And it’s far from clear to what’s going to happen. Thomas, ordinarily the staunchest states’ “rights” justice, is different in preemption. And elite Republicans don’t have monolithic views on immigration enforcement (in particular, you have to think that Kennedy might see auto executives getting detained in Alabama and think it might be time to put […]
Tag: immigration
I had wondered what Alabama would do after a police officer arrested a German auto executive under its draconian new immigration law. Now we know. Faced with backlash over the detainment of two foreig
Exhibit 4,000,000 in why the border wall is worthless, driving people into the desert to die while not even slowing down drug smuggling.
It’s pretty depressing that a law intended to oppress brown people has to affect a white person to make headlines, but that’s America. A German manager with Mercedes-Benz is free after being arrested for not having a driver’s license with him under Alabama’s new law targeting illegal immigrants, authorities said Friday, in an otherwise routine […]
Pretty good Times piece on the rapidly growing Latino populations in the Great Plains. Of course, a lot of the local whites are outraged. On the other hand, their towns are literally dying. Latinos ar
I don’t often talk about individual historians because most of you won’t care, but it’s worth noting the death of Oscar Handlin, a historian who did more than anyone to create the fi
New Mexico governor Susana Martinez (and someone who I’d recommend as a good Intrade bet for the Republican VP nominee) has made her name for cracking down on illegal immigration, in particular supporting a bill to not allow undocumented people to get a drivers’ license. She’s always been hazy on how her family got into […]
This issue came up in the comments to a post from earlier in the week. Before you answer that question with the obvious no, note that this was a real issue in American history. John Svan was a Finnish
I meant to comment on this a couple of days ago, before I went away on a brief vacation, but I didn’t have time. So even though the news is a few days old now, I really want to commend President
The border fence is such a disaster. Here’s yet another example: Flooding caused by a border security fence in southwestern Arizona shows the structure is being built too quickly and without regard for the environment, critics say. Debris and water backed up at the fence during a storm July 12, leading to flooding at the […]
Neil Genzlinger has a thought provoking piece on the dark side of Ellis Island and American immigration, which he rightfully says is underplayed at the museum: But there’s another side to our nation
The photographer Matt Black has a gallery up at Guernica featuring his photos of the Mixteca, an indigenous region of Oaxaca in southern Mexico. I’d place an example or two up here but copying t