immigration Archive

  • We Need a Better Coalition for Immigrants

    Social revolutions can take awhile, but the rise of young activists is heartening. Right now, white evangelical Christians are facing a generational crisis because those under 30 are comfortable with civil unions or same-sex marriage by a significant majority, unlike their elders. The younger bunch...

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  • Life Magazine Photo of Migrant

    The Truth About Immigration

    The more Republicans talked about the border fence and the imaginary tidal wave of brown people sent here to infect us all with disease and take our jobs, the more I started thinking about the sheer arrogance of their position. What would I do if my family was hungry and there was no food to be found in my city? Where would I send my kids if there were no opportunity to be found? What would I do to survive? That's where this poem came from.

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  • Feds Set Up South Texas for Katrina 2.0

    Feds Set Up South Texas for Katrina 2.0

    As Hurricane Dolly drew a bead on the South Texas coast and the mouth of the Rio Grande, workers began building a new section of the controversial U.S.-Mexico border Wall atop levees the government had already declared unsafe. The levees have been decertified, and if...

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