The Latin Gang of 10 against Arizona
October 7th, 2010 | Author: Ellie Velinska

The Arizona immigration law is a matter of complaint from ten Latin America countries joining Mexico and the US Federal government lawsuit against the state. Let’s see how the Gang of 10 scores on human rights themselves.

According to the 2009 US State Department report on Bolivia:

http://www.state.gov/g/drl/rls/hrrpt/20 ... 136102.htm

Although the law permits children up to six years old to live with an incarcerated parent, children as old as 12 lived with their parents in prisons. (The law also permits spouses to live in prison.) Approximately 877 children lived with a parent in prison, as an alternative to being left homeless. During school vacations the number of children in prison with parents could double…
Let’s imagine the celebrity illegal immigrant Nikki Diaz is breaking the laws not in the US, but in Bolivia. She will be behind bars and her four children will keep her company in prison so they don’t go homeless.

And Bolivia is complaining that Arizona will let the state law enforcement officers ask for immigration status the people who walk in a chain through the desert carrying drugs or smuggling people? Children in Bolivia serve time with their parents!

Argentina:

http://www.state.gov/g/drl/rls/hrrpt/20 ... 136098.htm

Trafficking in persons primarily involved citizens trafficked within the country for the purposes of sexual and labor exploitation. Many were trafficked from rural to urban areas. Some women and girls were trafficked into Mexico, Western Europe, and neighboring countries for sexual exploitation. The country was a destination for victims, principally women and minors from Paraguay, Brazil, Peru, and the Dominican Republic. A significant number of Bolivians, Paraguayans, and Peruvians were trafficked into the country for forced labor in sweatshops, agriculture, or domestic services…
According to INADI, an estimated 20,000 children with disabilities were unable to attend school in Buenos Aires City because the buildings were not handicapped accessible…

Brazil:

http://www.state.gov/g/drl/rls/hrrpt/20 ... 136103.htm

The Federal Police continued to estimate that upward of 250,000 children were involved in prostitution.


Prostitution is legal, but exploiting it through associated activities, such as operating a brothel, is illegal. While no specific laws address sex tourism, it is punishable under other criminal offenses… Child prostitution was a problem, with extreme poverty the primary contributor…

Prison conditions throughout the country often ranged from poor to extremely harsh and life threatening… Prisoners who committed petty crimes were held with murderers…
Costa Rica:

http://www.state.gov/g/drl/rls/hrrpt/20 ... 136107.htm

The government acknowledged the serious nature of the problem of trafficking in persons, especially the commercial sexual exploitation of minors. Awareness campaigns against child sex tourism continued, as did television and radio announcements and billboard notices designed to warn young women of the dangers of commercial sexual exploitation.

Undocumented immigrants received medical care, including prenatal and maternity care, at public health centers. However, they sometimes were denied discretionary or long-term medical care because they were not participants in the national health care insurance program.

The national minimum wage, which also covers migrant workers, did not provide a decent standard of living for a worker and family.
Ecuador

http://www.state.gov/g/drl/rls/hrrpt/20 ... 136111.htm

just gassed and held hostage in a hospital their own President.
Reading the reports proved to be a depressing task. If you want to explore the rest of the Gang of 10 against Arizona click on the name of the country and depress yourself.

El Salvador,

http://www.state.gov/g/drl/rls/hrrpt/20 ... 136112.htm

Nicaragua,

http://www.state.gov/g/drl/rls/hrrpt/20 ... 136120.htm

Paraguay,

http://www.state.gov/g/drl/rls/hrrpt/20 ... 136122.htm

Peru,

http://www.state.gov/g/drl/rls/hrrpt/20 ... 136123.htm

Chile

http://www.state.gov/g/drl/rls/hrrpt/20 ... 136105.htm



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