- What’s happening at the border? Here’s what we know about immigrant children and family separations This is dated material, however this information is important: On June 26, a federal judge ordered immigration officials to reunite families within 30 days, according to the Washington Post. Children under 5 must be reunited with parents within 14 days and parents must be able to call their children within 10 days. ICE has released some plans that same day to reunite families so they “can be returned to their home countries together.” However, the government hasn’t outlined a plan to reunify parents and children who are seeking asylum and will stay in the country while their claims are processed. Some detained migrants were told they would be reunited with their children if they signed voluntary removal orders from the United States. A Honduran man who spoke to the Texas Tribune on June 23 said he said a voluntary deportation agreement out of “desperation” to see his 6-year-old daughter.
12/3/18 The Truth About Asylum and the Crisis at the Border – By James Phillips
Reverend William Barber: Tear Gassing Central American Migrants Is Inhumane, Unconstitutional, Immoral
26 November 18
8/19/18 Jennifer Harbury: Today’s Refugee Crisis Is Blowback from U.S. Dirty Wars in Central America
In our special broadcast from the U.S.-Mexico border, we speak to human rights lawyer Jennifer Harbury, who has lived here in the Rio Grande Valley in Texas for over 40 years and has been active in the response to the Trump administration’s “zero tolerance” policy. Her husband, Efraín Bámaca Velásquez, was a Mayan comandante and guerrilla who was disappeared after he was captured by the Guatemalan army in the 1980s. After a long campaign, she found there was U.S. involvement in the cover-up of her husband’s murder and torture. Now she continues to work with people fleeing violence in Guatemala, El Salvador and Honduras.
“Brutal and Sadistic”: Noam Chomsky on Family Separation & the U.S. Roots of Today’s Refugee Crisis
We Found Miriam
People flee, they escape, they leave Honduras in desperation. Every Honduran family is familiar with that story, the story of not even having a place to live, the story of leaving under cover of darkness because in your neighborhood your fate has been determined or because you dared to seek justice.
DHS advisory council members quit over ‘morally repugnant’ family separation policy (posted 7/18/18)
How Immigration Detention Can Drive Detainees to Suicide (posted 7/16/18)
People fleeing persecution have the right to seek asylum
Separating children from families at U.S. border
Who’s Really Crossing the U.S. Border, and Why They’re Coming
By Stephanie Leutert Saturday, June 23, 2018, 10:04 AM
A must read: How to Create an Immigration Crisis: The U.S. in Central America – By Jim Phillips, PhD. — By Jim Phillips, PhD., June 26, 2018
http://www.soaw.org/border/read-more-on-honduras/
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- February 6, 2018 – Foreign Policy in Focus, As Long As Rights Are Trampled, There Will Be Forced Migration, written by Roy Bourgeois and Margaret Knapke
- February 2, 2018 – Common Dreams, Accompaniment in Honduras: How Can We be Free When Our Brothers and Sisters are Not?, by Ken Jones
- December 19, 2017 – The New Yorker, In Honduras, Calls Rise for New Presidential Elections
- December 19, 2017 – The New York Times, Americas’ Blind Eye to Honduras’ Tyrant
- December 18, 2017 – The Guardian, Call for fresh Honduras election after president Juan Orlando Hernández wins
- December 18, 2017 – CEPR, Honduras’ Electoral Authority Declares Incumbent President the Winner of Elections, Despite Statistical Near-Impossibility, CEPR Co-Director Says
- December 17, 2017, The New York Times Honduran President Declared Winner, but O.A.S. Calls for New Election
- December 12, 2017 – NACLA, Honduras Holds Democracy Hostage
- December 3, 2017 – The Intercept, The President of Honduras is Deploying U.S.-Trained Forces Against Election Protesters
- December 3, 2017 – The Guardian, Thousands protest in Honduras in chaos over contested presidential election
- December 2, 2017 – The Guardian, Honduras troops shoot dead teenage girl amid election crisis protests
- November 29, 2017 – The New Yorker, A U.S. Ally Says He Won Honduras’s Presidential Election. Hondurans Aren’t So Sure
- November 26, 2017 – The Intercept, Top U.S.-Backed Honduran Security Minister is Running Drugs, According to Court Testimony.
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