Mexico’s Federal Access to Information Institute (IFAI) ordered the Attorney General’s Office (PGR) to reverse its classification of records related to the Tamaulipas massacre, and disclose a public version of the documents on the repatriation of the remains of the migrants killed at San Fernando, Tamaulipas, in August of 2010. (Últimas Noticias) Mexico’s National Institute … Continue reading
Monthly Archives: August 2013
Mexican Officials Downplayed “State’s Responsibility” for Migrant Massacres
Mexican officials sought to minimize “the state’s responsibility” for the slayings of scores of migrants and other travelers kidnapped from intercity buses as part of a drug cartel turf war in the northern state of Tamaulipas, according to a declassified report from U.S. officials in Mexico. This and related records were obtained by the National Security … Continue reading
Article 19 launches Right to Truth campaign for access to official records on the San Fernando Massacre
The organization Article 19 announced it has launched a campaign directed at Mexico’s Federal Access to Information Institute (Instituto Federal de Acceso a la Información – IFAI) to secure the release of investigative documents relating to the 2010 killing of 72 migrants in Mexico’s northern region of San Fernando, Tamaulipas. Article 19 has argued that … Continue reading
Migration News – August 19-23, 2013
The prominent human rights organization the Permanent People’s Tribunal (Tribunal Permanente de los Pueblos – TPP) gave statements this week in Mexico City reporting that the public policies in Mexico that have been promoted by the United States have resulted in more than 100 thousand migrants kidnapped, abused and extorted since 2007, as well as … Continue reading
Migration News – August 12-16, 2013
[Compiled by Jesse Franzblau] El Universal reported on the detention of ten Central American migrants and one suspected human trafficker of Mexican origin in the southern state of Chiapas near the Guatemalan border. The migrants and suspected trafficker were taken into custody by the National Migration Institute and agents from the Federal Preventive Police. (El Universal) … Continue reading
FOIA NOTES: ICE’s Controversial Secure Communities Program
Recently, the Archive launched a new round of Freedom of Information Act (FOIA) requests on what has become one of the most controversial immigration enforcement initiatives in the United States: the Secure Communities deportation program. The data-sharing program requires participating state and municipal jurisdictions to run the fingerprints of arrestees through various federal law enforcement … Continue reading
Migration Declassified 