Wisconsin man charged with hate crime after cutting neighbor’s cable thinking...
Across the country, more and more people are being exposed for their anti-immigrant rhetoric and actions. While the increase in numbers is heartbreaking, awareness of the consequences of such ignorant...
View ArticleGreg Abbott has sent migrants from Texas to Philadelphia
This morning, a bus full of asylum-seeking migrants from Texas arrived at the 30th Street Station in Philadelphia. The busing of migrants is attributed to Texas governor Greg Abbott (R) desiring to...
View Article$1.4 million conveniently "missing" from expenses for Ron DeSantis' migrant...
Well well well, isn’t this rather curious:www.orlandosentinel.com/…There’s a paywall here but just as summary, investigative reporters at the Orlando Sentinel discovered that almost a million and a...
View ArticleConsequences of Gov. Doug Ducey’s shipping containers border ‘wall’ go beyond...
Gov. Doug Ducey of Arizona seems to be upholding his version of Trump’s border wall promise. The Republican governor made a sad makeshift wall that first showed up on a strip of borderland near Yuma on...
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Punisher creator Mike Baron releases another Racist AF comic book
“ ...Iraqis, Afghans, Chinese, Mexican and Lebanese...” These are just a few of the Racial and National groups that Punisher creator Mike Baron has demonized in his latest diatribe of racist...
View ArticleWomen detained at Baker County Detention Center cite a systemic pattern of...
After an investigation into the inhumane conditions at the facility, American Civil Liberties Union (ACLU) of Florida activists demand that Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) cancel its contract...
View ArticleGreg Abbott: For Christmas, Kamala, I give you fresh busloads of migrant pawns
Greg Abbott is apparently in a contest to see if he can out-cruel Ron DeSantis. From the The Hill:Multiple busloads of migrants were dropped off at Vice President Harris’s residence in Washington,...
View ArticleTexas Gov. Abbott abandons over 100 asylum seekers on D.C. street on a...
Republican elected officials continue to compete with each other with stunts of premeditated evil. On Christmas Eve, three busloads of asylum-seeking adult and child refugees were unloaded on the...
View ArticleAbbott's Migrant Stunt: Expressing Outrage in a Presidential Address about...
Gratuitously cruel actions should be met quickly with moral outrage in a manner designed to reach as many people as possible. “Stunts” by creeps like DeSantis and Abbott violate basic standards of...
View ArticleWashington state ICE center allegedly used ‘chemical agents’ on immigrant...
Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) facilities across the U.S. are continuously under fire for subjecting migrants to inhumane conditions. Most recently, a multibillion-dollar company that runs...
View ArticleMy Letter, "Betraying Lincoln's Legacy," is in today's Phila. Inquirer (on...
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View ArticleMigrants
MigrantsBefore I caught onto calendars As a kid, I still knew there were Special times, Some of them happened In late spring And in the summer months, too – Days would come when The sky was filled With...
View ArticleCartoon: Troops to the border
It's not the border, it's the immigration system that's broken.
View ArticleSeven people intentionally murdered in hate crime in Brownsville, Tx -...
I am sitting in a hotel a few blocked from the Universidad de San Pedro Sula (USAP) in San Pedro Sula, Cortés, Honduras. I arrived yesterday to begin a three-week education series for UNESCO. I saw the...
View ArticleOvernight News Digest May 9, 2023
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Economic and ethical thoughts on migration - Personal thoughts on Immigration...
Watching the news about the USA unfold here in Honduras (US Ambassador to Honduras Laura Dogu has been in the national news) and as an immigrant (who holds citizenship in both the USA and México), I...
View ArticleA successful social justice movement's "secret ingredient"
Have you ever heard of Chris Hartmire and his relationship with Cesar Chavez's United Farm Workers movement? If not, you may have missed one of the major factors in the success of the movement. At one...
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Museum Pieces: Los Braceros
The Braceros Program was implemented during World War One and Two to recruit farmworkers from Mexico to work in the United States."Museum Pieces" is a diary series that explores the history behind some...
View ArticleMore than 7.2 million migrants have fled Venezuela, creating a crisis on par...
When you hear Republicans and right-wing media blame President Joe Biden for the so-called “border crisis” and target the growing number of Venezuelan migrants, it’s important to look at the bigger...
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Photo Diary: National Border Patrol Museum, El Paso TX
A small museum that focuses on the history of the US Border Patrol. El Paso is one of the busiest transit points between Mexico and the US (both legal and illegal), so I’ve been seeing Border Patrol...
View ArticleOvernight News Digest June 6, 2023
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View ArticleOvernight News Digest June 13, 2023
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View ArticleThe feds need to look into possible human rights abuses and trafficking by...
Right now, human beings are being used as political stunts. In an effort to embolden their base, Texas Gov. Greg Abbott and Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis have proudly boasted that they have put thousands...
View ArticleTrump adviser Stephen Miller pushed for blowing up migrant boats with drones,...
Trump senior policy adviser Stephen Miller allegedly advocated blowing up boats of migrants with Predator drones, according to a new book by a former top Department of Homeland Security official,...
View ArticleOvernight News Digest: July Begins
Welcome to the Overnight News Digest with a crew consisting of founder Magnifico, regular editors side pocket, maggiejean, Chitown Kev, eeff, Magnifico, annetteboardman, Besame, jck, and JeremyBloom....
View ArticleIn Defense of the People who Pick Your Crops
I was raised on a farm in Michigan. Just a small, general farm with my dad trying to keep his head above water and raise us kids and care for his wife in a business that really didn’t make any money....
View ArticleTexas National Guard and FBI engage in foreign intelligence ops. What could...
www.texastribune.org/...www.armytimes.com/…Apparently, Texas Governor Abbott and Texas National Guard brass engaged in more than illegally transporting migrants to blue states. A joint Texas Tribune...
View ArticleOvernight News Digest August 29, 2023
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View ArticleI made the news today oh boy. (Giving my opinion about migrants in NY.)
Well, yesterday, after I took my daily trip to Epices bakery on 70th between Broadway and Columbus. (By far the best baguettes in the city.) The street was closed and there were police there. There...
View ArticleIf the Democrats are to have a chance, Biden has to start controlling the...
You may not like hearing it, but if the President doesn’t start appearing “tough” on border control, there will be no Joe Biden in the White House in Jan. 2025, nor will the Democrats have any chance...
View ArticleMy day was okay, then I saw this NY POST Headline. I asked my neighbors what...
The NY Post has a rep for being “Tabloid”, but in my career as an NYC building contractor, I’ve seen many working class colleagues sit down with this daily at lunch. No question what this front page...
View ArticleOvernight News Digest: Last Night of Summer
Tonight at 2:50 am the sun will cross the equator (visually from earth) and autumn will officially begin. Fall is my favourite season and I just gave you a hint of my favourite holiday. But before we...
View ArticleRepublicans are addicted to shutdown battles voters are coming to despise
Rep. Jim Jordan of Ohio, one of the GOP’s chief candidates for speaker, is already sowing the seeds of another government shutdown mere weeks after House Republicans narrowly avoided the last one.This...
View ArticleOvernight News Digest October 31, 2023
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View ArticleTrump Crosses the Line, Embraces Nazi Ideology
As a historian and teacher, and as a Jew, I don’t throw around accusations of Nazi and Fascist lightly, but Donald Trump’s anti-immigrant rhetoric and policy proposals have crossed the line. He has...
View ArticleOvernight News Digest November 28, 2023
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View ArticleGov. Pritzker pleads for Gregg Abbott to stop sending migrants to Chicago in...
I am not exaggerating when I use the word “pleads”: Pritzker really did beg Abbott to stop shipping migrants to Chicago. In a letter personally addressed to Abbott, Pritzker wrote (my bold): “While...
View ArticleSelective compassion: The Romeike family and the GOP’s immigration hypocrisy
One word can describe Republicans' views on undocumented immigrants: dehumanizing. Not too long ago, Republican “religious” voters justified Trump’s horrible family separation policy for migrants,...
View ArticleTrump and the GOP may be ruining their own Immigration argument
Reposted from My SubstackAccording to ABC News…Immigration, one of the most politically divisive and complex matters in the U.S. for decades, is emerging as a top issue in the 2024 election.Look no...
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MAGA "convoy" finally reaches Southern border and are SHOCKED to find......
I haven’t seen this story here on Daily Kos yet so I thought I’d drop a little tidbit of information that came through my inbox via Jeff Tiedrich’s Substack.Turns out the border “crisis” that’s been...
View ArticleVigilante brags on Fox News about assaulting a man for looking like a 'migrant'
The Guardian Angels roughed up and detained a man during a live television interview with Sean Hannity on Fox News Tuesday. Guardian Angels founder and failed mayoral candidate Curtis Sliwa was being...
View Article5 lessons from this week’s special elections that Democrats crushed
Democrats should be riding high after two impressive special election victories this week with promising implications for November. Veteran Democratic lawmaker Tom Suozziwon back his old job...
View ArticleWaPo: Trump will use military to catch and deport migrants and build...
In The Washington Post today, reporters Isaac Arsdorf, Nick Miroff, and Josh Dawsey detail how Donald Trump and his allies are planning a solution to undocumented migrants in the United States. Trump...
View ArticleArizona Wants to Declare Open Season on Migrants
Just when you thought it couldn’t get any worse. . .Republican bill would let AZ ranchers shoot and kill border-crossers on their propertyArizona Republicans want to let ranchers in southern Arizona...
View ArticleHere’s how Biden can make Republicans pay for tanking the border deal
When President Joe Biden visits Brownsville, Texas, on Thursday, he will be working to raise awareness about congressional Republicans tanking a bipartisan border deal aimed at addressing an influx of...
View ArticleBreaking: Fifth Circuit Court puts Texas migrant arrest law on hold again.
A federal appeals court late Tuesday issued an order that again prevents Texas from arresting migrants suspected of entering the U.S. illegally, hours after the Supreme Court allowed the strict new...
View ArticleThe Darien Gap and the Truth about Migrants
By now, most Americans know what the Darien Gap is. It’s a sixty-mile broken trail through rotten, poisonous-snake-infested jungle between Colombia and Panama. It’s full of animal and human...
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Today's Award Winning Acts of Random Republican Stupidity
It’s been an X-cellent day on the website formerly known as Twitter for some profound MAGA stupidity and hypocrisy. Let’s jump right into it. The March Madness Award For Mingling Stupid Politics With...
View ArticleOvernight News Digest April 2, 2024
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