(2024-11-22). Arizona Immigrants Fear Return To Mass Arrests. popularresistance.org The news that Arizona voters on 5 November had approved the so-called "secure our border" initiative hit Reyna Montoya like a gut punch. | The measure — proposition 314 on the ballot — makes crossing the US-Mexico border without authorization a state crime, empowering local officials to arrest and deport border-crossers and enhancing criminal penalties for unauthorised immigrants who apply for public benefits. | The initiative is modelled after a Texas law that is currently being challenged in court, and some of its key provisions will be blocked until the Texas law, or another similar law, is allowed…
(2024-11-22). Mexico not a backdoor for Chinese products, president Sheinbaum says. channelnewsasia.com
(2024-11-22). University of California 2-day strike ends without resolution to core issues. wsws.org Workers, with healthcare and immigrant workers in the front rank, will be thrust into struggle against Trump's program for dictatorship, which includes mass deportations and the evisceration of public health.
In Mexico today, thousands of families are searching for loved ones who have disappeared amid the violence associated with "the war on drugs." Although disappearances in Mexico trace back to the Cold War and the repression of guerrilla movements in the 1960s and 1970s, they have expanded in scale and taken on new dimensions in the neoliberal era. Trade agreements like NAFTA, intended promote economic growth, have inadvertently fueled drug-trafficking across the U.S.-Mexico border, contributing to a crisis of violence that disproportionately impacts marginalized communities—those already vulnerable due to po…