{"id":21928,"date":"2018-03-06T17:41:01","date_gmt":"2018-03-07T00:41:01","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.colef.mx\/elmuro\/?p=21928"},"modified":"2018-03-06T17:41:01","modified_gmt":"2018-03-07T00:41:01","slug":"the-reality-check-stories-and-photographs-by-david-bacon","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.colef.mx\/elmuro\/the-reality-check-stories-and-photographs-by-david-bacon\/","title":{"rendered":"The Reality Check Stories and Photographs by David Bacon"},"content":{"rendered":"

David Bacon is a California writer and documentary photographer. A former union organizer, today he documents labor, the global economy, war and migration, and the struggle for human rights. His latest book, The Right to Stay Home (Beacon Press, 2013). discusses alternatives to forced migration and the criminalization of migrants.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
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A DETENTION CENTER VIGIL THAT DEFIES LA MIGRA
\nBy David Bacon
\nCapital & Main, 3\/5\/18
\nhttps:\/\/davidbaconrealitycheck.blogspot.com\/2018\/03\/a-detention-center-vigil-that-defies-la.html<\/a>
\nhttps:\/\/capitalandmain.com\/a-detention-center-vigil-defies-la-migra-0305<\/a><\/p>\n

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Paola, after the phone call<\/em><\/p>\n

Paola was standing outside the West County Detention Facility, a prison in Richmond, California for 150 to 300 people awaiting deportation, when she got the phone call.\u00a0 She’d been fearing it for days.\u00a0 Florencio, her husband, was in another detention center in Arizona, calling to tell her that la migra (immigration agents) had caught him in the desert, walking north with a dozen others.<\/p>\n

Paola (not her real name) hadn’t spoken to Florencio for several weeks, not since the day before he crawled into the luggage compartment of a bus in Puebla in southern Mexico.\u00a0 The bus, he hoped, would take him close to the U.S. border.<\/p>\n

It had already been a harrowing journey for himself and Paola’s brother Lorenzo.\u00a0 \u00abAfter we left Guatemala and crossed the river into Mexico, we wound up in a kind of camp in Chiapas,\u00bb Florencio recalls. \u00abThere were hundreds of people there.\u00bb When the day to leave on the long trip north finally arrived, the coyotes running the camp organized a kind of shape up.\u00a0 It was not that different from the stories told by an earlier generation of migrants, the braceros (contract farm laborers), who remember being herded together at Mexican way stations, inspected and shipped to the border between 1942 and 1964.<\/p>\n

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Vigil participant<\/em><\/p>\n

\u00abDifferent coyotes called us by numbers, separating us into groups,\u00bb Florencio says.\u00a0 \u00abThen they put 80 or 90 of us into the back of a truck.\u00a0 There was so little space we had to stand pushed up against each other like sardines.\u00a0 It was a bumpy ride, and soon people began to get sick and faint, especially the pregnant women.\u00a0 They stopped the truck and gave us pills and lemons, but people were already throwing up and the smell was terrible.\u00bb<\/p>\n

The ride resumed, but after 12 hours the people inside began to bang on the walls.\u00a0 Hearing the noise, the driver pulled over.\u00a0 \u00abHe let us out and told us to run around a little,\u00bb Florencio says.\u00a0 \u00abThen we got back in, and it was another 12 hours.\u00bb\u00a0 When the truck got to Puebla, Florencio called Paola to tell her he was coming.<\/p><\/div>\n<\/div>\n

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