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FOR IMMEDIATE DISTRIBUTION April 8, 2020  Media Contacts: Juanita Cabrera Lopez – International Mayan League, Washington, D.C.,  juanita@mayanleague.org Odilia Romero – Indigenous Front of Binational Organizations (FIOB), California,  odiliar@mycielo.org  Blake Gentry – Indigenous Language Office, Alitas Immigrant Shelter, Arizona,  tsalagi7@gmail.com  INDIGENOUS PEOPLES OF THE DIASPORA DENOUNCE A DISCRIMINATORY RESPONSE TO COVID-19 United States - The undersigned Indigenous peoples and organizations write this letter to express our deep concern of the situation faced by hundreds of thousands of diverse Indigenous peoples of the immigrant community in the United States (U.S.), those in detention centers under the custody of U.S. Customs and Border Protection (CBP) and those surviving in makeshift camps on the northern Mexico border under the U.S. government’s Migrant Protection Protocols (MPP), who are being systematically excluded in the COVID-19 pand