"Close the Gate" from 1919 - immigrants were routinely depicted as "Reds", communists, Marxists and anarchists by this time - the irony being that these were some of the very things they were fleeing from. Not unlike the Middle Easterners currently fleeing from the very terrorism and religious genocide that many are accusing them of supporting:

I work on Wall Street and live on Long Island. I am surrounded by people who can't recognize how recently their own ancestry and ethnicity would have been a problem for them. Are you one of them?

If so, I hope this hits close enough to home so as to awaken you from your contented slumber.

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To my Jewish, Irish, Asian and Italian friends, let's remember: Your ancestors were lower than dirt when they arrived here. Italians were referred to - openly - as a subhuman race of rats and criminals. Irishmen were apes and monkeys.

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Travel Ban Un-American

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Former Secretary of State, Madeline Albright launched a scathing attack on President's Trump's travel ban calling it "flat anti-American".

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Patients in Alexandria, La., were the friendliest people Dr. Muhammad Tauseef ever worked with. They'd drive long distances to see him, and often bring gifts.

"It's a small town, so they will sometimes bring you chickens, bring you eggs, bring you homemade cakes," he says.

One woman even brought him a puppy.

"That was really nice," he says.

Tauseef was born and raised in Pakistan. After going to medical school there, he applied to come to the U.S. to train as a pediatrician.

It's a path thousands of foreign-born medical students follow every year - a path that's been around for more than half a century. And, like most foreign-born physicians, Tauseef came on a J1 visa. That meant after training he had two options: return to Pakistan or work for three years in an area the U.S. government has identified as having a provider shortage.

He chose to work with mostly uninsured kids at a pediatric practice in Alexandria. "That was a challenge," he says. "But it was rewarding as well because you are taking care of people who there aren't many to take care for."

And the U.S. medical system depends on doctors like Tauseef, says Dr. Andrew Gurman, president of the American Medical Association. He worries that if President Trump's executive order on immigration takes effect, it will mean parts of the country that desperately need medical care may not have a doctor.

"International medical graduates have been a resource to provide medical care to areas that don't otherwise have access to physicians," he says. "With the current uncertainty about those physicians' immigration status, we don't know whether or not these areas are going to receive care."

According to the AMA, today there are about 280,000 international medical graduates in the U.S. That's about 1 in 4 doctors practicing here. Some are U.S. citizens who've gone abroad for medical school, but most aren't.

"They don't all have permanent visas, and so a lot of them are concerned about what their status is going to be, whether they can stay, whether they can go home to visit family and still come back, and the communities they serve have similar questions," Gurman says.

And the care provided by the graduates of foreign medical schools is, by and large, top notch. A study published Feb. 3 in the journal The BMJ, formerly The British Medical Journal, shows Medicare patients treated by doctors with degrees from non-U.S. medical schools get just as good care - and sometimes better - than those treated by graduates of American medical schools.

The immigration uncertainty is hitting medical schools at a tough time. Dr. Salahuddin Kazi is in charge of recruiting top students from across the world for the University of Texas Southwestern residency program.

"Typically we have 3,000 people applying for our 61 positions - of those 3,000, at least half of them are international medical graduates," he says.

Applicants find out their program match in March and usually start working in June. That gives them about 90 days to get a visa. Kazi worries this year that won't be long enough and that students from countries included in the travel ban won't be admitted.

"That would create hardship for the hospital, for us and for our remaining residents," he says. "They'll have to pick up more shifts or give up vacation."

Pediatrician Tauseef left Louisiana two years ago but continues to care for low-income patients at Los Barrios Unidos Community Clinic in Dallas. Six of the 30 physicians who work at this clinic are from other countries.

Tauseef says they're all educated to do the same thing. "As a physician, being a foreign medical graduate, U.S. medical graduate, a Muslim doctor, a non-Muslim, we are trained to look for signs and symptoms," he says. "We do not look at anybody's color; we are not trained to look at anybody's religion or ethnicity."

Tauseef, who has been in America for 13 years, says he will apply for U.S. citizenship in March.
This story is part of a reporting partnership with NPR, KERA and Kaiser Health News.

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Patients in Alexandria, La., were the friendliest people Dr. Muhammad Tauseef ever worked with. They'd drive long distances to see him, and often bring gifts. "It's a small town, so they will sometimes bring you chickens, bring you eggs, bring you homemade cakes," he says. One woman even brought him a puppy.

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Saying it won't risk having to leave any students at the border because of new U.S. policies, a public school district in Windsor, Ontario, has canceled upcoming school trips south of the border. Some trips had been slated for this month; a visit to Washington, D.C., was canceled over safety concerns owing to a protest that's planned around the same time, officials say.

The decision was made out of caution, says the Greater Essex County District School Board, which cites uncertainty over President Trump's immigration and travel ban that targets citizens of seven majority-Muslim nations. While that ban has been put on hold by federal courts, legal arguments over it are still working through the judicial system.

"We are just not completely clear on what might happen should a student's documentation be questioned and we would not want any of our students being denied entry," school board spokesman Scott Scantlebury says.

The directive isn't permanent and will be reviewed at the end of February.

"We hope that by the end of the month we have a better, clearer idea of the situation so that these field trips can resume," Scantlebury says.

With 71 schools and around 35,000 students, the Greater Essex County District includes both Essex County and Windsor, the Canadian city that sits just across the Detroit River from downtown Detroit.

Citing a school board trustee, the CBC reports, "many Syrian children who could potentially get banned from crossing the border have started attending schools in the area."

Some of the Canadian classes had planned to make the short trip to the Holocaust Memorial Center in Farmington Hills, Mich., the Windsor Star reports.

And at the district's W.F. Herman Academy, students who play in the school's concert bands were "very disappointed" to learn the board had canceled their trip to Washington for a music festival in April, the Star adds. In blocking the visit, the board said a large rally and protest that is slated to overlap with the multiday festival could create an unsafe environment for the students.

The school district's travel ban on visits to the U.S. comes days after a Canadian college athlete who has Moroccan roots was refused entry to the U.S. as his track team traveled for a meet in Boston.

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School District In Canada Cancels Trips To U.S., Citing Border Policies, Safety

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Saying it won't risk having to leave any students at the border because of new U.S. policies, a public school district in Windsor, Ontario, has canceled upcoming school trips south of the border. Some trips had been slated for this month; a visit to Washington, D.C., was canceled over safety concerns owing to a protest that's planned around the same time, officials say.

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SAN FRANCISCO - Satsuki Ina was born behind barbed wire in a prison camp during World War II, the daughter of U.S. citizens forced from their home without due process and locked up for years following Japan's attack on Pearl Harbor.

Roughly 120,000 Japanese immigrants and Japanese-Americans were sent to desolate camps that dotted the West because the government claimed they might plot against the U.S. Thousands were elderly, disabled, children or infants too young to know the meaning of treason. Two-thirds were citizens.

And now, as survivors commemorate the 75th anniversary of the executive order that authorized their incarceration, they're also speaking out to make sure that what happened to them doesn't happen to Muslims, Latinos or other groups.

They're alarmed by recent executive orders from President Donald Trump that limit travel and single out immigrants.
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In January, Trump banned travelers from seven majority Muslim nations from entering the U.S., saying he wanted to thwart potential attackers from slipping into the country. A federal court halted the ban. Trump said at a news conference Thursday that he would issue a replacement order next week.

"We know what it sounds like. We know what the mood of the country can be. We know a president who is going to see people in a way that could victimize us," said Ina, a 72-year-old psychotherapist who lives in Oakland, California.

President Franklin D. Roosevelt signed Executive Order 9066 on February 19, 1942, to protect against espionage and sabotage. Notices appeared ordering people of Japanese descent to report to civil stations for transport.

Desperate families sold off belongings for cheap and packed what they could. The luckier ones had white friends who agreed to care for houses, farms and businesses in their absence.

"Others who couldn't pay their mortgage, couldn't pay their bills, they lost everything. So they had to pretty much start from scratch," said Rosalyn Tonai, 56, executive director of the National Japanese American Historical Society in San Francisco.

Tonai was shocked to learn in middle school that the U.S. government had incarcerated her mother, aunts and grandparents. Her family hadn't talked about it. Her mother, a teenager at the time, said she didn't remember details.

Her organization, the Japanese American Citizens League and others oppose the use of the word "internment." They say the government used euphemisms such as "internment," "evacuation," and "non-alien" to hide the fact that U.S. citizens were incarcerated and the Constitution violated.

The groups say this White House has what they see as the same dangerous and flippant attitude toward the Constitution. Japanese-American lawmakers expressed horror when a Donald Trump supporter cited the camps as precedent for a Muslim registry.

The Japanese American Citizens League "vehemently" objected to executive orders signed by Trump last month, to build a wall along the Mexican border, punish "sanctuary" cities that protect people living in the country illegally, and limit refugees and immigrants from entering the country.

"Although the threat of terrorism is real, we must learn from our history and not allow our fears to overwhelm our values," the statement read in part.

Hiroshi Kashiwagi was 19 when his family was ordered from their home in Northern California's Placer County and to a temporary detention center.

He remembers slaughtering his prized chickens- New Hampshire Reds- for his mother to cook with soy sauce and sugar. She stored the bottled birds in sturdy sacks to take on the trip. The family ate the chickens at night to supplement meals. The birds didn't last long.

Today, Kashiwagi, 94, is a poet and writer in San Francisco who speaks to the public about life at Tule Lake, a maximum security camp near the Oregon border. Winters were cold, the summers hot. They were helpless against dust storms that seeped inside.

"I feel obligated to speak out, although it's not a favorite subject," he said. "Who knows what can happen? The way this president is, he does not go by the rules. I'm hoping that he would be impeached."

Orders against Japanese-Americans were revoked after the war ended in 1945. They returned to hostility and discrimination in finding work or places to live.

A congressional commission formed in 1980 blamed the incarceration on "race prejudice, war hysteria and a failure of political leadership." In 1988, President Ronald Reagan signed a bill to compensate every survivor with a tax-free check for $20,000 and a formal apology from the U.S. government.

Ina said that only then did her mother, Shizuko, feel she got her face back, her dignity returned. By then her father, Itaru, had died.

"This is a burden we've been carrying, and if we can make that burden into something meaningful that could help and protect other people, then it becomes not so much an obligation but more as a responsibility," Ina said.

After Trump's election, Ina vowed to reach out to the Muslim community and protest and tell everyone about what happened to her family. She brought her message to a gathering of camp survivors in the Los Angeles area.

"And this old woman, she had a cane, she said, 'OK. I'm going to tell everybody about what happened. This is very bad. It's happening again,'" she said. "It's that kind of spirit."

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SAN FRANCISCO - Satsuki Ina was born behind barbed wire in a prison camp during World War II, the daughter of U.S. citizens forced from their home without due process and locked up for years following Japan's attack on Pearl Harbor.

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This Sudanese green card holder and Ph.D. student arrived back to the US just as Trump's immigration ban was going into effect. This is what she experienced. "I felt like my rights as a human being were suspended in that space."