Disumanità tra Texas e Messico

Military police wearing the insignia of the National Guard patrol near the border bridge that crosses the Rio Grande river in Matamoros, Mexico, Thursday, Aug. 1, 2019, on the border with Brownsville, Texas. Migrants are being sent back to wait in this Mexican state of Tamaulipas, a place the U.S. State Department warns Americans to avoid all travel due to high levels of violence and kidnapping, under a plan known colloquially as “remain in Mexico.” (AP Photo/Emilio Espejel)

Migrants rest near a Mexican immigration center where people have set up a camp to sleep in Matamoros, Mexico, Thursday, Aug. 1, 2019, on the border with Brownsville, Texas. The United States government has sent some 800 mostly Central American and Cuban immigrants back to this northern Mexico border city since expanding its controversial plan to this easternmost point on the shared border two weeks ago, according to local Mexican authorities. (AP Photo/Emilio Espejel)

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A young migrant from Cuba looks up at the camera inside Viento Recio church, serving as a migrant shelter in Matamoros, Mexico, Thursday, Aug. 1, 2019, on the border with Brownsville, Texas. The United States government has sent some 800 mostly Central American and Cuban immigrants back to this northern Mexico border city since expanding its controversial plan to this easternmost point on the shared border two weeks ago, according to local Mexican authorities. (AP Photo/Emilio Espejel)

Recently washed clothes from migrants hang to dry outside the Viento Recio church, which is serving as a migrant shelter, in Matamoros, Mexico, Thursday, Aug. 1, 2019, on the border with Brownsville, Texas. So far more than 20,000 migrants have been returned to wait in Mexico for their U.S. asylum applications to be processed, according to Mexican authorities. (AP Photo/Emilio Espejel)

Gerardo, a 23-year-old migrant from Honduras who did not want to give his last name, holds his son Orlando outside the Viento Recio church, which is serving as a migrant shelter, in Matamoros, Mexico, Thursday, Aug. 1, 2019, on the border with Brownsville, Texas. Some migrants are waiting for their names to be called from a list more than 1,000 names long to apply for asylum in the U.S. while others have recently been returned and are awaiting court dates. (AP Photo/Emilio Espejel)

A migrant rests inside a tent pitched near a Mexican immigration center where people have set up camp to sleep in Matamoros, Mexico, Thursday, Aug. 1, 2019, on the border with Brownsville, Texas. The United States government has sent some 800 mostly Central American and Cuban immigrants back to this northern Mexico border city since expanding its controversial plan to this easternmost point on the shared border two weeks ago, according to local Mexican authorities. (AP Photo/Emilio Espejel)

Migrants charge their phones at the foot of the Puerta Mexico bridge that crosses to Brownsville, Texas, in Matamoros, Mexico, Thursday, Aug. 1, 2019. (AP Photo/Emilio Espejel)

Migrants chat at night as they camp at the foot of the Puerta Mexico bridge that crosses to Brownsville, Texas, in Matamoros, Mexico, Thursday, Aug. 1, 2019. (AP Photo/Emilio Espejel)

Migrants sleep on the floor, at the foot of the Puerta Mexico bridge that crosses to Brownsville, Texas, in Matamoros, Mexico, Thursday, Aug. 1, 2019. (AP Photo/Emilio Espejel)

CORRECTS DATE - U.S Customs officer verifies the Visas of a man and his family at the foot of the Puerta Mexico bridge that crosses into Brownsville, Texas, in Matamoros, Mexico, Friday, Aug. 2, 2019. (AP Photo/Emilio Espejel)

CORRECTS DATE - Migrants line up to return to Mexico as they face 15 other migrants on their way to request asylum, at the foot of the Puerta Mexico bridge that crosses into Brownsville, Texas, in Matamoros, Mexico, Friday, Aug. 2, 2019. (AP Photo/Emilio Espejel)

CORRECTS DATE - Migrants return to Mexico as 15 other migrants line up on their way to request asylum in the U.S., at the foot of the Puerta Mexico bridge that crosses into Brownsville, Texas, in Matamoros, Mexico, Friday, Aug. 2, 2019. (AP Photo/Emilio Espejel)

CORRECTS DATE - Migrants line up on their way to request asylum in the U.S., at the foot of the Puerta Mexico bridge that crosses to Brownsville, Texas, into Matamoros, Mexico, Friday, Aug. 2, 2019. (AP Photo/Emilio Espejel)

Migrants listen as an Mexican migration officer verifies their identity on a list, at the foot of the Puerta Mexico bridge that crosses into Brownsville, Texas, in Matamoros, Mexico, Friday, Aug. 2, 2019. (AP Photo/Emilio Espejel)

Migrants return to Mexico at the Puerta Mexico bridge that crosses into Brownsville, Texas, in Matamoros, Mexico, Saturday, Aug. 3, 2019. (AP Photo/Emilio Espejel)

A migrant child from El Salvador whose family is waiting their turn to apply for asylum in the U.S. sleeps on blankets placed on ground at the foot of the Puerta Mexico bridge that crosses from Matamoros, Mexico, to Brownsville, Texas, Sunday, Aug. 4, 2019. Many immigrants at the border are either in line for an initial attempt to seek asylum in the U.S. or waiting for a court hearing in the U.S. after being sent back to Mexico. (AP Photo/Emilio Espejel)

«Noi vescovi della frontiera tra Texas e Messico, riuniti a Matamoros (Tamaulipas, Messico), dal 30 agosto al 1° settembre, ribadiamo di essere a favore della vita, della dignità e dei diritti di tutte le persone. Per questo non possiamo fare a meno di manifestare la nostra preoccupazione per la situazione di diseguaglianza, violenza e povertà che spinge molti a lasciare la propria terra, mentre nel loro cammino affrontano qualsiasi tipo di pericolo, in mezzo a un grande abbandono». Inizia così la dichiarazione comune diffusa dai vescovi texani e messicani e riportatta sul sito Ceinews. .
La nota è firmata dai vescovi delle diocesi di Matamoros, Nuevo Laredo, Ciudad Juarez, Saltillo, Piedras Negras, Nuevo Casas Grandes, Linares (Messico) e Brownsville, San Antonio San Angelo, El Paso, Laredo (Texas, Usa). «Ci rattrista che molti trovino rifiuto quando chiedono asilo o patiscono l’incertezza di un processo eccessivamente lungo e in condizioni di insicurezza, senza garanzie di protezione.

Ci addolora il dramma delle famiglie che vengono separate e dell’inumana reclusione che molti patiscono nei centri di detenzione. Ci rattrista la crescita del razzismo, dell’odio e della discriminazione e che i migranti siano considerati indistintamente come invasori e criminali. Ci ferisce il dramma che patiscono i deportati che vedono troncarsi i loro sogni, sforzi e sacrifici e che tornano senza soldi e con debiti contratti in condizioni pericolose. Ci riempie di lutto che molti, in cerca di un futuro migliore, abbiano perso la vita».

I vescovi frontalieri manifestano l’intenzione di continuare a difendere “i diritti umani dei poveri e dei migranti, in particolare di bambini e adolescenti”, insistendo con i Governi di Usa, Messico, Canada, America Centrale e Caribe sull’urgente necessità di «creare un’area geografica che abbia le condizioni per offrire a tutti la possibilità di uno sviluppo integrale e di una vita degna e in pace». La nota si conclude con la promessa di proseguire a unire gli sforzi e a prestare soccorso ai migranti.

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