News Article by Aaron Martinez from El Paso Times<\/p>\n
Border Network for Human Rights officials on Saturday announced their 2019 agenda to combat what they called President Donald Trump\u2019s \u201cracist, xenophobic agenda.\u201d<\/p>\n
\u201cWe have never seen a year as 2018,\u201d said Fernando Garcia, executive director of the Border Network for Human Rights. \u201cI believe it was the worse year for immigrants, for border residents, for refugees, for asylum seekers ever. We have seen demented strategies focused on our community and destroying our families, incarcerating children, separating those children from their families, and building a ridiculous wall.”<\/p>\n
The immigration advocacy group\u2019s 2019 agenda includes protesting Trump\u2019s proposed border wall, calling for open investigations into the deaths of two migrant\u00a0children in U.S. custody, helping asylum seekers, ending the detention of migrant children and working with the U.S. Congress to reform immigration laws, Garcia said.<\/p>\n
The organization\u00a0focused at the\u00a0news conference on fighting the building of the\u00a0border wall and investigating the deaths last month of the two children who were in U.S. Border Patrol custody.<\/p>\n
\u201cThe government is shut down partially because of Trump\u2019s insistence of building a border wall,\u201d Garcia said. \u201cHis arguments, all of them, are based on artificial, distorted arguments. It is not true that we have an invasion of immigrants. It is not true that these immigrants\u00a0coming through ports of entry or between ports of entry are criminals or rapists.\u201d<\/p>\n