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Jul 10, 2021 17:07

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Biden failed to reconcile border policy with science: Hundreds of thousands cross unvaccinated

Jun 23, 2021 18:51

Texas Gov. Greg Abbott claims that the "open-border policies" of the Biden administration have caused a surge in illegal border crossings. The numbers support Abbott. Dealing with migrants from countries with low vaccination rates has been very hazardous for the border patrol.
Biden administration is routinely sending Mexican children back to danger, report finds

Jun 23, 2021 13:51

While the Biden administration vowed to end Trump’s practice of expelling unaccompanied minors, the practice persists for children from Mexico.
Rights advocates concerned over Biden push to increase militarization of borders in Central America

Apr 15, 2021 19:36

Human rights defenders have expressed concern after the Biden administration announced it reached agreements with Mexico, Honduras, and Guatemala for those countries to boost their deployments of military forces to stop the flow of migrants trying to make their way to the United States.
Biden strikes international deal in bid to stop migrants reaching US border

Apr 15, 2021 18:17

The Biden administration has struck an agreement with Mexico, Guatemala and Honduras to temporarily increase border security in an effort to stop migrants from reaching the US border. The agreement comes as the US saw a record number of unaccompanied children attempting to cross the border in March, and the largest number of Border Patrol encounters overall with migrants on the southern border – just under 170,000 – since March 2001.
Citing the pandemic, CBP has expelled newborn U.S. citizens with their migrant mothers

Jan 08, 2021 10:31

U.S. Customs and Border Protection has used a controversial Centers for Disease Control and Prevention order authorizing the expulsion of asylum-seekers on supposed public health grounds to send multiple U.S.-born infants — who are by law U.S. citizens — and their migrant families across the southern border to Mexico.
Latin America’s pandemic of mounting troubles

Jan 03, 2021 10:34

Many regions performed badly when confronted with COVID-19, but Latin America fared worse than most, in terms of both lives and livelihoods lost. As of November 2020, nine of the 20 countries with the highest number of COVID-19 deaths per capita were in Latin America.
Three Africans in Mexico City grave tell stories of slavery’s toll

May 08, 2020 19:55

The three skulls were unlike hundreds of others in the 16th-century mass grave uncovered at the San José de los Naturales Royal Hospital in Mexico City. Their front teeth were filed decoratively, perhaps as a ritual custom, unlike those of “los naturales,” the Indigenous people who made up the majority of bodies at the colonial burial site. Archaeologists concluded the three individuals were most likely enslaved Africans, but they needed more evidence to be certain.
US border officials threaten to destroy native burial grounds to build Trump’s wall

Feb 14, 2020 16:13

Construction crews building US regime President, Donald Trump’s border wall in southern US state of Arizona are blasting apart a mountain on a protected national monument that includes areas sacred to Native American groups. An internal National Park Service report obtained by The Washington Post showed that the construction could destroy as many as 22 archaeological sites located on the monument.
With passage of NAFTA 2.0, Congress boosts fossil fuel polluters in Mexico

Jan 24, 2020 13:39

"The passage of NAFTA 2.0 is very concerning for all the efforts to confront the climate crisis and save the planet", says Manuel Perez-Rocha, an associate fellow at the Institute for Policy Studies and the coordinator of the Network for Justice in Global Investment in an article titled: With Passage of NAFTA 2.0, Congress Boosts Fossil Fuel Polluters in Mexico. This article has been published in the Truthout website.