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Sue Lefebvre
www.suelefebvre.com
Lives in Phoenix, Arizona

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I am a volunteer with the humanitarian organization, No More Deaths. This group works to save lives and prevent suffering among migrants crossing into the united states from mexico. they are desperate and face untold dangers when attempting to cross the sonoran desert. This blog provides current information about this crisis.

Blogs will be posted intermittently. To purchase my book, NO MORE DEATHS, go to amazon.com.
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blog 21

1/27/2020

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​PAUL'S POST
Paul must have stayed up nights gathering these articles. Fortunately, he shares them with us. Thanks, Paul. Sue


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​VIDEO: Trump Pushed Mexico to Block Its Border. A Migrant Caravan Tests It. Video by BRENT McDONALD and ORA DeKORNFELD. Pressured by threats from President Trump, Mexico beefed up security on its border with Guatemala. We witnessed a confrontation with the first migrant caravan of 2020.

DNA Collection at the Border Threatens the Privacy of All Americans, By DANIEL I. MORALES, NATALIE RAM and JESSICA L. ROBERTS. We’re one step closer to the “genetic panopticon” that Antonin Scalia warned us about.
 

ICE Dangerously Lowered Its Standards for Immigrant Detention Centers and Hoped You Didn't Notice, Peter Wade, Rolling Stone. Wade writes: "Immigration and Customs Enforcement has lowered its standards for detaining migrants, the Texas Observer reported."
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'No Human Rights': Mexico Blocks Migrant Caravan Headed North, Jeff Abbott, Al Jazeera. Abbott writes: "The Mexican National Guard and immigration officials stopped a caravan of hundreds of migrants and asylum seekers on Thursday as they walked towards the southern city of Tapachula."
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Trump's Best Means for Stopping Migrants Is Mexico's Government, Wall Street Journal. Most of the migrants in the caravan have been arrested and sent to crowded detention facilities, from where most of them will be deported to their ...
 
Silence at the Border: Telling the Hard Stories of Undocumented Immigration

Literary Hub. Silence. Silence has plagued me since the day I left my country on April 3, 1999. I was nine years old. There was no parent around. I've never spoken ...
 

Second Arizona group agrees to stop yelling at churches helping immigrants
CBS46 News Atlanta. (CNN) -- An Arizona group that was accused of harassing and intimidating churches and pastors helping immigrants has agreed to stop their actions ...
 

Mexico Breaks Up a Migrant Caravan, Pleasing White House, MEXICO CITY — For generations, Mexico served as a relatively open thruway for undocumented migrants traveling to the United States. Tens of ...

Use of 'Rescues' by Mexican Migration Officials Criticized - The New York Times. 

Migrants Stranded in Mexico Cling on to Hopes of Reaching US Border - U.S. News & World Report

Migrants stranded in Mexico cling on to hopes of reaching US border - Reuters.com.
 
Priest helping migrants, staff in Guatemala receive death threats, The Catholic Spirit. A Catholic priest helping feed and shelter migrants in Central America has filed a complaint with Guatemalan authorities after he and his staff received 


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    Sue Lefebvre is a former early childhood educator . Since the passage of NAFTA in 2004, she has been very interested in immigration issues--joining her husband, Gene, in Tucson, AZ volunteering with the humanitarian group No More Deaths/No Mas Muertes in Southern Arizona.

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