Friday, April 26, 2024

Topic: migrant girl dies

Story of a 12-year-old migrant worker who walks 150 km and dies of exhaustion

Jamlo (Jeeta Madkam) was 12 years old. Sometime in February, she went to work in the chilli fields of Telangana. On April 18, after walking for three days with other labourers trying to return home during the lockdown, Jamlo died.

Guatemalan girlchild dies of dehydration in US custody

Tension has been mounting in the U.S. southern border as over 7,000 migrants, primarily from Honduras, Guatemala, and El Salvador have reached the border in the past days. They trekked around 4,000km to request asylum in the U.S., but Trump has chosen to treat the asylum seekers as "criminals" and "invaders," deploying troops to the southern border.