Category: Borders & Migration
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Thousands March in Minneapolis to Stop Separating Families
Minneapolis, MN – Thousands turned out to march through the streets of south Minneapolis against the United States practice of separating children from their families at the Mexico-US border. The start time of the event was pushed back a half hour due to a fierce…
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Migrant Aid Workers Targeted by Border Agencies in Retaliation, Documents Suggest
Tucson, AZ – Federal officers within the Border Patrol and Fish and Wildlife Service began a campaign of targeted government surveillance against No More Deaths (No Más Muertes aka NMD) in 2017.
A recently filed court motion submitted by the Attorney of defendant Dr. Scott…
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New Years Blockade at Youth Detention Tent City
Tornillo, TX – Indigenous people, migrant rights activists, and their allies are entering the second week of a protest occupation at the gates of the USA’s largest detention facility for immigrant children. The controversial prison camp, which exclusively holds immigrant minors, is based in Tornillo,…
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Faith Leaders March on U.S. Border in Solidarity With Migrants
U.S./Mexico border – Hundreds of faith leaders and allies marched to the United States border wall just south of San Diego in solidarity with the migrant caravan. They were met by Border Patrol agents and Department of Homeland Security police who arrested over thirty clergy…
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Hunger Strike Ends with March on U.S. Consulate
Tijuana, Mexico – After fourteen days of an ongoing hunger strike to bring attention to human rights violations against the migrant caravan, members of Pueblos Sin Fronteras met with Mexican officials at the National Institute of Migration (INM). They also met with U.S. Officials at…
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Border Patrol Arrests Migrants Crossing U.S./Mexico Border Wall
Tijuana, Mexico – On Monday, December 3, 2018, Unicorn Riot witnessed migrants arrested by U.S. Customs and Border Patrol agents after crossing the border wall near the Pacific ocean. The arrests came as numbers of migrants desperate to seek asylum in the United States grow,…
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Migrants Moved to New Center as Hunger Strike Continues
Tijuana, Mexico – Thousands of migrants have been relocated to a new migrant shelter and await what changes may come as the new Mexican President takes office.
Caravan Moved to New Shelter in Tijuana Mexico from Unicorn Riot on Vimeo.
In the shelter, migrants found…
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Migrants Speak as Thousands Continue to Arrive
Tijuana, Mexico – The influx of migrants from Central America arriving near the United States border continues. We returned to the Benito Juarez Stadium over the past two days. The first day, we spoke to Maria Louisa about her month-long voyage north, and the violence…
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Tear Gas at Border as Asylum Seekers Attempt to Cross
Tijuana, Mexico – Groups of asylum seekers that marched to the U.S./Mexico border to protest delays in the asylum process on November 25 were tear gassed by police forces from the United States. The march from Tijuana ran into lines of Mexican riot police as…
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Asylum Seekers from Caravans Gather Along U.S./Mexico Border
Mexico/U.S. Border – Unicorn Riot sent a team of two that spent five days from November 15 to 20, 2018 along the United States/Mexico border south of San Diego, California as caravans of asylum seekers arrived in Tijuana, Mexico. We witnessed coils of razor wire…
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Not Guilty: A Precedent of No Accountability in Border Patrol Shootings
Tucson, AZ – In an Arizona federal courthouse on Wednesday, November 21, Border Patrol Agent Lonnie Swartz was declared not guilty of a lesser charge of involuntary manslaughter in the killing of 16-year-old José Antonio Elena Rodriguez. The jury will return on December 11 to…