Mexican government joins Biden administration in renewed crackdown on refugees and migrants
The inhumane conditions facing asylum seekers and migrants on the US-Mexico border have been accompanied by collaboration between the Biden administration and the Mexican government of President Andrés Manuel López Obrador in a brutal campaign to suppress migration.
After ending the reactionary agreements with Guatemala and Mexico to force those seeking asylum in the United States to wait in those third countries, the Biden administration is working with these same governments to revoke the right to request asylum at all, from anywhere.
Mexican National Guard troops (Wikimedia Commons)
Child Exploitation Increases Along The Border During Pandemic
MEXICALI, B.C., Mex. (KYMA/KECY) - The global pandemic has brought much more than just an economic crisis, with it it has also brought social issues like exploitations of minors.
Last week, 12 children were rescued from an unstable home by Mexico s National System for Integral Family Development (DIF). An investigation by the DIF found they were being forced to panhandle along the international border crossings.
DIF Director Maria Elena Araiza explains that through their Street Rescue outreach program, they initially identified two minors which led them to a home where they found 10 other children. It wasn t clear if the adults present were their parents as they had no legal proof that established guardianship.
Aiding Central America s Women on the Run
Gabriela DÃaz Prieto and Sarah Gammage January 19, 2016
A fence at the U.S. border. (Photo: BBC World Service)
Norma remains in a detention center in the United States, where she awaits the resolution of her asylum petition. She left a neighborhood in El Salvador, controlled by the M-18 Gang, at the end of 2014. Four members of the gang kidnapped her, took her to a cemetery where they raped her and then threw her in a trashcan all an attempt to send a message to her husband, a Salvadoran police officer. Reporting the violence only made things worse; shortly after the incident Norma and other members of her family began to receive death threats.