How Joe Biden's privatization plans helped doom Latin America and fuel the migration crisis
Max Blumenthal | thegrayzone.com | 2019-07-28
On the campaign trail, Joe Biden has boasted of his role in transforming Colombia and Central America through ambitious economic…
thegrayzone.com/2019/07/28/biden-privatization-plan-colombia-honduras-migration/

The War on Drugs in Mexico Is Also a War on Journalists
Staff | truthout.org | 2019-07-27
| What is press freedom and how do we know what it looks like? While we in the United States are absorbed in Julian Assange-related quandaries about just who is a journalist, and whether leaked information can or should compromise national security, reporters in Mexico are harassed and killed daily for covering a "drug war" launched in 2006 by President Felipe Calderón, but abetted by the U.S. governme…
truthout.org/articles/the-war-on-drugs-in-mexico-is-also-a-war-on-journalists/

Judge halts Trump's asylum ban that represents a "relentless attack on the very idea of asylum"
Amy Goodman | nationofchange.org | 2019-07-27
A federal judge in San Francisco has temporarily blocked President Trump's plan to bar nearly all migrants from seeking asylum in the United States. In his ruling, U.S. District Judge Jon Tigar of California ordered Trump to continue accepting asylum claims, issuing a preliminary injunction against a rule that would block anyone who passes through a third country before arriving in the U.S. from applying for asylum. The rule would effectively stop people from Honduras, El Salvador and Guatemala from seeking refuge in the United States. The preliminary injunction came just hours after a federal judge in Washing…
nationofchange.org/2019/07/27/judge-halts-trumps-asylum-ban-that-represents-a-relentless-attack-on-the-very-idea-of-asylum/

Guatemala: Social Organizations Reject Safe Third Country Deal
telesurenglish.net | 2019-07-27
Guatemalan human rights defenders and social leaders have called on the people to protest with pots every day at 6: 00 P.M. local time to reject the agreement signed by their government in Washington on Friday, an unconstitutional deal which forces migrants, potentially from any country, to request their asylum status in Guatemala. | RELATED: | Guatemala Caves to U.S. Pressure, Signs 3rd Country Agreement | In a press conference held in front of the headquarters of the Constitutional Court, socia…
telesurenglish.net/news/Guatemala-Social-Organizations-Reject-Safe-Third-Country-Deal-20190727-0002.html

"The U.S. got scared" voices of the resistance in post-coup Honduras
Eds. | mronline.org | 2019-07-27
Members of the resistance in Honduras tell MintPress how a US-backed coup — and the Neoliberalism it brought with it — have impacted their country. | Source…
mronline.org/2019/07/27/the-u-s-got-scared-voices-of-the-resistance-in-post-coup-honduras/

Migration Crisis on Four Fronts: George Soros and the 'Great Replacement'
unitedEditor | uwidata.com | 2019-07-27
1 — France's 'Black Vests' The "Yellow Vests" in France have been replaced by a new protest movement, representing a new demographic: on July 12, 2019, 700 members of the "Black Vest" movement rushed and occupied the historic Pantheon in Paris. The 'Gilets Noir' is a movement of undocumented migrants, predominantly from North Africa whose …
uwidata.com/4467-migration-crisis-on-four-fronts-george-soros-and-the-great-replacement/

Judge Halts Trump's Asylum Ban That Represents a "Relentless Attack on the Very Idea of Asylum"
Staff | democracynow.org | 2019-07-26
A federal judge in San Francisco has temporarily blocked President Trump's plan to bar nearly all migrants from seeking asylum in the United States. In his ruling, U.S. District Judge Jon Tigar of California ordered Trump to continue accepting asylum claims, issuing a preliminary injunction against a rule that would block anyone who passes through a third country before arriving in the U.S. from applying for asylum. The rule would effectively stop people from Honduras, El Salvador and Guatemala from seeking refuge in the United States. The preliminary injunction came just hours after a federal judge in Washington…
www.democracynow.org/2019/7/26/federal_judge_blocks_trump_asylum_ban

Guatemala Caves to U.S. Pressure, Signs 3rd Country Agreement
telesurenglish.net | 2019-07-26
Guatemala and the United States signed a migration deal Friday after President Donald Trump, threatened economic sanctions against the Central American country if it did not become a "Safe Third Country (STC)." | RELATED: | Morales Wants Guatemala to be 'Safe Third Country' | Trump told reporters that the agreement will "provide safety to legitimate asylum seekers and stop…
telesurenglish.net/news/US-Guatemala-Sign-Migration-Asylum-Agreement-20190726-0012.html

Judge Halts Trump's New Asylum Ban
Staff | truthout.org | 2019-07-26
| A federal judge in San Francisco has temporarily blocked President Trump's plan to bar nearly all migrants from seeking asylum in the United States. In his ruling, U.S. District Judge Jon Tigar of California ordered Trump to continue accepting asylum claims, issuing a preliminary injunction against a rule that would block anyone who passes through a third country before arriving in the U.S. from applying for asylum. The rule would effectively stop people from Honduras, El Salvador and Guatemala from seeking refuge in the United St…
truthout.org/video/judge-halts-trumps-new-asylum-ban/

12,500 job cuts at Nissan as global restructuring of auto industry continues
wsws.org | 2019-07-26
The Japan-based automaker says it will cut 6,400 jobs in Japan, the US, Mexico, Britain, Spain, India and Indonesia by the end of March 2020.
www.wsws.org/en/articles/2019/07/26/niss-j26.html

'Don't Let Them Send Me Back': Stopped Inches From US Border After 1,500 Mile Journey, Viral Photos Show Mother's Plea for Son's Life
Julia Conley, staff writer | commondreams.org | 2019-07-26
Immigrant rights advocates pointed to a photo essay by a Reuters photojournalist showing a Guatemalan mother and child begging to be allowed into the U.S., as visual evidence of asylum seekers' desperation to enter the country. | www.commondreams.org/sites/default/files/styles/cd_special_coverage/public/headline/thumbs/screen_shot_2019-07-26_at_10.34.42_am.jpg …
commondreams.org/news/2019/07/26/dont-let-them-send-me-back-stopped-inches-us-border-after-1500-mile-journey-viral?cd-origin=rss

More families seek damages for harm suffered due to Trump administration's family separations
splcenter.org | 2019-07-25
After seeking asylum from Guatemala at a port of entry in 2017, M.C.L. and his 7-year-old son spent two days in various cells where the temperature was kept extremely cold, with only a thin blanket and a single mattress to share.
splcenter.org/news/2019/07/25/more-families-seek-damages-harm-suffered-due-trump-administrations-family-separations

Two dozen US Marines arrested & questioned in human smuggling, drugs probe at California border base
rt.com | 2019-07-25
Sixteen US Marines have been arrested on charges including human smuggling at a California base near the Mexican border, while eight more have been questioned regarding drug crimes, military authorities have revealed. | …
rt.com/usa/465096-marines-arrested-human-smuggling-border/

'US economic terrorism will backfire': Iranian foreign minister calls for unity in Nicaragua
Ben Norton | thegrayzone.com | 2019-07-22
In Nicaragua, Ben Norton and Max Blumenthal asked Iran's Foreign Minister Javad Zarif about US sanctions, Europe's role in the…
thegrayzone.com/2019/07/22/us-economic-terrorism-iranian-foreign-minister-zarif-nicaragua/

Max Blumenthal drops by the largest US military base in Latin America
Max Blumenthal | thegrayzone.com | 2019-07-20
Max Blumenthal rolled up on the Soto Cano / Palmerola air base in Honduras, the US military's largest in Latin…
thegrayzone.com/2019/07/20/max-blumenthal-palmerola-air-base-honduras/

"The US Got Scared" Voices of the Resistance in Post-Coup Honduras
Alexander Rubinstein | mintpressnews.com | 2019-07-19
Members of the resistance in Honduras tell MintPress how a US-backed coup – and the Neoliberalism it brought with it – have impacted their country.
mintpressnews.com/the-us-got-scared-voices-of-the-resistance-in-post-coup-honduras/260676/

"The US Got Scared" Voices of the Resistance in Post-Coup Honduras
Alexander Rubinstein | mintpressnews.com | 2019-07-19
Members of the resistance in Honduras tell MintPress how a US-backed coup – and the Neoliberalism it brought with it – have impacted their country.
mintpressnews.com/the-us-got-scared-voices-of-the-resistance-in-post-coup-honduras/260676/

Who Killed Oscar and Valeria: The Inconvenient History of the Refugee Crisis
Ramzy Baroud | mintpressnews.com | 2019-07-17
The supposedly random 'violence' and drug wars in El Salvador must be seen within the political context of misguided American interventionism. Were it not for such violent interventions, Oscar, Valeria and millions of innocent people would still be alive today.
mintpressnews.com/killed-oscar-valeria-inconvenient-history-refugee-crisis/260607/

Who Killed Oscar and Valeria: The Inconvenient History of the Refugee Crisis
Ramzy Baroud | mintpressnews.com | 2019-07-17
The supposedly random 'violence' and drug wars in El Salvador must be seen within the political context of misguided American interventionism. Were it not for such violent interventions, Oscar, Valeria and millions of innocent people would still be alive today.
mintpressnews.com/killed-oscar-valeria-inconvenient-history-refugee-crisis/260607/

Free the children, close the camps
Liberation Staff | liberationnews.org | 2019-07-17
Trump's racist statements against Mexicans and Central Americans is intended for one purpose: To stir up hatred of immigrants, to mobilize his base and deflect blame away from millionaires and billionaires, who are the real cause of the economic crisis and unemployment.
liberationnews.org/free-the-children-close-the-camps/

A year after Nicaragua coup attempt, the media's regime-change deceptions are still unraveling
John Perry | thegrayzone.com | 2019-07-16
Corporate media outlets blamed Nicaragua's government for a deadly arson attack during the 2018 coup attempt, but new information raises…
thegrayzone.com/2019/07/15/a-year-after-nicaraguas-coup-the-medias-regime-change-deceptions-are-still-unraveling/

SPLC urges HUD to drop plan that would cut housing assistance for 'mixed-status' immigrant families
splcenter.org | 2019-07-09
The SPLC urged the U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development (HUD) today to withdraw a proposal that would eliminate housing assistance for low-income families that include both documented and undocumented immigrants.
splcenter.org/news/2019/07/09/splc-urges-hud-drop-plan-would-cut-housing-assistance-mixed-status-immigrant-families