Injustice

NEW ORLEANS (AP) — A Honduran-born U.S. citizen says in a federal lawsuit that he was illegally held in a Louisiana jail for days because a sheriff’s office wrongly suspected he was in the country illegally.

Despite the official ceasefire peace agreement signed by the government and FARC leaders in 2016 after 50 years of civil war, criminal armed groups have re-ignited the violence in areas previously occupied by FARC.

HOUSTON (AP) — A new lawsuit blames the Trump administration’s family separations for the death by suicide of a Honduran father after being separated from his 3-year-old child.

Evelyn Hernández was falsely accused of aggravated homicide after surviving stillbirth.

The protests come after two separate cases that have shaken the nation where policemen have been accused of raping teenage girls. 

“Though real pain and fear are sweeping through our communities, we remain powerful,” the letter states.

This is a nation of immigrants. Its strength lies in its diversity. Its shame lies in its racial bias.

ALBUQUERQUE, N.M. (AP) — When Michelle Otero arrived at an art show featuring Mexican-American women, the first thing she did was scan the room. Two exits. One security guard.

Then she thought to herself: If a shooter bursts in, how do my husband and I get out of here alive?

The cancer of white supremacy will require a much more complex and multifaceted cure.

MORTON, Miss. (AP) — A spokesman for U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement says nearly half of those arrested during the largest immigration raid in a decade in the United States have been released.

CIUDAD JUAREZ, Mexico (AP) — Chatting with friends and carrying his lunch cooler, Carlos Carrillo was among hundreds packing the international bridge as they returned to Mexico from their jobs across the border.

“Our hearts go out to the victims, and to all communities targeted by hatred and gun violence.”

Trump did not pull the trigger, but his irresponsible words and deeds contributed to this.

.Immigrant and allies call on Democratic candidates to commit to stopping all deportations on day one in office

ICE acted in retaliation for protected speech that was critical of the agency, PEN America argues.

Our government has turned its back on these values.

“While I do not know what the government has hoped to accomplish here, I do know what the effect of all this has been. A raising of public consciousness,” the No More Deaths volunteer said in a statement.

SAN SALVADOR, El Salvador (AP) — A man and his young daughter who drowned trying to cross into Texas were laid to their final rest Monday, a week after a heartbreaking image of their bodies floating in the Rio Grande circled the globe.

After three years of struggle over their 500-hectare territory near the town of Itakyry in the department of Alto Paraná, the indigenous community can now return.

“This is playing politics with the lives of millions of people in our country,” said Assemblywoman Catalina Cruz.

The U.S. government has removed most of the children from a remote Border Patrol station in Texas following reports that more than 300 children were detained there, caring for each other with inadequate food, water and sanitation.