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Guatemalans for Unity against
US Wall
Latin Americans must unite to
seek a solution to the US
initiative of building a wall on
is southern border, Modesto
Baquiak, president of the Kiche
Linguistic Community of the
Academy of Mayan Language
believes.
Baquiak said that many
Guatemalan sectors, from
government officials to
indigenous people, have
expressed concern about
Washington´s new hostile
measures to stop immigration.
Those actions will have severe
consequences on this country,
since – according to estimates –
60 percent of more than 1.1
million Guatemalans living in
the United States lack
documents.
Indigenous leader Rigoberta
Menchú described the wall as an
offense, while Vice President
Eduardo Stein said that the
country might redesign its
relations with the United
States.
The so-called Border Protection
Act, which was passed by the US
House of Representatives and is
awaiting approval in the Senate,
establishes the construction of
a more-than-1,600-km wall along
the Mexican border.
The act turns 11 million
undocumented Latin American
immigrants into criminals and
penalizes people and
organizations helping them.
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