Land of Corn (2015)
▻http://www.filmsforaction.org/watch/land-of-corn-2015
Land of corn is a documentary film about four environmental and land rights defenders from Mexico, Guatemala, Colombia and Honduras who work in an extremely dangerous environment and risk their...
Resistencia: The Fight for the Aguan Valley (2015)
▻http://www.filmsforaction.org/watch/resistencia-the-fight-for-the-aguan-valley-2015
It is June 28th, 2009. The people of Honduras are preparing to vote in their country’s first-ever referendum. However, instead of waking up to ballot boxes they rise to find their streets full of...
Female deaths in Honduras a ’violent epidemic’ | News24
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The number of women killed in violent incidents has surged in Honduras, already the world’s deadliest country, and has hit epidemic levels, a rights group said on Wednesday.
Incidents of violent female deaths skyrocketed 263% between 2005 and 2013 in the South American nation, a study from the Women’s Rights Centre showed.
Twelve women out of every 100 000 inhabitants die in violent episodes, according to the report.
“Epidemic” levels are defined as at least 8.8 deaths per 100 000 residents, according to the World Health Organisation.
“So these crimes have become an epidemic,” Claudia Herrmannsdorfer, spokesperson for the organisation, told AFP.
’Soul-destroying’: one migrant mother’s story of life at #Dilley detention center
Berenice left Honduras ready for the risks of crossing the border but like many families hope dissipated upon learning of life in captivity indefinitely in the US
Mujeres migrantes, víctimas del plan antitrata
En el patio del penal femenil de Tapachula, Chiapas, hay un grupo de mujeres sentadas bajo un techo de lámina, el único escudo contra el inclemente sol. Las convoca un ministro de culto que reza, pero sus raíces centroamericanas y los motivos de su encierro, también las reúnen.
Ellas, originarias de Guatemala, Honduras y El Salvador, están acusadas del delito de trata de personas. Algunas fueron condenadas a 23 años de prisión, otras llevan más de un año detenidas y no han recibido sentencia.
Sólo en esta prisión, ubicada en la frontera sur de México, permanecen 20 mujeres detenidas acusadas de explotar sexualmente a sus compañeras.
Otras tres que permanecieron encerradas durante cuatro años obtuvieron su libertad mediante un método extremo: por varios días permanecieron en huelga de hambre para presionar por la revisión de su caso.
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Palm Oil and Extreme Violence in Honduras : The Inexorable Rise and Dubious Reform of Grupo Dinant
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A case in point is Grupo Dinant, a Honduran palm oil company that declared last month that it has been awarded international environmental certifications for its achievements in environmental management and occupational health and safety. Dinant has also been making overtures toward joining the Roundtable on Sustainable Palm Oil (RSPO), including hosting the RSPO’s 4th Latin American conference in Honduras in 2013. But, Dinant, which produces about 60 percent of the palm oil in Honduras, is at the center of what has been called “the most serious situation in terms of violence against peasants in Central America in the last 15 years.”
Owned by Miguel Facussé, one of the wealthiest men in Honduras, Dinant has been associated with the killings of over 100 peasant farmers, and appears to be involved in a virtual terror campaign to ensure control of a large swath of land in the Lower Aguan Valley near the Caribbean coast of Honduras.
While credible human rights groups like Human Rights Watch denounce the killings and note that “virtually none of the crimes are properly investigated, let alone solved,” Dinant continues to enjoy financing from the World Bank’s International Finance Corporation, support from the United Nations Clean Development Mechanism, and brand relationships with multinational consumer goods companies such as Mazola Oils.
The Right to Grow Old: #Photos of the Central American Migrant Crisis
▻http://africasacountry.com/the-right-to-grow-old-photos-of-the-central-american-migrant-crisis
Central American #migration, and especially the migration of undocumented children from El Salvador, Guatemala and #Honduras to the #United_States, blew up in the American media during the summer. It was a time when many U.S. citizens felt that their government was deporting too many of these children back to the mostly violent and poverty-stricken […]
#LATIN_AMERICA_IS_A_COUNTRY #Central_America #death_trains #immigrants #immigration #Mexico #Obama #photographs
#photographie #migration #USA #Amérique_centrale #USA #Etats-Unis #enfants #enfance #Mexique
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Tales of detention center woes
Immigration | A California nonprofit helps immigrant detainees tell their stories of isolation, suffering, and abuse
#détention #détention_administrative #migration #Californie #témoignage #rétention #Angel_Island_Immigration_Station
’We don’t feel OK here’: Detainee deaths, #suicide attempts and hunger strikes plague California immigration facility
Located in the high desert 85 miles northeast of Los Angeles, the #Adelanto Detention Facility can house nearly 2,000 men and women. Officials say more than 73,000 detainees have passed through since it opened in 2011.
▻http://www.latimes.com/local/lanow/la-me-ln-adelanto-detention-20170808-story.html?platform=hootsuite
#décès #mourir_en_détention_administrative
IACHR Expresses Deep Concern for Deaths and Detention Conditions at Migrant Detention Centers in the United States
The Inter-American Commission on Human Rights (IACHR) expresses deep concern for the deaths of ten migrant persons detained under custody of the US Immigration and Customs Enforcement authorities, which occurred during the 2017 fiscal year, which commenced on October 1, 2016 and is due to end on September 30, 2017. The IACHR urges the Government of the United States to undertake a serious and impartial investigation regarding these deaths, including the detention conditions of migrant persons under its custody.
The most recent of these deaths is the one of Rolando Meza Espinoza, a Honduran national who was detained by ICE in April of this year and passed away under its custody on June 10, as a consequence of a series of health issues that were not treated appropriately by the U.S. migration authorities, according to public sources. Based on official information, among the 10 migrant persons who have died throughout the fiscal year 2017, 2 were from Honduras, 1 from Brazil, 1 from Guatemala, 1 from Jamaica, 1 from Mexico, 1 from Nicaragua, 1 from Panama, 1 from India, and 1 from the United Kingdom. These deaths equal the number of deaths of migrant persons under custody of ICE which took place during the fiscal year 2016, which were the most numerous in the last five years. Most of the deaths occurring in the fiscal year 2017 have been as a result of medical issues and one case of suicide of a person while in solitary confinement. The Commission observes with concern that this last suicide brings the number to 6 with the other cases of suicide which have occurred during the last 5 years.
▻http://www.oas.org/en/iachr/media_center/PReleases/2017/119.asp
#USA #Etats-Unis
For-profit immigrant family detention center planned in Texas - World Socialist Web Site
▻http://www.wsws.org/en/articles/2014/09/19/texa-s19.html
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For-profit immigrant family detention center planned in Texas
By Kevin Martinez and Jake Dean
19 September 2014
Included in the official US response to the “humanitarian crisis” of unaccompanied children fleeing violence and poverty in Honduras, Guatemala, and El Salvador, is the proposal to create a new for-profit family detention center for jailing the children and their families in Texas. The center, along with other planned detention facilities, is meant to hold the refugees as the Obama administration prepares to fast track their deportations.
According to U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforce (ICE), the agency is working to “finalize contracts with construction and service providers.” In typical fashion, the agency has refused to release much information as to when the facility will open or how much it will cost.
Escaping the New #Honduras | Jacobin
▻https://www.jacobinmag.com/2014/09/escaping-the-new-honduras
Much media attention has been paid to the forced gang recruitment that pushes children to exit Honduras, but the economic and social factors that have helped swell the ranks of gangs have been largely overlooked. It’s an open secret that the post-coup governments of Hernández and fellow National Party predecessor Pepe Lobo have presided over an economic failure. Gains made by the Zelaya government pre-coup have been undone. Child poverty, previously trending downward, has jumped. Inequality has increased and is now the highest in the region. Unemployment has risen after Lobo cut social spending.
There are policies that can diminish the power of Central American drug cartels and gangs and which would abate some of the “push” factors driving people north, but they don’t involve the ramped-up military spending championed by members of Congress. A better, more humane approach would involve poverty reduction, anti-inequality measures, and policies that foster social inclusion.
Honduras, with US support, has been going down a very different path than that since the ouster of Manuel #Zelaya.
Why Groups Are Suing the Government over Rushed Deportation Process for Mothers and Children
As families from Central America flee violence and persecution to seek refuge in the United States, hundreds of mothers and their children apprehended after crossing the border have been locked up at an isolated detention center in Artesia, New Mexico—hours from the nearest major metropolitan area. Two hundred and eighty women and children have been deported from the Artesia facility, the Los Angeles Times reports, mostly to Honduras, Guatemala, and El Salvador. The Obama administration has begun to fast-track the deportations of the families and children who crossed the border seeking safety from the death threats, rape, and other abuses in their home countries.
Mothers and Children Fleeing Violence Need a Fair Chance
Imagine this: Several months ago, a young mother realized that if she didn’t leave home, she would be raped, murdered, or both. She had two young children – an infant and a toddler – and few resources. She knew she couldn’t count on the police to protect her. With no other choice, she decided to risk a voyage of more than 2,000 miles north, much of the trip on foot through difficult and dangerous terrain, in the hope that she would find refuge from her persecutors.
▻https://www.aclu.org/blog/human-rights-immigrants-rights/mothers-and-children-fleeing-violence-need-fair-chance
Five Children Murdered After They Were Deported Back To #Honduras
Between five and ten migrant children have been killed since February after the United States deported them back to Honduras, a morgue director told the Los Angeles Times. Lawmakers have yet to come up with best practices to deal with the waves of unaccompanied children apprehended by Border Patrol agents, but some politicians refute claims that children are fleeing violence and are opting instead to fund legislation that would fast-track their deportations.
#USA #migration #mineurs #enfants #Etats-Unis #décès #renvoi #expulsion #déportation
Migrants risk life and limb to reach the US on train known as the Beast | World | The Guardian
►http://www.theguardian.com/world/2014/aug/23/migrants-mexico-train-the-beast-fleeing-poverty
Crammed into a patch of shade outside their dormitory in a migrant shelter in southern Mexico, a small group of women from Honduras and El Salvador spent much of a recent sweltering afternoon slipping into languid snoozes punctuated by bouts of bawdy banter. It was, they said, the way they gathered strength despite the knowledge that their flight from extreme street gang violence and desperate poverty in their own countries is not only far from over, but looking ever more difficult to complete.
“We can’t go back and now we can’t go forward either,” said Natalia, a Honduran in her 20s, as the conversation turned serious and the smiles faded away. “And every day that passes means more suffering and danger for the families we left behind.”
Do these displaced #Hondurans deserve asylum in America?
SAN PEDRO SULA, Honduras — The discarded possessions sprinkled around the abandoned houses give clues to the residents’ old lives in the Palmira neighborhood — before they fled in fear of gun-toting gangsters.
‘The Other Side of the American Dream’: Powerful Portraits Document the Abuse of Migrants Passing Through Mexico
For Al Otro Lado del Sueño, or The Other Side of the American Dream, photographer Nicola “#Ókin” Frioli catalogues the heartbreak and devastation suffered by migrant families and individuals seeking security and stability in the United States. Having left El Salvador, Honduras, Guatemala, or Nicaragua in hopes of escaping from the gang violence that pervades much of Central America and delivering their families from the brink of economic collapse, a great number of men, women, and children pass through Mexico.
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http://www.featureshoot.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/08/Nicola_Okin_Frioli_16.jpg #frontière #photographie #portrait #violence #USA #Mexique #Etats-Unis #Nicola#Frioli #enfants #mineurs #migration
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Many Mexican child migrants caught multiple times at border
With the surge in unaccompanied children apprehended at the Southwest border, much has been written about the unusually high numbers of kids arriving from Honduras, Guatemala and El Salvador. The number of apprehensions of Mexican child migrants rivals those of the other three countries, but many of those caught are ones who tried to cross multiple times — meaning that the total number of child migrants from Mexico is lower compared with the Central American nations.
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The underlying significance of Central American immigration
The large flow of unaccompanied minors from Central America across the southern border of the United States vividly demonstrates three realities that have long been ignored: first, that conditions in the northern tier countries of Central America — Honduras, Guatemala and El Salvador — are desperate and getting worse; second, that the borders between the United States and its closest neighbors in Mexico, Central America and the Caribbean are porous, despite new technological barriers and expanded numbers of Border Patrol agents; and third, that there is an overwhelming difference between U.S. relations with these countries in our “near abroad” and our relations with the rest of the world.
►http://www.utsandiego.com/news/2014/aug/02/central-american-immigration-us
The underlying significance of Central American immigration
The large flow of unaccompanied minors from Central America across the southern border of the United States vividly demonstrates three realities that have long been ignored: first, that conditions in the northern tier countries of Central America — Honduras, Guatemala and El Salvador — are desperate and getting worse; second, that the borders between the United States and its closest neighbors in Mexico, Central America and the Caribbean are porous, despite new technological barriers and expanded numbers of Border Patrol agents; and third, that there is an overwhelming difference between U.S. relations with these countries in our “near abroad” and our relations with the rest of the world.
►http://www.utsandiego.com/news/2014/aug/02/central-american-immigration-us
Why Nicaraguan Kids Aren’t Fleeing To U.S.
It is Central America’s poorest country, but its kids aren’t heading north like those in El Salvador, Guatemala and Honduras
Central American leaders meet Barack #Obama to criticise US border policy
Presidents of Guatemala, Honduras and El Salvador say combination of US policies is seriously harming their countries
#frontière #Amérique_centrale #USA #Etats-Unis #rencontre #diplomatie
Obama: Migrant youths without claims will be sent home
President Barack Obama has told Central American leaders that migrant children flooding into the US without legitimate legal claims will be sent home.
White House pursuing plan to expand immigrant rights
Even as President Obama grapples with the crisis of immigrant children arriving at the Southwest border, White House officials are laying the groundwork for a large-scale expansion of immigrant rights that would come by executive action within weeks.
▻http://www.latimes.com/nation/la-na-obama-immigration-20140726-story.html#page=1
#Honduras : US deports migrants ; violence continues
A plane chartered by the US government carried 38 Honduran deportees from an immigration detention center in #Artesia, New Mexico, to the northern Honduran city of San Pedro Sula on July 14. This was the first US deportation flight entirely dedicated to mothers and children: eight mothers, 13 girls and nine boys were scheduled for the trip, although two couldn’t travel because of illness. Reporters, Honduran officials and Ana García de Hernández, the wife of President Juan Orlando Hernández, were on hand for the flight’s arrival. President Hernández’s government promised the deportees job leads, a $500 stipend, psychological counseling and schooling, but a returning mother, Angélica Gálvez, told the Los Angeles Times that in the end she and her six-year-old daughter Abigail didn’t get enough money to pay for the three-hour trip to their home in La Ceiba. “They haven’t helped me before,” she said. “Why should I believe them now?”
▻http://ww4report.com/node/13399
#renvoi #déportation #expulsion #USA #Etats-Unis #détention #détention_administrative #rétention
Des milliers d’enfants et d’adolescents d’Amérique centrale fuient vers les États-Unis
▻http://www.bastamag.net/50-000-enfants-et-adolescents
Les États-Unis font actuellement face à un afflux sans précédent jeunes migrants clandestins. Depuis octobre 2013, près de 50 000 enfants et adolescents non accompagnés, principalement originaires d’Amérique centrale, ont passé la frontière. Soit deux fois plus que l’an dernier . Plusieurs entrepôts et bases militaires ont été réquisitionnés pour être transformés en centres de rétention de fortune, dans tout le pays. A Nogales, en Arizona, 900 enfants du Honduras, du Salvador et du Guatemala, attendent leur (...)
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How Mexico’s Cartels Are Behind the Border Kid Crisis
Mexico’s drug gangs have taken over the human-trafficking business along the border, and agents suspect they may have a hand in the unprecedented number of underage migrants stagnating in Arizona’s detention centers.
▻http://www.thedailybeast.com/articles/2014/06/23/how-mexico-s-cartels-are-behind-the-border-kid-crisis.html
13 facts that help explain America’s child-migrant crisis
The flow of unaccompanied immigrant children across the US-Mexico border — mostly from Central America — is continuing to gain attention as a humanitarian crisis.
So here are 13 things you need to know to get a handle on what is actually going on along the border right now; what process the US has in place to deal with unaccompanied kids; and what the government can do now:
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▻http://www.vox.com/2014/6/16/5813406/explain-child-migrant-crisis-central-america-unaccompanied-children-immigrants-
Child Detention Centers: A ’Headache’ For The Obama Administration
U.S. officials are detaining thousands of immigrant children who tried to cross the U.S.-Mexico border alone. Two journalists discuss conditions at detention centers, and what’s driving the migrants.
▻http://www.npr.org/2014/06/23/324857970/child-detention-centers-a-headache-for-the-obama-administration
US: No Path to Citizenship for Illegal Child Immigrants
The United States is telling Central American parents there is no path to American citizenship for the thousands of unaccompanied children who are entering the U.S. illegally in hopes of escaping poverty and crime in their native lands.
▻http://www.voanews.com/content/us-no-path-to-citizenship-for-illegal-child-immigrants-/1943193.html
Losing Sleep Over Families in Immigration Detention
There have been a lot of sleepless nights at the Women’s Refugee Commission lately. Despite our best intentions of leaving work at work, our minds have been fixed on the Southern border, where a humanitarian crisis affecting primarily women and children is worsening by the day.
▻http://www.huffingtonpost.com/michelle-bran/immigration-detention_b_5509348.html
US plans new Texas holding facility for unaccompanied migrant children
Construction permits reveal plans for four fence-enclosed pods inside corrugated steel warehouse in McAllen
▻http://www.theguardian.com/world/2014/jun/24/us-plans-texas-holding-facility-unaccompanied-migrant-children?CMP=twt_
#carte #visualisation Map: These Are the Places Central American Child Migrants Are Fleeing
A recently produced infographic from the Department of Homeland Security shows that the majority of unaccompanied children coming to the United States are from some of the most violent and impoverished parts of El Salvador, Guatemala, and Honduras.
▻http://www.motherjones.com/mojo/2014/06/map-unaccompanied-child-migrants-central-america-honduras
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In February 2014, WOLA investigators paid a 12-day visit to several points along Mexico’s southern border with Guatemala. This visit was part of a larger project, begun in the second half of 2013, to monitor border security conditions, migration trends, and recent policy changes affecting this region.
Staff from WOLA’s Migration and Border Security Program have visited six sectors of Mexico’s 1,969-mile northern border with the United States since 2011, and we have reported from several of them. This is our first report on Mexico’s 714-mile southern border zone. It comes after several months of preparatory research—combing official documents, interviewing officials, and paying site visits—followed by our February research trip.
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Young people flee to evade gang recruitment or harassment, and some teenagers we interviewed spoke vaguely of fleeing from gang trouble. Business owners, even those in the informal sector, flee extortion. Corrupt security forces’ inability to protect citizens too often leaves them with no choice but to leave.
#usa #enfants #drogues #trafiquants #trafic_humain #cartels #checkpoint #corruption #mafia #crime
#qui_sème…
Sur ▻http://www.womensrefugeecommission.org/programs/migrant-rights/unaccompanied-children une vidéo, disponible en 5 langues et destinée aux enfants, les aide à comprendre comment la commission d’#émigration_américaine se déroule.
Three Myths of the Unaccompanied Minors Crisis, Debunked
On Monday President Obama asked Congress for an emergency $2 billion to address the flows of tens of thousands of unaccompanied minor children arriving at the U.S-Mexico border. Arrivals of children, already estimated at 52,000 this year, are expected to reach a record 90,000. Obama asked for money to fund the addition of immigration judges, detention facilities and enforcement efforts to stem the tides of new arrivals. He also asked that Congress expand Department of Homeland Security Secretary Jeh Johnson’s powers to allow him to expedite the deportations of youth, many of whom are being held in converted Army bases across the country, the New York Times reported.
▻http://colorlines.com/archives/2014/07/three_myths_of_the_unaccompanied_minors_crisis.html
“It’s not an immigration issue,” says the Women’s Refugee Commission’s Brané. “It’s a refugee issue.”
“For us to say that that they cannot stay, that we don’t want them because there’s so many is absurd,” says Brané. “Protection standards aren’t about how many people qualify, they’re about whether people need protection or not.”
Mass exodus of migrant children highlights need for regional solution
Stories of gang violence, abuse and persecution told by migrant children fleeing their homes in Honduras, Guatemala, El Salvador and Mexico to make the perilous journey through Mexico to the United States have gripped the media this month.
Although these dangers and the children’s desperate search for safety and reunification with their parents in the US have been documented by activists in the region for the better part of the past decade, the dramatic rise in numbers of these children arriving at the US-Mexico border since 2013 has reached crisis proportions.
US government statistics released this month show that from October 2013 and May 2014, the US Border Patrol apprehended more than 47,000 unaccompanied migrant children arriving mostly to Texas and Arizona, culminating in an urgent humanitarian situation, as reception and processing mechanisms were neither adequate nor prepared.
▻http://idcoalition.org/news/regional-need-build-capacity-care-migrant-children
Johnson: Border ’not open’ to undocumented immigrants
Secretary of Homeland Security Jeh Johnson says the U.S. border is not open to undocumented immigrants and the Obama administration is taking steps to stop the flow of thousands of women and children from Central America.
▻http://www.politico.com/blogs/politico-live/2014/07/jeh-johnson-border-not-open-to-undocumented-immigrants-191580.html
U.S. needs ’to do right’ for immigrant children: official
(Reuters) - A top U.S. official said on Sunday the U.S. border is not open to illegal entry into the country, but acknowledged the government does need to be sensitive to the tens of thousands of migrant children flowing into detention centers.
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Etats-Unis : une #campagne_dissuasive contre les migrants mineurs
Les Etats-Unis ont lancé une campagne publicitaire d’un million de dollars destinée à endiguer le flux de migrants et notamment de mineurs en provenance d’Amérique centrale et du Mexique. Une campagne pour dissuader les familles d’envoyer leurs enfants vers les Etats-Unis. Depuis octobre dernier, environ 52 000 enfants, non accompagnés, ont traversé la frontière et se retrouvent dans des centres de rétention surchargés dans des conditions humanitaires déplorables. Les autorités américaines ont également prévenu que les mineurs seraient désormais expulsés eux aussi.
▻http://www.rfi.fr/ameriques/20140708-etats-unis-une-campagne-publicitaire-contre-migrants-mineurs
‘Flee or die’: violence drives Central America’s child migrants to US border
Obama heads to Texas as the mirage of an open door on the southern border triggers a political storm in Washington
Is it fair to send kids before immigration judges without a lawyer?
In a lawsuit seeking to force the government to supply legal counsel for undocumented minors facing deportation, the American Civil Liberties Union and immigrant rights groups Wednesday filed a class-action lawsuit accusing the federal government of denying the kids due process.
▻http://www.latimes.com/opinion/opinion-la/la-ol-aclu-unaccompanied-minors-immigration-20140709-story.html
Statistical Analysis Shows that Violence, Not Deferred Action, Is Behind the Surge of Unaccompanied Children Crossing the Border
A humanitarian refugee situation at the U.S. southern border has been unfolding over the past few years and dramatically intensifying over the past several months, as tens of thousands of unaccompanied children are fleeing their homes in Honduras, Guatemala, and El Salvador. In search of a safe haven, these children embark on dangerous journeys, arriving in the United States and neighboring countries throughout Central America. Indeed, according to the Office of the U.N. High Commissioner for Refugees, or UNHCR, asylum applications from children are up by 712 percent in the neighboring countries of Mexico, Panama, Nicaragua, Costa Rica, and Belize. Sen. Dianne Feinstein (D-CA) has argued that “many of the children apprehended at the border are fleeing unspeakable violence in their home countries.”
White House faces Senate opposition over $3.7bn for child migrant crisis
White House efforts to respond to a wave of child migrants from central America faced growing opposition in Congress on Thursday, as both Democrats and Republicans questioned aspects of the president’s plan to tackle the crisis.
▻http://www.theguardian.com/world/2014/jul/10/white-house-senate-child-migrant-crisis
The Children of the Drug Wars
A Refugee Crisis, Not an Immigration Crisis
CRISTIAN OMAR REYES, an 11-year-old sixth grader in the neighborhood of Nueva Suyapa, on the outskirts of Tegucigalpa, tells me he has to get out of Honduras soon — “no matter what.”
New Data on Unaccompanied Children
in Immigration Court
The recent surge of tens of thousands of unaccompanied children attempting to enter the country has touched off a heated debate. Some ask whether having Immigration Judges decide the fate of these children only postpones their inevitable deportation since it is alleged that few have any valid claim to remain in the United States. Others hotly dispute this contention.
This special report presents information derived from current and detailed case-by-case Immigration Court records tracing decisions on removal orders sought by the Department of Homeland Security (DHS) concerning unaccompanied children who have been apprehended by the agency. The data, current through June 30, 2014, was obtained by the Transactional Records Access Clearinghouse (TRAC) at Syracuse University from the Executive Office for Immigration Review (EOIR) under the Freedom of Information Act.
The data trace the status of over 100,000 such cases. The information includes every instance over the last decade flagged as a juvenile case currently recorded in EOIR files. In each of these cases, the Department of Homeland Security instituted the action requesting that the court issue an order to deport these children. Because the DHS has authority to screen and then immediately deport unaccompanied Mexican children without any formal hearing, only a small proportion of children from Mexico are referred to the Immigration Court by the DHS. For this reason unaccompanied children who are immediately deported by DHS are not part of the court data examined here. See About the Data for additional details.
#statistiques #détention #détention_administrative #rétention
America’s child migrant crisis, explained in 2 minutes
Tens of thousands of children from Central America are arriving alone at our border, posing a major challenge to humanitarian systems that have been in place since World War II. Vox immigration reporter Dara Lind explains in two minutes.
▻http://www.vox.com/2014/7/9/5884077/americas-child-migrant-crisis-explained-in-two-minutes
Bell plans to shelter immigration detainees
Nestor Valencia was 4 years old when he boarded a white van filled with piñatas and entered the United States illegally from Mexico.
Now the mayor of Bell, he sees a little of himself in the thousands of children arriving at the U.S. border and entering detention facilities.
Valencia and other officials in the largely immigrant city are now working with the Salvation Army to create a temporary shelter for detainees who were part of a huge surge of Central American children crossing the border.
▻http://www.latimes.com/local/la-me-bell-immigration-20140712-story.html#page=1
Believe It or Not, Kids Don’t Get a Lawyer in Immigration Court
“You have the right to an attorney...If you cannot afford one, one will be provided for you at no cost."
Everyone’s heard the Miranda rights read on TV cop shows ... or maybe even in real life. The exact wording varies from state to state, but the meaning is always the same: access to a lawyer is a basic right.
Not so in immigration court. Because the legal proceedings are civil, and not criminal, the government is not obligated to provide most defendants with legal counsel. That goes for children, too.
That’s right. Children who enter the country illegally or overstay their visa can be put before a judge for “removal proceedings” — and get deported without ever talking to a lawyer.
The American Civil Liberties Union (ACLU) hopes to put an end to that. The group filed a lawsuit on Wednesday on behalf of eight families where children, ages 10-17, have been left to navigate the immigration system without a government-appointed lawyer. The ACLU hopes the case will serve as a precedent to change the standards of treatment for children in deportation proceedings.
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▻http://fusion.net/justice/story/kids-dont-lawyer-immigration-court-852404
Children trying to sneak into the U.S. aren’t always alone
MEXICO CITY — The “unaccompanied minors” who walked out of the brush on the banks of the Rio Grande and turned themselves into Border Patrol officers last month were not, technically, unaccompanied. In the group of 15 people that we watched that night, about half of them appeared to be adults, including men and a woman carrying a baby, in addition to several children.
Unaccompanied children cross US border
Thousands of unaccompanied children and mothers with babies are coming crossing the US border from Central America. Once inside the US they turn themselves over to authorities in hopes of getting permission to stay permanently. Al Jazeera’s Rob Reynolds travelled to Nogales in Arizona where the migrants are being held. Subscribe to our channel ▻http://bit.ly/AJSubscribe Follow us on Twitter ▻http://twitter.com/AJEnglish Find us on Facebook ▻http://www.facebook.com/aljazeera Check our website ►http://www.aljazeera.com
Blowback on the Border: America’s Child Refugee Crisis
After three years of relative silence, the U.S. press has finally “discovered” the crisis of tens of thousands of unaccompanied minors piling up on the U.S. border. Although the coverage often began with moving stories of the hardships these young migrants faced, it soon turned ugly. For right-wing pundits and politicians, the “humanitarian crisis” has become a crackdown on kids.
The dominant narrative has been that foolish parents, perhaps duped by scheming criminal bands, are sending hapless children north to take advantage of loopholes in U.S. immigration practices.
This is just plain wrong. On every count.
▻http://www.huffingtonpost.com/laura-carlsen/blowback-on-the-border-am_b_5600425.html
Unaccompanied children are the focus of L.A. annual immigrant’s Mass
During Sunday Mass at a sunlit cathedral in downtown Los Angeles, a 22-year-old woman stepped timidly to a podium and began her story.
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“My name is Dunia Cruz,” she said in Spanish. “I came here from Honduras.”
▻http://www.latimes.com/local/la-me-immigrants-mass-20140721-story.html
Border crisis: U.S. targets money launderers to track child smugglers
The increasingly costly and divisive border crisis is pushing federal investigators to crack down on money-laundering schemes they say are being used to smuggle thousands of Central American children into the United States.
▻http://www.latimes.com/nation/la-na-smugglers-money-trail-20140722-story.html
Fewer children arriving at the border unaccompanied, White House says
The number of children arriving at the border unaccompanied has dropped sharply so far this month, according to preliminary data released by the White House.
▻http://www.latimes.com/nation/la-na-border-children-20140721-story.html
Children at the Border
More than 52,000 children have been caught crossing the United States border alone since October — double last year’s number. President Obama has called the surge an “urgent humanitarian situation,” and lawmakers have called for hearings on the crisis.
►http://www.nytimes.com/interactive/2014/07/15/us/questions-about-the-border-kids.html
Border crisis creates discomfort for state, local politicians over housing children
TUCSON — A governor was moved to tears. A mayor fretted about disease and crime. A city councilman accused the federal government of keeping secrets.
Around the country, in statehouses and mayor’s suites, in city council chambers and local police agencies, the challenge of housing tens of thousands of unaccompanied Central American migrant children is forcing an emotional, uncomfortable and politically treacherous conversation on policymakers at every level. In the weeks and months since large numbers of migrant children began showing up in the Rio Grande Valley, federal officials have turned to states as far north as New England and many places in between in the search for places to keep the children while the government figures out whether to unite them with family members in the United States or deport them.
Gangs, guns and Judas Priest: the secret history of a US-inflicted border crisis
Visiting El Salvador over the past year, it was hard not to think the country’s number-one job is standing around outside with a gun. In the region from which child migrants are fleeing to the US, personal security is largely a question of what you can afford to pay. #El_Salvador has, by one estimate, 25,000 private guards in a country with 20,000 police officers. In #Honduras, which boasts the highest murder rate in the world and has seen the largest exodus of young people to the American border this year, guards outnumber cops five to one.
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Advocates defend law that guarantees most immigrant children a hearing
Several leading immigrant advocacy groups are warning against changes to a law that guarantees immigration hearings for most unaccompanied minors apprehended at the border.
President Obama and members of Congress from both parties have been pushing for an overhaul to the law, which they say is needed to expedite deportations and ease the humanitarian crisis along the nation’s southern frontier.
Opponents of the changes say they would strip vulnerable children of their right to due process, forcing many to return to potentially deadly conditions back home.
▻http://www.latimes.com/local/lanow/la-me-ln-unaccompanied-minors-border-20140722-story.html
How the war on drugs drives the child migrant crisis
The child migrant crisis has some roots in a seemingly unrelated policy: the war on drugs.
Since October, 52,000 children from outside the country have come to the US without an adult and strained the US immigration system. Many of them are fleeing a rising tide of violence back home in Central America’s Northern Triangle of Guatemala, El Salvador, and Honduras.
Behind that violence is a massive network of criminal organizations that range from elaborate drug cartels to less sophisticated street gangs.
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▻http://www.vox.com/2014/7/23/5925157/drug-war-child-refugee-immigration-crisis
#war_on_drugs
Child Migration Crisis in the United States
The number of unaccompanied children crossing the U.S.-Mexico border increased 90 percent between 2013 and 2014, drawing the attention and concern of the U.S. government, media, and public. MPI, which has deep expertise in migration trends and policies in the United States, Mexico, and Central America, is playing a key role explaining the dynamics and trends that have resulted in this spike in child migration. Here, you can find in one place a collection of relevant MPI resources, from analyses of trends and policy developments surrounding this child migration crisis to data and country profiles of El Salvador, Guatemala, and Honduras, and recent MPI telebriefings and events to discuss the latest developments.
Which states are housing the young undocumented immigrants — in 3 maps
The influx of unaccompanied and undocumented minors across the southern border of the United States has prompted frustration on Capitol Hill, anger in the Southwest, and empathy from — and problems for --- governors.
Many of the children who have arrived in the United States have been released by the government to sponsors across the country. On Friday, the Department of Health and Human Services released data showing precisely where those children were sent.
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The New Wave: Forced Displacement Caused by Organized Crime in Central America and Mexico
Forced displacement generated by organized crime is a little-studied and poorly understood phenomenon. Based on field research carried out in 2013, this article redresses this situation by analysing the broad dynamics of an alarming new wave of forced displacement sweeping El Salvador, Guatemala, and Honduras – the countries of the Northern Triangle of Central America – and Mexico. It focuses specifically on the role played by three of the main types of organized criminal groups in the region – mara street gangs, Central American drug transporters, and Mexican drug cartels – in provoking this displacement. Structural differences between these groups are shown to influence both the forms of displacement that they produce and the resulting patterns of movement by displaced persons. Consideration is then devoted to the implications for scholarship and humanitarian practice of this new wave of forced displacement generated by organized criminal groups.
Wave of Minors on Their Own Rush to Cross Southwest Border - NYTimes.com
▻http://www.nytimes.com/2014/06/04/world/americas/wave-of-minors-on-their-own-rush-to-cross-southwest-border.html
SAN PEDRO SULA, Honduras — After a decade apart, 13-year-old Robin Tulio was finally heading to the border to be with his mother. A maid, living illegally in Baltimore, she had decided the time was right to smuggle her son into the United States.
Like so many others across Central America, Robin said his mother believed that the Obama administration had quietly changed its policy regarding unaccompanied minors and that if he made it across, he would have a better shot at staying.
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Légende : A girl traveling with her mother passed by a mural showing popular routes through Mexico at a shelter in Tenosique, Mexico, that has seen an increasing number of women and children visitors in recent months. Meridith Kohut for The New York Times
#migrations #asile #mineurs #états-unis #mexique #cartographie #visualisation
Migrant Children Flee Violence in Home Countries
The U.S. is experiencing a growing humanitarian crisis as thousands of children arrive at our southern border after making the harrowing journey from Central America and Mexico to the north. The number on unaccompanied minors arriving has risen at a concerning rate in the past few years and data shows us that the “push” factors that force them out of their home countries are the most likely explanation for why these kids make such a risky journey north.
▻http://immigrationimpact.com/2014/06/12/migrant-children-flee-violence-in-home-countries
Houston stadium security detains soccer fan for waving Palestinian flag as ‘racial slur’
▻http://mondoweiss.net/2014/06/stadium-security-palestinian.html
Hammad, a native of Houston, is an avid soccer fan. She attended the match with her “alt family from Honduras” including her Honduran boyfriend. The match was between Israel and Honduras.
Houston Press, (Security Didn’t Want Her Waving Palestinian Flag During Israel Game in Houston) attempted to contact the security manager Nathan Buchanan, but he’s not making himself available. A spokeswoman for BBVA Compass Stadium, Gina Rotola, appears to be walking back the inflammatory “racist” allegation. She told Houston Press that “A national flag from any country cannot be a racial slur, so if any statement of that nature were used, it would have been made incorrectly by an individual trying to deescalate a situation.”
Which begs the question, deescalate what situation?
More than 100 immigrants found locked in Houston, Texas house - World Socialist Web Site
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More than 100 immigrants found locked in Houston, Texas house
By Kate Randall
21 March 2014
Police and federal immigration authorities found 108 immigrants locked in a squalid home in south Houston on Wednesday. The 93 males and 15 females, including children as young as five years old, came mostly from El Salvador, Guatemala, Honduras and Mexico, according to authorities. They had been held against their will for days in the small, single-story house with one bathroom, no hot water and little food.
The horrific discovery is an indictment of the immigration policies of the Obama administration, which continues to deport immigrants in unprecedented numbers. Undocumented immigrants and their children, seeking jobs and a better life in the US, become prey of smugglers and human traffickers as they seek entry across the Mexican border.
Human Rights Observation: Honduras
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I have been volunteering in Honduras as an International Human Rights Observer since May 2012. In that time, I have been involved in situations where international accompaniment was vital to the...