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Infonight on the situation of migrants on the US/Mexican border @ Pullens Centre, Elephant & Castle, Wed 27th May

Talk from activist from No More Deaths (nomoredeaths.org), which gives humanitarian aid to migrants on the US/Mexican border. Plus showing of the 2006 film "Crossing Arizona".

Venue: Pullens Centre, 184 Crampton Street, Elephant & Castle, SE17 3AE

Time: 7-9pm

Migrant workers terrorized in States

Report from UFCW Union:

United Food and Commercial Workers Union (UFCW) members working in Swift and Company meatpacking plants are reporting that Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) agents marched into plants Thursday morning with military weapons, herding, segregating, and terrorizing workers. Plants and plant gates were locked down.

"The display of force by ICE agents is totally outrageous," said Mark Lauritsen, International Vice President and Director of the Food Processing, Packing, and Manufacturing division of the UFCW. "We believe they are victims of wholesale violations of worker rights. In effect, ICE is criminalizing people for going to work."

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