Daily Archives: May 12, 2023

2023-05-12: News Headlines

teleSUR (2023-05-12). Mexico Urges US to Pursue Diplomacy to Curb Illegal Immigration. telesurenglish.net On Thursday, Mexican President Andrés Manuel López Obrador (AMLO) advocated for the adoption of diplomatic and conciliatory measures, particularly regarding Cuba and Venezuela, as a means of addressing the prevalent immigration crisis. | Related: | "How is it going to be possible to maintain harmony, peace and tranquility if there are differences, if there is confrontation with the neighbors?" AMLO said during his regular daily press c…

Ana Perdigón (2023-05-11). Mexico's AMLO Refers to OAS as 'Useless'. orinocotribune.com The president of Mexico, Andrés Manuel López Obrador, suggested that the Organization of American States (OAS) should disappear, because "it is useless." | During his morning press conference on Wednesday, the Mexican president asked those present if they knew what good the OAS had done. He pointed out that the only thing the international organization has done is "to endorse all authoritarian plots against legitimate, legal, and popular governments in Latin America." | "The OAS has no moral or political authority," added the Mexican president. "But it is not necessary, nor is it convenient to answer them, they a…

WSWS (2023-05-12). As Title 42 expires, US and Mexico deploy tens of thousands of police and military against immigrants. wsws.org As thousands of immigrants tried to enter to the country before the expiration of Title 42, CBP announced on Thursday that 28,000 immigrants were being held in facilities built for 10,000 people.

teleSUR, DRL (2023-05-12). No hay incremento de cruces en frontera tras fin del Título 42, dicen México y EE.UU. telesurtv.net Al menos 24.000 agentes de la patrulla fronteriza vigilan la zona, además de los 1.500 soldados que el Pentágono estará desplegando de forma escalonada durante los próximos días.

Anand Naidoo (2023-05-12). The Heat: U.S.-Mexico Border Crisis. america.cgtn.com Crowds and chaos at the U.S.-Mexico border as a pandemic-era policy ends. Title 42 is officially winding down. The controversial policy went into effect during the height of the COVID-19 crisis three years ago. The U.S. Trump administration used the provision to turn away migrants …

ecns.cn (2023-05-12). Migrants rush to cross border as Title 42 ends. ecns.cn Large numbers of migrants had begun gathering in northern Mexico at the U.S. border the past few days, waiting for Title 42, a pandemic-related restriction to be lifted on Thursday.


teleSUR, JGN (2023-05-12). Frontera entre México y EE.UU. entra en nueva etapa con cierre de Título 42. telesurtv.net En virtud de esta norma, EE.UU. llevó a cabo más de 2.5 millones de expulsiones en todo este tiempo.

Camilo Pérez-Bustillo (2023-05-11). Title 42 Was Inhumane and Illegal. So Are Biden's New Border Policies. truthout.org The cruel Trump-era immigration policy known as Title 42 expires today, but human rights defenders have nothing to celebrate. The Biden administration has swiftly replaced the unlawful and restrictive immigration policy with a near-total asylum ban that will turbocharge the deportation of migrants who cross the border from Mexico into the U.S. This is combined with intensified militarization of… |

Marco I. Dávila C. (2023-05-12). Estados Unidos: °No a la Ley 1718! globalizacion.ca Al tiempo que Donald Trump ha sido encontrado culpable de abuso sexual, el gobernador de Florida firma y convierte en ley algunas medidas que, algunos dicen, son las más antiinmigrantes del momento. | La nueva ley antiinmigrante (SB1718) que está por…

teleSUR, JDO (2023-05-12). Militarizan con 24.000 efectivos lado estadounidense de la frontera con México. telesurtv.net Autoridades de EE.UU. intentan controlar el flujo incrementado de migrantes, que aspiran a entrar a ese país antes de que expire el Título 42.

teleSUR- hvh, DRL (2023-05-12). Papa Francisco llama a respetar la dignidad de los migrantes. telesurtv.net El Sumo Pontífice instó a "gobernar los flujos del mejor modo posible, construyendo puentes y no muros".

Zane McNeill (2023-05-12). New ICE Program Subjects Asylum Seekers to GPS Monitoring and Curfew. truthout.org The White House is rolling out a new Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) program that will subject asylum-seeking families that cross the U.S. border without authorization to GPS monitoring and a curfew — a move that immigrant advocates say will further criminalize migrants and ultimately expand ICE's inhumane system of immigrant imprisonment. The punitive surveillance program… |




Daniella Prieshoff (2023-05-11). Retire This Dehumanizing Language About Immigrants. fpif.org Last year, my client Susan called me to discuss her immigration case. | During our conversation she referenced the news that immigrants were being bused from the southern border to cities in the North, often under false promises, In confusion and fear, Susan asked me: "Why do they hate us so much?" | While I couldn't answer Susan's question, her underlying concern highlights a startl…

In Defense of Liberation! (2023-05-11). Episode with Sina from East is a Podcast. podcasters.spotify.com In this episode me and Sina speak about a range of topics beginning with Sina's feelings waking up every morning to check his phone and see "what unspeakable crimes the Empire has committed today", along with growing up as he called himself, "a citizen subject" of the US Empire, as many immigrants or simply non-white people have to deal with. | We also touch on some of the shifting energies between the multiple growing and declining hegemons, the ignorance of the West as regards China, Iran, Taiwan, Palestine, Israel, Syria and other nations, the NATO war on Russia, and many other things! | For more from Sina, ch…

Mike Ludwig (2023-05-11). House Vote on Border Bill Is Just Anti-Immigrant Theatrics, Critics Say. truthout.org House Republicans passed a sweeping anti-immigrant "border security" package on Thursday that has already received a veto threat from the White House and is considered dead on arrival in the Senate. The legislation would gut the right to apply for asylum in the United States and increase the detention of children and families in crowded facilities at the southern border, where large numbers of… |




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