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Cerrar | CloseOur aim is to highlight injustices afflicting communities, including border walls, anti-immigrant rhetoric, children in cages, and asylum procedures.
Excerpts from fighters in Texas who spoke with the People’s Tribune and its sister publication, the Tribuno del Pueblo.
They flock their way, to get to the promised land. They come seeking economic opportunities only to face disdain, hatred and, in many cases, death.
The Etowah Visitation Project is a member group of a national network which visits and monitors approximately 55 immigrant prisons in 23 states.
Collusion with Trump is far too evident. It is incredible that Obrador uses the same tactics of oppression that Trump uses against immigrants here.
The hype about terror, drugs, national security is catering to the U.S.-born and uninformed persons. It is a blatant disregard of fairness and human life.
‘You pay me, or you die with your daughter!’ ‘No choice but to leave’: Why a mother and her baby fled Guatemala all alone.
We are not only in violation of our own laws, U.S. laws and treaties that say you can’t send them back to danger. We’re behaving criminally.
It’s important that people see the truth, what we see here at the border. We don’t see criminals. We see families, who are in desperate need of help.
I am the Bad Hombre, Not your nightmare, But a friend … an Amigo who, Wants to dream and live in a better world, Alongside of you and all the others.
People being held in immigration detention in Louisiana are on a hunger strike to protest their inability to be free while making a case for asylum.
Unbearable: Last week I felt like our government reached a point of no return in abusing refugee families.
People have the right to migrate and to seek asylum. We must end the militarization of the border and stop the detention and deportation of immigrants.
The American Academy of Pediatrics warned that the thousands of children detained for months, will face risks to physical and emotional wellbeing.
We must not allow for a spokesman for the rich and a fascist to dictate to us what is good for this country.
ICE detention centers are present-day concentration camps. Corporations profit from human suffering.
Pedro Ríos has worked with American Friends Service Committee (AFSC) for 15 years. He has been the director of the border program for 10 years.
On December 15, Enrique Morones gave a warm welcome and a bit of history to volunteers who were bringing, sorting and loading cars with donations.
We help the guys connect with VA [Veterans Administration] benefits. We connect them with attorneys. We do the advocacy part to push legislation.
Estela Jiménez is one of the activists in San Diego, who has been organizing and collecting donations for the migrants in the Benito Juárez Sports Camp.
Interviews with participants in the march to the border. ‘Love Knows No Borders’ of December 10, 2018.
In December I traveled to the San Diego – Tijuana border where I had the honor of participating in “Love Knows No Borders”.
The Americans who approached the border on December 10, with their pastors, their ministers, their rabbis, imams, and religious leaders – had courage.
This shutdown is about the erosion of American democracy and the subversion of our most basic governmental norms. – Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez
I am from Guatemala – I joined in Chiquimula, both happy and sad. The majority is from Honduras, but also from Guatemala.
My name is Tania Lisette. I come from Honduras. I’m 22 years old. I’m Sandra and I come from El Salvador. I’m 24 years old.
They killed my husband and I was afraid that something will happen to my children. I saw about the caravan on television and I joined it.
We the workers of the United Sates, a country of immigrants, must fight to keep the gates open for our sisters and brothers.
The call to abolish ICE has gained popularity as many also disavow the Trump administration’s border policies of family separation and zero tolerance.
Through the government’s terrorizing of immigrants, an intolerable fascism is being rolled out that is affecting more than just migrants.
As we go to press Laura Monterrosa was released from detention March 16. Her release is the result of a months long campaign that drew support from around the country. AUSTIN —I was at the T. Don Hutto Detention Center on Saturday to support Laura Monterrosa. She is a 23-year-old asylum-seeker from El Salvador, […]
SAN FRANCISCO – On September 18, the House Minority Leader, Democrat Nancy Pelosi, was not allowed to speak at a news conference when protesting DREAMers drowned her out with demands to protect all 11 million undocumented immigrants, not just the 800,000 DREAMers under DACA. The DREAMers were concerned about a deal that was struck […]
“The only crime my mother committed was to go to work to give a better life for her children,” commented Jacqueline (14 years old) of Guadalupe García de Rayos, 35, one of the first causalities of Trump’s war on immigrants. She was seprated from Jacqueline, su hijo Angel, 16, and her spouse. Guadalupe had […]
From his annoying tweeting to executive orders, President Trump is adjusting to just how much power he can have over the country in converting it toward a fascist state. His first order of business on January 20th, inauguration day, was to sign an executive order dealing with the Affordable Care Act, the so-called Obamacare, […]
Editors’ note: Marú Mora Villalpando is a pro-immigrant right activist in Washington State. After years of activity in defense of the rights of the undocumented immigrant, she herself came out and announced her status. In 2013 she joined the local #Not1More deportation campaign to plan a civil disobedience action. On Feb 24, 2014, she […]
On most Saturdays and Sundays, people hike the 1.5 miles to arrive at Friendship Park, the southwestern most corner of the U.S. border with Mexico. From all over the United States and from throughout Mexico, Friendship Park is where families gather to see each other, albeit with the border fence between them. Visits on […]
He singles out Texas nun to thank for ministering to immigrants In the spirit of solidarity in respect of human rights for immigrant families, Pope Francis made a virtual visit via satellite to three American cities — Los Angeles, Chicago, and McAllen in the Rio Grande Valley of south Texas.
Editor’s note: Reader Francisco Reyes responds to a People’s Tribune article entitled, “Attack on Immigrants Aims to Cultivate a Fascist Movement” in its August, 2015 issue. Can I sue Donald Trump for defamation of character?
TAMPA, FL — Trump’s latest call for pogroms against about 12 million people, including “anchor babies” who are half this amount, and deporting all undocumented workers in the U.S., is unconstitutional to say the least. The fact is that the most people ever deported in a year in the U.S. was under Obama. But who […]
By the time the Border Patrol arrived, he was gone She stepped out of the Border Patrol truck sobbing. From San Luis Potosi in north central Mexico, the attractive 39-year-old woman had successfully slipped across the Rio Grande and had been trying to walk around a permanent Border Patrol checkpoint on Highway 281 near […]
WESLACO, TX — National guards, State Police, Border Patrol, FBI and local law enforcement special taskforces are patrolling a 100-mile strip of land terrorizing the populace! Is this Ferguson, Missouri? No! It’s the Rio Grande Valley of South Texas, the poorest area in the United States where the U.S. government, with the excuse that […]
A new campaign by the Immigrant Youth Coalition, “Migrant Lives Matter” directs attention to the Democratic Party and its Deporter-in-Chief President Obama for its passive actions regarding immigration reform. Under the Democrats watch, immigrants have been massively incarcerated, deported, and too many have died as a result of this inaction. Voicing that our communities have […]
COACHELLA, CA–Local communities have shown an outpouring of support and welcome for the refugee families, in contrast to the hostility shown by anti-immigrant groups in Murrieta. One example of this is the generous outpouring of financial support from the community of Coachella which donated nearly $5000 to members of the Comité Latino outside the Our […]
What follows is taken from Enrique Morones, director of the Border Angels in San Diego on July 11 on news show, “Democracy Now.” What I observed was the freedom of speech in action, which everybody supports. The protesters were on the sidewalk, yelling their chants and so forth. Then I saw the three buses […]
Another excuse to further militarize the border CHICAGO–On July 18 a dozen Tea Party members held a protest in front of the Mexican Consulate against the U.S. giving refuge to the tens of thousands of unaccompanied children from Honduras, Guatemala, El Salvador and Mexico. This rally was one of many the Tea Party and […]
They’re Being Forced out of their Home Countries by U.S. Policies What is the cause of changes in Guatemala, Honduras and El Salvador that result in children from those countries coming to the US without even an adult to accompany them? These countries are naturally rich and beautiful, lands with close-knit families. The three […]
You are being targeted by the oligarchy, not the American people themselves If no one else is doing so, let us welcome you to the United States. And let us try to explain the uproar that has erupted — and what a better world could be. Like yourselves, the American people are being hammered down […]
A humanitarian crisis involving Central American children seeking to enter the U.S. has been in the making for a long time. It only recently exploded onto the news, due largely to intentional coverage by media pundits and certain elected officials. Their purpose is partly to confuse and divide the public as to the causes […]
Since the 2007 presidential election, the Latino community has heard promises of comprehensive immigration reform. Obama has positioned himself at the center of the pro-Latino discourse with his praise of Latino contributions to this country. Despite boasting about economic contributions and recognition of Latino power, immigration reform has not been delivered and the government is […]
Against the Rise of ICE Raids On Wednesday, Jan. 29, we conducted a press conference outside the Border Patrol office in Murrieta, CA. in response to a rise in raids across the region. Hotline and community reports from the Coachella Valley, Riverside and the Low Desert have cited roaming Border Patrol vehicles cruising day labor […]
