The special issue on No Borders As Practical Politics has finally come out in the Canadian journal *Refuge*
You can access the entire issue here
Table of Contents
Editorial
A Note from the Editor
Sharry J. Aiken
Introduction
Editorial: Why No Borders?
Bridget Anderson, Nandita Sharma, Cynthia Wright
Havoq & Pride at Work, Apr. 21 2011
After 2 years
4 Queer Community Conversations
and many drafts
we finally have a working draft of our Queer No Borders Points of Unity:
Undoing Borders!
Click here to download a version to read on screen: Undoing Borders On-Screen Version
Click here to download a version to print as a double-sided zine: Undoing Borders Print Version
New America Media, Photo Essay, David Bacon, Posted: Apr 18, 2011
TIERRA DEL SOL, Calif.—The tiny towns that line the U.S.-Mexico border in east San Diego County—Campo, Boulevard and Tierra del Sol—mark the road north for hundreds of migrants as they cross the border, and travel on. Hardly any of those migrants stay – only those who die in the crossing. But for the people who live here, some with roots going back generations, these tiny communities are home to growing hunger and poverty. The border fence features prominently in the landscape of Tierra del Sol, snaking through the desert, two miles south of Campo. A sprawling Border Patrol station – spanning several acres – sits just outside town. Every month, hundreds of migrants risk crossing the border by trekking though the mountains here, and many die during the attempt. The graveyard in Holtville, a few hours away, is filled with hundreds of graves, marking those found dead in these hot, dry hills.
Press Release, April 14 2011 – A group of organizations today welcomed the final decision of the Inter-American Commission on Human Rights upholding a complaint made concerning the forced return of three refugee claimants to the United States in 2003. The Inter-American Commission on Human Rights (IACHR) ruled that Canada violated its human rights obligations when it returned the three refugee claimants to the US without first providing individualized review of their asylum claims. The claimants were returned to the US under Canada’s ‘direct back’ policy. “The Inter-American Commission spoke quite clearly here,†said Janet Dench, Executive Director of the Canadian Council for Refugees. “Canada cannot simply turn refugee claimants away at our borders. We have an obligation to assess each case individually, so that we can take into account what might happen to them if we send them away. This is an important decision, not just for Canada but internationally.â€
by Asraa Mustufa. Thursday, April 14 2011, Colorlines
U.S. Customs and Border Protection agents in Arizona tased an undocumented man into a coma, and two ICE officers are currently guarding his hospital room 24 hours a day, ready to re-deport him should he recover, the LA Weekly blog reports. Jose Gutierrez was a longtime L.A. resident and film engineer, married to U.S. citizen Shena Wilson, with whom he had two children. He was brought to the U.S. as a child and has never returned to Mexico since. On March 21, he was deported by the L.A. Immigration Court, and on March 30, his wife received a call from the Mexican consulate in Yuma, Arizona, saying that there had been an incident at the San Luis point of entry in Arizona.
