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February 21, 2019

El Paso Organizers Protest Border Patrol Museum
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Earlier in the week, the group Tornillo: The Occupation led a series of
actions protesting immigration policies and the treatment of migrant
children in the Texas border town of El Paso. Activists from the group
staged what they called an "intervention" at the Border Patrol Museum,
and brought cards with messages of support to migrants locked up at the
Southwest Key Detention Center in El Paso. This is organizer Juan Ortiz
speaking at the Border Patrol Museum action.

Juan Ortiz: "United States foreign policy has effected change through
structural violence, through economic violence. They've become economic
refugees, humanitarian refugees, and that's what it should be
recognized. Don't let them tell you that it's a violent people that are
coming. Don't let them tell you that they're enacting violence towards
them. It is completely the other way around, when you have children
dying under their custody."



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