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A Haitian migrant climbs the Mexico-US border fence near the El Paso border crossing, in Ciudad Juarez, Chihuahua state, Mexico on April 15, 2021. (Photo: HERIKA MARTINEZ/AFP via Getty Images)

The Case Against Biden's Plan to Further Militarize Borders

The U.S. government’s solution to the migrant crisis is militarization…again.

Belén Fernández ·

Members of the Guatemalan army walk past a group of Honduran migrants, part of a U.S.-bound migrant caravan, outside a migrant shelter in the municipality of San Marcos, Guatemala, on October 3, 2020.

Rights Advocates Concerned Over Biden Push to Increase Militarization of Borders in Central America

"The Biden administration should place human rights at the center of its migration discussions and agreements with regional governments." 

Andrea Germanos ·

A border activist documents if construction along the new U.S.-Mexico border wall built under former President Donald Trump has halted approximately 15 miles east of Sasabe, Arizona on January 28, 2021 in the Coronado National Forest. (Photo: Andrew Lichtenstein/Corbis via Getty Images)

Biden Pushed to Permanently Scrap 'Trump's Xenophobic and Racist Wall'

"The wall doesn't even begin to address any of the injustices plaguing the borderlands. It's nothing but a political prop for the GOP. Biden must stop it for good."

Kenny Stancil ·

"When we buy into the sham narrative of crisis," writes Pak, "we fail to recognize migrants as human beings and we lose sight of the real issues: how our government is treating people who are escaping unimaginable violence—and how our policies are returning individuals to torture and even death." (Photo: Shutterstock)

Please Stop Calling Humans Seeking Safety a 'Border Crisis'

People escaping violence have a right to seek safety. If they can’t, that’s the real crisis.

Rachel Pak ·

Migrants flock to our borders seeking relief from the terror caused by ruthless narcotraffickers and governments corrupted by the drug trade. (Photo: Shutterstock)

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

Why are desperate refugees turning up on the U.S. border? Because we have offloaded the costs of the drug war on Latin America.

Inge Fryklund ·

Migrant children rest inside a pod at the Customs and Border Patrol detention center in Donna, Texas on March 30, 2021. (Photo: Dario Lopez-Mills/Pool via Getty Images)

As Biden Ramps Up Detention Capacity, Group Warns Contaminated Military Bases 'Are No Place' for Kids

"Immigrant children under the care of the federal government should not be in cages, let alone toxic sites in military bases," an Earthjustice attorney said.

Kenny Stancil ·

Unaccompanied minors are loaded into a U.S. Border Patrol transport van after crossing the U.S.-Mexico border on March 25, 2021 in Hidalgo, Texas. (Photo: John Moore/Getty Images)

GOP's Border Stunt 'Nothing But a Divide and Distract Tactic' Say Immigrant Rights Advocates

"Their focus on the border is a cynical and strategic racist play for political gain."

Kenny Stancil ·

Migrants mostly from Central America are dropped off by the US Customs and Border Protection at a bus station near the Gateway International Bridge, between the cities of Brownsville, Texas, and Matamoros, Mexico, on March 15, 2021. (Photo by CHANDAN KHANNA / AFP) (Photo by CHANDAN KHANNA/AFP via Getty Images)

For the Right and Corporate Media, Border Is 'Political Crisis,' Not Humanitarian Emergency

The people coming to the border are real people, most of them going through a harrowing and dangerous journey to escape even more harrowing situations.

Julie Hollar ·

Sen. Marsha Blackburn (R-Tenn.) is known for her sometimes spurious anti-immigrant rhetoric and actions. (Photo: Stefani Reynolds/Pool/Getty Images)

In Throwback to Trump, Marsha Blackburn Introduces Bill to Force DNA Testing on Migrants

Immigrant advocates point to statistics showing fradulent family claims were uncovered in about one half of one percent of detained migrants.

Brett Wilkins ·

White House Press Secretary Jen Psaki looks on during the daily press briefing at the White House on March 18, 2021 in Washington, D.C.

Watchdog Urges Congress to Probe Whether Biden 'Bartered' Vaccines for Mexico Migration Crackdown

"The Biden administration should not be in the business of trading Mexican lives for those of other Central and South Americans, for whom migration to the U.S. is often life-saving."

Jake Johnson ·

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