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1/25/22
The Department of Homeland Security asked for Public Comments: Identifying Recommendations to Support the Work of the Interagency Task Force on the Reunification of Families.
This comment has been submitted by Camilo Pérez-Bustillo, J.D. on behalf of WITNESS AT THE BORDER, with the support of the Task Force on the Americas of the National Lawyers’ Guild, the Forum on Haitian Migration in the Americas, and the International Tribunal of Conscience of Peoples in Movement.
1/24/22
WITNESS RADIO: Episode 10:
Is Family Separation What We Voted For?
Witness Radio's Executive Producer, Camilo Perez-Bustillo, and Creator Sarah Towle kick off their second season by reflecting on the Biden administration's one-year record on border and immigration, framed through the civil rights legacy of Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr.
1/17/2022
Our Letter to the Biden Administration:
Uphold Rights to Full Reparations & Restorative Justice for Families Harmed by Family Separation During Trump Era
1/7/22
There, but for the roll of the dice, go I. I could have been born in extreme poverty, outside the borders and gates that protect my privilege. My skin could have been another color. Despite the science fictionny paradoxes presented by these me-not-me scenarios, they are nothing but an extension of the fair measure of the capacity for empathy we are all born with. Empathy that is ignited when we let ourselves look into the faces of others and imagine their plight.
1/4/21
Remain in Mexico or MPP 2.0: Can Inhumane be Less Inhumane? Witness Radio: A Podcast About Immigration Ep. 9
LISTEN to Sarah Towle in conversation with 3 immigration experts, SHARE & SUPPORT by becoming a PATRON of WITNESS RADIO.
“We cannot talk about MPP 2.0 without talking about Title 42. That was a really nice way for President Joe Biden to placate his side and then keep Title 42 to placate the other side. Based on an archaic public health law.”-@Charlene D'Cruz #CrueltyIsNotOK #EndMPP
12/31/21
This is a time of sensory overload. All of us have bad news either to dread or suffer. The pandemic is personal, a wolf at our door.
As for the cause that draws us together here, for those that can bear its barrage of tragic news and profound disappointment, we are more and more alone in our concerns.
12/18/21
In honor of #InternationalMigrantsDay (Dec. 18), Witness Radio's Sarah Towle and Exec. Producer Camilo Antonio Perez Bustillo release a special conversation: "What's a Migrant's Life Worth?"
Read and Listen on Medium: What's a Migrant's Life Worth?
12/7/21
What are we to make of the reinstatement and huge expansion of the Remain in Mexico policy? The current administration has gone from the suspension to the abolition to the revival of a policy that formally establishes a bilateral agreement to turn Mexico into a prison camp for asylum seekers, now to include anyone from this hemisphere, including people from new countries in the list of those who can serve their time while waiting for a court date in some of the most dangerous places in the world.
12/6/21
I remember it like it was yesterday. Witnesses from all over joined together in Brownsville, TX, to hold a vigil to #EndMPP and #RestoreAsylum. Now MPP -- one of the most inhumane border policies in US history -- is back. Not only that, it has been expanded by the very president who promised a more humane border.
Join us to discuss the return of the Migrant "Protection" Protocols, Thursday, December 9, 2021, at 4pm ET / 1pm PT.
Register here: https://bit.ly/MPPLite
12/2/21
Mexico and the United Staes will announce this morning an agreement to revive the policy known as the Migrant Protection Protocols, more commonly called Remain in Mexico. At its heart, it is an agreement that turns certain cities on the northern border of Mexico into a purgatory for asylum seekers, in very dangerous places. Places made dangerous by a cottage industry of kidnap, assault, robbery and rape. That is what it was like before it was briefly suspended, and that is what it is likely to be again.
Image: Alessandra Mondolfi and Josh Rubin with Alessandra’s banner: MPP Kills
11/29/21
If it seems to you that things are getting worse, it is because they are. The fears, real and imagined, that thicken every breath we take are freezing the political landscape into a tableau for the end times. Desperation charges the air. The poor are forced to their feet by the shrinking prospects for a home life where they live, and the rich, well, oddly they live in fear of their outsized share having its belt tightened. And we all, yes all of us, awaken each day to talk of twin apocalypse, climate change that moves its massive anti-glacier toward us, steep and quick enough to cast a mighty shadow; and the plague, which threatens us afresh and ominously with the Greek alphabet.
