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FEMA Ordered to Help as Border Patrol Holds 3,000 Migrant Children Over Legal Limit

A sign outside of a Influx Care Facility (ICF) for unaccompanied children explains what the facility is on Sunday, February 21, 2021 in Carrizo Springs, Texas. (Photo: Sergio Flores/<em>The Washington Post</em> via Getty Images)

Sister Dianna Ortiz—US Nun Who Survived Guatemala Torture and Became Human Rights Champion—Dies at 62

Brett Wilkins, staff writer

Sister Dianna Ortiz, torture survivor turned human rights champion, died Friday February 19, 2021. (Photo: AP/YouTube screen grab)

"Dianna walked through the very worst of hell and came out with love... Her legacy is a witness to nonviolence and to love in the face of evil and to redemption. That's her legacy, to teach us that that's possible."

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Reversing Xenophobic Trump Policy, Biden to Allow 25,000 Asylum-Seekers Stuck in Mexico to Enter US

Kenny Stancil, staff writer

U.S. volunteer Mary Keenan of Brownsville, Texas hands out markers on December 8, 2019 during a class for immigrant children at a refugee camp near the Gateway International Bridge in the border town of Matamoros, Mexico, where more than 1,000 Central American and Mexican asylum-seekers are awaiting their next court hearings. (Photo: John Moore/Getty Images)

"It remains a legal and moral imperative that the U.S. government abide by...

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As Guatemalan Forces Beat Back Migrant Caravan, Biden Urged to Reverse Trump Policies of 'Cruelty and Coercion'

Brett Wilkins, staff writer

Thousands of migrants, mostly from Honduras, are blocked from traveling further on a road by security forces in Vado Hondo, Guatemala on January 17, 2021. (Photo: Luis Vargas/Andalou Agency via Getty Images)

"The answer is not to continue doing more of the same but to envision a new...

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Guatemalan deportees arrive in Guatemala City on a Department of Homeland Security plane on March 12, 2020. (Photo: Johan Ordoñez/AFP/Getty Images)

'Unconscionable': ICE Deported 33 Unaccompanied Guatemalan Children After Judge Ordered Halt to Practice

Demonstrators confront riot police during a protest demanding the resignation of Guatemalan President Alejandro Giammattei, in Guatemala City on November 21, 2020. - The Vice President of Guatemala, Guillermo Castillo, asked President Alejandro Giammattei to resign together for "the good of the country," after the 2021 budget was approved in Congress. (Photo: Orlando Estrada/AFP via Getty Images)

Guatemalan President Reviewing Budget, Which Slashed Healthcare Spending, After Outraged Protesters Set Fire to Legislative Building

A man walks along a damaged street after the passage of Hurricane Eta in La Lima, Cortes, Honduras, on November 16, 2020 as Hurricane Iota—upgraded to Category 5—moves over the Caribbean toward the Nicaragua-Honduras border. (Photo: Wendell Escoto/AFP via Getty Images)

'Unreal & Heartbreaking': Experts Highlight Climate Crisis Connection as Category 5 Hurricane Iota Barrels Toward Central America

Then President-elect Alejandro Giammattei speaks during a interview with AFP in Guatemala City on August 12, 2019.

Guatemalan Leader Blasts Trump Admin's "Contaminated" Deportation Flights as Rights Groups Say Expulsions Show "Reckless Disregard" for Rights and Health

People wear face masks as a preventive measure against the spread of the new coronavirus, COVID-19, in Guatemala City, on March 16, 2020. (Photo: Johan Ordonez/AFP via Getty Images)

Trump Accused of 'Actively and Knowingly' Spreading Coronavirus to Central America Through Deportations

Trump Condemned for 'Morally Reprehensible' Plan That Rights Groups Warn Means Death for Asylum-Seekers

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'Disorder by Design': Aid Group Details How Trump Has Manufactured Crisis at the US-Mexico Border

Trump Accused of 'Manufacturing' Crisis By Slashing Aid to Honduras, Guatemala, and El Salvador

'Beyond Repulsive': Outrage After Trump DHS Secretary Blames 'Parents' and 'Open Borders' Advocates for Deaths of Children in US Custody

'This Must End. Now.': 8-Year-Old Boy Dies in US Border Patrol Custody on Christmas Day

Marking Earth Day, Indigenous People Worldwide to Fight Corporate Forces

Responding to Clinton Barb, Sanders Blasts US Imperialism in Latin America

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Institute for Policy Studies

Mining the Depths of Corruption: New Report Exposes Omissions and Misrepresentations in Nevada-based Mining Company’s Claims in $400 Million Suit against Guatemalan Government

National Nurses United

RNRN Volunteers to Provide Much-Needed Medical Aid in Northern Guatemala

Amnesty International - USA

Statement Responding to Another Child’s Death in Custody of Customs and Border Protection

Amnesty International - USA

Guatemala: Discriminatory Law Puts at Risk the Lives and Rights of Thousands of Women, Girls and LGBTI People

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Tested, Cost-effective, and Practical: Secure Community Land Rights Can Help Protect the Earth and Prevent the Climate Crisis

Center for International Environmental Law

Guatemalans Appeal Case Against Tahoe Resources Mining Firm in Canadian court

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Rachel Pak

Please Stop Calling Humans Seeking Safety a 'Border Crisis'

Inge Fryklund

Disastrous US Drug War Is Key Driver of Displacement in Central America

Diana Buttu

Not Providing Covid-19 Vaccinations to Palestinians Is Proof of Israel's Medical Apartheid

Robert Radin

Why the United States Calls Some Refugees 'Asylees'

Tamara Pearson

The Self-Centered Rich Country Response to Pandemics and Crises Is Wrecking Poor Countries

Ellen Moore, Jen Moore

Global Mining Corporations Have a Friend in the New Guatemalan Government

Belén Fernández

How the US Made the So-Called 'Safe Third Countries' Unsafe

Jeff Abbott

The Other Americans: Asylum Seekers Routed to Guatemala

James Goodman

'Fleeing Not Migrating'

Jeff Abbott

The Other Americans: Indigenous Guatemalans Mobilize to Denounce Coup in Bolivia