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Colombia’s Immigration Crackdown Threatens Venezuelan’s Rights

On August 23, Colombia’s President Abelardo de la Espriella ordered Migración Colombia (Colombia’s migration agency) and the ...
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“Scared, Traumatized, Destitute, and Physically Vulnerable”: Report illuminates the invisible crisis of thousands stranded in southern Mexico by U.S. “mass deportation…

Trapped in Tapachula, third-country migrants are subject to a “revolving door” of detention and release, unable to work ...
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U.S.-Mexico Border Update: July migration, outcry over barrier construction, third-country deportations, military role

Border Patrol's migrant apprehensions declined slightly in July. Wall-building controversies erupt in several sensitive areas ...
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“It’s a Policy That Seeks to Wear People Out”: U.S. “mass deportation” brings misery to Mexico’s far south

At Mexico’s northern border in Nogales, and at its southern border in Tapachula, the increase in deportations of both Mexican and other nations’ citizens is generating a full-blown humanitarian crisis ...
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Banished to the South: The Human Cost of Deportation

At Mexico’s northern border in Nogales, and at its southern border in Tapachula, the increase in deportations of both Mexican ...
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Statement on the announced reform and renewal of the Supreme Tribunal of Justice within the framework of the negotiating table

The undersigned civil society organizations take note of the joint statement signed on August 12 by the delegations of the ...
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