Al Jazeera English published this video item, entitled “Thousands of migrants, refugees set off from Mexico to US” – below is their description.
Thousands of migrants and refugees have set off on foot from southern Mexico – in the hope of making it to the United States.
The group is mainly made up of Haitians and Central Americans, who have been stranded in southern Mexico for months.
There were minor scuffles as they pushed past state police, who were trying to stop them.
Al Jazeera’s John Holman reports from Mexico City.
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Many migrants from the southern hemisphere are fleeing from climactic-change-related chronic crop failure that is mostly caused by the northern hemisphere’s chronic fossil-fuel burning, which began with the Industrial Revolution. While the U.S.-border Haitian-refugee situation, for example, may not be climate-change related, the border-guard physical confrontations sound/look scary and definitely un-Christian. It’s as though they are perceived as being disposable human life, their suffering somehow less-worthy.
One can read so many mean-spirited posts about these human beings on numerous mainstream news websites. So many migrants and refugees are rightfully desperate human beings, perhaps enough so to work very hard for basic food and shelter. And they very much want to work. …
I’ve noticed over decades the exceptionally strong work ethic practiced by migrants, especially in the produce harvesting sector. It’s typically back-busting work that almost all post-second-generation Westerners won’t tolerate for ourselves. Such laborers work very hard and should be treated humanely, including timely access to Covid-19 vaccination and proper work-related protections, but often enough are not.