Category: Detention

  • Thank You for Our Busiest Month

    Videos by Matthew Gossage of the First Vigil to Shut Down Hutto have been posted recently at YouTube, please see links on right sidebar of our home page.

    2007 marks the tenth anniversary of the Texas Civil Rights Review. Throughout
    the years, our motivation has remained the same. We want to make sure that some
    issues and arguments not communicated by the corporate media get represention
    on the internet. Along the way we have provided a few stories and perspectives
    that make distinctive contributions to the civil rights struggle in Texas. And
    a healthier Texas makes for a healthier world. In January we are looking at record-breaking page views (for us, they are record
    breaking) making this our busiest month yet. Jay Johnson-Castro has brought an
    audience with him, and we can see the difference it makes.

    Although the corporate media is nearly unanimously evading affiliation with Palestinian
    families imprisoned in Texas, the story of the Ibrahims, Suleimans, and Hazahzas
    is nevertheless traveling the globe at the speed of light. How is the word spreading?

    To begin with, Austin-area activists called a
    Dec. 16 vigil
    ouside the T. Don
    Hutto prison camp for immigrant families. Then Del Rio entrepreneur Jay Johnson-Castro
    heard about it and volunteered to walk from the Capitol to the vigil, which he
    did, mostly alone.

    Then Juan Castillo of the Austin-American Statesman wrote a story reporting that
    the Hutto jail was populated with people who had entered the USA illegally.

    Castillo’s report prompted Dallas attorney John
    Wheat Gibson to fire off an email
    pointing out to the reporter that some
    families in the jail had in fact entered the USA legally. Johnson-Castro distributed
    that email, we posted it right away, and we have been collecting materials about
    the Palestinian families since then. (Even though, I don’t think the Statesman
    has mentioned the Palestinian families yet.)

    IndyMedia has been a very important space for distributing news about this story.
    And editors at CounterPunch, Dissident
    Voice
    , Electronic
    Intifada
    , and Uruknet have been very supportive with their re-postings of our work.

    Then came Marisa Treviño’s Dec. 19 overview
    at Lista Latina
    . From there
    the story has spread to important websites such as Infowars, XicanoPwr, Aztlan
    Electronic News
    , and blogs such as Texas
    Kaos
    and PhoenixWoman.

    Jesse Salmeron’s
    video
    of the Christmas Eve vigil has been warmly linked around
    the blogosphere. When the woman from Dallas introduces the child she has
    brought with her to the vigil, she reaches right into your heart. And everything
    changes.

    Last but never least is Flashpoints host
    Dennis Bernstein who moderates a wonderful program for KPFA and Pacifica
    affiliates. Audio
    links to his progam
    help complete the package
    of materials available for people finding this news for the first time.

    Of course, the trouble with thanking people in a crowded room is that you are
    sure to have failed to mention all who deserved it. So please take the names
    as indicators of a spirit that is not at all limited to the entities named above.–gm

  • Appeal for Latin-American, Arab-American Solidarity

    In today’s emails of resistance, John Wheat Gibson clips an article from Guantanamo prisoner Jumah Al Dossari, adding a reminder that “the bureaucrats described below are the same people who are keeping small children and pregnant women, who have never even been accused of a crime, in the privatized for-profit prison in Taylor, Texas.”

    Juma’s appeal from Guantanamo calls out to “fair minded Americans,” because, like so many others who are being abused by our runaway machines of state, he still believes that America is a nation of people.

    Jay J. Johnson-Castro replies that the T. Don Hutto prison camp is the place where the Homeland Security agenda reveals itself as “a crime against Brown” that must be resisted through solidarity between Latin Americans and Arab Americans.

    Here at the Texas Civil Rights Review, on this day after the 78th birthday of Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. we say that Juma, John, and Jay are bound to be right. How long? Not long? Because this gulag bureaucracy, that feeds upon the power of fear, must fall.–gm ************

    email from Jay J. Johnson-Castro, Jan. 16, 2007

    Justice is coming amigos…

    We the people are slow to raise our voices in solidarity. But once we do…those who view themselves as our rulers will rediscover what the opening words of our Constitution … “We the people” …. actually means. It is we…the disenfranchised people that make up the ruling class! Those in office are merely employees … and many of their actions do not meet with our approval. They can therefore be replaced by those who share and will represent our values of freedom, democracy and justice. Such rulers can no longer commit crimes against humanity with impunity. Hutto will be shut down. But we will not stop there.

    The demented acts such as Guantanamo and Hutto have roots somewhere in our country and within the prevailing government. Those roots must be weeded out and replaced with true representatives of liberty, human dignity and of moral fiber. We need genuine representatives of the US Constitution and the Bill of Rights.

    To accomplish this…we will communicate with our friends, neighbors, the media and our elected officials. We will accomplish this with our minds and our hearts. This is an intellectual and moral warfare. We cannot fight terror by being terrorists. No border walls. No prison camps. No more torture and violations of the most basic of human rights. No more racial profiling. Refugees are not “illegals”. They are not criminals. Refugees are refugees.

    This is turning out to be a crime against Brown. I appeal to the Latin Americans and the Arab Americans to entertain showing public solidarity here. Hutto is the perfect starting place.

    The Border Wall was proposed to be built against…not just Mexico …but all of Latin America ’s poor. To accomplish that…it was also bannered by the racist supremacists as the “Arab-Muslim terrorist pipeline”. Essentially, the Border Wall was an assault against both the Latin and Arab worlds. There are literally millions of Americans…of all ethnicities, socio-economic backgrounds, religious faiths, and political persuasions that are vehemently opposed to things like this being committed in the name of freedom, liberty, democracy and “ America ”. That’s like a Christian committing rape of a child in the name of God…without consequences. Doesn’t work that way folks…and we have to remind our fellow Americans and those who are elected to preserve our country’s values…that we will no longer tolerate such flagrant abuses and crimes against humanity.

    We demand that it such malignant manifestations of anti-democracy cease.

    Jay

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    The Border Ambassador

    Connecting.the.dots…making.a.difference…

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    Jay J. Johnson-Castro, Sr.

    Del Rio, Texas , USA
    Ciudad Acuña, Coahuila , Mexico
    jay@villadelrio.com
    http://www.villadelrio.com

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    From: John Wheat Gibson
    Tuesday, January 16, 2007
    FW: [Nlginteract] The Brunei Times – A cry from Guantanamo

    Note that the bureaucrats described below are the same people who are keeping small children and pregnant women, who have never even been accused of a crime, in the privatized for-profit prison in Taylor , Texas .

    The Brunei Times

    OPINION

    A cry from Guantanamo

    Jumah Al Dossari

    15-Jan-07

    I AM writing from the darkness of the US detention camp at Guantanamo in the hope that I can make our voices heard by the world. My hand quivers as I
    hold the pen.

    In January 2002, I was picked up in Pakistan , blindfolded, shackled, drugged and loaded onto a plane flown to Cuba . When we got off the plane in
    Guantanamo , we did not know where we were.

    They took us to Camp X-Ray and locked us in cages with two buckets — one empty and one filled with water. We were to urinate in one and wash in the
    other.

    At Guantanamo , soldiers have assaulted me, placed me in solitary confinement, threatened to kill me, threatened to kill my daughter and told me I will stay in Cuba for the rest of my life.

    They have deprived me of sleep, forced me to listen to extremely loud music and shined intense lights in my face. They have placed me in cold rooms for hours without food, drink or the ability to go to the bathroom or wash for prayers.

    They have wrapped me in the Israeli flag and told me there is a holy war between the Cross and the Star of David on one hand and the Crescent on the other. They have beaten me unconscious.

    What I write here is not what my imagination fancies or my insanity dictates. These are verifiable facts witnessed by other detainees, representatives of the Red Cross, interrogators and translators.

    During the first few years at Guantanamo , I was interrogated many times. My interrogators told me that they wanted me to admit that I am from al-Qaida and that I was involved in the terrorist attacks on the United States.

    I told them that I have no connection to what they described. I am not a member of al-Qaida. I did not encourage anyone to go fight for al-Qaida.

    Al-Qaida and Osama Bin Laden have done nothing but kill and denigrate a religion. I never fought, and I never carried a weapon. I like the US and I am not an enemy. I have lived in the US , and I wanted to become a citizen.

    I know that the soldiers who did bad things to me represent themselves, not the US . And I have to say that not all American soldiers stationed in Cuba
    tortured us or mistreated us.

    There were soldiers who treated us very humanely. Some even cried when they witnessed our dire conditions. Once, in Camp Delta , a soldier apologised to me and offered me hot chocolate and cookies.

    When I thanked him, he said, “I do not need you to thank me.” I include this because I do not want readers to think that I fault all Americans.

    But, why, after five years, is there no conclusion to the situation at Guantanamo ? For how long will fathers, mothers, wives, siblings and children cry for their imprisoned loved ones?

    For how long will my daughter have to ask about my return? The answers can only be found with the fair-minded people of America .

    I would rather die than stay here forever, and I have tried to commit suicide many times. The purpose of Guantanamo is to destroy people, and I have been destroyed. I am hopeless because our voices are not heard from the depths of the detention centre.

    If I die, please remember that there was a human being named Jumah at Guantanamo whose beliefs, dignity and humanity were abused.

    Please remember that there are hundreds of deta

    inees at Guantanamo suffering the same misfortune. They have not been charged with any crimes. They have not been accused of taking any action against the US .

    Show the world the letters I gave you. Let the world read them. Let the world know the agony of the detainees in Cuba .

    Jumah Al Dossari is a 33-year-old citizen of Bahrain . This article was excerpted from letters he wrote to his attorneys. Its contents have been deemed unclassified by the Department of Defence.

    The Gulf Times

    http://www.bruneitimes.com.bn/details.php?shape_ID=17159

  • The Case for Immediate Release of the Ibrahims

    Letter Charges Immigration Authorities with Unlawful Detention; Reveals Feb. 8 Deadline for Report to Senate Committee about Hutto Family Prison

    By Greg Moses

    “We will be filing a petition for writ of habeas corpus in the Western District of Texas for Hanan, Hamzeh, Rodaina, Maryam, and Faten and a separate petition for writ of habeas corpus in the Northern District for Salaheddin,” says New York immigration attorney Joshua E. Bardavid today in reference to the Ibrahim family of Richardson, Texas who were abducted and jailed by USA immigration authorities in early November.

    On January 24, 2007, Bardavid and his mentor Theodore N. Cox sent to the Department of Homeland Security a request for release of the Ibrahim family. Bardavid has supplied us with a pdf of the request; however, since the electronic file contains exhibits of family travel documents, Bardavid asks that it not be posted out of respect for the privacy of the Ibrahim family. Here is a summary:
    In the request for release, Bardavid and Cox argue that the lawful period for detaining and deporting immigrants is within a six-month period following a final order of removal. Since that order of removal was officially filed on August 24, 2004, attorneys argue that the lawful period for detention and deportation has long expired.

    Furthermore, say Bardavid and Cox, there is no likelihood that the Ibrahims can be sent back to Palestine. According to the Oslo II accords, Palestinian families may only return if they meet specific conditions (“individuals who left with valid travel documents that were pre-approved by he Palestinian authority, in possession of current. validly issued Palestinian identity documents”) that the Ibrahims do not fulfill.

    Neither do the Ibrahims pose any risks to the USA or to their neighbors, says the attorneys. So there are no special circumstances to warrant the family’s detention:

    “Their time in the Palestinian Territories and time in the United States demonstrate that they are nothing short of upstanding, productive, well-respected members of any community in which they live. Their continued detention is unlawful in that the purpose of the detention – civil (to effectuate removal) – no longer exists.”

    In fact, argue Bardavid and Cox, the special circumstances that do exist in the Ibrahim case are ones that support the immediate release of the family:

    “Hanan Alhai Ibrahim is currently pregnant. The stressful and unhealthy conditions in prison endanger the health and wellbeing of both Mrs. Ibrahim and her unborn child.”

    Quoting remarks made by President George W. Bush when he signed the Unborn Victims of Violence Act of 2004, attorneys argue that not only is the detention of Mrs. Ibrahim unlawful, but that the detention of her unborn son “is a direct violation of the spirit of the law.”

    “In signing this bill into law, President Bush explained that it ‘reinforced the circle of compassion’ and reaffirmed our Government’s and society’s commitment to a ‘a culture of life.’ ”

    As for the children already born into the Ibrahim family, attorneys argue that their ages are a special circumstance that counts in favor of release:

    “Aged five to fifteen, the emotional impact and devastating long-term psychological harm caused by prolonged detention cannot be underestimated. The same holds true to Mr. and Mrs. Ibrahim’s youngest child, age two, who has been separated from the family and placed into foster care as a direct result of this unlawful detention.”

    Even if the Ibrahims were being detained within the allowable six month period, attorneys Bardavid and Cox argue that immigration authorities have not yet provided evidence that they conducted a proper custody review.

    “Here, to the best of counsel’s knowledge, ICE has not conducted a single review of Respondents’ current detention. Because ICE has failed to do so, they are in violation of the laws and regulations governing detention, and continued detention is invalid.”

    Additionally, argue Bardavid and Cox, the detention of the Ibrahims is a violation of the Fifth and Fourteenth Amendments of the USA Constitution, including a right to family unity.

    “Distilled. the case law establishes that a fundamental right exists for parents and children lo maintain their bonds and ongoing relationship as a family unit free from government action that destroys that family unit.”

    In fact, Congressional concern about the treatment of families has resulted in a demand by the Senate Appropriations Committee that ICE “submit a report by February 8, 2007, assessing the impact of the Hutto Family Center in Williamson, Texas, on the number of families required to be separated, and providing updated forecasts of family detention space needs for the next 2 years.”

    Bardavid and Cox also reference a consent decree in the case of Flores v. Ashcroft under which the federal government adopted a policy in 2001 to “usually house . . . persons under the age of 18 in an open setting such as a foster or group home, and not in detention facilities.”

    Because ICE has not taken any steps to prove why the Ibrahim children must be detained in prison, the agency is required to release them immediately, argue Bardavid and Cox in their letter to the Department of Homeland Security, dated Jan. 24, 2007.

  • Time for a Collapse: Renewed Appeal for Marcha Migrante II

    email from Jay J. Johnson-Castro, Jan. 17, 2007. To see the updated schedule, click the link at the top of our home page.–gm

    Afternoon amigos…

    Please see the attached Border Caravan itinerary…

    The imprisonment of women and children in Texas , building a border wall, death along the border of Americans and refugees are all connected. Therefore, all of you that are interested in one or more of the above are receiving the attached Marcha Migrante-Border Caravan schedule. We will be featuring all of these things on issues during our 5000 mile caravan from February 2-18.
    We’re also sending out an appeal to all Snowbirds and Winter Texans who flock to the US-Mexico border to join us in advocating the great culture that exists here like no where else in the world.

    A special appeal goes out to all ethnic groups, all races, all socio-economic groups, all political and religious groups…to support this Marcha Migrante II and the Border Caravan. Especially, we’d like to see solidarity form between Latin American and Arab American groups and organizations. In the last few years, these are the two groups that are being specifically targeted in our country. One group as illegal immigrants draining our country. The other group as potential terror cells in America.

    Finally…an appeal to the media. In the Rio Grande Valley, the local media has been exceptional. Virtually every newspaper, TV and radio station covered the opposition to the Border Wall. Regarding the imprisonment of the women and children at the Hutto prison camp in Taylor , Texas …again, the local media was exemplary. Especially, BBC (Spanish), Univision, Azteca, Televisa and Notimex have all done a marvelous job of covering the real grass roots opposition to the Federal policies that are an assault on poor Latin Americans, Middle Easterners and any poor refugee fleeing to our land of Liberty…just like our predecessors did.

    However, the national media, seem to care less about the truth and the facts then they do about TV entertainment ratings. Most of us realize that they have been complicit with the ruling class. They have been the mouth pieces to foster the obscene idea of building border walls and have done nothing to expose the prisons that would treat refugee women and innocent children as criminals. They have evidently not found it financially to their benefit to inform the public about our massive grass roots opposition to the border wall and the prison camps. That makes them accomplices to national misinformation. Nonetheless, they will hear our voices. They are hearing our voices. They are not reporting our voices. But soon…they will be forced to report on our outrage.

    We therefore appeal to all you local and grass roots media, whether TV, radio talk shows, newspapers or Blogs. Please keep up the exemplary dissemination of the facts to our fellow grass roots citizens. Also, please keep them informed about what their fellow grass roots are doing.

    Juan Castillo, as well as the Editorial Board, of the Austin American Statesman has set the stage of local coverage about the Hutto prison camp. The online news source on the Texas-Mexico border, the Rio Grande Guardian ( http://www.riograndeguardian.com ) has the most up to date border related information, including how the Texas Legislature deals with border issues. From the get-go the http://www.texascivilrightsreview.org has the most current information posted on virtually every aspect and detail of the Hutto prison camp issues. That includes the plight and imprisonment of the [three] Palestinian families that resided in Dallas…. The Palestinian mothers and their children are also imprisoned at Hutto prison camp in Taylor , TX .

    It’s not the color, ethnicity, religion, politics or net worth or social standing of the immigrant that poses the threat to this country. It might be the color, ethnicity, religion, politics and net worth and social standing of those within our government who propagate anti-immigrant fear that is the source of our national problems…be it terrorism or immigration. These issues are not one in the same. However, the likes of Chertoff and the ICE Company seem to superimpose and promote that the immigration problems and terrorism are one in the same…and they use the media to sell that on the public. That has to come to an abrupt halt.

    Fortunately, although it has been a supremacist minority group that has been in power…both national and international. That group no longer dominates Washington, D.C or the international community. Change is on the horizon. We just need to make sure that those who just now won by default on Nov. 7…understand clearly that they did not win because they exuded with national leadership. Yet they do have a clear mandate. That mandate would be to erase/delete the fear mongering, border and immigrant bashing from the national agenda…along with the bigotry of their predecessors.

    With the power of our minds…intelligence and reason…along with the passion and conviction that exists in our hearts…no bigoted power can prevail. Do we not have enough examples of how to make the right changes? Gandhi of India . Martin Luther King, Jr. of the US . Mandela of South Africa . British rule in India collapsed. Racial segregation in the US collapsed. Apartheid in South Africa collapsed.

    And how about the one who stood up to religious bigotry and the Roman Empire ? The Middle Easterner known as…Jesus of Nazareth.

    It’s time for another collapse to occur. With synergy, networking and partnership…of all colors, ethnicities, religious, political and socio-economic groups…we will put an end to the maligned and demented policies that have corrupted our American culture by the controlling supremacist racist minority.

    Jay

  • Migrant Mass Grave at Holtville in Words and Pictures

    The following email from Jay Johnson-Castro was received shortly before midnight Feb. 11, 2007. We have posted a photo album of the grave site that is described below–gm

    Hola folks…

    On the first day of Marcha Migrante II’s Border Caravan with the Enrique Morones entourage…we set out to demonstrate the amount of death that is a result of an immigration policy that is designed to do exactly what it is doing. It is not a “failed” policy. It is a successful policy. It is a policy to retain the Latin American and poor people from around the world in their poverty so that their poverty can be exploited. It is a policy to foment hysteria, prejudice and fear. If a desperate person tries to leave their poverty they will either be treated as criminals or dye trying to become Americans. If they are caught, they become a vehicle for private corporations to make obscene profits off of them…while they are treated like cockroaches.
    Just two days ago…on Feb. 9th…three immigrants near Tucson , AZ were killed by gunman…and others kidnapped. One of those killed was a 15-y-o girl. In the Southwest (CA, AZ and NM) the Minutemen roam as vigilantes with impunity. Just yesterday the Minutemen announced that they would hunt down “illegals” in stores, apartments and wherever they could…right here on the Texas border in McAllen . While city, county and state police would not enter the jurisdiction of the Federal Government…the Minutemen seem to have a secret blessing.

    With all of that being said…our Border Caravan’s first stop the day we started was in a rural town in southern California just 12 miles east of El Centro . Holtville, CA is in Imperial County . What we visited was merely being referred to as a cemetery of unidentified immigrants who supposedly died crossing the desert in the quest of their American dream.

    All the time that I was there…I felt uncomfortable with the visual evidence. I grew up in Alaska where my father and I took 40 acres of woods and by working the earth for several years, we turned them into productive oat fields. We used every kind of equipment that one would use…from bulldozers to tractors, plows, disks and root rakes. While I was trying to understand the existence of this cemetery…I looked at the characteristics of the soil. You can read the soil. And what I read in this cemetery is far more morbid than what we’re dealing with at Hutto…or even the border wall.

    Before discussing the soil characteristics…let me share a few features of the cemetery itself. First of all…the Holtville cemetery is a rather nice rural cemetery. Nicely mowed lawns, neatly maintained grave sites surrounded by old trees with stately character. There were flowers on many of the tombs or near the headstones. Not knowing what I was about to discover, I had a picture taken with Javier Aparisi, a BBC Mundo journalist who I’d come to know over the past four months because of my other activities. That picture is the first in the series that I’m sending you. I didn’t realize at the time that it would be the only one that showed the “Holtville” Cemetery…the community’s “public” cemetery. What lay behind the public cemetery is the subject of this e-mail.

    The other cemetery….the one we were about to discover is hidden from the public view. It’s really a secret cemetery with no identification naming it. Here’s a few basic details that we learned. According to local folks, there are no public burials. The victims are buried around 2am or 3am…by women “slaves”. There is no evidence of a dignified burial with some kind of ceremony.

    No one knows how many are really buried there. No one seems to know if they are…or how many are…men, women or children. Although one knowledgeable Latina says that there is a cemetery in San Diego with nothing but unidentified children in it.

    No one knows if the buried persons are in caskets or body bags…or. No one knows whether autopsies were performed. No one knows exactly where the actual graves are. No one knows who pays for the burial…or how much.

    I suspect that it’s similar to Hutto…in that the Federal government has cut a deal with the county to place their victims in a relatively unknown rural city. As we investigate this…we’ll let you know.

    You have a series of pictures of this secret cemetery. In this cemetery you will see Mass graves…fresh ones…on American soil…!!! Graves of desperate immigrants who died…one way or the other…on their quest for the American dream.

    I’d like to discuss the earth’s evidence with you. You’ll see that heavy equipment was there just before our arrival…perhaps within a day or two. There are two parts to this cemetery…which is divided by what would be a road. On the west side are swaths as if the entire cemetery was tilled and hundreds of bricks were laid systematically on top of the little furrows or rows. You can see the tractor tire tracks running over what are presumed to be corresponding graves.

    Some bricks simply say “John Doe” and give a row number. Other bricks have names. Hey! I thought they were “unidentified”. Local concerned citizens had place white crosses with different thought on them…like “No olvidado”…”Not forgotten”. The Marcha Migrante entourage placed little cheap crosses made out of lattice like strips of wood. The soil in that part of the cemetery was freshly tilled and fluffy…and ours seemed to be the first foot prints. I couldn’t figure out how anyone would know exactly where a body was buried if heavy equipment had bladed the entire field.

    As I was trying to relate to our purpose for being there…other than to recognize that fellow humans died a horrible death trying to become Americans…I keep being distracted by the other part of the cemetery. I found myself taking pictures from different angles. The entourage held a service while I was looking at earth work on the other side of the road…the east side. It looked like it was in excess of 150 feet long.

    At the south end of this long…whatever it was…a long grave…it became evident that the grave was really just one grave. The entire length was done at the same time. It had about 4 dozen bricks laid on the western edge of it. The Border Caravan group had placed crosses at each brick. But this thing…this long grave…was fresh. This had just been done within a day or two. Why was it so fresh? Why were our foot prints the first ones? How do we really know how many were buried there? What could this be…other than a mass grave? See for yourselves.

    In the background to the east of this mass grave you can see in one of the pictures that there are many acres with soil that is also recently worked … disked … perhaps at the same time. What is that extended field for? Is it part of this plot?

    If you use your power of reason and find yourself asking questions … basic questions … about what your mind sees in these pictures … I hope you’ll help me crack this case wide open. I want to know about everyone that is supposed buried in this trench. How many men, women, children? Who pays to do this, who gets paid … and how much? Who did the autopsies … and how did these people die? Were there investigations at the site of the discovery of their bodies?

    You might want to use you photo program and zoom in on these pictures. Let you mind go beyond the superficial. And … why were so many buried at the same time … like the day before we were there. Again … as you can readily see … ours were the first foot prints on this soil!

    I will be going back to Holtville after we finish the Marcha Migrante II on the 17th … and the Border Wall-K against the wall in San Diego on the 18t

    h. If anyone in the media, any photo-journalist of documentarian would like to join us … please let me know.

    I beg that you share this information as we exposed the travesty of the border wall and the plight of the children in Hutto, the Ibrahims and the Suleimans. One way or the other this evidence must and will be shared with to the American public about these mass graves. Just as we have been successful at getting to the truth about Hutto and the Palestinian families out to the media … we will do it again … and again … and again! Until … we break the back of this tyranny.

    In solidarity…

    Jay

    P.S. This work that we are doing is not being funded by an organization … and we do not have a 501. Maybe some day it will be the logical thing to do. Meanwhile, we are accomplishing this and covering our basic expenses our of personal expenses and…gratefully now … with the help that some of you have been kind enough to share. The meals and lodging are a blessing. If you know of an organization that funds this kind of effort … we’d appreciate knowing. With that help … we’ve been able to push forward and accomplish things to the benefit of many … and for that help … I deeply thank you. jjj

    P.S.S. http://www.texascivilrightsreview.org is already covering the Mass Graves story. jjj

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    The Border Ambassador

    Connecting.the.dots…making.a.difference…

    ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~

    Jay J. Johnson-Castro, Sr.

    Del Rio , Texas , USA
    Ciudad Acuña, Coahuila , Mexico