Tag: U.S.-Mexico border
Bread, circuses, and duct tape
There is, of course, no emergency, despite the rape fantasy that the president has regularly tried to pass off as public policy.
Millions of Americans cross the U.S.-Mexico border for health care: The...
At a checkpoint in Yuma, Arizona, around 6,000 Americans cross into Los Algodones, Mexico daily for health care reasons – predominantly dental care.
The wall: Barrier or symbol?
Let’s be crystal clear: A wall has little or no advantage for law enforcement or border security.
How not to build a ‘great, great wall’
As long as the United States keeps coming up with new ways to fortify the border, people will keep coming up with new ways to beat the border.
Trump’s delusion about the wall that never was
Let’s be clear on one thing: There is no Wall. There never has been a serious plan to build a Wall. And there never will be a Wall.
We already have a border wall. It’s an environmental disaster.
"We’ve inhabited this land for so long, since the beginning of time and so not allowing that migration to flow disrupts people’s systems. We know the impacts [the border wall] has already had on our environment.”
Border patrol fires tear gas at asylum seekers, hitting women, children,...
U.S. authorities fired tear gas at migrants at the Mexican border during the first hours of the new year.
Justice for Jakelin: Lawmakers demand answers in death of 7-year-old girl...
Outrage is mounting as lawmakers demand answers for the conditions that led Jakelin Caal Maquín to die after being detained at the U.S.-Mexico border.
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US workers average 10 paid vacation days a year, and 33 million get none
Twenty-five OECD countries require employers to provide at least 20 days. The US legal minimum is zero, and 57 percent of the lowest-paid tenth of workers get no vacation at all.
Chris Hedges and Albert Raboteau on ‘American Prophets’ importance in an age of radical...
Watch the two thinkers talk about Raboteau’s book, which discusses the work of religious figures such as Dorothy Day, Thomas Merton and Martin Luther King, Jr.
Justice Department drops multiple corporate crime investigations
A reported decision to abandon several major corporate crime cases has raised concerns that the federal government is easing pressure on corporate misconduct.
The Mexicanization of the United States
The destruction caused by neoliberalism is global. The patterns of economic, social, cultural and political assault that Mexico has suffered are afflicting countries from Greece to the United States. Only a worldwide anti-capitalist resistance movement will save us.
The dark and sinister ideology driving Elon Musk’s actions
The stakes are higher than they’ve ever been, and their power as elected officials sworn to uphold the Constitution is far greater than an unelected billionaire’s artificial power as Donald Trump’s hatchet man.