Forced Migrancy

In these article and reports, addressing forced migrancy and refugee flight from Guatemala and Honduras, note the contrasts between mainstream media reporting (U.S. / Canada) that generally refuses to address underlying causes, and other reporting analyzing how historic and on-going policies and actions of the U.S. and Canada – as well as other actors in the ‘international community’ - contribute to the underlying causes of forced migrancy and refugee flight. (See Media Misreporting archives for more analysis of the role of media when {mis}reporting on forced migrancy and refugee flight issues, amongst many other issues.)

2014 June 21 - “The U.S.-Created Child Migrant Crisis”, Latino Rebels Article

2014 July 02 - “Guatemalan Boy Left For Better Life, Died Alone”, Article by S. Perez D ; Link for “Harvest of Empire”

2014 July 14 - “Who’s Responsible for Flight of Honduran Children?”, Huffington Post Article by D. Frank

2014 July 17 - “Guatemalans Aren’t Just Fleeing Gangs: The Media Narrative Misses What Life There Is Really Like”, Article by S. Elbein

2014 July 25 - “U.S. Considering Refugee Status for Hondurans”, New York Times Article by F. Robles and M. D. Shear

2014 August 01 - “The U.S. Has Deported More than 30,000 Guatemalans This Year Alone”, Time Magazine Article by J. Gonzáles

2014 August 08 - “How the U.S.-Baked Genocide in Guatemala Drove the Child Refugee Crisis”, Article by G. M. Schivone

2014 August 18 - “Children of the Monroe Doctrine: The Militarized Roots of America’s Border Calamity”, Article by A. J. Viscarra and M. Prentice

2014 September 11 - “Murder and Migration in Honduras”, 14 minute Vice News report

2014 September 17 - “80% of Central American Women, Girls Are Raped Crossing Into the U.S”, Huffington Post Article by E. Goldberg

2014 October 23 - “CAFTA, Forced Immigration, Deportation Connections”, Huffington Post Article by L. Cohen

2015 March 23 - Letter to The Current (CBC News)

2015 October 14 - “The Refugees At Our Door”, New York Times Article by S. Nazario, Rights Action Commentary

2015 November 12 - Guardian Articles: “Refugee Crisis Grows in Central America As Women ‘Run For Their Lives’” & “U.S. Government Deporting Central American Migrants To Their Deaths”

2016 January 03 - US Should Legalize Mexican and Central American Migrants Now!

2016 December 15 - The Numbers are Staggering: Central America’s Normalized Refugee Crisis: The Northern Triangle is the worlds most dangerous region outside an official war zone

2016 December 27 - “U.S. Government-led ‘Alliance for Prosperity’ Intensifies Central American Forced Migrancy and Refugee Reality”, by D. Paley

2017 January 04 - “Noam Chomsky’s Request for President Obama Before He Leaves Office”, by A. Rosenmann

2018 March 31 - “Huge Caravan of Central Americans Headed for the US”, BuzzFeed Article by A. Flores

2018 April 03 - Hypocritical Pathology of U.S. and Canadian Policies in Honduras; Washington Post Article by S. Min Kim

2018 October 16 - “Forced Migrancy Caravan - 1000s of Hondurans and (probably soon) Guatemalans Fleeing North: There is No Mystery Here, No Dark Plot of Conspiracy”, by G. Russell

2018 October 17 - Honduran Regime Illegally Preventing People From Leaving

2018 October 23 - “Silence: Canadian Government Says Nothing About Massive Exodus of Hondurans and Militarization of Border”, Article by F. Alvarado

2018 October 24 - “Crackdown on Honduran Migrant Caravan ‘Against International Law’”, Al Jazeera Article by S. Cuffe

2018 October 29 - Governments of Mexico, Guatemala and Honduras — all U.S. and Canada Allies — Use Repression to Force Refugees to Stay in Countries They are Fleeing From Due to Repression and Destitution, Corruption and Impunity

2018 November 01 - “Profile of a Caravan Refugee: Orvelina Lizeth Melendez”, Al Jazeera Article by S. Cuffe

2018 November 09 - “‘The Last Call’: Searching for Missing Relatives on Migrant Route”, Al Jazeera Article by S. Cuffe

2018 November 15 - First Refugees of ‘Central American Exodus’ Arrive at US Border; Article by S. Cuffe

2018 November 26 - “US Agents Fire Tear Gas at Migrants in Start of Border Clashes with Mexico”, NY Post Article by N. Schwab

2018 December 14 - Media Sells Agony of the Death of 7-year-old Jackelin Caal, a Refugee Child from Guatemala, & Censors Complicit Role of the U.S. and Canada

2018 December 26 - “Who Killed Jakelin Caal Maquín at the US Border?”, The Nation Article by G. Grandin & E. Oglesby

2018 December 30 - “U.S. & Canada Help Produce Refugee Flight from Honduras & Guatemala”, by G. Russell

2019 January 23 - “‘A death sentence’: Migrant Caravan Member Killed in Honduras after US Send Him Back Honduras”, The Guardian Article by J. Ernst

2019 February 03 - “Migrants’ caravan leaves Mexico City, bound for northern border”, Mexico News Daily Article

2019 March 27 - “Caravans are the new and tragic identity of the poor in Honduras”, by P Melo

2019 May 03 - “Guatemalan boy detained by US border agency dies at Texas hospital”, The Guardian Article by N. Lakhani

2019 May 06 - Roots of forced migrancy in Central America, “For every square kilometer planted with basic grains in Central America there are two square kilometers controlled by the mining

2019 May 22 - Estimated 250,000 Hondurans & Guatemalans to be apprehended at U.S. border this year

2019 May 29 - “Let Them Have Water” Film; “Aid Worker Faces 20 Years in Prison for Providing Water and Shelter to Immigrants” Intercept Article

2019 June 10 - “Why Should Immigrants ‘Respect Our Borders’? The West Never Respected Theirs”, NY Times Article by S. Mehta

2019 June 23 - “Asylum seeking, forced migrants crisis in U.S. jails; Pathological, brutal & repetitive human inequality & injustice at play”, by G. Russell

2019 August 22 - Connecting the dots: “The role of Canadian mining in the plight of Central American migrants”, by T. Morgenstern

2019 October 24 - “Shithole Countries: U.S., Canada & international community helping produce forced migrancy from Honduras & Guatemala”, by G. Russell

2019 December 06 - Guatemalan teen Carlos Gregorio Hernandez Vazquez writhes on floor for hours in U.S.Border Patrol custody, before dying

2020 January 17 - “Mexico says it will stop hundreds of migrants trying to reach US”, BBC Article

2020 January 22 - “The U.S. has held a record 69,550 migrant children in government custody in 2019”, Associated Press Report

2020 February 04 - “Fact Sheet: Why Hondurans Are Forced to Flee”, by K. Spring, HSN

2020 February 12 - “US policy puts migrants at risk of kidnapping, extortion: MSF”, Al Jazeera News Article by S. Cuffe

2020 February 24 - Vicious closed cycle of forced migrancy from Central America, mainly Honduras and Guatemala

2020 October 08 - “Honduran migrants are caught between economic despair and militarized crackdowns”, LA Times Article by S. Cuffe

2021 February 09 - “Mexican Police Accused of Slaying Over a Dozen Guatemalan Migrants”, Vice World News Article by E. Green & D. Mora

2021 February 26 - The Brutal death of Edgar Lopez, “a massacre met with indignation and numbness”

2021 March 25 - “The root cause of migration to the United States, Mr. President, is us”, The Hill Article by S. Sherman-Stokes

2021 March 26 - Open Letter to Biden Administration: To not repeat mistakes of the past in Central America (except that they are not “mistakes”)

2021 April 07 - Doomed New York Times reporting about Central American forced migrancy

2021 April 13 - “America’s Forbidding Legacy on the Southern Border”, Article by S. Schlesinger

2021 May 12 - “Not a Border Crisis, An Imperialism Crisis, A Climate Crisis - but people don’t wanna have that conversation”; Articles by J. Stokan & J. Corbett

2021 August 18 - “Voyeurism-capitalizing-on-suffering reporting about continuing refugee flight from Guatemala and Honduras”, Article by G. Russell

2021 August 31 - Recommended Read “Border and Rule: Global Migration, Capitalism, and the Rise of Racist Nationalism” by Harsha Walia

2022 July 01 - “53 forced migrants and refugees die gruesome death in Texas: And no focus on, no blame put on global nation state and global capitalist neoliberal economic system”, article by G. Russell

2023 February 21 - “Why is Biden Recycling Failed Strategies to Slow Immigration?”, LA Times Article by J. Guerrero