Paquete Multimedia: Cuatro Prácticas de Deportación que Ponen en Riesgo a Migrantes | Washington Office on Latin America

Más de 1.5 millones de personas han sido deportadas de los Estados Unidos desde 2009. La mayoría de estos migrantes son mexicanos quienes son deportados a ciudades fronterizas en México. Ciertas prácticas de deportación colocan a los migrantes en riesgo de ser secuestrados, extorsionados e incluso asesinados por los cárteles de la droga y por grupos criminales que operan a lo largo de la frontera.Estas prácticas peligrosas de deportación incluyen devolver a los migrantes en mitad de la noche, y deportarlos a ciudades fronterizas mexicanas que presentan altos niveles de violencia y actividad criminal.via Paquete Multimedia: Cuatro Prácticas de...

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Couples split by border hope reform brings relief – News Nation – Boston.com

As Edgar Falcon and Maricruz Valtierra exchanged vows, they attracted the attention of hundreds of morning commuters Tuesday at the Santa Fe border bridge in El Paso, craning their necks to see the couple standing on the dividing line between the U.S. and Mexico.Falcon, a U.S. citizen, now faces the choice of staying in Texas and living apart from his wife, a Mexico citizen, or relocating to Ciudad Juarez, a city with about 1,500 murders last year.Falcon says Valtierra can’t enter the U.S. because when she was 16 years old, her sister tried to bring her to the United...

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Youth gang prevention in Mexico | Baker Institute Blog | a Chron.com blog

Mexico’s struggle with organized crime has consumed much of the policy agenda in the administrations of Felipe Calderón and now, Enrique Peña Nieto.  Academics and policy analysts looking beyond the battles with high-level organized crime groups have identified street gangs in Mexico as a potential looming security threat.  After conducting interviews with gang experts in Mexico, I discovered that security- centric responses often exacerbate the problem.  Mexico would be better served by a long-term development and human rights oriented strategy to address the problem of youths in gangs.  Indeed, at least rhetorically, the new Peña Nieto administration recognizes this...

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Drug strategy unclear as Mexico pares back new security force | Reuters

Mexico’s government on Tuesday diluted plans for a new security force to fight drug gangs, as President Enrique Pena Nieto struggles to break with the military-led strategy of his predecessor.Pena Nieto took office in December vowing to take a different tack in Mexico’s raging drug war. Former President Felipe Calderon tried to tame drug bosses with a military assault, but it was widely seen as a failure and more than 70,000 people died in drug-related violence.Pena Nieto originally promised a 40,000-member gendarmerie, or militarized police force, that would take the lead in tackling violent crimes like extortion and kidnapping as the marines and army gradually returned to their barracks.The aim was to move the command away from Mexico’s complex network of poorly paid security forces, which have been easy targets for the cartels to infiltrate and corruptvia Drug strategy unclear as Mexico pares back new security force |...

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Op-Ed: Is Immigration Reform a Reason for Hope – Or Just Dreams? » The Chicago Bureau

In May of 2010 Michelle Obama and the wife of former Mexican leader Felipe Calderon were siting in on a classroom in an elementary school in Silver Spring, Maryland, when a second grader cornered the First Lady on the issue of immigration:“My mom … she says that Barack Obama is taking everybody away that doesn’t have papers,” the girl said. “My mom doesn’t have any papers.”The First Lady responded: “Well, we have to work on that. We have to fix that, and everybody’s got to work together in Congress to make sure that happens.”Despite the plea, the eight-year-old girl’s...

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