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The pandemic and anti-immigration policies haven’t stopped migration from Central America – they’ve just made conditions at the border more hazardous. (Photo: Herika Martinez/AFP via Getty Images)
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Here’s the latest atrocity to come out of this administration and their cruel and heartless immigration policies.
About 8,800 unaccompanied children expelled at U.S. border under coronavirus-related measure:
About 8,800 unaccompanied children have been quickly expelled from the United States along the Mexico border under a pandemic-related measure that effectively ended asylum, authorities said Friday. […]
The figures on children were reported for the first time in a declaration by Raul Ortiz, the Border Patrol’s deputy chief, as part of the administration’s appeal of an order to stop housing children in hotels. […]
The administration asked the 9th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals to overturn a ruling last week that found use of hotels skirted “fundamental humanitarian protections.”
Here’s more as explained by MSNBC’s Jacob Soboroff in the segment above:
July 1 Hearing for Susana Prieto, Arrested on Trumped-Up Charges for Exercising Labor Rights in the New NAFTA, Steps on Launch Date Growing outrage about a jailed Mexican labor activist, bogged-down labor reforms and threats to Mexican workers pressured to…
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152 total views, 152 views today Update after two weeks on the hunger strike taking place in two prisons in Chiapas The hunger strike launched by Indigenous prisoners in struggle in CERSS No. 5 and CERSS No. 10 in Chiapas has now completed its second week. At the launch of the strike the prisoners planned to… Read Full Article
Mexican Border Workers Strike Against COVID, But The U.S. Keeps The Factories Open
Leanna
Sun, 05/24/2020 – 17:20
On Saturday, the health secretary of Northern Baja California announced that 432 of the 519 people who have officially died from the virus in the state were maquiladora workers. In Baja cities like Tijuana and Mexicali, as well as other border cities like Ciudad Juárez, Chihuahua and Matamoros, Tamaulipas, doctors report that their hospitals are overflowing with sick maquiladora workers, some of whom are dying in their work uniforms. Mexican maquiladora workers make between US$8 to $10 per day.
Hospital officials say the government’s official death toll and the total number of positive cases nationwide—5,177 and 49,219 respectively, as of yesterday afternoon—vastly understate the real impact. They claim that hundreds or thousands more maquiladora workers are dying than is officially acknowledged and that the Mexican government of Andrés Manuel López Obrador is obscuring the real toll in an effort to force workers back to work.
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A front-line account of the death of Mexican social activist Jaime Montejo that ponders his legacy and asks what comes next.
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The post Revuelta Comunitaria: Weeks of Violent Repression Targets Indigenous Autonomous Communities appeared first on It’s Going Down.
This is the latest piece from our column, Revuelta Comunitaria, addressing recent weeks of violent repression against Indigenous resistance in various states of so-called Mexico. While the president of Mexico, Andrés Manuel López Obrador, has recently been on a tour visiting the Indigenous regions of the country these last few weeks, theatrically proclaiming his administration’s… Read Full Article