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Land protest
A young Oro Wari Indigenous man takes part in the 10-day-long Terra Livre (Free Land) protest
in Brasília on April 10. The annual camp, led by Indigenous peoples from across Brazil, set
up in the capital to protest draft laws that would authorize new mining on Indigenous land in
the Amazon. The Oro Wari live in Rondônia, an Amazon frontier state that is already the site of
rampant deforestation, displacement, and human-rights abuses.THE BULLETIN
Migrants await the end of pandemic-era border policyOn The mOrning Of April 7, ATOp
the Paso del Norte Bridge that connects
Ciudad Juárez and downtown El Paso, Texas,
30-year-old Magdalena and her 10-year-old
son were waiting to see if they would be al-
lowed to enter the U.S. They migrated from
Guatemala in September after facing threats
of gang violence, and had since attempted
to cross into the U.S. twice. Both times,
they were expelled back to Juárez under
Title 42—a controversial public-health mea-
sure that has allowed U.S. Customs and Bor-
der Protection since the start of the COVID-
19 pandemic to immediately expel migrants,
circumventing the normal immigration
procedure.EXPULSION On April 1, the U.S. Centers for
Disease Control and Prevention announced
that it will end Title 42 expulsions on
May 23. The decision set in motion a series
of cascading events, including lawsuits,
political grandstanding, and new legisla-
tion that would make Title 42 permanent.
Experts say ending the measure may helptrigger a wave of new migration to the
U.S.-Mexico border this spring.URGENCY For migrants already waiting on
the border, May 23 can’t come soon enough.
Mexican shelters are already overcrowded,
and many, including Magdalena’s son, who
has a heart condition, need special medical
attention. Nearly 10,000 cases of violence
against migrants expelled under Title 42
have been documented since the start of
the Biden Administration alone, according
to Human Rights First.POLITICS Conservative Democrats and
Republicans in Washington are working to
reverse the Biden Administration’s deci-
sion to end Title 42. With midterm elec-
tions approaching in November, immi-
gration is poised to become a hot-button
political issue, the topic of searing attack
ads and social media posts, with people
like Magdalena and her son waiting on a
bridge caught in the middle.
—JAsmine AguilerANEWS TICKER
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