Mexico: ICE Tactics Endanger Immigrant Lives

FRIDAY, DECEMBER 19
PROGRAM #10994 12:00 PM PT

Mexico Edition. 

In the United States, ICE’s use of aggressive, military-style tactics to pursue immigrants — along with their prolonged detention in confined, overcrowded, isolating, and neglectful conditions — is inflicting severe physical and mental health harms, and in some cases, causing death. What should the Mexican government do in response? A former national immigration chief offers his perspective. In other news, former miners from Section 65 in Cananea, Sonora, reached an agreement with the federal government whereby they received a settlement check 18 years later. These and other news stories are discussed in this program.

Guests: Tonatiuh Guillén, Professor and Academic Researcher, PUED/UNAM; Former National Commissioner for Mexico’s Instituto Nacional de Migración, Mexico City, MX; Antonio Navarrete, spokesperson and member, Section 65 of the National Mining Union, Mexico City, MX; excerpts from recent statements by teacher and economist Manuel Arellano.

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