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Friendship Park turned 50 years old, but the park where people on opposite sides of the U.S.-Mexico border fence can meet in person will have to celebrate its...
Why: "When Biden was running for office, there was a concern within the immigrant-rights movement, to see how much he would distance himself from the Obama-administration legacy of mass deportation," Rojas Rodriguez told Insider. "We had nice rhetoric and terrible practices, and with Biden so far, when the rubber meets the road what we are seeing is disappointment and disappointment." On the campaign trail, Rojas Rodriguez challenged Biden during a question-and-answer period asking whether he would commit to a full deportation moratorium, which Biden rejected, and later told Rojas Rodriguez t...
Drones were sent out more than once to situations described as “fake COVID testing.”
is director, U.S.-Mexico Border Program, American Friends Service Committee. He lives in Chula Vista. Last month, I spoke with a mother of two teenage boys at the Chaparral migrant encampment in Tijuana, who I’ll call Julia. Julia left her hometown in Mexico because a gang threatened her boys and disabled her husband when he defended them. When she and her family arrived in Tijuana, she discovered that people connected to the gang in her hometown were in Tijuana, and she was strongly considering having her boys cross without her to the United States. Julia had heard that if she crossed with...
Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) confirmed reports that dozens of unaccompanied minors who illegally crossed the U.S.-Mexico border and were transported to a shelter at the San Diego Convention Center have tested positive for the Wuhan coronavirus (COVID-19). HHS officials said those who tested positive were brought to San Diego on a separate plane and their intake was separate from the others. They were also kept in separate areas on a separate floor. Those who tested negative are tested for COVID-19 every three days. All migrant minors are tested before boarding transportatio...