WORLD & NATION
November 1, 2013
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Just weeks after President Barack Obama signed a bill to lift the government shutdown, a trio of troubles befell the Obama
administration. Authorities are investigating allegations that the NSA repeatedly spied on American allies without Obama’s
knowing. At the same time, Senate Republicans threatened to block presidential appointments to the Senate if the administration
fails to be transparent about the 2012 attack in Benghazi, Libya, which left four Americans dead. Most recently, millions of
Americans lost health care coverage during an Obamacare website crash, forcing consumers to buy new insurance policies.
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into his skin, gay 24-year-
old Daniel Zamudio died
Mar. 12,2012. A year and a half
later, Zamudio’s attackers have
been found guilty and punished
by a court in Santiago.The court
sentenced the leader of the
attackers to life imprisonment but
jailed the youngest of the group
for seven years.“l just want them
to rot In prison for what they did,”
Jacqueline Veras, Zamudio’s mother,
said of the attackers in an interview
with the Associated Press. “Let them
dry up behind bars.”
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Damascus, Syria
Last reported
domestically in
1999, wild poliovirus
resurfaced 15 years
later on Mon, Oct. 28.
The World Health
•Organization confirmed
the outbreak: 10
cases of polio in the
eastern province of
Deir al-Zour.A further
12 cases are being
investigated, and the
majority of victims are
below the age of two,
the BBC reports.With
Deir al-Zour engulfed
in the ongoing civil
war,WHO spokesman
Oliver Rosenbauer
fears that over 100,000
‘'children under the age
of five are at risk of
contracting’the disease.
Kismayo, Somalia
In response to Islamist militant group al-Shabaab’s recent terror strike In Kenya, the
track and assassinate two senior members of the Insurgent group. Among the dead
Shabaab’s top explosives expert.
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Proposed policy calls for militarization of US-Mexico border, more fences
BY NICOLE BARNARD
Every day, 40 to 80 Mexican
immigrants are brought to
DeCondni Courthouse in Tucson,
Ariz. to be deported.
Under the threat of a felony
charge, these people are offered a
choice by the judge: "Plead guilty to
a misdemeanor entry, and the felony
entry charge (which is punishable
by up to 20 years in prison) will be
dismissed," Isabel Garcia, co-chair
of the Coalition of Human Rights
and Pima County Legal Defender,
said to In These Times.
These are the border-crossers.
According to Turning the Tide,
the number of deportees under
President Barack Obama is the
highest since Operation Wetback
imder former President Dwight
Eisenhower.
"Obama says immigration
reform is a top priority," said senior
Chloe Weiner. "This entails mass
militarization of the border."
Weiner organized a presentation
in King Hall on Oct. 27 to address
the U.S.-Mexico border crisis.
Junior Noelle Lane and Head
of the Multicultural Education
Department Jorge Zeballos both
Located on the U.S.-Mexico border, the ghost town of Ruby, Arizona is a popular site for No More Deaths mission trips.
disagree with the president's
proposed policies.
"Budget increases towards
militarization would increase the
number of deaths (on the border),"
Lane said.
"The policies applied to the
management of the border are
inflicting great human suffering,
while not contributing to solve the
stated problems that motivated
them," said Zeballos.
The effects of border
militarization and incarceration are
not confined to immigrants. More
money is going into the criminal
justice system to keep immigrants
incarcerated annually.
For example, in 2012 the U.S.
government spent $441.9 million
in federal contracts to house
criminal aliens. Then, after Sen.
John McCain saw a woman
climb the U.S.-Mexico divide, the
government shelled out $1.5 billion
for border fencing, according to
No More Deaths, an organization
working towards ending death and
suffering on the border.
"If we think fences can prevent
people from seeking a better life
... we deeply underestimate the
human conditions that drive
immigration," said former Sen.
Alfredo Gutierrez in a letter to The
New York Times.
Besides, only 50 percent of
Mexican immigrants cross the
border terrestrially. The other half
make the journey by boat or plane.
Last spring. Lane flew to Phoenix,
Ariz. to work with No More
Deaths. On her trip, she and other
students "took gallons of water and
food ... and carried them to heavily
trafficked migrant routes with the
hope of providing someone with
nourishment to survive," Lane said.
If so many lives are on the line,
why are most people still in the dark
about humanitarian movements
and advocacy groups like No More
Deaths?
"It's easy for people who are
removed jhom the geographical
location of the border and removed
from the lives of immigrants to be
unaware of how big of an issue this
is," said Weiner.
Lane adds: 'The reason that
the media doesn't cover this in a
way that would benefit aspiring
Americans is because America
capitalizes off of the labor of the
undocumented."
So what can we do to help?
"Simple steps will lead us
towards a more humane solution,"
said Weiner. "Eliminating the use of
'illegal' while referring to a human;
not allowing racial profiling to be the
law; not allowing corporations to
profit off of locking up immigrants;
eliminating the 'War on Drugs' and
recognizing that drug addiction
is a public health concern rather
than a criminal offense; active truth
seeking; practicing solidarity with
immigrant communities ... the list
goes on."
"Students can be very active
in advocating for more humane
immigration policies (and) for
reforming the current immigration
system," said Zeballos. 'They can
also seek opportunities to support
undocumented immigrants in the
community and at Guilford."