A study released last year by the Pew Research Center for the People and the Press dubbed Americans age 18 to 25 as the “Look at Me” generation and reported that this group said that their top goals were fortune and fame.
“There’s a self-fulfilling prophecy,” said Kali H. Trzesniewski, an assistant professor of psychology at the University of Western Ontario. Ms. Trzesniewski, along with colleagues at the University of California, Davis, and Michigan State University, will publish research in the journal Psychological Science next month showing there have been very few changes in the thoughts, feelings and behaviors of youth over the last 30 years.
CNN: “The government wants to build 700 miles of fence along the Mexican border, including 370 miles of it by the end of this year. About 70 miles of fence is to be built in the Rio Grande Valley by year’s end, if the government gets its way.”
Unlike in Palestine where Israel just takes more Palestinian land to build the wall, the US wall is requiring its own folks (and assumably many of Mexico’s) living along the border to give up their homes. Understandably, many people do not want to lose their homes, and many, like Eloisa Tamez, are going to make a stand despite the court orders: “I am not backing down.”
The Department of Homeland Security (DHS) is pursuing more than 100 lawsuits to claim people’s homes in Texas, Arizona and California.
“It’s outrageous,” said Elizabeth Garcia of Brownsville, Texas. “They’re taking away from the people their basic rights.”
