The Dark History of “Gasoline Baths” at the Border

The Dark History of “Gasoline Baths” at the Border

A documentary from the Vox Missing Chapter series, that looks at the history of using toxic chemicals at the U.S. Mexico border. The campaign continued for decades well into the 1960s and even inspired Nazi scientists. These dangerous practices included forced kerosene baths, the use of the poisonous gas Zyklon B as well as fumigations of migrant workers in the “Bracero program” using the pesticide DDT. Watch now.