‘Hugs Not Walls’ canceled due to new border military buffer zone

Border Network for Human Rights claims that meeting will be transformed into protest against the "militarization" of the border

Hugs Not Walls event canceled

EL PASO, Texas (KVIA) -- The Border Network for Human Rights (BNHR) has canceled its annual Hugs Not Walls event for this year. The cancellation comes "in light of ongoing developments and challenges impacting border communities," the organization posted on Facebook today. ABC-7 spoke with BNHR's Executive Director Fernando Garcia who said the decision to cancel the 12th edition of the Hugs Not Walls event came from a national level. Here in the…

‘Hugs Not Walls’ canceled due to new border military buffer zone

EL PASO, Texas (Border Report) – Emotional scenes of immigrants living in the U.S. hugging relatives from across the border on a makeshift platform in the middle of the Rio Grande have played out repeatedly since 2016 in El Paso. The “Hugs Not Walls” gatherings were as much a statement against the cruelty of family separation as they were an opportunity for estranged relatives to talk and touch for a brief five minutes, according to sponsor orga…

El Paso's 'Hugs Not Walls' cancelled due to militarization of border

Due to recent military activity at the U.S.-Mexico border, an event that helps bring separated migrant families together for at least a brief moment in...

Trump Administration Sets Up ‘Military Zone’ At Texas Border To Bump Up Immigration Arrest Stats

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By a decision of the Donald Trump administration, the twelfth edition of the Abrazos No Muros event that would allow hundreds of mothers to meet with their children for a few minutes on the border between Ciudad Juárez and El Paso on Saturday May 10, was cancelled. “This administration under President Trump has promoted and has done its best to make such humane and humanitarian events as this not possible, it was a political decision of the Trum…