Tuesday, February 12, 2019
Sunday, February 10, 2019
Representatives of Morena Meet with Activists in the U.S.
David Brooks. La Jornada
Nueva York. Líderes y activistas de la diáspora mexicana en Estados Unidos se reunieron por primera vez desde la llegada de Andrés Manuel López Obrador a la Presidencia con representantes del nuevo gobierno, legisladores y el liderazgo de Morena para abordar la participación de los inmigrantes aquí en la llamada “Cuarta Transformación”.
Durante un foro comunitario de dos días, La voz de los migrantes en la 4Ta Transformación, en esta ciudad, Roberto Valdovinos, el director del Instituto de Mexicanos en el Exterior (IME), la diputada federal Tatiana Clouthier, de Morena, y Yeidckol Polevnsky, presidenta de ese partido, junto al legislador del Partido del Trabajo Gustavo Fernandez Noroña, se comprometieron ante representantes de comités de Morena en varias entidades de Estados Unidos, junto con académicos, estudiantes, líderes comunitarios y otros simpatizantes, que los migrantes mexicanos radicados aquí formaran parte integral del cambio que se impulsa en México y en la realidad binacional bajo el nuevo gobierno de López Obrador.
Saturday, February 09, 2019
Friday, February 08, 2019
Thursday, February 07, 2019
The Reality Check: WITH LOPEZ OBRADOR IN, THOUSANDS OF WORKERS WALK O...
The Reality Check: WITH LOPEZ OBRADOR IN, THOUSANDS OF WORKERS WALK O...: WITH LOPEZ OBRADOR IN, THOUSANDS OF WORKERS WALK OUT By David Bacon The American Prospect, February 6, 2019 https://prospect.org/article/...
Tuesday, February 05, 2019
There is No Wall in El Paso
People are fleeing once again. They are fleeing hunger, and violence and official corruption. It is important to separate Immigration and Refugees. They have different laws applying to them.
These migrants from are making their way north to the U.S. border to seek asylum, in search of freedom from the poverty and violence that has been perpetuated by U.S. imperialism and neoliberal capitalism.
Those eligible for refugee status should be admitted as required by the 1951 Convention Relating to the Status of Migrants and the Universal Declaration of Human Rights (1946) which the U.S. government helped to draft. 860,000 on back list.
Trump claims there is crisis of criminal gangs at the border. Somewhat. But, not near what he claims.
The drug traffic at the border is not caused by migration. The drugs are brought in by gangs with trucks and tunnels. A wall will not stop the traffic. It does need to be stopped.
The issue is the Wall. There is not a dispute about the need for more border enforcement and protection. The conflict is will a wall make the difference. Contrary to what he said, there is no wall in El Paso. It is a fence.
A Wall will not stop drug trafficking. It will not even slow it down. The well-funded and increasingly sophisticated cartels are not going to be stopped by a wall. The overwhelming majority of illicit traffic flows through ports of entry—not in the vast stretches of land in between where any wall would be built.
Refugees are not the source of drugs. There is a failure of drug enforcement.
Monday, February 04, 2019
Trump Administration Continues to Jail Children- Divide Families
The ACLU on Friday said HHS' latest filing in a case on child separations proves that the Trump administration doesn't know how many families it split up at the border. In the court filing in Mrs. L v. ICE, Jonathan White, a commander for the U.S. Public Health Service Commissioned Corps, concurred with an OIG report stating that the total number of children separated at the border was "unknown."
"The Trump administration's response is a shocking concession that it can't easily find thousands of children it ripped from parents, and doesn't even think it's worth the time to locate each of them," ACLU attorney Lee Gelernt said in a statement. "The administration also doesn't dispute that separations are ongoing in significant numbers."
White, for his part, said HHS never sought to tally the total number of children separated from their parents at the border — only those in the "class" identified in the Mrs. L case. "It is critical to understand that HHS knew the identity, location, and clinical condition of all re-categorized children at all times during their stay in [Office of Refugee Resettlement] shelters," White wrote. "HHS did not 'lose' any of them. OIG found no evidence to the contrary."
Trump Sends More Troops to the Border
Sunday, February 03, 2019
Trump's Wall Will Not Stop This
Mexican president Andrés Manuel López Obrador has expedited the application process for humanitarian visas, raised the minimum wage, and pledged to expand public works projects in part to help migrants whose journey came to a halt in Mexico. But many Central Americans escaping violence and poverty are still trying to find a path to the United States—the country largely responsible for destabilzing their societies.
“The economic and trade policies that the United States has supported in Mexico and Central America have resulted in the displacement of millions of workers and economic stagnation,” wrote Alexander Main five years ago in Dissent. “The militarized drug war that the United States has promoted and funded in Mexico and Central America has further unleashed repressive, abusive security forces and undermined the civilian institutions that might hold them accountable.” A half-decade on, beneath the multiplying self-inflicted crises of the Trump era, this longstanding U.S. agenda remains largely unchanged.
Perhaps we could have a wall to keep the U.S. out of Central America and Venezuela.
Democratic Socialists of America (DSA) categorically opposes any and all efforts by the US government to intervene in the domestic politics of Venezuela. The US has a long and bloody track record of actions to overthrow democratically elected governments, stop the spread of socialism, and maintain US imperial dominance in the region. This includes the US government’s support of the 2002 Venezuelan coup that led to the temporary ouster of the legitimately-elected president of Venezuela, Hugo Chávez. These imperial interventions must stop immediately; the future of the Venezuelan people, and the broader prosperity of Latin America depend on it.
DSA Condemns Interference With Migrants Rights to Legal Counsel
Joint statement by Democratic Socialists of America Immigrants’ Rights WG and International Socialist Organization Immigrants’ Rights WG on recent human rights interference by the governments of the United States and Mexico
February 4, 2019
The undersigned organizations condemn in the strongest terms possible actions taken to disrupt legal counsel to members of the Central American Exodus. Specifically, attorneys of the bi-national nonprofit organization Al Otro Lado have been barred from travel into Mexico or forcibly removed from Mexico after the placement of alerts on their passports — this after United States authorities began actively referring asylum seekers sent back to Mexico to visit Al Otro Lado’s offices in Tijuana. These actions are mind-blowingly contradictory. DSA members from several chapters across the country have supported Al Otro Lado in a range of capacities, and we can directly attest to the importance of its mission and the organization’s vital role in migration justice.
While neither the origin or rationale of the alerts has been determined, what is abundantly clear is a pattern of obstructive behavior designed to withhold the good faith consideration of asylum that is covenanted to individuals internationally by multilateral accords. Less than a week before Al Otro Lado attorneys found their travel impeded, the U.S. Department of Homeland Security began implementing the "Migrant Protection Program,” returning asylum seekers back to Tijuana to pursue the major portion of their asylum proceedings from Mexico. Near simultaneously, the transitional shelter in Tijuana preventing the worst humanitarian outcomes was abruptly shut down, its residents turned out on the street.
Saturday, February 02, 2019
Its Not Just About the Wall !
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| Felipe Gomez |
It's Not Just About the Wall!
While Donald Trump continues to make his demand to build "the wall", members of Congress are conferring on a possible "deal" on the budget before Feb. 15 -- the deadline set for the suspension of the government shutdown. Some Democrats in the conference process are floating funding "incentives" in appropriations for the Dept. of Homeland Security based on a "smart wall" -- with use of more technology (and the glee of the tech industry) -- along with increases in the border enforcement budget for everything except wall construction.
We cannot agree to these dangerous enforcement proposals, and as we have also repeatedly stated, "It's not just about the wall"!
Trump's call to "build the wall" has always been a rallying cry to his supporters to oppose immigration -- ALL immigration. Increases in enforcement personnel, surveillance technology and other infrastructure fuel the consolidation of deterrent immigration policies and will contribute to greater harm of migrants and the environment. This is not acceptable.
We join the #DefundHate Coalition in calling for:
Cuts, not increases funding for violent, abusive, and wasteful immigration enforcement; funding for Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) and Customs and Border Protection (CBP) should be decreased and there should not be ANY funding for barrier construction.
The prohibition of the Trump Administration from raiding other accounts to increase availability of funds for a wall, immigration detention and other anti-immigrant provisions. This is also an issue of accountability for federal spending.
A commitment from Trump not to invoke a national border emergency or undermine Congress' role on budget matters by seizing funds from other accounts to build the wall or other physical structures.
Trump continues to say that the Congressional negotiations are "a waste of time", hinting that he "could" declare a national emergency during his State of the Union address on Feb. 5.
Continue to voice our opposition to the wall AND increased border enforcement! Click here for contact information to send a message to your representatives in Congress.
National Network for Immigrant and Refugee Rights
National Network for Immigrant and Refugee Rights
Wednesday, January 30, 2019
No DACA, No TPS, in Negotions
NO DACA, NO TPS: House Democratic leaders expressed doubt that any border compromise brokered by the bipartisan Homeland Security Conference will include protections for participants in the Deferred Action for Child Arrivals program or recipients of Temporary Protected Status, POLITICO's Melanie Zanona and Sarah Ferris report. If the conference committee, set to meet for the first time today, fails to resolve the impasse over border security before Feb. 15, President Donald Trump says he'll shut the government down again.
"The focus of the talks is expected to be limited in scope, with leaders already tempering expectations that the proposal will yield a wide-ranging immigration deal that has thus far remained elusive on Capitol Hill," Melanie and Sarah write. House Majority Leader Steny Hoyerconfirmed to reporters on Tuesday that protections from deportation for DACA and TPS participants won't likely be part of the compromise. House Minority Leader Kevin McCarthy (R-Calif.), suggested that Republicans would support a final agreement that included a DACA legal fix. More here.
From: Politico Morning Report.
Tuesday, January 29, 2019
Elliot Abrams: Assistant Secretary of Death
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Sunday, January 27, 2019
5,600 Kids Still Held in Texas "Shelters"
Choosing Democracy: 5,600 Kids Still Held in Texas "Shelters": 5,600 migrant kids in Texas shelters Even after Tornillo tent city’s closure, more than 5,600 migrant kids are living in Texas shelter ...
Friday, January 25, 2019
The Reality Check: WILL GROWERS' DEMANDS FOR WAGE CUTS GET HELP FROM ...
The Reality Check: WILL GROWERS' DEMANDS FOR WAGE CUTS GET HELP FROM ...: WILL GROWERS' DEMANDS FOR WAGE CUTS GET HELP FROM THE U.S. GOVERNMENT? By David Bacon Capital & Main, 1/24/19 https://capitalandmain...
Shut Down the Wall : Open the Government !
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| DSA Member: Rashida Tlaib |
I am a proud woman, mother, Muslim, and Palestinian-American, and I have dedicated my life to fighting for justice. And now, thanks in no small part to the work of MoveOn members this past election year, I am also a congresswoman from Detroit.
People like me don't usually run for Congress—let alone win. I'm the person who carries a bullhorn to a rally. And you can bet that I'm going to do things differently, as I fight day in and day out for working people and communities.
I'm writing to you today—on the 34th day of the government shutdown—because we need to rise up, together, to reopen the federal government.
Trump's fake wall debate has led to a very real humanitarian crisis: People in my own district are begging their landlords not to evict them because Department of Housing and Urban Development (HUD) funding is suspended. My neighbors live among the biggest corporate polluters and are wondering—without EPA inspectors on duty—if they're breathing in dangerous levels of pollution. This is not right.
This shutdown will end only when we take to the streets—and in huge numbers. And that's why I'm joining MoveOn's "Shut Down the Wall, Open the Government" nationwide mobilization on Tuesday, January 29. On that day, regular folks across the country will rally at their senators' offices and closed government buildings to share their stories, speak truth to power, and demand that we, their elected officials, do our jobs.
Wednesday, January 23, 2019
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