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Border human rights lawyer. Mesa Refuge writing fellow. Learning Mex law. Impatient. Punching up. My thoughts are yours. @natcad.bsky.social
Jan 1, 2023 31 tweets 12 min read
🧵 on exs of enforced disappearances of folks pushed back to MX under #Title42 & #RemainInMexico. I did 2 threads last week. First was on why US lawyers must improve evidence gathering so that it can be useful in US & Mexican courts. See: The second thread was about the concept of enforced disappearance and its status in Mexican law. It’s important to know the difference between kidnapping and enforced disappearance. Here’s that thread:
Dec 28, 2022 23 tweets 5 min read
Okay, maybe you’ve seen me posting about why US lawyers at the southern border should be collecting evidence that MX lawyers can use to challenge the gov of MX (GOM) facilitation of US border policies in MX courts. Here’s my best attempt at a thread explaining why. First, US courts aren’t saving us. This isn’t surprising, and I’m not suggesting that we abandon litigation in the US. Just acknowledge that US court litigation isn't a panacea.
Dec 17, 2022 6 tweets 2 min read
1st human rights violation in this report is an enforced disappearance mislabeled as a kidnapping: “MX officers kidnapped a Guatemalan fam w 2 young children after DHS expelled them … & turned them over to a cartel that held them hostage …” humanrightsfirst.org/wp-content/upl… Another: MX imm officers kidnapped & turned over to the Zetas a Guatemalan fam w 2 young children after DHS expelled them…The cartel held the fam hostage for 3 mo, tortured them…told KBI that the fam watched as their captors killed other migrants who attempted to escape.