News Guatemala Music: ICE Air: Carrying deportees and a message
GUATEMALA CITY, Guatemala - About 45 minutes before descent, the guards went up and down the aisle unshackling the passengers, and the mood in the cabin began to lighten. A mother with a boy near the front was still crying, but they were the only family aboard the flight. Nearly all the other 93 deportees were men, and they began joking and talking excitedly. Soon Guatemalan territory appeared below, misty and green. A cheer rose. "You see? They're smiling!" said Matt Albence, the acting director of U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement, who spends a great deal of time defending his agency's core functions, including this: a one-way trip out of the United States on ICE Air. "This is probably better than some of the commercial flights I fly on." It was Albence's first visit to Guatemala, the country that has surpassed Mexico as the largest source of unauthorized migration to the United States. ICE Air, the agency's charter airline, was bringing two planeloads of people to Guatemala on Thursday. The Trump administration has big plans to increase that. President Donald Trump has pledged to expel "millions" of immigration violators, a goal that wildly exceeds the government's abilities and the seating capacity of its aging 737s. The reality is that Trump is losing on the ground: Since the start of the 2019 fiscal year in October, ICE has deported about 50,000 Guatemalans, but nearly five times as many illegally crossed the border into the United States during that time, leading to a record influx of families and children. In its efforts to deter Central American migrants, the Trump administration reached an accord with the Guatemalan government last month that will allow the United States to begin sending planeloads of Honduran and Salvadoran asylum seekers here, in addition to Guatemalan deportees. The country has a...
News Guatemala Music: ICE Air: Shackled deportees, air freshener and cheers. America’s one-way trip out.
Albence thought it looked no worse “than a DMV.” Bouncy Guatemalan marimba music echoed in the hall. Patricia Marroquín, the first lady of Guatemala, was there to greet Albence and the deportees. A ...
News Guatemala Music: Guatemala's next leader wants to alter immigration deal with U.S.
Guatemala City --Conservative Alejandro Giammattei headed for ... but advances in technology and a new law may drive down prices – and be music to consumers' ears Apple is expanding its bug bounty ...
News Guatemala Music: Guatemala court rules out run by ex-dictator's daugher
GUATEMALA CITY – Guatemala's Constitutional Court says the daughter of former dictator José Efraín Rios Montt cannot run for president in the country's June election. The court's decision on Zury Rios ...
News Guatemala Music: Roads, Smoke and Microsavings
By the time Nick and I got stuck in a road blockade in western Guatemala, protesters had already spent two full days lying on top of buses parked horizontally across lanes of traffic, blasting music ...
News Guatemala Music: A Primer on Guatemala’s Crowded, Hectic Elections
Like almost every political entity in Guatemala, the municipality, often referred to as MUNI, has been involved in corruption scandals. Most recently, the director of the MUNI’s music school ...
News Guatemala Music: OperaMaya’s summer music festival under way in Cancún
chamber and Mexican music performances from more than 50 artists hailing from South Korea, Poland, Brazil, Guatemala, Mexico, the United States, China, Canada and Austria, including the Angelo ...
News Guatemala Music: Guatemalan village mourns teen who died in US custody
Music is a shared passion in the family ... who migrated to the US in search of work earlier this year but was detained and quickly deported back to Guatemala from McAllen, Texas. Hilda Ramirez, a ...
News Guatemala Music: Cannes Film Review: ‘Our Mothers’
A forensic anthropologist recovering the bones of people killed during Guatemala’s dark civil war ... accompanied by sentimental piano music. A scene of Ernesto transcribing testimonies rather ...
News Guatemala Music: On a trip to Guatemala with my toddler, her grandparents' fears give way to fun
My parents were aghast when I told them I was taking my daughter to Guatemala. They worried about her health and her safety. The irony, of course, was that our family regularly came here on vacation in the '80s and '90s — during the civil war.
News Guatemala Music: 5-year-old Guatemalan boy who risked being deported without mother allowed to stay
Going back to Guatemala is not an option," she told CBS News during an ... The lavish fundraiser Monday night featured more than 500 invited guests from the movie, music and fashion worlds. Nikki ...
News Guatemala Music: La Paz Chattanooga Partners With Tennessee River Gorge Trust In Cultural And Scientific Exchange
Last summer, after geolocatorresearch discovered that regional birds migrated between Chattanooga and the Petén region in Guatemala, two team members ... we connect with other cultures through food, ...
News Guatemala Music: Thousands of miles from Truro, the Guatemala Outreach Project’s volunteers are heroes
This year, the GOP team delivered and installed 300 cooking stoves for people living in the mountains around the city of Antigua, in southern Guatemala ... A ‘minister of music’ for 50 years: ...
News Guatemala Music: Who Killed Claudia Gomez?
A year ago this month, a 20-year-old Guatemalan woman seeking opportunity in the U.S. was shot dead by a Border Patrol agent in Texas. A video of the killing went viral on Facebook and spurred a media outcry, yet neither the agent’s name nor why he opened fire has ever been made public. In the first of our series on women and migration, we ask, will her family ever get justice?
News Guatemala Music: Carnage Unveils Heartfelt Official Music Video for 'Letting People Go'
Globally renowned DJ and producer Carnage has delivered the official music video for his latest hit single 'Letting People Go'. The proud first-generation American showcases a resolute message that anything is possible as immigrants, depicting his family's personal journey entering the United States as illegal immigrants.
News Guatemala Music: The old adage of 'follow the money' even explains the boom in refugees seeking asylum
The latest stupid thing our misfit president has done is to threaten to cut off aid to Central American countries known in the real world as El Salvador, Nicaragua, Guatemala and Honduras. (He often ...
News Guatemala Music: Masanga Marimba Brightens UCSB Music Bowl With Music of Zimbabwe
and combined the celebratory music of Zimbabwe with the vibrant marimba stylings of Guatemala into one highly distinctive performance. The group was lead by Dr. Ric Alviso, an ethnomusicologist who ...
News Guatemala Music: How A DJ's Experiences With Immigration and Family Separation Inspired a Song for Change
“This wasn’t made for festivals,” he said. The song’s music video depicts a family of four as they travel from Nicaragua to Guatemala through Mexico to the U.S. border. They ride in smugglers’ vans, ...
