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Mexico finds drug tunnel
Mexico’s army stumbled upon another secret tunnel for smuggling drugs into the United States, according to wire reports.This one is 755-feet long, dug 60 feet beneath the ground and runs across the...
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Border fence’s devastating toll
For the aid workers who found 14-year-old Josseline Jamileth Hernández Quinteros in the Arizona desert, it is hardest to forget the little things, the beaded bracelet around a tiny wrist, the bright...
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Illegal immigration as art exhibit
In the summer of 2012, University of Michigan anthropologist Jason De León and a group of his students were doing fieldwork in the Sonoran Desert in Arizona when they came across the body of a...
View ArticleRemember the Minutemen
When people hear House Republicans ranting ad nauseam about “border security” – as will everyone for the next several weeks as a comprehensive immigration-reform measure works its way through Congress...
View ArticleShocker: GOP small government fetish is selective garbage
The delicate immigration reform negotiations in the Senate were supposed to pass a bill that allowed undocumented immigrants to earn American citizenship -- because that is the entire point of doing...
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Vigilantes patrolling Arizona border are more radical than ever
Though more than three years have passed since the Arizona-based Minuteman organization run by movement co-founder Chris Simcox shuttered its operations, would-be vigilantes are still patrolling the...
View Article“The American homeland is the planet”
It isn’t exactly the towering 20-foot wall that runs like a scar through significant parts of the U.S.-Mexican borderlands. Imagine instead the sort of metal police barricades you see at protests....
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Illegal immigration as art exhibit
In the summer of 2012, University of Michigan anthropologist Jason De León and a group of his students were doing fieldwork in the Sonoran Desert in Arizona when they came across the body of a...
View ArticleRemember the Minutemen
When people hear House Republicans ranting ad nauseam about “border security” – as will everyone for the next several weeks as a comprehensive immigration-reform measure works its way through Congress...
View ArticleShocker: GOP small government fetish is selective garbage
The delicate immigration reform negotiations in the Senate were supposed to pass a bill that allowed undocumented immigrants to earn American citizenship -- because that is the entire point of doing...
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Vigilantes patrolling Arizona border are more radical than ever
Though more than three years have passed since the Arizona-based Minuteman organization run by movement co-founder Chris Simcox shuttered its operations, would-be vigilantes are still patrolling the...
View Article“The American homeland is the planet”
It isn’t exactly the towering 20-foot wall that runs like a scar through significant parts of the U.S.-Mexican borderlands. Imagine instead the sort of metal police barricades you see at protests....
View ArticleRick Perry refuses offer to shake Obama’s hand
Perhaps wary of experiencing his own Chris Christie moment, outgoing Texas governor and possible 2016 presidential candidate Rick Perry has declined a White House offer to meet and greet President...
View ArticleKirsten Powers calls Bill O’Reilly out: “I’m so tired of your mocking”
During a remarkably entertaining and (if you're a liberal or at least an O'Reilly dissenter) satisfying segment of Bill O'Reilly's show on Tuesday, Fox News contributor and USA Today columnist Kirsten...
View ArticleWingnuts’ gross war on children: Screaming and spitting at endangered kids
It has to come as a shock to decent people everywhere to see the vitriol and rage written on the faces of anti-immigrant protesters toward the recent wave of unaccompanied Central American children...
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Arizona GOPer mistakes YMCA kids for undocumented children
Hoping to get in on the growing trend of low-level Republican politicians pandering to the most virulently xenophobic and hateful elements of the GOP base, Arizona congressional candidate and...
View ArticleTed Cruz’s revolting power play: Here’s what’s really behind his nativist...
In the GOP's ongoing quest to be the 21st century's answer to the Know-Nothing party, two events this week stand out as steps in the right direction. Ted Cruz announced that he was going to push for...
View ArticleRick Perry’s bizarre babysitters club: A new “solution” even too daft for him
Everyone has undoubtedly noticed that Texas Governor Rick Perry is suddenly sporting a pair of hipster glasses which his advisers clearly think make him look so much smarter than he was in 2012, when...
View ArticleMichele Bachmann: Obama wants to use refugee children for “medical research”
UPDATE: Bachmann's communications director, Dan Kotman, has sent Salon the following message in response to this story:This is a classic case of liberal media outlets once again twisting the...
View ArticleGOP congressman worries refugee children at border may carry Ebola
Indiana congressman Todd Rokita, last seen on the public stage simultaneously hitting on and condescending to a female news host, is once again bringing glory to his congressional district, this time...
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