Migrant Rights

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Crossing the Line and the Border

On this week’s episode of Need to Know, our team traveled deep into the mountains of central Mexico to speak with a woman who says she was sexually assaulted by a Border Patrol officer. Later, correspondant John Larson speaks with a former Border Patrol agent turned whistleblower, who describes deplorable conditions in detention centers.

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The Fence

The Fence

The Fence

Examines the impact of the controversial fence along the U.S.-Mexico border.

The whole movie is available through HBO or HBO Go.
Apple TV now has access to HBO Go.

In this short documentary they show

  • How migrants cross under and over the wall
  • How many U.S. tax dollars are spent on the wall
  • Up to the making of the movie, not one U.S. terrorist arrived through the U.S. – Mexico border
  • The Fence does not cover the whole U.S. Mexico border region
  • The Fence covers enough of the border so that many walk around the fence and die in the dessert
  • How animals migration paths are blocked
  • Approximately 2 people die per day crossing through the dessert areas of the U.S.
  • For more about the deaths of our brothers and sisters visit No More Deaths

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Congress’ border efforts are bunk, say border sheriffs

“The bill passed by the Senate in July attempts to solve the problem of illegal immigration with a $46 billion “border surge,” adding 20,000 new Border Patrol agents, and $3 billion in new monitoring technology. But sheriffs policing the border say that misses the mark.”

 

Community Village‘s insight:

 

My tax dollars at ‘work’ again, propping up xenophobia.

 

On the positive side though, this might reduce the number of deaths in the desert.

 

@getgln

See on www.usatoday.com

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Lessons Learned: Immigration – Latino USA

Maria Hinojosa takes us through the lessons Latino USA has learned in twenty years of covering issues related to immigration.   Photo courtesy Flickr  …

 

Community Village‘s insight:

Maria Hinojosa explains that the term “undocumented” should be replaced with RPI “Registered Provisional Immigrant”

 


See on latinousa.org

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Migration is Beautiful

Migration is Beautiful symbolizes a commitment from the creative community to see, show, and celebrate the humanity of the migrant story. See on migrationisbeautiful.com

“Fences and borders can’t stop the flow of rivers, migration of butterflies, or the movement of people, and won’t stop the spirit of freedom.”
– Tania Willard, Indigenous Secwepemc artist

 

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Migrant Workers Memorialized 65 Years after crash

Twenty-eight Mexican victims of a plane crash in 1948 were memorialized in Fresno, Calif., with a new gravestone that lists their names.

 

Community Village‘s insight:

This quote:

“Some were in the United States legally as part of the federal Braceros guest–worker program”

Emphasis is mine.

 

A rights activists said “When we have a guest at our house we don’t ask them to wash the dishes.”

In other words, the whole idea of guest-worker is dehumanizing.

The idea of guest-worker conveys that the guest is good enough to harvest the crops that feed, nourish and grow our nation – but the guest is not good enough to stay in the community and become a citizen.

See on www.nytimes.com

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Family In Protest

Explore Think Mexican’s photos on Flickr. Think Mexican has uploaded 49 photos to Flickr.

 

Community Village‘s insight:

Does it make a difference in the immigration debate if we view those of Mexican heritage as Native American?

See on www.flickr.com