On December 18, International Migrants Day, PBI-Mexico tweeted: “In Mexico and the world, ensuring the dignity and #HumanRIghts of people means stopping the criminalization, persecution, and attacks against those who migrate and against the defenders of human rights who accompany them.”

PBI is also part of the Cantabrian Coordinator of NGO for Development, an autonomous network of non-profit organizations.

Yesterday, that network stated: “We open the borders diligently to all the goods that maintain the consumption demanded by the neo-capitalist system, but we close them, regardless of the deaths and suffering that this causes, to the people who have consequently been stripped of their livelihoods.”

The full statement also notes: “And we also know that 90% of these causes [of forced migration] (extreme weather events due to climate change, wars fomented by the greed of natural resources, etc.) are the product of our lifestyle.”

Additionally, this past June, PBI signed this joint statement that expresses concern about the “militarization of borders, particularly in the United States, Mexico, and Guatemala.”

That statement also highlights: “There are hostilities, harassment, surveillance, defamation and aggressions against human right defenders, shelters, and spaces supporting migrants, even during the pandemic.”

#DiaInternacionaldelMigrante #InternationalMigrantsDay

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