CNN Student News | April 6, 2018 | Trump sends soldiers to the U.S.-Mexico border
CARL
AZUZ, CNN 10 ANCHOR: Hi. I`m Carl Azuz.
And one important thing that I`ve learned from my
reporting on CNN is that Fridays are awesome! Welcome to the show.
Our first report: soldiers with the U.S. National Guard,
part of the military, are headed to the border between America and Mexico.
President Donald Trump signed a memorandum earlier this week to deploy the
guard there. He wrote that under former Presidents George W. Bush and Barack Obama,
the National Guard supported efforts to secure America`s southern border, and
that the crisis there once again calls for the guard to help protect the border
and the U.S. homeland.
The president also says gangs and large amounts of
illegal drugs flowing across that border. In December, the government reported
that illegal border crossings were at a 46-year low for the last fiscal year
under President Trump.
But a separate report released this week said the number
of people trying to illegally cross the border increased dramatically in March,
more than 200 percent over the number from last March. The Trump administration
says historically, border crossings increased in the spring months.
But critics say the president is inappropriately using
the military to secure the border because he`s frustrated that Congress hasn`t
approved funding yet for the new wall he wants to build there.
The number of National Guard soldiers, the cost of
sending them, their exact locations and the length of their deployment are all
still being worked out.
Another announcement by President Trump we`ve covered
recently involves the new U.S. tariffs on certain goods from China. Part of the
reason for that, the Trump administration blames China for stealing $300
billion of U.S. intellectual property, things like books, clothing, designs,
music, photographs and art. This could include illegally reproducing goods that
were patented in the U.S. or the act of pirating, illegally copying or distributing
movies and TV.
Outside China, the Asian country of Singapore is one
place where media piracy is rampant.
Andrew Stevens has a look at a small box that`s a big
target of major media and entertainment companies who want to protect their
intellectual property.
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ANDREW STEVENS, CNN CORRESPONDENT (voice-over): The most
common form of content piracy in Asia is either through illegal online sites or
more likely through one of these -- a media streaming box or illicit streaming
device known as an ISD. This sold openly across the region, most come with preloaded
software than when hooked up to the Internet provide access to literally
thousands of TV, sports and movie channels across the world.
(on camera): This is Sim Lim Square. It`s an electronic
shopping mall in Singapore. I`ve been told it`s the easiest place in the city
to buy a media streaming box. I want to see how true that is.
(voice-over): We`re not allowed to take cameras in, but
inside, I counted at least half a dozen shops openly selling ISDs loaded with
software for a one-off payment of between $100 and $300.
(on camera): Well, that was very painless. I`ve just
spent US$150 on an HD streaming device. It`s got 1,500 channels. They loaded it
for me. It took about 10 minutes or so. All I have to do now is plug it in and
play. Let`s see how it works.
(voice-over): It was pretty much as simple as that. The
box was soon streaming latest movies, English premier league football, news
including CNN, and hit U.S. and British TV series, all content I should be
paying for. So, I shut it down.
But the industry is fighting back. Pay TV operators
SingTel and StarHub and content providers Fox Network and Premier League
football have taken action against two ISD sellers in the Singapore state
court. That follows successful legal action against ISD sellers in the United
Kingdom, Hong Kong, Thailand and Malaysia.
But fighting piracy is likely to be a long and drawn out
battle. Unlike the fight scenes these stunt men for this scene in (INAUDIBLE),
it`s still not at all clear whether the law will win.
Andrew Stevens, CNN, Singapore.
(END VIDEOTAPE)
AZUZ: A CNN hero in Dallas, Texas, is making news for
helping people who`ve served time as juvenile offenders. More than 40 percent
of young people who`ve been convicted of a crime in Texas are incarcerated
again within three years.
But a chef named Chad Houser found a way to help former
youth offenders serve meals instead of time. And his work has helped hundreds
of people get restaurant training and help with their education and careers.
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CHAD HOUSER, CNN HERO: In 2007, I was at the top of my
game.
I might take a bath in that.
I was nominated as best up and coming chef in Dallas. My
career was taking off.
Then, I had an opportunity to teach eight young men
inside a Dallas County juvenile detention facility how to make ice cream for an
ice ream competition.
One of the young men won the whole thing. He came running
up to me screaming at the top of his lungs, sir, I just love to cook! And I
just bent my knees and toughening (ph) my arms, and screamed right back at him,
sir, me too!
How many of you guys are going to go home and need help?
He told me when he gotten released, he was going to get a
job in a restaurant. I realized that, you know, the odds of him ever making it
for between slim and none. --
You guys are some of the hardest working, some of the
most genuine, some of the most honest people I`ve ever met.
It`s one thing to tell the kids I believe in them. It was
another thing to prove it. And to me, the way to prove it was to show them that
I was going to bet my whole career on them.
Cafe Momentum is a 12-month paid post-release internship
for young men and women exiting Dallas County juvenile detention facilities.
When we talk about coming to Cafe Momentum, we talk a lot
about commitment. But who do you commit to? Who has your best interest in mind?
You do?
So, who`s going to make the best choices for you? You
are. It`s you committing to yourself.
The interns work their way through every station in the
restaurant, dishwasher, prep cook, line cook, cashier (ph), server, host,
hostess, we`re getting them back in school. We have classes like financial
literacy training, even parenting classes. They`re writing their resume,
they`re going through mock interviews.
Dallas is one the most philanthropic communities in the
country, but it`s also one of the most segregated.
A little barbecue, never hurt nobody.
We have a large population of kids that live in poverty
and live without a home.
Waiting tables is about time management. He`s really
learned to do a good job of how to manage that and it comes across
effortlessly. That when he used to talk trash about me at the tables.
(LAUGHTER)
UNIDENTIFIED MALE: My life kind of started rocky. I was
in and out of jail from 11 to 16.
When I got out of jail, my probation officer told me
about Cafe Momentum. There`s another family for me.
HOUSER: These kids can and will rise to whatever level of
expectation is set for them, as long as you give them the tools, resources and
opportunity to get there.
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AZUZ: According to Sam Sung, the average person born
after 1980 will take 25,000 selfies in his or her lifetime. And now in
Glendale, California, there`s a museum of selfies, it`s called the Museum of
Selfies. It features the world`s longest selfie stick, which measures 59 feet.
It features historic selfies, reproduction of self portraits by renaissance
masters. And it features plenty of places where you can take a selfie.
So, is it shameless selfie promotion or selfie
aggrandizement? Does it selfie help, selfie proclaim, selfie supporters with
their selfie confidence or selfie esteem? Guess if you believe in your selfie
and know that your selfie and plan to suit your selfie by helping your selfie
do a selfie funded ticket to the selfie museum, you`ll each selfie (ph) be able
to make your selfie at home.
I`m Carl Azuz for CNN 10.
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