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Closed Borders, Essential Crossings, Deportations, Pandemic Spread, and Stigmatization

Guadalajara, April 21, 2020 – just over a month ago, on March 18, 2020, the United States government decided to close its borders with Canada and Mexico to “non-essential crossings,” in order to reduce the spread of the coronavirus. The Guatemalan government, on the same date, declared the “state of public calamity”: it decreed the closure of borders and restricted the mobility of people as a measure to prevent the spread of the pandemic. One

Covid-19 Emergency in the Philippines. Father Prigol: “Never Seen Such Solidarity”

From Manila, the missionary recounts the difficulties of the Scalabrinian migrant centers due to the pandemic Manila, April 7, 2020 – From Manila, the Philippines, the Scalabrinian missionary Father Paulo Prigol recounts the difficulties encountered in the Scalabrinian centers in the area due to the covid-19 pandemic. The Scalabrinian realities in question are the Stella Maris center of the Apostleship of the Sea – AOS (an organization for which Father Prigol is Coordinator in Southeast Asia),