KKK Joins Immigration Debate With Calls for “Corpses” on the Border
KKK Joins Immigration Debate With Calls for “Corpses” on the Border
*Terrible, beyond words. Thanks to Tex[t]-Mex: Seductive Hallucination of the “Mexican” in America and Maria Carla Sanchez for suggesting this article. VL By Keegan Hankes, Southern Poverty Law Center With thousands of undocumented […]
Poll: Most Americans Want to Shelter, Not Deport, Migrant Children
*The anti-immigrant protesters seem to be getting most of the attention concerning the undocumented minor situation at the border. It turns out things aren’t what they seem. The loud anti-protesters […]
Obama Mulls Large-Scale Move on Immigration
*The timing of an eventual executive move on immigration isn’t certain, but the speculation is that it’ll come after congress goes into its summer recess. VL By Associated Press WASHINGTON […]
Why the Border Crisis Is a Myth
*It’s taken a while for reason to surface through the muck and misunderstanding flowing around this child immigrant story. I think there is a crisis, but it’s a crisis in […]
The Bracero Treaty changed America
*Important, lest we forget. Timely as well, given the influx of immigrant children at the border. The cherry picking of immigrants “we want and don’t want” began with the Bracero […]
U.S. Considering Refugee Status for Hondurans
*Cecilia Muñoz, Director of the White House Domestic Policy Council, said today that reporting on this plan is premature. She added that the administration is studying all options to manage the […]
Examining the Terrorist Threat from America’s Southern Border
*A large part of the argument to secure the U.S. Southern border comes from the idea that terrorists could enter the country, in the guise of undocumented migrants, with bombs […]
With Too Few Judges, Hundreds of Thousands of Immigrants Wait Nearly Two Years for a Hearing
*The way things now stand, unaccompanied immigrant minors would have to wait years to have their situation resolved before an immigration judge. VL By Daniel Costa, Economic Policy Institute Washington, […]
Good sense?
*The late Molly Ivins called him “Governor Good Hair,” it was her way of pointing out Rick Perry’s postcard politician character. This week Perry reminded me why Ivins held him […]
What New Border Patrol Statistics Reveal about Changing Migration to the United States
By Adam Isacson, Washington Office on Latin America This week, the U.S. Border Patrol released statistics about its activities in 2013, including its apprehensions of migrants along the U.S.-Mexico border. This allowed WOLA to update […]
