(2024-12-31). Call for Africain and International solidarity | No to the criminalization of solidarity | Freedom for activists defending the rights of migrants and refugees. cadtm.org
(2024-12-31). El Salvador on tenterhooks over US migration policies. plenglish.com The topic is frequently featured in local media, which warn about the effects of large deportations of Salvadorans on the local economy and the eventual drop in remittances from the US, which represent almost a quarter of the country's gross domestic product (GDP). | This Tuesday, the newspaper El Mundo reported that more than 40,000 Salvadoran migrants were detained at the United States border during 2024, the majority on its southern border, from January to November 2024, according to data from the Customs and Border Patrol Office (CBP, for its acronym in English). | High as it may look, the figure stands as a…
(2024-12-30). Call for Africain and International solidarity | No to the criminalization of solidarity | Freedom for activists defending the rights of migrants and refugees. cadtm.org
(2024-12-30). Calls For A Migrant Labor Strike Grow On Social Media. popularresistance.org Since the xenophobia-fueled presidential re-election of Donald Trump, calls have been growing on social media for a pro-immigrant labor strike beginning on January 11, days before Trump is to take office. The emerging movement's goal is to highlight the social, cultural, and economic importance of immigrants in the United States. The Trump campaign's racist rhetoric — targeted at Latin Americans and Caribbean Islanders — is an urgent threat driving the need to speak out against his proposed immigration policies — such as the plan to conduct mass deportations.
(2024-12-30). Hundreds arrested in Northern Cape on various charges. sanews.gov.za Hundreds arrested in Northern Cape on various charges | Police in the Northern Cape have arrested some 429 suspects during the weekly Safer Festive Season operations – a continuation of Operation Shanela. | According to a police statement, SA Police Service members arrested the suspects on a range of charges, including illegal possession of uncut diamonds, illicit mining, murder, rape, illegal dealing in liquor, dealing in drugs, undocumented persons, assaults, malicious damage to property, contravention of protection orders, house breaking and theft, theft out of motor vehicles and driving under the influence of…