From 2012-2022, undocumented immigrants have a homicide conviction rate 14% below native-born Americans. Immigrants have a 62% lower homicide rate and undocumented immigrants have a 41% lower total criminal conviction rate than native-born Americans.
One night in 2014, a group of young men from a rural teachers’ college vanished. Their families have fought for answers. “I don’t have a body to mourn,” a father said of his son, one of the missing students. “I have nothing to hold that is him.”
Despite their relative isolation, the Zapatistas intend to continue influencing social dynamics. They have demonstrated that mobilisation for diversity doesn’t have to mean identity-base tensions, and can accompany the fight for social justice.
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