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Sue Lefebvre
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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 # 32

4/1/2020

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As if the migrant crisis weren't bad enough, we add the COVID-19 virus to the mix. Paul Barby stays on top of the news coverage of both issues. Links are embedded, so just click on the title to go to the article. This is a long list, but the articles are very worthwhile. Thanks, Sue

Migrants in Central American limbo
as coronavirus relocation plans falter
: Reuters

SAN JOSE (Reuters) - Thousands of African, Haitian and Asian migrants bound for the United States have amassed in immigration shelters in Panama ...
 
The US is swiftly removing migrant children
due to new coronavirus restrictions
: CNN

(CNN) The United States is returning some unaccompanied migrant children arrested on the US-Mexico border to their home countries under new ...
 
Shelters in Tijuana filling up with
expelled migrants
: 
KXAN.com

El Centro Integrador Para el Migrante is currently housing the migrants and is processing their needs. According to the center, the migrants are also ...
 
Impact of the Covid-19 Pandemic on 
Migrants and Remittances to Latin America

and the Caribbean
 Cities Alliance: Google
How vulnerable are migrants to the pandemic's effects on health and economics?

 
Three Bits of Good News on the 
Immigration Front
: Immigration Blog (blog)

The major development is a negative, almost invisible one: There were no immigration policy setbacks in the stimulus bill. As an old Washington hand, I ...
 

Questions On Immigration, Borders
And Travel During The Coronavirus
Epidemic
: NPR

NPR's immigration correspondents answer listener questions about closed borders, travel, visa applications, relief aid for non-U.S. citizens and the ...
 
Daily Immigration News Clips –
March 30, 2020
: AILA
Aggregated local and national media coverage of major immigration law news stories being discussed throughout the United States on March 30, ...

 

DACA immigrants on the coronavirus
front line (letter to the editor)
: silive.com

I am one out of 27,000 young undocumented immigrants working in healthcare who is part of the Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals (DACA) ...

Immigration attorney pleads for
relief as DACA deadlines loom
and social distancing adds hurdles ...
 :
Business Insider
 
Under coronavirus immigration measures, US is expelling border-crossers to Mexico in an average ...:Texas Tribune
Under a new policy spurred by the new coronavirus crisis, Customs and Border Patrol agents are sending undocumented immigrants back into Mexico ...
 

The US is now starting to see
the value of immigrant health
workers
: Quartz

Since it came to power, the Trump administration has waged a relentless, multi-layered war on immigration. But it only took a few days of panic over ...
 
Detainees in US immigration jails
iving in fear as coronavirus spreads
: 
The Guardian
Detainees at immigration detention centers across the American south have alleged heavy-handed crackdowns amid increasing panic and protest ...

Immigrants Jailed by ICE Are Sick, Panicking, and Can't Get Coronavirus Tests - Vice News
 
Happy Surfing, Sue
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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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