Freedom for $5.30…and This Time Mexico Really is Paying for It
Thomas Knapp | counterpunch.org | 2020-02-20
Back in 2016, presidential candidate Donald Trump promised that Mexico would pay for his proposed border wall. Turns out Mexico wasn't interested, so Trump eventually resorted to declaring fake emergencies and illegally misappropriating money from the military budget. He's spending tens of millions of taxpayer dollars per mile on a barrier that, Samuel Lovett of…
counterpunch.org/2020/02/20/freedom-for-5-30-and-this-time-mexico-really-is-paying-for-it/

Canada's NDP rushes to Trudeau's rescue amid "national crisis" over pipeline protests
wsws.org | 2020-02-20
NDP leader Jagmeet Singh strategized with the prime minister behind closed doors on how to bring a quick end to the Native anti-pipeline protests, then led his party in voting with the government to fast-track adoption of the US-Mexico-Canada Agreement.
www.wsws.org/en/articles/2020/02/20/cndp-f20.html

Reforming Expectations to Save Western Rivers
Jen Pelz | counterpunch.org | 2020-02-20
Recently, former Interior Secretary Bruce Babbitt proposed an alternative to the highly controversial yet difficult-to-kill Gila River diversion project, which would dam and divert water from the last free-flowing river in New Mexico ("Damming the Gila a vampire proposal," My View, Feb. 2). While the Gila proposal already is on life support because of missed…
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Organizers Work to Guide Deportees Toward Resources in Their Home Countries
Staff | truthout.org | 2020-02-19
What happens to people after they are deported from the United States? And if they no longer have family in their countries of origin, how do they make their way in an unfamiliar place? | In 2014, Christina Zaldivar found herself pondering these questions with some fellow activists after she had accompanied one of them to an immigration check-in in Centennial, Colorado. That friend had been living without legal status in the U.S. for more than 30 years and had no family left in Mexico. | "We s…
truthout.org/articles/organizers-work-to-guide-deportees-toward-resources-in-their-home-countries/

Federal Judge Finds US in Contempt for Deporting Minors
telesurenglish.net | 2020-02-19
United States Federal Judge Nathanael Cousins has found Wednesday the U.S. government in contempt after authorities deported five young migrants, seeking to remain in the country under a program for abused and neglected migrant children. | RELATED: | Trump Asks $3.8 Billion From Military for Mexico Border Wall | Cousins issued the civil order last week after finding the Department of Homeland Security and U.S. Citizenship and Immigration Services violated a 2018 preliminary inju…
telesurenglish.net/news/federal-judge-finds-us-in-contempt-for-deporting-minors-20200219-0028.html

Mexico's Chamber of Deputies Increases Penalty for Femicides
telesurenglish.net | 2020-02-19
The Chamber of Deputies of Mexico approved Tuesday to increase the maximum penalties of years in prison for femicide after the murder of a 7-year-old girl, whose body was found in a plastic bag in the capital. | RELATED: | Mexico: Family Says Gov't Failed To Protect Murdered Girl | The reformed law was approved with 415 votes in favor and one against. With this measure, the minimum penalty for those who commit feminicide in Mexico went from 40 to 45 years. | Likewise, the deputies a…
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While Nicaragua returns to peace, media and international NGOs conjure epidemic of violence with dubious reporting
John Perry | thegrayzone.com | 2020-02-19
Media bias against Nicaragua's Sandinista government is unremitting, and international NGOs are feeding it by misreporting a violent land dispute…
thegrayzone.com/2020/02/19/nicaragua-peace-media-international-ngos-violence-reporting/

Trump's 'Remain in Mexico' policy marks one year, leaving tens of thousands of migrants stranded in Mexican border towns
splcenter.org | 2020-01-29
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