Engage! is dedicating it’s space on the web to highlight one cause, and this time it’s Detention Watch Network’s campaign to end family detention, to end the rape and abuse of women and children in immigrant detention centers, to demand justice for the “disappearance” of 1500 children under DHS custody…this brutality and injustice is an… Read More Engage w/Detention Watch Network
ENGAGE! IS THE DHARMA OF CRITICAL ENGAGEMENT, social, scientific and spiritual. Our mission is to bring about awakening through the exploration of our deep interconnectedness, our interbeing with the phenomenal world. Engage! is looking for inspired activists to offer posts, articles, poetry, photos, videos, drawings, animations, music, song, and spoken word to the magazine. Send us your… Read More Get Engaged! Submit Your Beautiful Noise
The Northern Triangle’s agricultural crisis has been more than a decade in the making. [Guatemala, Honduras, El Salvador] [Editor: I’m not one to say that climate change and the environment are the sole cause of mass migration, but this article provides the statistics to show that the cause is 1) not primarily drugs or gang… Read More Climate Change in the Border Migration Crisis
Editor: At the end of this post is a ‘Waking Up’ podcast by Sam Harris interviewing Andrew Yang, economist, entrepreneur and business educator, a who is running as a Democrat for US President in 2020. To begin with, I am not a fan or even a casual follower of Sam Harris, first because he is… Read More Andrew Yang: AI, UBI and the War on Normal People
Separated migrant children are headed toward shelters with a history of abuse and neglect Taxpayers have paid more than $1.5 billion to private companies operating shelters accused of serious lapses in care, including neglect and abuse. by Aura Bogado, Patrick Michels and Vanessa Swales, Reveal and Edgar Walters, The Texas Tribune June 20, 2018 10… Read More Private Security Firms Exploit & Abuse Migrant Children
Understanding The Administration’s Monstrous Immigration Policies by Brianna Rennix https://www.currentaffairs.org/2018/06/understanding-the-administrations-monstrous-immigration-policies Regular readers of Current Affairs will know that I usually have a lot to say about immigration. Regular readers of the news generally will know that a lot of bad stuff has happened with immigration over the past week or so. An article was inevitable! Here… Read More History of Migrant Family Detentions Pt. 2
I’m posting two articles that explain how a web of immigration laws, policies and practices that go back decades set the stage for the Trump administration to take children away from migrant families at the border and detain them in cages. And yes, it involves both Democrats and Republicans, beginning with Bill Clinton, who signed… Read More History of Migrant Family Detentions Pt. 1
What’s Really Happening When Asylum-Seeking Families Are Separated? An expert on helping parents navigate the asylum process describes what she’s seeing on the ground. Katy VineJune 15, 2018 Originally published in Texas Monthly Central American asylum seekers wait as U.S. Border Patrol agents take them into custody on June 12, 2018, near McAllen, Texas. The… Read More US Child Brutality Policy in Texas
Trauma at the Texas-Mexico Border: Families Separated, Children Detained & Residents Fighting Back Democracy Now covers the outrage at the US Customs Border Patrol practice of separating children from their parents at the Mexican border. We look at growing outrage over the Trump administration’s policy of separating immigrant families who cross the U.S.-Mexico border, many… Read More Auschwitz America
