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Migrant caravan: Branding migrants 'human shields' has a deadly motive

The use of military vocabulary - invasion, divisions, insurgency and human shields - to describe such migrants is, of course, calculated. It aims to prepare the ground for the way they will be treated

Migrants on a rubber dinghy are rescued by the vessel Responder in the Mediterranean sea
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Migrants on a rubber dinghy are rescued by the vessel Responder in the Mediterranean sea

Neve Gordon, Nicola Perugini | The Conversation
The “migrant caravan” is making its way towards the US border – and is facing countless obstacles and much opposition along the way. Most recently, protests erupted when a large group of the migrants reached the Mexican border town of Tijuana. Unsurprisingly, Donald Trump was quick to join the clamour, accusing them of causing “crime and big problems in Mexico”:

The men, women and children in the caravan are travelling as a large group because in the past individuals and small groups who have fled central America to escape political violence or to find a