{"id":594592,"date":"2018-06-24T07:00:55","date_gmt":"2018-06-24T13:00:55","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/nmpolitics.net\/index\/?p=594592"},"modified":"2018-06-22T17:13:02","modified_gmt":"2018-06-22T23:13:02","slug":"indigenous-immigrants-face-unique-challenges-at-the-border","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/nmpolitics.net\/index\/2018\/06\/indigenous-immigrants-face-unique-challenges-at-the-border\/","title":{"rendered":"Indigenous immigrants face unique challenges at the border"},"content":{"rendered":"
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Heath Haussamen \/ NMPolitics.net<\/p>

A scene from the tent city at a border crossing in Tornillo, Texas, where immigrant children are being held.<\/p><\/div>\n

On Wednesday, President Donald Trump signed an executive order essentially\u00a0back-peddling<\/a>\u00a0on his administration\u2019s \u201czero tolerance\u201d border-crossing policy, which has been separating families along the U.S.-Mexico border. Still,\u00a0hundreds of minors<\/a>\u00a0remain locked in detention, isolated from their parents \u2014\u00a0including Indigenous children from Mexico and Central and\u00a0South America.<\/p>\n

Trump\u2019s critics often deride the president as outside American norms, but in this case, the United States has set a number of precedents for\u00a0separating families,\u00a0particularly for people of color<\/a>\u00a0and their children, with its history of black enslavement and forcible removal of Native children to boarding schools.<\/p>\n

Between May 5 and June 9,\u00a0more than 2,000 immigrant families<\/a>\u00a0were stopped at the U.S.-Mexico border. Government agents and agencies have failed to identify Indigenous individuals and families after apprehension — and because many Indigenous migrants speak neither English or Spanish, language barriers can lead to human and Indigenous rights violations and increase the risk for family separations.<\/p>\n