Paper/Proposal Title
Human Rights Violations at the U.S.-Mexican Border
Location
River Campus - Room M2005
Start Date
10-4-2013 9:30 AM
Abstract
In the past nine years, Sinclair Community College students and faculty have visited the U.S. Mexican Border each year as part of geography and sociology course on this topic. Over, eighty students and five faculty have participated. Two of the faculty have participated every year and have witnessed the increasing human rights violations on the border. Using data, photographs, and newspapers collected over the past nine years, presenters will discuss the increasing militarization on the border and the effect it has had on increasing human rights violations. For example, ten years ago numerous humanitarian groups were on the border living in campgrounds bringing water to undocumented migrants, whereas today vigilante groups are vandalizing water left in the desert to keep people from dying and even posting videos online. Along with the increased militarization of the border, has come more stringent criminal prosecution (Operation Streamline), imprisonment of undocumented migrants, declining treatment of women including reports of rape and criminalization of various forms of humanitarian aid.
Many humanitarian groups are referring to the U.S.-Mexican Border has a form of genocide. In particular they point out the majority of the people dying are poor people of color. We will argue that the State of Arizona has basically become a militarized state. Amnesty International has issued several statements about the State of Arizona and the state is featured in a report “Jailed Without Justice”
Human Rights Violations at the U.S.-Mexican Border
River Campus - Room M2005
In the past nine years, Sinclair Community College students and faculty have visited the U.S. Mexican Border each year as part of geography and sociology course on this topic. Over, eighty students and five faculty have participated. Two of the faculty have participated every year and have witnessed the increasing human rights violations on the border. Using data, photographs, and newspapers collected over the past nine years, presenters will discuss the increasing militarization on the border and the effect it has had on increasing human rights violations. For example, ten years ago numerous humanitarian groups were on the border living in campgrounds bringing water to undocumented migrants, whereas today vigilante groups are vandalizing water left in the desert to keep people from dying and even posting videos online. Along with the increased militarization of the border, has come more stringent criminal prosecution (Operation Streamline), imprisonment of undocumented migrants, declining treatment of women including reports of rape and criminalization of various forms of humanitarian aid.
Many humanitarian groups are referring to the U.S.-Mexican Border has a form of genocide. In particular they point out the majority of the people dying are poor people of color. We will argue that the State of Arizona has basically become a militarized state. Amnesty International has issued several statements about the State of Arizona and the state is featured in a report “Jailed Without Justice”
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