2023-10-09: News Headlines

Laith Fadel (2023-10-09). Border wall construction heats up U.S. immigration debate. america.cgtn.com Immigration is a key issue ahead of next year's presidential election in the United States. And it's only heating up following a decision last week by the Biden administration to build another part of the border wall between the U.S. and Mexico. CGTN's Franc Contreras reports.

WSWS (2023-10-08). Mexico's president AMLO shields military's complicity in disappearance of Ayotzinapa students. wsws.org López Obrador increasingly protects the military from culpability in the students' disappearances and its coverup…

Ana Luisa Brown (2023-10-09). President AMLO confirms Migration Summit for 12 nations. plenglish.com Mexico City, Oct 9 (Prensa Latina) Mexican President Andres Manuel Lopez Obrador (AMLO) on Monday confirmed a presidential Migration Summit for 12 countries including Mexico for upcoming Oct. 22.

Elsy Fors Garzon (2023-10-09). La Jornada editorializes on devastating Israeli response in Gaza. plenglish.com Mexico City, Oct 9 (Prensa Latina) Under the title Gaza in the global context, Mexican newspaper La Jornada editorializes today about Israel's devastating response in that strip and the violation of Palestinian rights.

NDN Collective, Popular Resistance. (2023-10-10). On Indigenous Peoples Day, Unity And Justice In The Wake Of A Hate Crime. popularresistance.org Albuquerque, NM — Marking Indigenous Peoples Day, Indigenous groups and supporters are calling for unity and justice for Jacob Johns, an Indigenous activist from Spokane, WA, who was shot and gravely wounded by a domestic terrorist at a peaceful prayer ceremony on September 28, 2023, in Española, New Mexico. | "This is a hate crime," said Johns' attorney John Day. "It needs to be recognized and prosecuted as such. Jacob's heroism in protecting the lives of innocent people, including children, is important in itself, but there's an even larger principle at stake here: we cannot afford to minimize or normaliz…

teleSUR, nbb, JGN (2023-10-09). Alerta en México por llegada de dos ciclones. telesurtv.net Del 08 al 11 de octubre, se esperan lluvias acumuladas de 150 a 200 milímetros en Puebla, de 200 a 250 mm en Chiapas, Colima, Michoacán, Oaxaca y Veracruz, así como de 300 a 400 mm en Guerrero.


Todd Miller (2023-10-09). At the Palestine-Mexico Border: Confronting the Climate Fortress in Southern Arizona. counterpunch.org In late August, I along with a group of people trudged up the gravel road on a hill near Peña Blanca Lake, just outside Nogales, about 10 miles north of the U.S.-Mexico border. There, members of the Arizona Palestine Solidarity Alliance (APSA) unfurled a banner that resembled the Palestinian flag. It declared, "From the Borderlands

Amanda Yee, People's Dispatch. (2023-10-08). Biden Backs Out On Campaign Promise, Set To Expand US-Mexico Border Wall. popularresistance.org On Thursday, October 5, the Biden administration announced that it would be expanding the South Texas border wall in order to deter migrants crossing into the United States from Mexico. In a sweeping move of executive power, Biden waived 26 federal laws—including the National Environmental Policy Act, the Endangered Species Act, the Native American Graves Protection and Repatriation Act, and the American Indian Religious Freedom Act—to facilitate the construction of 20 additional miles of the border wall in the Rio Grande Valley, an area which has seen 245,000 "illegal" crossings in the current fiscal…

Oraily Madruga Rios (2023-10-08). Cuba notes imperialism's inability to bend the truth. plenglish.com Mexico City, Oct 8 (Prensa Latina) Cuba noted in Mexico the inability of the U.S. imperialism to bend the truth, at the International Seminar "The Parties and a New Society.".

teleSUR, odr, JCM (2023-10-08). Sismo de magnitud 6.0 sacude Oaxaca, México. telesurtv.net El Servicio Sismológico Nacional (SSN) reportó que el epicentro se localizó en Oaxaca, a 12 kilómetros al noroeste de Matías Romero.

David Bacon (2023-10-09). Memory and Revolution in Mexico City. progressive.org Social movements claim public space in one of the largest cities in the Americas.

teleSUR, DRL (2023-10-09). México anuncia cumbre migratoria en el sur de Chiapas. telesurtv.net En esta nueva oleada migratoria, a la frontera de México con Centroamérica llegan hasta 6.000 migrantes diarios, mientras que a la de Estados Unidos arriban hasta 10.000.




teleSUR, DRL (2023-10-09). Naufragan 357 migrantes en las costas de Canarias, España. telesurtv.net Un total 686 migrantes habían llegado el jueves a la isla canaria de El Hierro (Atlántico) en cinco embarcaciones precarias, una de ellas con 258 personas a bordo.

Oraily Madruga Rios (2023-10-08). Panama's SENAFRONT rescues nearly 500 irregular migrants. plenglish.com Panama City, Oct 8 (Prensa Latina) In the last two months, Panama's National Border Service (SENAFRONT) rescued 499 irregular migrants abandoned in the Darien jungle, an official statement referred on Sunday.

Ajeyo Basu (2023-10-09). UK plan to deport migrants to Rwanda under scanner at top court. firstpost.com Britain's plan to send migrants to Rwanda made it to the UK's highest court on Monday, with the government arguing that it was necessary to prevent Channel crossings while refugees and those seeking asylum maintained Rwanda was unsafe. | In June, a lower court ruled that the plan to transport thousands of asylum seekers more than 4,000 miles (6,400 km) to East Africa was illegal because Rwanda was not a secure third country. Government attorneys urged the Supreme Court to overturn this decision. | Recent laws would make the vast majority of people who get to Britain by small boat from France to have their asylum…




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