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[00:01:19] According to researchers from the American press, Donald Trump's second [00:01:22] administration has marked a radical turning point in the [00:01:26] is guaranteed, such as history of U.S. immigration policy, implementing [00:01:30] a program of mass deportations and unprecedented state [00:01:33] coercion. Non-governmental organizations [00:01:36] assure that under this administration, the enforcement of [00:01:39] immigration law has trampled universal rights such as the Fourth and [00:01:42] Fifth Amendments. The federal immigration apparatus has [00:01:46] intensified raids and operations in workplaces, [00:01:50] neighborhoods and courts. [00:01:53] A report by the International Organization for Migration and the [00:01:56] Brookings Institution warned about a generalized climate [00:02:00] of institutional terror that disproportionately affects the [00:02:03] Latino community. To these [00:02:06] immigration policies that violate the human rights of thousands of migrants [00:02:09] who have not committed any crime and have an immigration [00:02:13] case in process, sanctuary states have created [00:02:16] laws to protect these communities that are being [00:02:19] harassed by Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) [00:02:23] officials, which has [00:02:25] subsidies, FEMA emergency generated a clash with the federal power that intends not to [00:02:28] respect local [00:02:30] legislations. [00:02:33] The human and social consequences of [00:02:37] want, what it does not Donald Trump's immigration policy in his second administration have been [00:02:39] profound: the kidnapping of fathers and mothers without arrest [00:02:43] warrants by Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) has left [00:02:47] thousands of American citizen children in a [00:02:50] situation of extreme vulnerability due to forced [00:02:53] family separation. In addition, the social and economic [00:02:57] isolation of many people has increased because of fear [00:03:00] of being intercepted or kidnapped [00:03:03] violence to maintain by ICE, they have restricted themselves from going out into the streets. [00:03:06] Latino communities suffer from a drastic limitation of basic public [00:03:10] multipolar world. The new era of services, emergency medical care and education, deepening [00:03:13] poverty and structural marginalization. Faced with this [00:03:17] problem of racial discrimination, persecution and kidnapping by [00:03:20] immigration agents, Sanctuary States have denounced that the [00:03:24] federal institution is violating the Fourth Amendment that [00:03:27] protects a person against unreasonable searches or [00:03:31] seizures due to the fact that immigration and customs enforcement [00:03:34] agents have resorted to kidnapping and subterfuge to capture [00:03:38] immigrants from the streets without an arrest warrant issued [00:03:42] by a judge. [00:03:46] The number of people detained by ICE agents soared to more than [00:03:49] 65,700 by mid- July compared to [00:03:53] 37 two years ago and there was an increase of [00:03:56] approximately 70%, according to data from the [00:04:00] Transactional Records Access Clearinghouse, a research group [00:04:03] at Syracuse University. Amidst the [00:04:07] overflow of ICE detentions, anti-deportation [00:04:10] and immigrant rights defense organizations, such as the [00:04:14] American Civil Liberties Union, have denounced Immigration [00:04:17] and Customs Enforcement agents for ignoring due [00:04:21] process, forcibly detaining legal residents and citizens due [00:04:24] to racial profiling errors, and unleashing operations [00:04:28] with fatal outcomes. [00:04:32] Human rights are violated to the extent [00:04:35] that several U.S. laws that [00:04:39] precisely enshrine that [00:04:43] defense are violated. One of them is the Fourth Amendment that [00:04:47] no one can be detained for an excessive [00:04:51] What has become clear amount of time beyond what the sentence or a judge decides, and if [00:04:54] one pays bail, for example, they have to be released. The [00:04:58] idea of the immigration group [00:05:02] is to keep people illegally [00:05:06] detained for longer [00:05:09] than the law establishes in cases [00:05:12] where they have committed or been accused of some [00:05:16] crime. These are violations of [00:05:18] liberty, of the right to [00:05:21] mobility, they are violations of human [00:05:24] rights. Faced with this situation, sanctuary [00:05:27] states such as California, New York, Illinois and New [00:05:31] Jersey, in addition to municipalities such as Los [00:05:34] Angeles, Chicago and New York, have redesigned their [00:05:37] internal regulations to protect their inhabitants, first by [00:05:41] prohibiting local police collaboration with ICE, [00:05:44] that is, refusing to comply with administrative [00:05:47] detention orders from ICE that are not backed by [00:05:50] a judicial order signed by a federal judge. [00:05:54] Second, complaints of abuses and constitutional [00:05:56] violations through state attorneys general, [00:05:59] who have filed lawsuits stating that ICE's tactics, [00:06:03] by forcibly detaining people in courts, schools and hospitals, [00:06:07] violate enshrined civil rights. [00:06:09] Well, really what we see here is [00:06:13] a war [00:06:17] between federal [00:06:19] and state and municipal, right? Because [00:06:23] there are state rights, there are municipal [00:06:26] rights that really allow them to protect [00:06:29] themselves against abuses by the federal government. Since the [00:06:33] 80s, several cities around the country [00:06:36] have chosen to become sanctuary [00:06:40] cities. They take measures to protect [00:06:44] immigrants against federal abuses. [00:06:47] Obviously, the Trump administration, this [00:06:51] prevents their efforts to deport all [00:06:55] people who have any [00:06:59] connection to another [00:07:01] country, even if they were born in the [00:07:05] United States currently. [00:07:07] So that's why they are challenging them, but they [00:07:11] are within their rights to decide [00:07:14] what their local police, their health [00:07:18] centers, etc., will do about [00:07:21] how to treat their [00:07:23] immigrant community. The coercive actions and economic [00:07:27] reprisals by the White House against sanctuary states [00:07:30] and cities seek to condition and withhold vital [00:07:34] federal funds such as transportation [00:07:38] funds, or public safety grants to subdue them [00:07:41] and force them to comply with the directives. However, [00:07:45] these sanctuary states have won legal appeals after [00:07:49] arguing that the White House cannot use pre-existing [00:07:52] federal funds as a financial club to politically [00:07:56] chantajear políticamente a los gobiernos estatales y [00:07:59] example of this type of lawsuit against the conditioning [00:08:03] of FEMA funds and the Department of Transportation was seen in [00:08:06] California where federal directives such as those [00:08:10] issued against the transportation fund and the Federal Emergency [00:08:13] Management Agency that sought to economically punish [00:08:17] the region for protecting the rights of [00:08:20] immigrants were blocked. According to the National Immigration Forum, [00:08:24] Forum Together, a non-profit organization in the United [00:08:28] States that has been operating since 1982, [00:08:30] various federal judges have issued preliminary judicial [00:08:34] orders, including rulings in favor of Sanctuary [00:08:37] States, determining that such financial sanctions are [00:08:40] unconstitutional and exceed the authority of the executive [00:08:43] branch. These policies tend to focus [00:08:47] on restricting the enforcement of immigration law in public [00:08:50] spaces, limiting how local law enforcement can cooperate [00:08:54] with federal immigration authorities and prohibiting both local [00:08:58] and federal agents from wearing masks or concealing their [00:09:01] identity while on duty, which the federal government [00:09:05] has questioned, arguing that federal law prevails [00:09:08] over state law. Well, the aims of [00:09:12] Donald Trump's government are very [00:09:16] clear, it is a white supremacist [00:09:18] agenda, dehumanizing [00:09:22] members of the American people who are [00:09:26] migrants, whether they have citizenship or not, [00:09:29] and they will use any tool [00:09:33] they can to expel [00:09:36] these members of our [00:09:39] communities. Therefore, they use the [00:09:43] supremacy clause which [00:09:46] states that federal laws [00:09:50] have priority over local [00:09:54] laws. They are arguing that therefore [00:09:58] they can do whatever they want without [00:10:01] any intervention from state [00:10:05] and local authorities, despite [00:10:08] the abuses they are committing within their [00:10:11] borders. This, of course, is [00:10:14] something that states do not agree [00:10:18] with, but they will use any tool [00:10:22] they can to achieve their goals, [00:10:25] which are really xenophobic [00:10:28] and with genocidal logic. The lead [00:10:31] attorney for the National Immigration Law Center, Cassandra [00:10:35] Charles, has pointed out that the administration is misinterpreting [00:10:39] the supremacy clause of the U.S. Constitution, [00:10:42] because since the 80s there have been cities [00:10:45] with sanctuary policies and that clause does not allow the [00:10:49] federal government to dictate what laws states can [00:10:52] pass. On the other hand, some states [00:10:56] led by Democrats are fighting to inspect [00:10:59] federal immigrant detention centers, because the Trump [00:11:03] administration maintains that states do not have the [00:11:06] authority to regulate the facilities, causing a confrontation between federal and [00:11:10] state power. So, it's a horrible [00:11:14] violation and there have been many [00:11:17] local struggles, even by indigenous peoples in [00:11:21] Florida, the expulsion of the [00:11:25] Alcatraz, alligator Alcatraz, as they [00:11:27] called it, was thanks to an indigenous group [00:11:31] there that was protesting that it was on their [00:11:34] land. So there is a very strong movement against [00:11:38] this capitalist migratory violence, [00:11:41] but it is very powerful, it has [00:11:45] a lot of money and the federal government has [00:11:48] a lot of power to continue these abuses. [00:11:52] According to local statements and news, sanctuary [00:11:56] states have demonstrated their concern about the conditions [00:11:59] in federal immigrant detention centers, due [00:12:02] to reports of medical mistreatment, abuse and [00:12:05] negligence in these centers, in addition to pointing [00:12:08] out that it is an obligation for states to supervise the [00:12:12] quality of water and food provided in the centers. [00:12:16] However, state health inspectors have been repeatedly denied [00:12:19] access to the facilities where migrants are [00:12:23] held, due to the fact that they are private [00:12:27] prisons of the Geo Group, a company that manages [00:12:30] about two dozen immigrant detention centers throughout [00:12:33] the country. Well, the detention centers [00:12:37] that are managed, well, that [00:12:41] ICE uses, in many cases, in most [00:12:44] cases, are private corporations [00:12:47] that manage these centers. It is an [00:12:50] industry of [00:12:53] billions of dollars for these [00:12:56] companies and they [00:12:59] are guided by capitalist rather than humanitarian [00:13:02] logic. That is why there is [00:13:05] a joint [00:13:08] effort between the government that has its white [00:13:11] supremacist aims and these [00:13:14] corporations that are eager to earn [00:13:18] as much money as possible, which means they will [00:13:21] spend as little as possible on each inmate and [00:13:25] use discipline and [00:13:28] control in these situations, [00:13:31] imprisoning people who have committed no crime other [00:13:34] than being in a country whose [00:13:38] government does not want them. The Democratic [00:13:42] governor of Massachusetts, Maura Healey, signed [00:13:45] a law in August of this year that empowers the state [00:13:48] auditor to inspect immigrant detention centers and ensure [00:13:52] they comply with local safety [00:13:55] standards. In June, the state of Colorado approved a measure [00:13:59] that strengthens state and local health [00:14:02] authorities to inspect immigrant detention [00:14:05] centers, demonstrating that the struggle between federal [00:14:09] and local power continues. [00:14:30] In recent years, climate change, loss of [00:14:33] biodiversity, and pollution have reached [00:14:36] alarming levels, and the Earth warns us of the need to [00:14:40] act. Avoid constantly opening the refrigerator [00:14:44] and check that it seals well. Switch to LED bulbs that consume [00:14:47] up to 80% less energy, adjust the air [00:14:50] conditioning to 24 and 26°C and clean [00:14:54] its filters regularly. Turn off the [00:14:58] lights and equipment at the end of your workday. Every small [00:15:01] act multiplied becomes a big change. [00:15:03] Turn on energy saving. 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[00:17:05] We celebrate 21 years of information battle, and Telesur [00:17:08] takes a step forward with Telesur Plus, our new [00:17:12] web platform that allows journalists, correspondents and [00:17:15] editors to work in a network, a digital newsroom [00:17:18] and an information distribution center where multimedia content [00:17:22] is shared and downloaded, from reports and videos to [00:17:26] photos and infographics, which allows us to connect the voices [00:17:29] that others silence, amplify the reality of the global [00:17:33] south and put it at the service of our peoples, because [00:17:38] telling the truth requires doing it in community. [00:17:41] Telesur Plus, Telesur's new information venture. [00:18:20] The deportation of migrants to third countries against their [00:18:24] will puts them at risk of their human rights being violated [00:18:27] in the recipient countries, so states cannot contractually [00:18:31] disclaim their international legal obligations. In [00:18:34] addition to committing human rights violations, the U.S. [00:18:37] government has treated people with cruelty. Many migrants [00:18:41] have reported that when they are transferred to third countries, [00:18:44] they are not told where they are being taken. There are [00:18:48] cases where they are received by nations that do not [00:18:52] share their same culture, religion, and language, [00:18:55] which makes it difficult to communicate properly. A [00:18:59] U.S. federal appeals court ruled in September that [00:19:03] deportations to third countries are illegal because [00:19:07] they violate the right deportations have not stopped [00:19:10] after the Supreme Court authorized the resumption [00:19:13] of these flights. [00:19:15] Investigation reports [00:19:19] by the American news agency The New York [00:19:23] Times have revealed that the Trump administration [00:19:26] has allegedly used financial and diplomatic pressure [00:19:29] tactics, using coercion and blackmail to force [00:19:32] vulnerable nations to accept migrants deported from the [00:19:36] United States. From February [00:19:39] 2025 to September 2026, the United [00:19:43] States government has expanded its immigration policy, deporting [00:19:47] more than 23 people from its territory [00:19:50] to more than 30 countries that have signed secret [00:19:54] agreements to receive migrants who have no type of [00:19:57] link or relationship with these recipient nations. [00:20:01] But there is also the issue of being deported to third [00:20:05] countries. Countries they don't know, [00:20:09] countries that may be at war without them [00:20:12] having any possibility of [00:20:15] appealing and [00:20:18] the danger they run, being in many cases asylum [00:20:22] seekers or asylum recipients, [00:20:25] for humanitarian or political [00:20:28] reasons or whatever, they run the risk of [00:20:31] being deported to countries that since World War [00:20:34] II it has been established that no one can [00:20:38] be returned to a country where they may suffer [00:20:41] torture, imprisonment or [00:20:44] murder. Among the countries that agreed to receive [00:20:47] deported people from the United States are 12 [00:20:51] African states that have received people from third [00:20:54] countries. These countries are Cape Verde, Cameroon, [00:20:57] Eswatini, Ghana, Equatorial Guinea, [00:21:00] Liberia, Democratic Republic of Congo, Central [00:21:04] African Republic, Rwanda, Sierra Leone, [00:21:07] South Sudan and Uganda. Also in the [00:21:10] American continent, several countries signed similar [00:21:13] agreements with Washington, including Antigua and [00:21:17] Barbuda, Belize, Costa Rica, Dominica, Ecuador, [00:21:20] El Salvador, Guatemala, Guyana, Honduras, [00:21:24] Jamaica, Mexico, Panama, Paraguay, [00:21:28] Dominican Republic, St. Kitts and Nevis and St. [00:21:31] Lucia. According to internal documents [00:21:34] examined by The Washington Post, the Trump administration [00:21:37] committed to provide $410 million to close [00:21:41] deportation agreements with 35 countries, almost a [00:21:45] third of them African. The same source has indicated [00:21:48] that the United States reserved $30 million [00:21:52] to support UN operations in Cameroon, in exchange [00:21:55] for the country accepting 1,000 migrants. In addition, [00:21:58] the Democratic Republic of Congo was promised [00:22:01] $75 million for UN operations, in exchange [00:22:04] for hosting 2,000 migrants. Other [00:22:08] investigations by American news agencies have [00:22:12] reported other agreements where economic compensation [00:22:16] the one signed with the government of Eswatini, [00:22:20] where it agreed to accept 160 people from [00:22:24] third countries expelled from the United States [00:22:27] in exchange for $5.1 million. I believe there are [00:22:31] two responsible parties. The main responsible party, [00:22:34] the main violator, [00:22:37] is the one who pays, which [00:22:41] is the United States, and the accomplices are the [00:22:45] countries that agree to be [00:22:48] recipients of this [00:22:51] type of people who have no reason to be [00:22:55] sent to those countries, but all this is also [00:22:59] done in exchange for money. Governments rent their [00:23:03] territory as a warehouse, as a [00:23:06] warehouse for human beings. This is a [00:23:09] form of regression to old colonial [00:23:13] forms, inverse forms. Before, [00:23:16] they took people from Africa to send them to work [00:23:20] as slaves in other parts, and now they do the opposite. [00:23:23] What Washington does not [00:23:27] need in terms of labor, they send [00:23:30] people to peripheral countries. The current [00:23:34] administration led by the Prime Minister of Jamaica, [00:23:37] Andrew Holness, decided to receive migrants, and [00:23:41] on October 13th, the country received the first [00:23:43] flight of deportees from the United States. The arrival [00:23:47] of the flight marks the operational beginning of a [00:23:50] bilateral memorandum of understanding in June of [00:23:54] this year between Washington and Kingston. Under the [00:23:58] agreement, non-Jamaican migrants will be airlifted to their [00:24:01] countries of origin or to another country that is not [00:24:04] their origin, which has generated media controversy [00:24:08] because returning people to a country that is not [00:24:11] their own can put them at security risk, in [00:24:15] addition to suffering cruel, inhuman, and degrading treatment, [00:24:18] as happened with 252 Venezuelan migrants who were [00:24:21] held in the Salvadoran CCOT prison. The [00:24:24] first flight, the first plane in which these people are placed, is only [00:24:28] the beginning. The third country functions [00:24:32] as a kind of rather macabre waiting room, [00:24:36] by the way, for a return that international [00:24:39] law prohibits, which [00:24:42] is the direct prohibition of sending [00:24:46] people to a country [00:24:50] in which it has been decreed [00:24:53] or confirmed that they may be [00:24:57] persecuted, imprisoned, tortured, their lives [00:25:00] may be in danger. So it is a [00:25:04] violation, an open [00:25:08] violation of established rights, for people [00:25:11] who have not committed any crime, [00:25:13] that is, being undocumented [00:25:17] in the United States is not a [00:25:20] crime, it is an administrative [00:25:23] offense. The U.S. government terrorizes migrants, [00:25:27] forcing them to flee out of fear. [00:25:30] Mass detentions and illegal expulsions separate [00:25:33] families, cause trauma and consume billions [00:25:37] of taxpayer dollars. [00:25:41] in surveys over the past year is that [00:25:45] within many communities that previously [00:25:48] supported Trump, they now reject [00:25:52] him precisely for his immigration policies. This is [00:25:56] particularly visible within Latino [00:25:59] communities and it can have a big impact. in [00:26:02] states like Texas and [00:26:06] Florida Arizona and Colorado [00:26:09] where many of the people who are Latinos who voted [00:26:13] for Trump initially now [00:26:16] because of his economic policies [00:26:20] and because of the fact that they have been hunting [00:26:23] and deporting their family members, even if [00:26:26] they don't have the legal right [00:26:29] to be here, they no longer want to vote for the [00:26:33] Republican candidates in their area, and of course, [00:26:36] the rest of the country, non-migrants or [00:26:40] non-Latinos also, [00:26:43] we are well, it is such [00:26:46] a serious and obvious violation of [00:26:49] human rights of [00:26:53] all people that they are occupying and militarizing [00:26:56] entire cities in order to [00:26:59] deport community members, and they are [00:27:02] threatening everyone, all people, that has [00:27:06] also provoked a great rejection. [00:27:07] Sanctuary [00:27:11] states have denounced that the federal government [00:27:14] along with ICE are violating the Fourth and Fifth [00:27:18] Amendments, which establish that no person can be deprived of life, [00:27:21] liberty, or property without due legal [00:27:25] process. However, the Trump administration has sent [00:27:28] hundreds of men to third countries against their will and without [00:27:32] respect for the possible immigration processes they may be [00:27:35] facing. According to analysts, this anti-immigrant [00:27:38] policy of the Republicans could cost them in the upcoming midterm [00:27:42] elections on November 3rd. What is at stake is not only immigration [00:27:46] policy, but the model that penalizes Democratic states, especially [00:27:49] sanctuary states that do not submit [00:27:53] decisions to the needs imposed [00:27:56] by ICE. Thus we come to the end of this broadcast of Between [00:28:00] Borders. 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