via El Reportero‘s wire services
The United States government will open the largest migrant detention center in the country in the coming weeks—with space for approximately 1,000 people—on a military base in Texas.
The center, which will bolster President Donald Trump’s campaign of mass detentions and deportations, will be located at Fort Bliss, just outside the border city of El Paso. It will consist of tarpaulin buildings and will begin operating on August 17, according to the digital website Border Report on Friday, August 8.
Authorities plan to expand the facility to detain up to 5,000 people, a Department of Homeland Security (DHS) official told EFE.
Indigenous victims of plastic pollution made their voices heard at the un
Indigenous peoples who declare themselves victims of plastic pollution demanded this Friday, August 8, that their positions be taken into account during the negotiations toward a global treaty to curb this environmental crisis, which are being held until August 14 at the UN European headquarters in Geneva.
“Our medicines, food systems, water, even our culture and language are threatened by toxic chemicals and microplastics,” said Cheyenne Rendon, representative of the Society of Native Nations USA, at a press conference attended by several Indigenous leaders seeking to make their voices heard in the current deliberations.
For Rendon, any treaty that may emerge from the current negotiations, which began in 2022, must take into account the land and resource rights recognized in the United Nations Declaration on the Rights of Indigenous Peoples.
