Natasha: Migrant Protection Protocol Survivor Story #3

When your choices are persecution, solitary confinement, or going underground, ‘protection’ is prevarication

The border encampment in Matamoros that had become a makeshift community for thousands has now been emptied of the final 700, or so, souls still living there when Biden announced the end of MPP. But not all 700 camp inhabitants, like Perla, have been allowed to cross. Roughly 70 individuals with “complex cases” remain in […]

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Migrant ‘Protection’ Protocols Survivor Stories #2: Perla

Fleeing political persecution only to be persecuted by politics at the US border, this front-line worker finally gets her day in court

Perla has been a professional pharmacist for 22 years. Even as a political refugee living in a tent meant for weekend camping, trapped by circumstance and a cruel immigration policy, the Nicaraguan grandmother managed to ply her trade and make herself useful to the thousands of other refugees halted at the US border by the […]

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Migrant ‘Protection’ Protocols Survivor Stories #1: Gabriel

This businessman and his family survived the trek north only to be trapped in Mexico by Trump’s cruel America. Will they now get to cross?

When Gabriel and his family pitched their tent in the Matamoros refugee camp, they thought it would be for a few months. They were broke, exhausted, and confused. They decided they could endure the indignity of living in the mud on the banks of the Rio Bravo at least until their first asylum hearing. When […]

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