Immigrants Decry President Obama s New Year Resolution to Begin Massive Roundups and Deportations of Central Americans with Oscar Chacon, Ex. Dir. Alianza Americas
To stanch the flow of undocumented refugees to the U.S., President Obama, who some now refer to as the Deporter-In-Chief s Department of Homeland Security (DHS) has been preparing a national operation to deport Central American families, many of whom have been showing up at the southwest border, driven to leave El Salvador and Honduras which is gripped by terrifying violence, in a region that has also been plagued by devastating drought. Starting this month, U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement, a DHS unit, plans to start rounding up hundreds of families that entered the U.S. without documents and deport them. Building Bridges speaks with Oscar Chacon, Executive Director of Alianza Americas, an immigrant from El Salvador, Chacon is a frequent lecturer on Latino immigrant issues in the U.S. and the impacts of the Latino diaspora in Latin America and decries this betrayal of the U.S. s touted principles of human rights
produced by Mimi Rosenberg and Ken Nash
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