Posted by admin on Aug 25th, 2010
Wed Aug 25, 2010 10:35pm GMT. By Robin Emmott
MONTERREY Mexico (Reuters) – Mexican marines found 72 corpses at a remote ranch near the U.S. border, the Mexican navy said on Wednesday, the biggest single discovery of its kind in Mexico’s increasingly bloody drug war. The marines came across the bodies of 58 men and 14 women, thought to be migrant workers, on Tuesday at the ranch in Tamaulipas state, 90 miles (150 km) from the Texas border, after a series of firefights with drug gang members. Three gunmen and a marine died in the firefights, while another suspected gang member was arrested and several others escaped, a navy spokesman said. “The bodies were dumped about the ranch and were not buried. We are still investigating how long they had been there,” the spokesman said. He declined to give more details.
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Posted by admin on Aug 24th, 2010
By Stefan Christoff | August 24, 2010, rabble.ca
Under fluorescent lights at the U.S./Canada border, south of Montreal, questions on the war in Iraq and the Palestinian Intifada were fired towards me by officials from the U.S. Department of Homeland Security. It quickly became clear after arriving at the border and presenting my passport to U.S. customs officials that crossing into the U.S. would include an unwanted inquiry. After scanning my Canadian passport, gruff American officials hastily directed me to sit in the waiting area. Shortly after, an armed U.S. official called my name, directing me toward another section of the border crossing station.
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Posted by admin on Aug 15th, 2010
The Province, August 15, 2010
Update: RCMP have confirmed that a 37-year-old Sri Lankan man died of an illness on the MV Sun Sea during its three-month voyage from Thailand to B.C. Investigators have determined that the man died about three weeks ago while the migrant ship was in international waters. He was buried at sea and there is no indication of foul play.
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Posted by admin on Aug 14th, 2010
By Harsha Walia, Special to the Vancouver Sun August 14, 2010
From the Komagata Maru carrying 376 Punjabi passengers and the SS St. Louis travelling with 900 Jewish asylum seekers, to the boats with 600 people from China’s Fujian province and the Ocean Lady that docked in B.C. last year with Tamil refugees – there is something about boatloads of migrants that triggers a national hysteria. Perhaps it is the realization that the expanse of ocean is not enough to enforce the divide between the West and the so-called Third World.
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Posted by admin on Aug 13th, 2010
Obama and Congress increase border militarization, ensuring more migrant deaths and rights abuses
(Oakland, CA: Aug. 13, 2010) Earlier today President Obama signed a new bill authorizing an additional $600 million to increase border security, strengthening a deadly border militarization strategy. Tragically, this move will surely increase the number of migrants who perish at the U.S.-Mexico border and the bill contributes nothing to ensuring the safety and rights of migrants and border communities. The U.S. border security strategy forces migrants to cross through the deadly desert region, deliberately sending hundreds to their death every year. The new bill promises to enhance controversial immigration-police collaboration and places more military technology, including surveillance drones, on the border. An additional 1,000 Border Patrol officers, 250 Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE), and 250 Customs and Border Protection (CBP) agents will be hired. These increments do not include Obama’s recent announcement of the deployment of another 1200 National Guard troops to patrol the border in Arizona.
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