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<p> The contents of Maria Teresa Fuentes’ immigration file take up an entire table. Legal appeals, government letters carrying bad news, attorney advertisements clipped from newspapers, technical explanations of cryptic immigration laws, a Spanish prayer printed on blue paper… Collectively, they tell the story of a fight that’s been going on for years; one that Fuentes doesn’t want to see come to an end. At least, not like this.</p>
Human Rights
Frontera NorteSur In a Ciudad Juarez ceremony, a mid-level Mexican official Read more…
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<p> On Nov. 19, 2011, the Border Angels will hold their 25 anniversary celebration at the San Diego Centro Cultural de la Raza. The event marks a quarter of a century of defending and protecting immigrant rights on the US border and throughout America.</p>
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<p> In response to a new report out [last week] on families separated by deportation, I have to express my profound disgust with a system that has left more than 5000 citizen children in foster care because their parents were deported. These policies are un-American and deeply troubling.</p>
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<p> An electrified fence. On the border. Designed to kill people. Along with “real guns with real bullets.”</p>
<p> This is the immigration “plan” recently proposed by Republican presidential candidate Herman Cain.</p>
<p> And he’s one of his party’s frontrunners.</p>
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<p> The question that is most often posited during human rights struggles is, “Are We Going to Win?” Early on I would answer with certainty, “yes.” However, today I am cautioned by the words of Alice McGrath, one of the main organizers of the “Sleepy Lagoon Defense Committee.”</p>
Frontera NorteSur
When young women and girls began vanishing in Ciudad Juarez about two decades ago, Esmeralda Castillo was not even born. But in 2009, the 14-year-old middle school student joined the ranks of the disappeared.
“She was a normal girl, just like the rest,” Jose Luis Castillo, Esmeralda’s father, said in an interview.