On June 4th, the community of Copal AA La Esperanza invited NISGUA to participate in their annual Mother Earth Festival—a day to celebrate the soil, water and forest that sutain their livelihoods and to explicitly reject the corporate interests that exploit them.
This article details how the second Trump administration's mass deportation campaign has dramatically increased the detention and removal rates of immigrants who entered the U.S. as unaccompanied minors, often rolling back legal protections previously granted to them. Through the lens of 18-year-old Elder Chavez and other detained youth, it highlights the rapid-fire deportation orders in immigration courts, the harsh conditions within detention centers, and the growing pushback from federal judges and legal advocates.
New analysis and firsthand accounts reveal the toll of the crackdown on immigrant communities in L.A. County and beyond. Thousands of people detained during the height of the raids remain in immigration custody or have already been deported.
This Wola article is reviewing notable legal victories across the Americas: Mexico, Colombia and Brazil that show a positive trend of improved recognition about gender and sexuality based violence in those counteries...
This article written by Jake Johnson reviewing the upscaling of ICE arrersts throughout the last week dismantles the White House claims to be targeting the “worst of the worst,”. Examplifying with available data with dtention cases such as the detention of a 56 year old kenyan nun on her way to church.
Rev. Melanie Oommen who is he Minister for Committee on Ministry Development and Leadership with the Ministerial Excellence, Support and Authorization (MESA) Team in the National Ministries of the United Church of Christ is expressing her distress over the Supreme court decision from June 25 that courts should have no say in issues regarding the elongation or cancellation of Temporary porotected status, and wehat consquences that will have on th multicultural nature of the united church of christ's local congregations.
This article by the American Immigration Council serves as a comment criticizing deliberate DHS practices deterring immigrants from going the legal route of seeking asylum at official ports of entry. The practice most elaborately explored here that goes by the name of 'metereing', in which customs officers would stand at the border line and physically block arriving migrants from stepping onto U.S. soil, is here being explained as on one hand deliberate in its purpose for agency's like CBP and on the ortgher hand crucial in its consequences, pushing immigrants trying to immigrate in the most lawful way possible into migration between points of entry.
One week after the Colombian elections, Community Peacemaker Teams met with local leadership in El Guayabo to collectively reflect on emerging risks, evaluate past strategies, and adapt their approach to defending their territory. Despite the exhausting challenges of ongoing resistance, the community drew strength from their shared experience, international support, and mutual care, reaffirming that their collective organization is what keeps hope and resilience alive.
With burning incense, flowers and tears, Indigenous Maya Guatemalans on Monday buried the remains of 68 victims of the country's civil war years after they were unearthed in mass graves.
In the weeks leading up to the 17th anniversary of the 2009 coup in Honduras, dozens of social movements and grassroots organizations are coordinating press conferences, collecting signatures, blocking roads, and demonstrating in front of the Supreme Court. All of these actions aim to denounce a series of laws that promote and prioritize large-scale private investment in the agribusiness, tourism, and energy sectors, which they claim are returning Honduras to the narco-dictatorship that followed the coup (2009-2022). The resistance of these movements is directly linked to the intensification of US intervention in Honduras.
