Portside

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Refugees flee this Honduran city, which has long been a vast, American-owned sweatshop.

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In late April Linda and Phyllis spent 5 days at a shelter in San Diego assisting families just released from border detention. Both are retired and work supporting detainees and asylum seekers. These notes are from that experience.

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Hundreds of asylum-seekers spent part of Christmas Eve in a downtown parking lot here without knowing where they’ll end up next. Lawmakers and immigrant rights groups scramble after ICE releases hundreds of migrants without alerting local shelters.

An open letter to President-elect Andres Manuel Lopez Obrador sharing reflections in advance of his meeting with US Secretary of State Mike Pompeo. (English translation)

I know from experience that the Trump-sanctioned brutality at the US border with Mexico will scar its child victims for life. What is happening today is as evil and criminal as what happened to me and my siblings as children in Nazi Europe.