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On Sunday, between Tijuana, Mexico, and California, about 400 migrants claimed asylum along the U.S. border. They’re part of the caravan of Central American migrants, mostly from Honduras and El Salvador, whose route has become international news because of the ire they’ve drawn from President Trump. The Takeaway looks at the migrants claims of asylum and whether or not they will be allowed to remain in the U.S. Plus, we look at how California police were able to use online genealogy services to track down the Golden State Killer; how thousands of Nicaraguans are taking to the streets to call for the ouster of President Ortega; and how India is grappling with sexual violence.

June 26, 2017: Should teachers carry guns? One county in Colorado is training school staff members on a controversial method to prepare for an active shooter scenario. Today, The Takeaway talks to the founder of the program, and we examine the U.S.-India relationship, we explore why some veterans are being deported, we look at the inhumane conditions facing some immigrant detainees, and we chat with Virginia Grohl, the mother of Foo Fighters frontman and Nirvana drummer Dave Grohl. 

Blind seers aside, it’s easier to see where you’re going, on the road and in life, if you can actually see. More than half of Americans wear glasses; in poorer and more remote regions of the world, it’s estimated that some two billion people need glasses but don’t have access to them, cutting into their ability to learn, work and live a full life. A social entrepreneurial effort called VisionSpring has reached millions of such people in Asia and Africa, selling glasses at affordable prices to customers who earn less than $4 a day. Host Mary Kay Magistad talks with VisionSpring’s founder Jordan Kassalow, and president Ella Gudwin.

It’s been a year and a half since 195 countries signed a historic climate change agreement in Paris. Now, cleaner energy policies are being implemented across the globe. But the agreement alone won’t be enough to reach emissions goals.

Aiming to help everyone make almost anything, Fab Labs have opened around the world, and Fab Cities are taking the movement big-scale. Featuring Neil Gershenfeld, director of MIT’s Center of Bits and Atoms, talking about the movement he started, and a visit to Kochi, formerly Cochin, a former ancient Indian trading port turned aspiring Internet of Things hub, and the first state or region to sign on to the Fab Cities movement.

Heads up, Silicon Valley, Bangalore’s not just for outsourcing anymore. It’s rising fast as a world-class hub of tech and biotech innovation, pulling successful Indian entrepreneurs back from Silicon Valley, and from around India. It’s part of the story of how the other Asian giant, India, with half its population under age 25, is just getting going in seeing what it can do in this century.

Click on the audio player above to hear this interview.

In the Indian capital of Delhi, protesters sabotaged a key canal, which has left more than 10 million without water. At least 19 people have been killed and hundreds have been injured.

The protesters belong to the Jat caste, a group mostly consisting of farmers, who are demanding official status as a “backwards class,” which would make them eligible for government jobs and education quotas.

Sanjoy Majumder, India correspondent for BBC News, explains how the mega-city of Delhi is coping with such unrest.

What you’ll learn from this segment:

Why The Jats are protesting in Delhi.
What’s happened to the city’s water supply. 
How the government is responding.

January 19, 2016: 1. What’s in Your Water? Flint Emergency Raises Concerns About Toxic Taps in America | 2. History of Mistrust Feeds TB Outbreak in Alabama | 3. Meet Musica and Poltergeist: Astronomers Rename Dozens of Exoplanets | 4. How Geology Can Determine Destiny | 5. Indira Gandhi’s Long Lasting Legacy

The numbers are staggering. Worldwide, 58 million primary school-age children are not in school. More than half of these children are girls, and 75 percent of them live in sub-Saharan Africa and South Asia.

AK-47s, grenades, water? Earth’s most precious resource doesn’t fire bullets or explode but it is guarded, hoarded, and stolen in a way that ignites political tensions on a local level and an international scale. This month, we travel to Sub Saharan and Pakistan to bring you the stories of those caught up in the struggle to secure clean water. We’ll hear from unapologetic water thieves, reporters turned refugees, and rural residents whose way of life may be completed decimated because of the wording in a decades old international treaty. Also the voices of American officials, NGO’s, and entrepreneurs on what the West can and should do to help those in need.