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No issue has proved more vexing to this nation than the issue of race, and yet no question is more pressing than how to overcome the politics of white supremacy...that threatens our ability ever to create a truly fair, just and inclusive democracy.
The notion of a white republic is neither new nor a figment of the imagination of the neofascists of our time.
GOP splinters over Trump's emergency decree.
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The news of terminals closing at LaGuardia Airport put “gasoline on the fire.”
What follows is a chronology of both the physical fortification of the U.S.-Mexico boundary and the psychic investment in such a fortification -- the fantasy, chased by both Democrats and Republicans for more than half a century...
Scott Warren offered food, water, and clothing to migrants on a deadly stretch of the U.S.-Mexico border. Now he’s facing twenty years in prison. Humanitarian groups fear the situation will only get worse.
The President confirmed on Thursday that he will likely potentially certainly improbably possibly doubtfully absolutely declare a national emergency. For sure, maybe.
"Giving the deportation agencies of ICE and CBP more money will mean more people detained, more families separated and more deaths.”
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