It’s hard to feel bad for a Mexican-American CBP agent who has now been found to be undocumented himself and is facing deportation. Of course the case is completely unjust. He had no idea he was
Tom Pepinski, who wrote a terrific post on the banality of life under soft authoritarian regimes, has a new piece entitled “If American Democracy Collapsed, You Almost Certainly Wouldn’t Notic
The Republican Party’s openly racist attack on the Census is going to have real effects, even as it was too blatant for John Roberts to go all the way on. After all, there are many ways to impos
What’s the American Gestapo up to? A Cuban man who legally sought asylum died by apparent suicide while being detained at an immigration jail in Louisiana, authorities said Wednesday. Roylan Her
This is a disturbing story on the nuts and bolts of how the fascists at ICE use modern technology to find their ethnic cleansing victims. The officers were looking for people, and seemingly for specif
Our classy president prepares for reelection. President Trump is so eager to complete hundreds of miles of border fence ahead of the 2020 presidential election that he has directed aides to fast-track
As if the last 24 hours haven’t been horrific enough, Slate and CNN bring us this headline: “El Paso Shooting Victims Might Avoid Hospitals Due to Immigration Status.” And this is wh
Theodore Roosevelt, 1905: The intelligence of the remark is on a par with its morality; for the most rudimentary mental process would have shown the speaker that if the average family in which there a