(EN ESPAÑOL ABAJO) Our latest delegation spoke to the press about the current situation salvadoran migrants are facing in the United States: Through our meetings with community organizers and a visit with a rural farming community, we have seen the role that U.S. policies have played in the political, economic and social landscape of El […]
Joan Ellis and Dennis Chinoy, from the Bangor Committee, have recently published their thoughts on migration in the “Bangor Daily News”. Joan wrote: Many young Salvadoran males ended up in large cities like Los Angeles where, alone and vulnerable, they became ripe targets for gang recruitment. After the widespread 1992 riots in Los Angeles in […]
Our friend Rachel Dunlap went recently to the southern border and she decided to share her experience with the migration working group and any of you who might be interested in the human face of the “migrants” discussion. I just returned from a trip to the southern border with a group of students and […]
“Those of us from Bangor who participated in a similar immigration-focused delegation last year found some of our thinking about the issues re-arranged by our experience. It also prepared us to be able to offer with confidence multiple presentations on the immigration crisis that a variety of community groups have found compelling. We urge folks to go!” […]
Artículo original de Rafi Barglow / Arlington Teosinte Sister City Project La semana pasada, Zulma Tobar y Bernardo Belloso vinieron desde El Salvador a visitar la escuela de Arlington para hablar con casi cuatrocientos estudiantes sobre importantes temas que nos unen. Tobar es la co-coordinadora de Ciudades Hermanas, una organización que coordina las relaciones […]
The United States cannot have it both ways in El Salvador: imposing a foreign policy that drives people from their homes and an immigration policy that criminalizes people as they flee in search of safety and sustenance for their families. We stand with our Salvadoran sisters and brothers, who have shared with us friendship, solidarity, […]
Yesterday there was a protest outside the building housing Senator Collins’ office, demanding she take action to stop inhuman “zero tolerance” immigration policies. Our very own Dennis Chenoy was one of the speakers and he had the following to say: Despite the Trump/Sessions immigration fiasco roller-coaster, careening from one form of human rights abuse […]
Why has the highest law-enforcement official in the U.S. intervened to disqualify refugee status for desperate migrants, mostly women and children, who are fleeing physical and sexual violence at home? It seems (Jeff) Sessions has lost patience with clogging up the immigration system with people he regards basically as lawbreakers: “Saying a few simple words […]
(En español abajo) Yesterday I had the chance to meet with old and new members of the board of Carasque, in the department of Chalatenango. Carasque’s sister city is Bangor (Maine). This is a community that has constant communication with its sister city, despite the technical difficulties due to the signal in that […]
Joanie Ellis, from PICA, wrote the following after visiting Carasque, a community in the department of Chalatenango in El Salvador. We hope you enjoy this material, included in their June newsletter. Leaving Carasque Joanie Ellis In my dream we are riding on a bus filled with many Caresqueños. Laughing, singing, all in high […]