Powerful and important reporting from Elise Foley: On a single day this past fall, the United States government held 13,185 people in immigration detention who had not been convicted of a crime, some of whom will not be charged with one, according to information The...
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Outstanding piece of journalism by David Bacon, showing how NAFTA has brought North Carolina and Veracruz together, connected by Smithfield Farms trying to screw both places over. Essentially, as North.
Sure glad we deported this guy. Makes America look great too: Quelino Ojeda Jimenez, who was deported to Mexico by a Chicago-area hospital in 2010, passed away on Sunday. Jimenez,.
While the border wall does virtually nothing to halt human activity on the border and absolutely nothing to limit the drug trade, it does have massive negative impacts on many animals. Given the lack of environmental protection in Mexico, there are several species that may...
Another good piece on the worthlessness of the border fence. The fence itself just forces people desperate to cross into more dangerous and life-threatening situations. Undocumented immigration has declined the.
I find the somewhat silly controversy of MSNBC insinuating that Mitt Romney stole the phrase "Keep America American" from the second Ku Klux Klan interesting for a few reasons. 1..
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...
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.
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...
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.
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.