The dark history of gasoline baths at the border
An alarming US border policy forced fumigations on migrants at the USMexico border. Become a Video Lab member In 1917, American health officials launched a campaign to use noxious, often toxic chemicals to delouse immigrants seeking to enter at the USMexico border. The same practice had caused a fire in an El Paso jail the year before and killed 27 people. 17yearold Juárez maid Carmelita Torres refused to go through it, sparking a protest of thousands of Mexicans at the El P
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