[Peace-discuss] Killer Koh v. 200,000 Salvadorans

Wed Jan 10 22:47:19 UTC 2018

Translated From today’s Newspeak Times OpEd:  “…Most of the Salvadorans who originally qualified for protected status fled a brutal civil  {Sic! Reagan instigated} war  in their country between 1980 and 1992—a war the United States fanned by its military support for the Salvadoran government {Sic: military dictatorship that exterminated 75,000 human beings}.”
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Subject: RE: Killer Koh v. 200,000 Salvadorans

In what became known as “The Sanctuary Trials,” the defendants called upon their rights protected under both the U.S. constitution and international law. They employed First Amendment free exercise claims, arguing they were simply living out their faith by providing refuge to their fellow brethren in need; this was the call of the Gospel and an exercise of their religion. As Sister Nicgorski stated on the day of her arraignment, “If I am guilty of anything, I am guilty of the gospel.” Defendants referenced passages in the Old and New Testaments, such as Leviticus 19:34 ("The stranger who sojourns with you shall be to you as the native among you, and you shall love him as yourself) and the story of Exodus (“What answer is there for the envoys of the nation? This: that the Lord has fixed Zion in her place, and the afflicted among God's people shall take refuge there” [Isaiah 14:32]).
The defense also called upon international law to defend their actions. They argued that the U.S. administration's policy towards Central Americans violated the 1980 Refugee Act<https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Refugee_Act>, a U.S. law enacted under Carter that reflected international norms set down in the 1951 U.N. Convention and 1967 Protocol Relating to the Status of Refugees.

I was the Designated Expert on these cases along with Professor Richard Falk. Meanwhile, from 1983 to 1985 Killer Koh had been working with Reagan et al to exterminate the Peoples of Central America.
Fab
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Subject: Killer Koh v. 200,000 Salvadorans

The roots of El Salvador’s high murder rate, for example -- it is one of the most dangerous countries in the world -- lie in U.S. support for its right-wing government and the grossly unjust political-economic order it defended during the 1980s. During that decade, Washington helped fuel the country’s civil war by providing hundreds of millions of dollars in aid, and various forms of assistance to its brutal military.
Killer Koh worked for Reagan from 1983-1985—exterminating about 75,000 Salvadorans, 35,000 Nicaraguans and 250,000 Guatemalans, most of them Mayan Indians, outright genocide. Hence we founded the Original Sanctuary Movement in order to protect them. See my book Defending Civil Resistance Under International Law (Transnational Publishers Inc. 1987)
Fab
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Subject: 200,000 Salvadorans

200,000 Salvadorans<http://click.actionnetwork.org/mpss/c/HgE/ni0YAA/t.2dz/d_5-EQyQTFqcPrEVr8BY9g/h0/wlcHvnzW1b3hMCRTobMuNhzF9O8bEWVpbnomAMeu8l-2Fa-2F7ThOt8oX6KHxI6M-2BAsHZwU807dRIm8hI3KlSA0xcC68f4ghtsiIxf-2BqckF3ZsIb4IpniA6X4-2B-2BREbRenjZWeoRgQ2ZxgpTheUBIgge-2FGyHfYY6MOgilOLIyPNme7J96apmNML7yOG9cbB1h3UC2YETJYfMn8-2BV1TCvpZalhFs-2BBOvef1-2Fro67q3leyZ-2BDcl0yni7nx9blyxLAEmjT0T5FDQm2MxXjTjI1i5oPQHajaHJeorPLZp8YW-2FLnKFMhM-3D>
JOSEPH NEVINS, jonevins at vassar.edu<mailto:jonevins at vassar.edu?link_id=2&can_id=0a63facf25d30194d6cb24382a49daa3&source=email-200000-salvadorans&email_referrer=email_283867&email_subject=200000-salvadorans>, @jonevins1<http://click.actionnetwork.org/mpss/c/HgE/ni0YAA/t.2dz/d_5-EQyQTFqcPrEVr8BY9g/h1/VE2atosPJwyp5yA4oN-2FSamLLZNuzjc8LcBq50KBIjdVVryy8RrwHtE8-2FtMZTHTUeD9ugM6iNkl0WbtO0iX3z3C7vee-2ByUxDrM8EBwgeWoWArNpf8Ufy3FSbUucHNj1eU-2BUHw3EmbDGORTxhw-2BlSE3VIZiofByEkwsl2iVGZ-2BxaUELd1U5vtteOIhOmqgbo34haeDxY4EKGQS5hiKTl23Aud-2Bgphihl8lZNOESgBx5lc-3D>
  Nevins<http://click.actionnetwork.org/mpss/c/HgE/ni0YAA/t.2dz/d_5-EQyQTFqcPrEVr8BY9g/h2/SVqis9iT0wcNi1RkTgj-2B8694z0MZciwSwx4pZdX16wjnTreRfJuGEFJ70lYScYf9B-2FTBQpv-2B0iwcwOG4SRlgzD4-2FbUZoRJuwUB4EhYUwNgxxKg4Q8ehBMZTIknFs0eambFMDnGyatKCm-2Bm-2FSVt7SQRydK-2BsjPWcr6pgWeDTmW6B2O4GiRFONBTmfyeFtwEqSN-2BSNxVwF-2BC0ukJ8oqmykTxMi8OPht-2BP3omViEVoUE0DZhuCG5s91RTeSekLtoWAYZQoLabzbRz-2FmgSHBbWPPew-3D-3D> is professor of geography at Vassar College. His books include Dying to Live: A Story of U.S. Immigration in an Age of Global Apartheid<http://click.actionnetwork.org/mpss/c/HgE/ni0YAA/t.2dz/d_5-EQyQTFqcPrEVr8BY9g/h3/dbA0Biwe9x6j41FsqUfqLBWrEdzvvgdt-2FOmFbtmJl3mNffDna66YSt7mHB8AgoIlXeFzIGx3Tr2mlI90lQ5TIMVCf241VmY4xcPsB-2By8zvjjJTWyHYRKRek9JR28ot1jl9NNaS4mXI6GhlLvvUqs1dnxFzcHMPAmu08n26cgG-2FxEVQ92F-2FvcVt2s3BPI4LbCl9Ep4VBo3X4MCTrBWbFgP9pt-2BxDVEiQOc7308b-2F6TKSMloCMbaBxPyazAR3cj3QLdeSmiLuRRutUMRrkQJBYGg-3D-3D> (City Lights Books).

   He said today: "The Trump Administration’s decision to end Temporary Protected Status for approximately 200,000 Salvadorans residing in the United States is abhorrent. In addition to being part and parcel of its war on immigrants (particularly low-income ones), it is a denial of U.S. responsibility for much of what drives Salvadorans to flee their homeland and makes life there unviable. The roots of El Salvador’s high murder rate, for example -- it is one of the most dangerous countries in the world -- lie in U.S. support for its right-wing government and the grossly unjust political-economic order it defended during the 1980s. During that decade, Washington helped fuel the country’s civil war by providing hundreds of millions of dollars in aid, and various forms of assistance to its brutal military.

  "In the 1990s, the United States, allying itself with the country’s conservative elites, helped to impose a neoliberal 'free trade' agreement on El Salvador, an accord that has helped to fuel out-migration due to its dislocating impacts. Finally, there is the matter of climate change, with the United States as the world’s biggest historical contributor to greenhouse gas emissions. Along with Honduras and Guatemala, El Salvador is one of the detrimentally impacted countries in the world by a warming and increasingly unstable climate. From growing incidents of 'natural' disasters to an outbreak of coffee rust, which has devastated the region’s coffee sector, climate change-related environmental degradation has also helped to push Salvadorans to migrate. For such reason and more, the U.S. government has an ethical obligation to allow Salvadorans to migrate and reside in the United States."

For more information, contact at the Institute for Public Accuracy:
Sam Husseini, (202) 347-0020<tel:(202)%20347-0020?link_id=6&can_id=0a63facf25d30194d6cb24382a49daa3&source=email-200000-salvadorans&email_referrer=email_283867&email_subject=200000-salvadorans>; David Zupan, (541) 484-9167<tel:(541)%20484-9167?link_id=7&can_id=0a63facf25d30194d6cb24382a49daa3&source=email-200000-salvadorans&email_referrer=email_283867&email_subject=200000-salvadorans>

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