Experts offer compelling testimony about conditions on Southern Border

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Border Patrol agents confronting demonstrators at the southern border in California.  
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The People’s Tribune and our bilingual sister publication, El Tribuno del Pueblo, launched “The People to People Fact-Finding Delegation to the Border” in August in collaboration with a group of activists, researchers, and independent journalists, who are deeply concerned about human rights violations at the U.S.-Mexico border.
From August through October 2020, the group convened five virtual panels (listed below) representing different sections of the U.S.-Mexico Border. By making several virtual stops at border crossings along that route, in Brownsville, Texas-Matamoros, Tamaulipas; El Paso, Texas-Ciudad Juárez, Chihuahua; Organ Pipe Cactus National Monument, Arizona; and Mexicali-Calexico, San Diego-Tijuana, we sought to reveal some of the specificities and commonalities between these embattled but nonetheless vibrant border communities. Twenty-seven experts who are active in the border region collectively gave nearly 10 hours of eyewitness testimony to more than 400 listeners. Their testimony was given against the background of what has been probably the most critical presidential election in U.S. history, and in the midst of the Covid-19 pandemic. A full report, to be issued soon, will be based on the findings from this fact-finding delegation and will be distributed to state, national and international governmental and human rights bodies.

Visit our website at http://www.peoplestribune.org to see the five panel videos

Group issues damning findings on human rights abuses at border


 
 
 

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