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.”
The fact of the matter is that Democrats need to stand up to Trump if they are to vindicate themselves. They ran on a more progressive America, not on an America that is a giant prison surrounded by walls.
The military is leaving the southern border, and the caravan hasn’t even arrived yet.
The U.S. media got the historic election of Andrés Manuel López Obrador all wrong. The winner by a landslide was Andrés Manuel López Obrador, a socialist reformer and unabashed champion of the working class. It’s a hugely significant turn of events.
There is not enough space to catalogue all the crimes committed collectively by western countries that now feel besieged by migrants of color.
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