In an act of desperation, migrants throw their children over the Rio Grande River in hopes of securing entry to the United States. These migrants, mainly Venezuelans heard rumors that the U.S. was letting migrants in. About 1,000 ran to the border only to find out that these rumors were false.
These lives lost are another painful reminder of the direct consequences of U.S. immigration policy and the lack of humanity that has spread throughout enforcement practices worldwide. It’s another example of how U.S. deterrence policies do not work, they only result in death.
U.S. immigration policies are leading migrants to desperate acts. Migrants in Ciudad Juarez have been waiting months for their asylum process to conclude. In fact the whole country of Mexico has literally become a jail for them. They are stuck; they cannot move North and they cannot go South.
With little means, migrants are forced to live in the streets because the city’s shelters are overcrowded or they fear that they are not safe. In the street they are prey to the cartels who kidnap, rape and criminalize them. As if this wasn’t enough, local authorities in Ciudad Juarez are also known to prey on migrants. On March 21, the U.S. State Department reported on human rights practices in Mexico: of unlawful or arbitrary killings by police, military, and other officials; forced disappearance by government agents; as well as torture and inhuman treatment by security forces.
Migrants are human beings. What is their crime? What laws have been broken? It’s not a crime to flee from danger, poverty and starvation. Every generation of migrants before them have done so. What are human beings to do, when they and their families are at peril?
The fire that burnt to death 39 migrants, the thousands rushing the border early in March, and now throwing their children over the river, are not only acts of desperation but are cries for help. Is anyone listening?
If our politicians on both sides of the border are not with us, then we have to make them listen and take action.
Demand president Biden to end Title 42, not to renew family separations, and pass humane immigration laws. Demand President AMLO to respect the human rights of those migrants stuck in Mexico. And lastly, demand Congress to pass a comprehensive immigration law that puts the safety of migrants and asylum seekers as its priority.
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There should be national outcry about this inhumanity!
También el gobierno de Mexico ya no deberÃa dejar pasar a mas emigrantes , porque se están quejando los emigrantes que estar en Mexico es un peligro para ellos , es normal pues Mexico es un paÃs tercermundista que no está apto para recibir a tanto emigrante ni sostenerlos . Asà que el presidente de Mexico deberÃa cerrar la parte sur . Ya que también para los mexicanos esto está afectando mucho .
Mexico closing its southern border is not going to stop migrants from coming. Migrants would rather stay home with their families instead of risking their lives coming North. But the violence either, from the State or drug cartels, the poverty induced by transnationals who exploit their labor and pay miserable wages, and athe inabiity of their lands to produce due to global warming force migrants to move to survive.