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*** 13-May-17 World View -- Canada receives record numbers of Mexican asylum seekers after Trudeau's welcome tweet
This morning's key headlines from GenerationalDynamics.com
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**** MSF: Central American refugees entering Mexico are regularly beaten and tortured
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Migrants board 'La Bestia' (The Beast) in southern Mexico to travel to the US border. (AP, 2014)
According to a new report by Doctors Without Borders (Médecins Sans
Frontières - MSF) an estimated 500,000 migrants cross the border from
Central America into Mexico each year. Many of these migrants are
fleeing violence in what MSF calls the Northern Triangle of Central
America (NCTA), consisting of El Salvador, Honduras, and Guatemala.
However, their countries of origin aren't limited to those in Central
America. In just a few days in September of last year, there was a
surge of almost 5,000 Haitian, African and Asian migrants entering by
Mexico's southern border. None of these migrants requested permission
to stay in Mexico, as they all wanted to reach the United States. The
huge sudden surge of migrants overwhelmed officials at US border
crossings in California.
Most migrants enter Mexico in the hope of continuing through Mexico to
the United States. The MSF says that as they travel through Mexico,
they're often victimized by kidnapping, extortion, rape, assault,
torture and murder by criminal organizations, often with the tacit
approval of Mexican authorities. 68.3% of migrants and refugees
surveyed by MSF reported having been victims of violence on the
transit route to the United States.
In 2014, under pressure from the United States, Mexico instituted
increasingly harsh border-control measures in the form of Plan
Frontera Sur, a Mexican crackdown on border security funded in part by
the U.S. This change in Mexico's policy has substantially increased
the likelihood that the refugees will face violence, since the
crackdown forces refugees to depend on human traffickers and travel on
underground routes operated with impunity by organized crime.
In February, during the first month of Donald Trump's administration,
Mexican officials met with US military officials to try to find common
ground on immigration and other issues. The relationship between the
United States and Mexico has become strained after president Trump
vowed to build a wall between the two countries to keep out illegal
immigrants, drug dealers and criminals and make Mexico pay for it.
Details of the meeting were not released.
To resolve the humanitarian crisis, MSF calls on governments across
the region – mainly El Salvador, Guatemala, Honduras, Mexico, Canada,
and the US – to ensure better alternatives to detention and
deportation to countries of origin where they'll be once again subject
to violence. These countries should increase their formal
resettlement and family reunification quotas. Doctors Without Borders (Médecins Sans Frontières - MSF) and
Reuters (2-Feb) and AP (25-Sep-2016) and iPolitics (Canada)
Related Articles
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**** Canada receives record numbers of Mexican asylum seekers after Trudeau's welcome tweet
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Mexicans are seeking asylum in Canada at a rate four times greater
than in 2016. The first three months of 2017 already saw more cases
recorded than in the entire year 2016.
One reason for the surge is president Trump's travel ban, announced in
January, which raised concern in refugees that they might be prevented
from entering the United States. Instead of trying to cross the
border into the US, they get on a plane that takes them to the airport
in Vancouver, British Columbia, in Canada.
The second reason is that Canada's prime minister Justin Trudeau
invited them in. In 2016, Trudeau eliminated a visa requirement,
imposed in 2008, for Mexicans traveling to Canada. The visa
requirement sharply reduced the number of migrants, until it was
lifted.
In addition, Trudeau decided to react to Trump's travel ban by
tweeting the following on January 28:
> [indent]<QUOTE>"To those fleeing persecution, terror & war, Canadians
> will welcome you, regardless of your faith. Diversity is our
> strength[1] #WelcomeToCanada"<END QUOTE>[/indent]
Trudeau's tweet was followed by a picture of him greeting a refugee
family. The two tweets garnered over a million likes and
half-a-million retweets,
The Canadian government has threatened to reinstate the visa
requirement, and has told the Mexican government that it will do so if
asylum claims continue to increase. Canadian Broadcasting (16-Apr) and Daily Caller (17-Apr) and Canadian Broadcasting (3-Apr)
KEYS: Generational Dynamics, Mexico, El Salvador, Honduras, Guatemala,
Northern Triangle of Central America, NCTA,
Médecins Sans Frontières, MSF, Doctors without Borders,
Plan Frontera Sur, Canada, Justin Trudeau
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This morning's key headlines from GenerationalDynamics.com
- MSF: Central American refugees entering Mexico are regularly beaten and tortured
- Canada receives record numbers of Mexican asylum seekers after Trudeau's welcome tweet
****
**** MSF: Central American refugees entering Mexico are regularly beaten and tortured
****
Migrants board 'La Bestia' (The Beast) in southern Mexico to travel to the US border. (AP, 2014)
According to a new report by Doctors Without Borders (Médecins Sans
Frontières - MSF) an estimated 500,000 migrants cross the border from
Central America into Mexico each year. Many of these migrants are
fleeing violence in what MSF calls the Northern Triangle of Central
America (NCTA), consisting of El Salvador, Honduras, and Guatemala.
However, their countries of origin aren't limited to those in Central
America. In just a few days in September of last year, there was a
surge of almost 5,000 Haitian, African and Asian migrants entering by
Mexico's southern border. None of these migrants requested permission
to stay in Mexico, as they all wanted to reach the United States. The
huge sudden surge of migrants overwhelmed officials at US border
crossings in California.
Most migrants enter Mexico in the hope of continuing through Mexico to
the United States. The MSF says that as they travel through Mexico,
they're often victimized by kidnapping, extortion, rape, assault,
torture and murder by criminal organizations, often with the tacit
approval of Mexican authorities. 68.3% of migrants and refugees
surveyed by MSF reported having been victims of violence on the
transit route to the United States.
In 2014, under pressure from the United States, Mexico instituted
increasingly harsh border-control measures in the form of Plan
Frontera Sur, a Mexican crackdown on border security funded in part by
the U.S. This change in Mexico's policy has substantially increased
the likelihood that the refugees will face violence, since the
crackdown forces refugees to depend on human traffickers and travel on
underground routes operated with impunity by organized crime.
In February, during the first month of Donald Trump's administration,
Mexican officials met with US military officials to try to find common
ground on immigration and other issues. The relationship between the
United States and Mexico has become strained after president Trump
vowed to build a wall between the two countries to keep out illegal
immigrants, drug dealers and criminals and make Mexico pay for it.
Details of the meeting were not released.
To resolve the humanitarian crisis, MSF calls on governments across
the region – mainly El Salvador, Guatemala, Honduras, Mexico, Canada,
and the US – to ensure better alternatives to detention and
deportation to countries of origin where they'll be once again subject
to violence. These countries should increase their formal
resettlement and family reunification quotas. Doctors Without Borders (Médecins Sans Frontières - MSF) and
Reuters (2-Feb) and AP (25-Sep-2016) and iPolitics (Canada)
Related Articles
****
**** Canada receives record numbers of Mexican asylum seekers after Trudeau's welcome tweet
****
Mexicans are seeking asylum in Canada at a rate four times greater
than in 2016. The first three months of 2017 already saw more cases
recorded than in the entire year 2016.
One reason for the surge is president Trump's travel ban, announced in
January, which raised concern in refugees that they might be prevented
from entering the United States. Instead of trying to cross the
border into the US, they get on a plane that takes them to the airport
in Vancouver, British Columbia, in Canada.
The second reason is that Canada's prime minister Justin Trudeau
invited them in. In 2016, Trudeau eliminated a visa requirement,
imposed in 2008, for Mexicans traveling to Canada. The visa
requirement sharply reduced the number of migrants, until it was
lifted.
In addition, Trudeau decided to react to Trump's travel ban by
tweeting the following on January 28:
> [indent]<QUOTE>"To those fleeing persecution, terror & war, Canadians
> will welcome you, regardless of your faith. Diversity is our
> strength[1] #WelcomeToCanada"<END QUOTE>[/indent]
Trudeau's tweet was followed by a picture of him greeting a refugee
family. The two tweets garnered over a million likes and
half-a-million retweets,
The Canadian government has threatened to reinstate the visa
requirement, and has told the Mexican government that it will do so if
asylum claims continue to increase. Canadian Broadcasting (16-Apr) and Daily Caller (17-Apr) and Canadian Broadcasting (3-Apr)
KEYS: Generational Dynamics, Mexico, El Salvador, Honduras, Guatemala,
Northern Triangle of Central America, NCTA,
Médecins Sans Frontières, MSF, Doctors without Borders,
Plan Frontera Sur, Canada, Justin Trudeau
Permanent web link to this article
Receive daily World View columns by e-mail
Contribute to Generational Dynamics via PayPal
John J. Xenakis
100 Memorial Drive Apt 8-13A
Cambridge, MA 02142
Phone: 617-864-0010
E-mail: john@GenerationalDynamics.com
Web site: http://www.GenerationalDynamics.com
Forum: http://www.gdxforum.com/forum
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