Completely overlooked by the mainstream media in the border crisis is the fact that countless numbers or virtually the majority of the so-called immigrants crossing the southern border are indigenous or indigenous descended. The indigenous peoples are ethnic Indians. So ethnic, in fact, that most do not speak any Spanish, but only their Indigenous languages. I recently received by email that the Refugee and Immigrant Center for Education and Legal Services (RAICES) was requesting transalaters “who speak Meso-American Indigenous languages (e.g. Zapotec, Nahua, Ma’am, Quich’e, Mixe, etc., -not Spanish).” RAICES is a non-profit organization that promotes justice by providing free and low- cost legal services to underserved immigrant children, families and refugees in Central and South Texas. The countries that most refugees are fleeing from are El Salvador, Honduras and Guatemala. Virtually all three countries have populations that, in the majority, are indigenous or of indigenous descent.Read More on the Story:
Albert Bender: Trump’s border war is a war on the indigenous (The Tennessean July 4, 2018)
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