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'There were children,' says migrant mother tear-gassed at US border
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'There were children,' says migrant mother tear-gassed at US border
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A migrant family runs away from tear gas in front of the border wall between the U.S and Mexico, in
A migrant family runs away from tear gas in front of the border wall between the U.S and Mexico, in Tijuana
27 Nov 2018 08:21AM
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TIJUANA, Mexico: A migrant mother photographed running with her daughters from tear gas at the US-Mexico border said she never expected the US Border Patrol to fire gas canisters at children and families.

After travelling north from Honduras and spending a week in the Mexican border town of Tijuana, Maria Meza, 35, set out on Sunday with her five children to claim asylum at the US border crossing.

She and hundreds of other Central American migrants were blocked by Mexican police and staged a protest in front of the border, some rushing the US fence.

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A migrant family runs away from tear gas in front of the border wall between the U.S and Mexico, in
A migrant family runs away from tear gas in front of the border wall between the U.S and Mexico, in Tijuana
Three tear gas canisters shot from the US side landed around Meza and her children, who range in age from toddlers to teenagers, she said in an interview at a Tijuana migrant shelter.

"The first thing I did was grab my children," said Meza. A photo of her clutching the hands of twin five-year-old daughters Saira and Cheili, as her 13-year-old daughter Jamie runs alongside, has gone viral and sparked angry reactions from some lawmakers and charities.

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"I was scared, and I thought I was going to die with them because of the gas," said Meza.

Her young son James nearly fainted when a canister landed near him. Meza fell and struggled to get up amidst the gas. A young man gave her his hand and pulled her to her feet.

"We never thought they were going to fire these bombs where there were children, because there were lots of children," said Meza, sitting in view of the rusted-steel US border fence.

"It wasn't right, they know we are human beings, the same as them," said Meza.

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A migrant family runs away from tear gas in front of the border wall between the U.S and Mexico, in
A migrant family runs away from tear gas in front of the border wall between the U.S and Mexico, in Tijuana
The US Department of Homeland Security said US Customs and Border Protection officers were struck by projectiles thrown by the migrants.

Around 5,200 people who travelled in a caravan across Mexico are packed into the shelter in a stadium in Tijuana, living in makeshift tents.

President Donald Trump has taken a hardline stance against the migrants, who have made their way north from violent and impoverished Central American countries. On Monday, he said Mexico should send them back to their home countries.

The US Border Patrol said most of those assembled at the border were economic migrants who would not qualify for asylum.

"I came here for one reason, and that's because there is a lot of violence in Honduras," said Meza, as her children played with empty tear gas canisters shot by the Border Patrol.

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Maria Lila Meza a 39-year-old migrant woman from Honduras sits in her tent in a temporary shelter in Tijuana
The United States shut the crossing for several hours on Sunday and Trump has threatened to close the border entirely.

"If they close the border I ask God that here in Tijuana, or in another country they open doors to us, to allow me to survive with my children," said Meza.
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Just deploy the vaunted SAF... after spending billions on them... It's high time they are put to good used.

KNN thought you will say take soylent green the best KNN

 

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Troops fire gas as migrants try to storm into Mexico
Central American migrants - mostly Hondurans, travelling on caravan to the US- cross the Suichate River, the natural border between Tecum Uman, Guatemala and Ciudad Hidalgo, Mexico. (AFP/Johan ORDONEZ, Johan ORDONEZ)
21 Jan 2020 02:45AM
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CIUDAD HIDALGO, Mexico: Hundreds of Central Americans from a new migrant caravan tried to force their way into Mexico on Monday (Jan 20) by crossing the river that divides the country from Guatemala, prompting the National Guard to fire tear gas.
The Central Americans, from the so-called "2020 Caravan" of around 3,500 undocumented migrants, gathered on the Guatemalan side of the Suchiate River at dawn, demanding migration authorities let them continue their journey to the United States.
When authorities did not immediately respond, the migrants began fording the river, which is shallow this time of year.
Mexican armed forces stand guard as Central American migrants wait to cross the international bridge that connects Tecum Uman, Guatemala, with Ciudad Hidalgo, Mexico. (AFP/Johan ORDONEZ, Johan ORDONEZ)
Mexican troops fired tear gas in an attempt to force them back. Scores of migrants, many with cloths tied around their faces to protect them from the tear gas, pelted the military police guarding the river with large stones, as the latter sheltered behind riot shields.
Central American migrants - mostly Hondurans, travelling on caravan to the US- remain at the international bridge that connects Tecum Uman, Guatemala, with Ciudad Hidalgo, Mexico. (AFP/Carlos ALONZO)
"Let us through! Put your hands on your hearts," shouted a Honduran migrant named Jorge, who was travelling with his wife and two young children.
"They're trying to trick us. They tell us to register (with the authorities), but then they deport us," said another migrant, Tania, who has been with the caravan since it formed last week in San Pedro Sula, Honduras, around 650 kilometres away.
"We got desperate because of the heat. It's been exhausting, especially for the children," Honduran migrant Elvis Martinez, 33, told AFP on the Guatemalan side of the border as he prepared to ford the river.
"I'm asking (Mexican President Andres Manuel) Lopez Obrador to consider his conscience" and let the migrants through, he added.
But Lopez Obrador's government faces intense pressure to do just the opposite from President Donald Trump, who last year threatened to impose steep tariffs on Mexico if it did not do more to stop a surge of undocumented Central Americans arriving at the US-Mexican border.
Source: AFP/de

 

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If Trump did not put the screws on Mexico,,,Mexico would have done nothing on illegal immigration..Trump Bagus

Mexico will return migrants who enter by force: minister

AFP News•31 January 2020
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Mexican Foreign Minister Marcelo Ebrard said his country would not tolerate migrants who sought to cause conflict
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Mexico will not tolerate the presence of Central American migrants who intend to enter the country violently or with an aim to cause trouble, the foreign minister warned Thursday.
Marcelo Ebrard defended Mexico's migration policies and expressed his approval for the efforts of the National Guard, which last week detained some 800 migrants from the so-called "2020 Caravan".
The group had crossed the Suchiate River along Mexico's southern border to illegally enter the country from Guatemala on their way to the United States.
"If you come to Mexico to provoke, create conflict, I will return you to your country, because we don't have to support, to tolerate that," Ebrard said before the Mexican Senate.
"Mexican policy offers you refuge, temporary employment, medical support -- everything that you want according to Mexican norms, norms that favor those seeking refuge," he said. "But if you come to Mexico to provoke, you will be returned to your country."
Ebrard revealed that refugee requests from Central Americans in Mexico have grown from 6,000 last year to more than 70,000.
"When it is said that we don't want to admit anybody, that is false. The numbers are not a coincidence," he said. "If the shelters have grown by 10 times, how can it be argued then that Mexico changed its policy to now be a policy of non-entry?"
Ebrard said the foreign ministry has had to support the Mexican Commission for Refugee Assistance (COMAR) in processing a large number of applications.
He said that 90 percent of Hondurans who had entered Mexico illegally with the "2020 Caravan" have been deported, after they threw stones at National Guard troops stationed along the border at the Suchiate River.
Mexico's National Institute of Migration (INM) said Monday that they had deported some 2,3000 Hondurans between January 18 and 27.
"We returned them all to Honduras, because they can't enter Mexico in that way," the agency said.
After several migrant caravans made their way to the southern US border in 2018 and 2019, US President Donald Trump threatened Mexico with economic sanctions if they did not take steps to stem the flow of people.
Mexican President Andres Manual Lopez Obrador sent some 26,000 troops to the country's northern and southern borders in response.

 

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A silver lining to the wuhan virus. It got rid of illegal aliens in Mexico. Preventing their entry to the USA

Mexico all but empties official migrant centres in bid to contain COVID-19
FILE PHOTO: Outbreak of the coronavirus disease (COVID-19), in Mexico City
FILE PHOTO: A paramedic, wearing protective suit and mask, transports a man suspected of being infected with the coronavirus, as the spread of the coronavirus disease (COVID-19) continues in Mexico City, Mexico April 17, 2020. REUTERS/Luis Cortes/File Photo
27 Apr 2020 09:50AM
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MEXICO CITY: Mexico has almost entirely cleared out government migrant centres over the past five weeks to contain the spread of the COVID-19 pandemic, returning most of the occupants to their countries of origin, official data showed on Sunday (Apr 26).

In a statement, the National Migration Institute (INM) said that since Mar 21, in order to comply with health and safety guidelines, it had been removing migrants from its 65 migrant facilities, which held 3,759 people last month.

READ: Too little, too late? Mexico unveils US$26 billion COVID-19 spending shift
In the intervening weeks, Mexico has returned 3,653 migrants to Guatemala, Honduras and El Salvador by road and air, with the result that only 106 people remain in the centres, it said.

The institute's migrant centres and shelters have a total capacity of 8,524 spaces, the INM said.

Victor Clark Alfaro, a migration expert at San Diego State University, said the announcement went hand in hand with the Mexican government's readiness to keep migrant numbers in check under pressure from US President Donald Trump.

"Today, Mexico's policy is to contain and deport," he said.

There are dozens of other shelters run by a variety of religious and non-governmental organizations throughout the country that continue to harbor migrants.

Among those who remained in the INM centres were migrants awaiting the outcome of asylum requests or judicial hearings, and others who had expressly sought permission to stay, a migration official said.

The vast majority of those sent back were migrants detained by authorities because they were in Mexico illegally, said the official, who spoke on condition of anonymity.

Some no longer wished to stay in centres because of the risk of coronavirus infection, the official added.

Most of the migrants passing through Mexico to reach the US border are from Honduras, Guatemala and El Salvador.

More than 80 Guatemalan migrants deported to their homeland from the United States have tested positive for the coronavirus.

 

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Singapore is the oasis in an otherwise muslim majority shithole that consists of peninsula malaysia and the main indon islands. It's better if the rohingya flee to kelantan and trengganu, where the religion, culture, and level of maturity and poverty is roughly the same.

PAP will be celebrating in joy with abundant of cheap labours for PAP to choose and pick. Who knows, Chan Chun Sing will make a song that these refugees are part of "Singapore Team" and we shouldn't be xenophobic and we should embrace them with open arms and legs.

 

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Immigrant detention 'explodes' under Trump administration, new report shows
Researchers visited five detention centers in Louisiana, Mississippi, and Arizona.
Researchers visited five detention centers in Louisiana, Mississippi, and Arizona. Source: AP

The new report looks at how the immigrant detention system has grown and the hurdles faced by immigrants held in remote locations.
Updated 30/04/2020
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The detention of undocumented immigrants has "exploded" since President Donald Trump took office and 40 new holding facilities have opened since 2017, according to a report published on Thursday.

Most of the newly-opened detention centers are run by private companies, according to the report by the American Civil Liberties Union, Human Rights Watch, and the National Immigrant Justice Center.

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"The detention machine has exploded, resulting in billions of dollars in revenue for private operators," they said.

Overcrowding at a detention facility in the Rio Grande Valley in Southern Texas.
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The report found that on average, Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) was detaining more than 50,000 people each day in the fiscal year 2019.

At times during the year, the report said, the detained population per day exceeded 56,000 people - about 50 percent more than the previous highs during the Barack Obama administration.

It said the Trump administration has requested $4.1 billion for ICE in fiscal 2021 with the aim of expanding the agency's daily detention capacity to 60,000 people.

Foreign nationals at the Krome detention center in Miami, where those with criminal records and deportation orders are often held.
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The report said that when Customs and Border Protection (CBP) facilities are included, the government detained some 80,000 people at a time — "far higher than the number detained in previous administrations."

Mr Trump made cracking down on illegal immigration one of the main planks of his 2016 election campaign, including a pledge to build a wall along the US-Mexico border.

The report said there were currently 220 detention facilities in the United States and as of January 2020, 81 percent of detained people are held in facilities owned or operated by private companies.

Tougher immigration policies have been a central part of President Donald Trump's Government.
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"Immigrants in detention centers opened under the Trump administration are extremely isolated from access to counsel," said the authors of the report, who visited five detention centers and interviewed more than 150 detainees.

They said many of the facilities provided "inadequate medical care" - even before the outbreak of coronavirus.

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