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Smoke and Lies: Uncovering the truth about the Ciudad Juárez fire
On the approaching one-year anniversary of the deadliest fire in a government-run migrant detention facility in Mexico’s history, a new binational investigation disproves the official account of what happened.
The Border Chronicle's Melissa del Bosque collaborated as project leader in her role as investigations editor at Lighthouse Reports on this months-long bilingual investigation released this week, “Smoke and Lies: Uncovering the truth about the Ciudad Juárez fire” by Lighthouse Reports, La Verdad Juárez and El Paso Matters reveals that keys to the men’s cell were at the facility throughout the fire, despite officials, including Mexico’s president, claiming otherwise.
The investigation’s findings disprove this official narrative and support demands for accountability and justice by victims and their families of the Mexican government.
Podcast Clip: Asylum at the U.S.-Mexico border has never been more complex
It’s been almost a year since the U.S. government rolled out the CBPOne app, which was meant to reduce the number of migrants arriving at the U.S.-Mexico border.
Caitlyn Yates, a PhD student in sociocultural anthropology at the University of British Columbia, joins us from Panama, where she studies the migration flow through the Darién Gap, one of the most dangerous migratory crossings in the world. This year, the jungle crossing will have seen a historic number of migrants, she says, most of whom are on their way to the U.S.-Mexico border.
Listen to the episode in full at theborderchronicle.com
Clip from "Prepare Yourselves for the 2024 Border Chaos Narrative"
In Todd Miller’s interview with Al Otro Lado's executive director, Erika Pinheiro describes the hyper-distorted fear mongering narrative of overwhelm as “a situation that's intentionally created by border patrol, in particular, to feed this narrative of overwhelm and open borders into support for the restrictions on asylum”.
Listen to the podcast episode: https://www.theborderchronicle.com/p/prepare-yourselves-for-the-2024-border
Clip from "Prepare Yourselves for the 2024 Border Chaos Narrative"
Al Otro Lado's executive director, Erika Pinheiro, discusses what’s to come this election year: more of the CBP One app and open-air border prisons, along with a hyper-distorted fearmongering narrative of overwhelm.
Listen to the whole episode: https://www.theborderchronicle.com/p/prepare-yourselves-for-the-2024-border
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