Author’s note: the issue of immigration is complex and does not fit into nice little sound bites. This article is necessarily long so that the reader can gain a clearer understanding of what is going on at the southern border today. Rather than break it up into smaller articles, I have decided to publish it… Read More What Is Going On At The Border?
You may have noticed some changes on the blog over the last day or two. Like for many of you, 2020 has been a year of changes. I am now writing on three online publications in addition to my upcoming book. All of this in between my real job. And, you all likely know there… Read More Time To Make Another Change
When I first created the poster, Donald Trump’s Deportation Force in 2015 many individuals criticized it as an exaggeration. Although some saw Trump’s hatred of immigrants worrisome they nonetheless felt that America would push back. To equate the Border Patrol as a Deportation Force they argued was too much. Fast forward to today and the… Read More Border Patrol Has Evolved Into Trump’s Shock Troops
Donald Trump threatened to close the U.S.-México border this week unless México started to intercede Central American immigrants intent on reaching the United States. Yesterday, Donald Trump said that México “deported 1,000” immigrants in one day, insinuating that he had strong-armed México into doing America’s immigration work. But like everything else about immigration, all is… Read More Mexico Has Been Deporting Central Americans Since 2014
Ronald Reagan had the answer to the border crisis. It was simple and effective. In today’s podcast I explain Ronald Reagan’s border vision and why it would immediately solve the border crisis and protect America. Listen to the podcast:
I have been trying to explain to Donald Trump supporters why the Trump politics of anti-immigration and The Wall rhetoric are dangerous not only to immigrants, like me, but to Americans as well. The anti-immigrant rhetoric is more of an anti-brown people politics. Here are the facts as to why I strongly believe this. Jilmar… Read More Sent To ICE For Being Brown
You speak English! I will never forget the face my date made as soon as she realized that I was not an American. Worse, I am a Mexican citizen. Check out my latest podcast on the politics of the border. In episode 6 I talk about assimilation from the point of view of a Fronterizo,… Read More Border Mic – Episode 6 – You Speak English!
There is something very important that everyone is missing in the debate over The Wall aka the border fence in El Paso. I’m actually pretty surprised that no one else has thought about this. It clearly ends the debate over walls keeping America safe from drugs. When Donald Trump argued that the border fence (The… Read More What Everyone Has Wrong About the El Paso Border Fence
Donald Trump loves to channel Ronald Reagan as a strong president. The Republicans believe Ronald Reagan was one of the best presidents. Guess what? I think Ronald Reagan was one of the best American presidents. Ronald Reagan wanted open borders. Ronald Reagan believed in immigrants and Mexicans. In today’s podcast I talk about why Ronald… Read More Border Mic – Episode 5 – Ronald Reagan My Favorite American President
The notion that the border is dangerous is used to rally the troops into a frenzy for border security. Interesting is that the United States has two land borders and two oceans, not to mention air corridors. Actual attacks against the United States have come from land, sea and air. Of those, only a small… Read More A Dangerous Border
Hola, and welcome to the launch of my podcast. The border is the hot topic of the nation. Everyone thinks they know the border. Many talk about the border. But how many have lived the border? Of those, how many are immigrants. I spent decades on the border. I lived on the border for almost… Read More A Podcast About the Border
In yesterday’s post we looked at Marco Antonio de la Garza who worked as a Border Patrol Agent while being an undocumented immigrant. His case demonstrates how broken the immigration process is in America. But, what about the other Border Patrol agents? If the system allowed an undocumented immigrant to work deporting other undocumented immigrants… Read More Criminal Border Patrol Agents
The history of Border Patrol agents going to jail demonstrates a broken system where those enforcing the law are criminals themselves. There are many instances of criminal Border Patrol agents. However, the most poignant is an undocumented Border Patrol agent arresting those for committing the exact same crime the agent, himself, is going to jail… Read More Border Patrol Agent Goes to Jail
Shortly before the Midterms, Donald Trump ordered the U.S. military to the border in response to the “invaders” heading to America. Many, including some Republicans, have called the military deployment a “stunt”. The so-called “invaders” – migrants in a caravan trekking through México – didn’t make it to the border until after the Midterms. Even… Read More U.S. Border Military Deployments
Individuals give up certain control over their lives to live in a society. Among them is the authority to be deprived of liberty by law enforcement agencies. Sometimes even the right to life is given up in order to allow society to be orderly. To give up control, the members of society must trust the… Read More Border Patrol Terror
The political spin never ceases to shock me. I continually find myself trying to debate an issue only to be confronted with altered facts that forces me to focus on correcting the record rather than arguing my point. Take for example the argument that the Democrats are for open borders. There is a general narrative… Read More The Open Border Lie
The Washington Post published an article on Tuesday, September 19, 2017 that blows the notion of The Wall being about border security out of the water. The article, by William Booth, will likely be missed by most because it does not fit the narrative that Donald Trump supporters hold and others just aren’t interested in… Read More Border Security Gets Blown Out of the Water Again
Donald Trump’s threat to build a wall on the México-U.S. border is missing one key ingredient – that the border is not owned by the United States alone. The border is a shared resource. The economies of the United States and México are intertwined together so tightly that the border is now a shared thing… Read More The Border is a Shared Resource
Many conservatives in the United States like to channel Ronald Reagan as the image of the “America First” doctrine and true U.S.-centric conservatism. This narrative is part of the fiction that is driving today’s far right-wing conservatism that put Donald Trump into office. The problem, though, is that it is all based on a lie.… Read More Ronald Reagan and Open Borders
