Report Condemns DHS's Human Rights Record

” For the last 11 years, an average of one Mexican has died each day trying to cross the U.S. border without documentation, the National Human Rights Commission reports. NNIRR's study documents how the U.S.-Mexico border region has experienced intensified militarization, becoming a "de-constitutionalized zone," as well as ICE’s deliberate utilization of high-profile raids in workplaces in the interior in what the organization sees as a political response against immigrant rights efforts. “Immigrants, whether they are documented or undocumented, are the almost exclusive scapegoat for the faltering economy, the deterioration of services and social problems,” the report states. In a national statement signed by nearly 100 organizations, NNIRR called for greater recognition of the human rights of all immigrants.

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