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Immigrants Decry President Obama’s New Year Resolution to Begin Massive Roundups and Deportations of Central Americans with Oscar Chacon, Ex. Dir. Alianza Americas To stanch the flow of undocumented refugees to the U.S. Pres. Obama, who some now refer to as the Deporter-In- Chief’s Department of Homeland Security (DHS) has been preparing a national operation to deport Central American families, many of whom have been showing up at the southwest border, driven to leave El Salvador & Honduras which is gripped by terrifying violence, in a region that has also been plagued by devastating drought. Starting this month, U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement, a DHS unit, plans to start rounding up hundreds of families that entered the U.S. without documents and deport them. Building Bridges speaks with Oscar Chacon, Executive Director of Alianza Americas, an immigrant from El Salvador, Chacon is a frequent lecturer on Latino immigrant issues in the U.S. and the impacts of the Latino diaspora in Latin America and decries this betrayal of the U.S.’s touted principles of human rights To Download or listen to this 26:03 minute program www.buildingbridgesradio.blogspot.com/… Building Bridges is broadcast on Mondays from 7-8pm EST over WBAI 99.5 fm in the NYC Metropolitan area and syndicated to over 50 broadcast and internet radio stations in the US, Canada and UK↧