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- Death in Detention September 24, 2020
- Paper Walls Keep Immigrants Out August 5, 2020
- Not Even Three-Fifths of a Person July 21, 2020
- Trump Needs Eighth Grade Civics Class July 11, 2020
- Cruel and Inhuman: ICE Detention Centers Put Everyone at Risk July 9, 2020
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Tag Archives: Central America
Girls and gangs in Central America
Fleeing sex slavery should be grounds for refugee status, right? Not for girls from Honduras and El Salvador, whose plight is largely ignored by immigration bureaucracies in the United States and Mexico. Many get caught in Mexico, trying to make … Continue reading
63 million people and a crisis of solidarity
A new UN refugee agency report shows 65.3 million people forcibly displaced from their homes around the world. Of that number, 21.3 million are refugees and 3.2 million are seeking asylum. Another 40.8 million internally displaced persons live inside their … Continue reading
Posted in Central America, Children, Refugees, Syria
Tagged Central America, Europe, immigration, Refugees, Syrian refugees
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Women at risk
Femicide. Killing women. That’s what is happening in the Northern Triangle countries of El Salvador, Honduras and Guatemala. In Women on the Run, the UN refugee agency reports: “El Salvador, Guatemala, and Honduras rank first, third, and seventh, respectively, for … Continue reading
Posted in Central America, Children, Refugees, Uncategorized, Women
Tagged Central America, El Salvador, femicide, Guatemala, Honduras, Refugees, Women
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God help the refugees. God help us all.
Kenya announced last week that it will close all of its refugee camps, forcing more than 600,000 refugees to return to the violence they fled in their home countries of Somalia, Sudan, Ethiopia and other nearby countries. That’s terrible, but … Continue reading
Posted in Central America, Children, due process, Refugees
Tagged Central America, Children, Dadaab, Kenya, Refugees, Somalia
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Three-year-olds, immigration law, and the presidential candidates
David Wilson and Jane Guskin explain what’s wrong with the mainstream immigration debate, including the Sanders/Clinton pseudo-discussion in their March 9 debate: “The media and the politicians treat the migration either as a natural disaster (‘flooding over the border’) or … Continue reading
Posted in Central America, Children, due process, Refugees
Tagged Central America, deportation, due process, immigration, immigration court, immigration law, Refugees
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Will raids inspire more sanctuary churches?
Back in the 1980s, a network of U.S. churches and synagogues offered sanctuary to Central American refugees and organized an “overground railroad” to take them to safety in Canada. Now the U.S. immigration raids directed at Central American women and … Continue reading
Posted in Central America, Refugees, Uncategorized
Tagged Central America, kl, Refugees, sanctuary, sanctuary churches
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Immigration agents should not be above the law
No warrants, no consent, no lawyers — that’s the story told by the Southern Poverty Law Center’s first-person report on raids targeting Central American mothers and children in January. Here’s part of Ana Silvia’s story:
Posted in Central America, Children, due process, Refugees
Tagged Central America, Children, due process, families, immigration, Refugees, unaccompanied minors
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