DoomsdaysCW<p>Family of <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/AfroIndigenous" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>AfroIndigenous</span></a> <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/activist" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>activist</span></a> in immigration detention worries he may be deported back to danger</p><p>Story by Nicole Acevedo <br>6-25-2024</p><p>"<a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/ErlinCenteno" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>ErlinCenteno</span></a>'s family has feared being permanently separated since the father of three children was detained four months ago following a routine check-in with <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/immigration" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>immigration</span></a> authorities in New York City.</p><p>"The lives of Centeno and his family were endangered after four of his cousins were killed and he started receiving many letters and text messages containing death threats, according to court transcripts obtained by NBC News of his testimony to an immigration judge. The threats were a result of the work he and his cousins did defending the territorial rights of Afro Indigenous communities in his homeland known as <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/Garifuna" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Garifuna</span></a>, according to Centeno and his wife.</p><p>[...]</p><p>"The Garifuna people are descendants of enslaved <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/Africans" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Africans</span></a>, and also <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/Arawak" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Arawak</span></a> and <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/Caribbean" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Caribbean</span></a> <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/Indigenous" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Indigenous</span></a> communities who have historically been displaced from their ancestral lands. Many of them remain in <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/Guatemala" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Guatemala</span></a>, <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/Nicaragua" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Nicaragua</span></a> and <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/Belize" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Belize</span></a> — but most of them are in <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/Honduras" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Honduras</span></a>, where they face high levels of violence, <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/racism" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>racism</span></a> and extreme poverty, according to the Inter-American Commission on <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/HumanRights" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>HumanRights</span></a> (IACHR).</p><p>"<a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/Centeno" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Centeno</span></a> started advocating for <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/GarifunaRights" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>GarifunaRights</span></a> in 2020, working with the Black Fraternal Organization of Honduras, one of the most prominent Garifuna nonprofits in Honduras. According to an <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/IACHR" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>IACHR</span></a> report, their members have long been harassed, threatened, beaten, kidnapped and killed amid land grabbing and territorial disputes involving industries with high economic interests in the region — which has intensified as local <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/investors" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>investors</span></a> have sought to <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/develop" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>develop</span></a> the area — as well as local gangs fighting over territories."</p><p>Read more:<br><a href="https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/us/family-of-afro-indigenous-activist-in-immigration-detention-worries-he-may-be-deported-back-to-danger/ar-BB1oSTfE" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" translate="no" target="_blank"><span class="invisible">https://www.</span><span class="ellipsis">msn.com/en-us/news/us/family-o</span><span class="invisible">f-afro-indigenous-activist-in-immigration-detention-worries-he-may-be-deported-back-to-danger/ar-BB1oSTfE</span></a> </p><p><a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/LandDefenders" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>LandDefenders</span></a> <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/HumanRights" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>HumanRights</span></a> <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/HumanRightsDefenders" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>HumanRightsDefenders</span></a> <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/Activists" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Activists</span></a></p>