Should we compare the people we doom to death for the crime of wanting to come live in our nation to the peoples disappeared by right-wing regimes in recent decades? There's a compelling case to be made. Even in 1981, as Amnesty notes in the...
U.S.-Mexico border
Trump's border wall executive order is beyond idiotic. The idea of the wall is incredibly stupid, even if you want to secure the border. First, there is already a lot.
This is great: In light of Trump’s presidential win, Tohono O’odham Nation tribal leaders said they would refuse to support building a border wall on their land. “Over my dead.
The entire conversation around immigration in this country, specifically immigration from Mexico and Central America, is broken, but the entire rhetoric around the Trump's border wall is incredibly stupid, as Casey Walker points out. It is a political moment that compels me to relate this...
Surely some architect would embrace building Trump's insane border wall: “With the highly contested nature of this project, and the fact that many, many people object to it really strongly—do.
Paul Ashby has a good piece on what is happening with US-Mexican relations, particularly around the border: business and capital is integrated to cross the border smoothly while the border.
On June 1, 1906, copper miners in the city of Cananea, Sonora, a few miles south of the U.S.-Mexico border, went on strike against the American companies dominating the mines and Porfirian Mexico. Widely seen as one of the most important events influencing the start...
An examination of where Mexican-Americans live in the United States shows they still mostly live in Mexico, or at least what Mexico was before the United States unjustly stole it.
Michelle Chen provides a useful overview of the intertwined environmental and humanitarian disaster of American policies toward the Mexican border. She covers several important issues. To excerpt from her introduction:.
This is just terrible. The US Border Patrol will continue using lethal force against people throwing rocks, as well as people inside vehicles—ignoring a set of recommendations from an independent review of lethal force practices at the agency. Border Patrol Chief Mike Fisher told the...
No doubt the solution to drug smuggling tunnels between the U.S. and Mexico is higher border walls. And the drones America's favorite racist Sheriff Joe Arapio wants to deploy to.
Good that John McCain is so giddy about creating what he calls the most militarized border since the Berlin Wall with the immigration bill. I mean, that turned out pretty.