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View ArticleRemembering Donald Trump’s last political abduction racket
Let’s stop repeating Republican talking points and call deportation what it is: Kidnapping and theft
View Article“We’ll send the whole family”: Trump’s deportation plans echo depression-era...
In the 1930s, states pressured Mexican Americans — including U.S. citizens — to leave the country voluntarily
View Article"We need to secure that border": Homan suggests crackdown would have stopped...
The "border czar" called for border security, despite no connection between the border and the alleged attackers
View ArticleGreg Abbott promised “transparency” for border wall funding — but donors...
Stephen F. Austin, Donnie Darko and a person who calls himself the King of the Wild Frontier were among the first people to give money to support Gov. Greg Abbott‘s border wall effort after he...
View ArticleWhy is the Biden administration still keeping migrant kids locked up? The...
“A lot of girls cry. They have thoughts of cutting themselves,” a 14-year old Guatemalan girl told a Reuters reporter in June. “I feel asphyxiated having so many people around me. There’s no one here I...
View ArticleLauren Boebert mocked for spelling error after attempting to “imeach” Joe Biden
Rep. Lauren Boebert, R-Colo., introduced articles of impeachment against President Joe Biden on Friday – but not without spelling the word “impeach” as “imeach” in her logo. Critics were quick to...
View ArticleBiden decries “outrageous” treatment of Haitians at border — but keeps...
After several days of global outrage over footage of mounted U.S. agents using their horse reins as whips and menacing Black migrants at the southern border, President Joe Biden on Friday finally...
View ArticleGreg Abbott tells Fox News host he will staff Texas border force with...
Even as a dual pair of infrastructure and spending bills dominated the Sunday morning cable news shows, the situation at the southern U.S. border took up a hefty amount of oxygen on Fox News Sunday —...
View ArticleTop State Dept. official rips Biden’s “illegal” and “inhumane” deportations...
A senior State Department adviser on Saturday ripped President Joe Biden’s use of a Trump-era deportation policy as “illegal” and “inhumane” before stepping down from his position. Harold Koh, a legal...
View ArticleBiden Administration may pay out more than $1 billion to migrant families...
The Biden Administration is reportedly considering a program that would compensate migrant families who were separated at the southern U.S. border by the Trump Administration — a move that comes as...
View ArticleBoredom reigns at border as Texas Gov. Greg Abbott drags out National Guard...
According to a report from the Wall Street Journal, Texas Gov. Greg Abbott (R) is taking heat from Democrats and members of his own party after deploying National Guard members to the border with...
View ArticleJoe Manchin speaks out against Biden’s lifting of Trump-era border policy
Democratic Senator Joe Manchin expressed his disdain for the Biden administration’s plan to scrap the Trump-era border restrictions put in place as an emergency measure during the pandemic. The...
View ArticleGreg Abbott’s new border stunt: sending undocumented immigrants to sanctuary...
Texas Gov. Greg Abbott on Wednesday announced plans to send buses filled with undocumented immigrants to the U.S. Capitol in protest of the White House’s recent decision to lift a Trump-era health...
View ArticleInside the cancellation of “American Dirt” (and its book tour)
Wednesday afternoon, Flatiron Books — a New York-based publishing house — announced that it would be cancelling author Jeanine Cummins’ book tour for her newly released novel “American Dirt.” Just two...
View ArticleEvangelicals and “sex trafficking” hysteria: Another exercise in Christian...
Given my experience, I do not trust the intentions behind anything the American evangelical leadership says. Specifically, there’s one agenda item that has recently emerged from the evangelical...
View ArticleRepublicans have set a border trap. Biden can’t afford to fall for it
An overwhelming majority of Americans of all political stripes want Congress to fix immigration, and yet, Congress has failed to do so for decades. Despite fear-mongering political platitudes from the...
View ArticleGreg Abbott defies Supreme Court, sets up Texas border standoff
The Texas National Guard and state troopers are still rolling out concertina wire and preventing Border Patrol agents from accessing most of Shelby Park, a 47-acre Eagle Pass park that sits on the bank...
View ArticleJoe Biden’s granddaughter strikes back at Fox News host’s “ugly” attack:...
Fox News host Jesse Watters drew a swift rebuke from President Joe Biden's granddaughter, Naomi, after the conservative shock jock told his primetime audience Wednesday, “I knew Biden was bad on the...
View ArticleRepublicans’ border battle at risk of blowing up
Generally, it's always fair to assume that the American right wing is 100% hypocritical in all things. They do not practice what they preach — and they preach a lot. So, I think we would all have...
View ArticleRepublicans scramble to get Trump his payback — yet keep coming up short
As usual these days, Republicans in Congress are a bubbling cauldron of chaos and dysfunction with wild hearings, inexplicable strategy and internal strife. They are all fighting among themselves...
View ArticleRepublicans rush to throw each other under the bus for Trump
The Senate has unveiled a bipartisan immigration bill three decades in the making. Donald Trump is working to derail it. And many Republicans in Congress are rushing to help — even if it means throwing...
View ArticleRepublicans royally botch their one election year play
On Tuesday night, after a long day of very important legal developments for Donald Trump, the former president posted on his Truth Social feed "ALL A PRESIDENT HAS TO DO IS SAY, "CLOSE THE BORDER" AND...
View Article“Frightening”: Experts alarmed after Texas border “invaded” by far-right...
A far-right convoy calling itself “God’s army” rallied in three cities near the southern border last weekend to decry what they called a migrant “invasion” as a result of escalating tensions between...
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The desert “erases people:” Volunteers try to count migrant deaths, but the...
When Battalion Search and Rescue discovered the scattered, skeletal remains of another body in the desert at Organ Pipe National Monument earlier this year, founder James Holeman followed usual...
View ArticleJoe Biden says climate change deniers are “Neanderthals” — that’s not fair to...
President Biden described climate change deniers as "Neanderthals" during a speech on Thursday in Brownsville, Texas, near the U.S.-Mexico border. Fox News and other conservative media appear to be...
View ArticleSupreme Court grants Gov. Greg Abbott’s wish to turn Texas into a far-right...
In his 2022 majority opinion for Dobbs v. Jackson Women's Health, Justice Samuel Alito took great pains to argue that allowing states to ban abortion was no slippery slope to gutting other human...
View ArticleMore than a trade war: Trump is targeting Mexico
One of the most inane of all MAGA Republican claims is the insistence by militant right wingers and insurrectionists that they are pacifists. Take, for instance, Marjorie Taylor Greene's claim that...
View ArticleAnti-Blackness is inherent in our immigration system, Biden’s executive order...
President Biden’s recent executive order severely limiting access to asylum for people seeking safety at the U.S.-Mexico border further imperils those fleeing dangerous conditions and betrays Biden’s...
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Here lies a dream in the Sonoran Desert, where migrants risk death to cross...
After turning off the West Ajo Highway, 20 miles west of Tucson, a car full of volunteers heads down a dirt track, carefully traversing the wide fractures in the road en route to plant the first cross...
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