Further down the river, the National Guard has also deployed floating buoys marked by serrated metal blades. Increasingly aggressive vehicular pursuits of migrants by Department of Public Safety officers have killed both Americans and migrants.
It’s left to border organizations like mine, the Hope Border Institute, to deal with the human costs of failed border policies.
#AsymetricBorderRuleLeadsToAutocrats
https://www.texasobserver.org/between-the-concertina-wire-and-the-cartel/
When Biden became president, he made an intentionally feeble and impotent attempt to reverse the CDC’s ruling. The following year, Biden went to court not only to renew the law, but he also added additional countries to the list of those being restricted. Title 42 lapsed once the health emergency ended.
Biden’s executive order is actually stricter than title 42.
#AsymetricBorderRuleLeadsToAutocrats
https://open.substack.com/pub/mfeldman/p/bidens-immigration-executive-order?r=39z3o&utm_medium=ios
Now that it isn’t owned by a Zionist, court finds Chiquita is the food of the #FortBenning death squads, a PBSuccess high five over Jacobo Árbenz’s grave.
#StopInstallingKleptocratsForResourcesPredation
#AsymetricBorderRuleLeadsToAutocrats
Joaquin Castro (D-TX) said “Republicans use immigrants to fearmonger; they use immigrants as political scarecrows to frighten voters. If this executive order goes into effect, it’s likely that every future president, especially Republicans, will use and expand it to choke off immigration and the right to asylum. The political pressure to keep the ban in effect will be too overwhelming”
#AsymetricBorderRuleLeadsToAutocrats
https://extremearturo.substack.com/p/bidens-border-executive-order-will
It is unconscionable that the Biden administration is signaling a return to a policy that tore thousands of children from their parents, and incarcerated thousands of immigrants while lining the pockets of private prison companies.
#OpenBordersOvercomeTheNonsenseOfNationalism: In those 100 years the Border Patrol and its related agencies have expanded massively, sometimes at breakneck speed. But, yet again, everything came down to a truism I’ve heard at every expo I’ve attended since 2012: “We need more people, we need more stuff,” as Owens put it.
Having outdone #TFG on multi polar wars, border xenophobia, Gaza genocide, police brutality, anti Palestinian bigotry, and #SurveillanceCapitalism, #GenocideJoe condemns BRICS and Japan xenophobia.
#AsymetricBorderRuleLeadsToAutocrats
https://www.reuters.com/world/biden-blames-china-japan-indias-economic-woes-xenophobia-2024-05-02/
“He always told us that you had to triple your effort to get ahead,” the brother, Martín Suazo Sandoval, told the Associated Press from Honduras. “He said it didn’t matter what time or where the job was, you had to be where the work was.”
At 1:28 a.m. Tuesday, the work was on the Francis Scott Key Bridge.
Suazo and seven men with stories very much like his — migrants from the neighboring countries of Guatemala, El Salvador, and Mexico — were filling potholes on the region’s major span on a raw March night. They were doing a backbreaking job at a wretched hour, one that many other Americans simply can’t or won’t do ― all so that their neighbors could drive safely to their warm, comfortable office cubicles in the dawn’s early light.
#AsymetricBorderRuleLeadsToAutocrats
#StopInstallingKleptocratsForResourcesPredation
https://www.inquirer.com/opinion/baltimore-bridge-collapse-immigrant-deaths-20240328.html
Surprise- AOC woke up.
If you want to know what an unfolding genocide looks like, open your eyes. It looks like the forced famine of 1.1 million innocents. It looks like thousands of children eating grass while their bodies consume themselves, while trucks of food are slowed and halted just miles away. It looks like good and decent people who do nothing who do nothing, or too little, too late.
#AsymetricBorderRuleLeadsToAutocrats
#GenocideTaxForeverWarDivestsFromYouthHousingFoodCleanAirAndWaterMedicareForAll
Mexico has one of the world’s largest immigrant #detention systems, and it continues to grow with the support of the United States. As it expands, so does the danger to the people held in this opaque system, where impunity thrives.
Two weeks after the fire, Mexico’s president, Andrés Manuel López Obrador, told the press that the INM agent with the key to the men’s cell was not at the facility when the fire broke out.
#AsymetricBorderRuleLeadsToAutocrats
#RefugeesAreCreatedByForeverWarsEthnicCleansingAndClimateChange
https://open.substack.com/pub/theborderchronicle/p/smoke-and-lies?r=39z3o&utm_medium=ios
#SettlerColonialSCOTUSIsAntiLaborAndCorrupt: Three South African farm workers have filed a lawsuit against a western Minnesota manure management company Friday, alleging wage theft, substandard living conditions, violations of visa rules and retaliation.
Boehnke Waste Handling of Marietta is a company that pumps, transports and spreads manure from livestock operations to crop fields, where it is used as fertilizer. Since 2021, the company has employed more than a dozen foreign workers through the federal H-2A visa program — a temporary visa for agricultural work that requires employers to offer habitable housing, safe working conditions, travel reimbursement and minimum wage.
#LaborsBeenADisposableComoditySince1619
https://kfgo.com/2024/03/15/workers-sue-management-company-over-wage-theft-poor-living-conditions/
#UNRWAFeedsRefugeesFromIsraeliGenocide: Atwan indicated that the maritime corridor would create a pathway for the forcible evacuation of Palestinians by sea.
Other analysts have expressed similar fears.
It is meant to “absolve Israel of its responsibilities and obligations, and support Israel in its ‘day after plans’: to eliminate and replace UNRWA [the UN agency for Palestine refugees] and establish a potential mechanism for Palestinian forcible transfer out of the Gaza Strip.”
Twenty-five charities and human rights groups have issued a statement that “an immediate and permanent ceasefire” as well as the opening of “all land crossings” should be the main priority.
#AsymetricBorderRuleLeadsToAutocrats
https://electronicintifada.net/blogs/tamara-nassar/whats-real-purpose-bidens-gaza-port
#JudithMillerIDFEmbeddedMoment, What evidence- Hochul borrowing a page from Gettleman and the Times: Hochul admitted in her news conference that she wasn’t going to do anything wild like back up the need for this with statistics or any numbers at all — beyond knowing, and repeating, the number of troops that she was sending into the city’s subway stations.
#MainstreanMediaEchoesMAGAsRacistAntiImmigrantAntiTransTalkingPoints
#OpenBordersOvercomeTheNonsenseOfNationalism: According to the International Covenant on Civil and Political Rights, a United Nations resolution signed and ratified by almost every country on earth, “All peoples have the right of self-determination.” It’s frequently assumed that such self-determination includes the right to exclude. That presumed right, however, especially in regard to forcibly displaced people, bars migrants from their own self-determination. If people are pushed out of one place and denied access to another, their self-determination is reduced to a figment.
The Case For Open Borders by John Washington p. 232
It is Biden’s approach to immigration in recent months, however, that has been a source of controversy on both sides of the aisle.
Large swathes of the country do not believe his actions on immigration have been severe enough, while Democratic voters cannot seem to understand why the man who promised to usher in a more “fair, orderly, and humane” immigration system now champions the same immigration policies he once decried.
That Democrats signed off on the bill signals they have taken a hard-right turn on immigration during an election year. The party’s wanton disregard for asylum law will almost certainly lead to further human rights violations against migrants, who are already brutalized all across the detention system where the number of people detained has nearly tripled since Biden took office in January 2021.
#AsymetricBorderRuleLeadsToAutocrats #NoHumanIsIllegal #NoJusticeWithoutHumanRights
Beyond Clinton: “The [court’s] judgement is important in that it officially reiterates what many have been saying for years: that Libya is not a place of safety, and refugees and migrants rescued in the central Mediterranean should never be disembarked there,” said Matteo de Bellis, a researcher at Amnesty International’s Brussels office.
#UNisCivilSociety #CivilSocietyEnablesNonViolentPetitionForGreviance #AsymetricBorderRuleLeadsToAutocrats
He had raised concerns last year that Texas’ crackdown on immigration could imperil the work of church-based groups on immigration.
“The church is at risk because the volunteers are asking themselves, ‘If I feed someone who’s unprocessed, if I give someone a blanket who’s unprocessed, if I help them get off the street, am I liable to be prosecuted for that?’” Garcia told a bipartisan delegation of U.S. senators visiting El Paso in January 2023. “Shame on us, that on this day, this is even being brought up in the United States.”
#TranslatingGaza #MotherTeresaWasAlwaysHamas #AsymetricBorderRuleLeadsToAutocrats
https://elpasomatters.org/2024/02/20/ag-ken-paxton-targets-el-paso-annunciation-house/
And so it goes with asylum seekers’ most prized possessions, including religious artifacts, passports, vital medications, even the cremated ashes of loved ones who died on the journey north.
In 2022, The Border Chronicle wrote about how these possessions became fodder for the polarizing immigration debate… When agents in Yuma, Arizona, began trashing Sikh asylum seekers’ turbans, which are considered sacred, the ACLU of Arizona and other civil and human rights organizations got involved.
#AsymetricBorderRuleLeadsToAutocrats #CivilSocietyRisesAgainstUnspeakableAtrocities #NoHumanIsIllegal
This Essay argues that the U.S. settler-colonial system has a vested interest in limiting the legal and political relief available to noncitizens because our nation’s sovereignty is premised on violence and exclusion. In 2015, the United Nations recognized that solitary confinement — the caging of people in isolation for twenty-two to twenty-four hours a day in a cell — beyond fifteen consecutive days is cruel, inhumane, and degrading treatment amounting to torture.
The United States leads the world in the use of long-term solitary confinement14 — disproportionately impacting LGBTQ individuals, women, immigrants, people of color, and people with disabilities and mental illnesses.15
#AbolishPoliceAbolishPrisons #AsymetricBorderRuleLeadsToAutocrats #StopInstallingKleptocratsForResourcesPredation
Precisely how big a leap is it from Biden’s promise that, if he gets a deal for money to Ukraine, he would “shut down the border right now and fix it quickly,” to razor wire in the Rio Grande? The tone of much corporate news reporting, outside of gleefully racist outlets like Fox, is critical of Texas’ defiance of federal law, but conveys an idea that, yes, there’s a crisis at the border, but this isn’t the way to handle it.
But what if their definition of crisis employs some of the same assumptions and frameworks that drive Abbott’s actions?
#LegacyMediaMisInformationDoesNotSeeFascism
#AsymetricBorderRuleLeadsToAutocrats #StopInstallingKleptocratsForResourcesPredation
https://fair.org/home/texas-is-fighting-for-its-right-to-lay-concertina-wire/
