White House Chaos Continues as Trump Claims “Absolute Legal Right” on Sanctuary Cities Proposal
Pete Marovich/CNP/ZUMA Wire In a late night tweet on Saturday, President Donald Trump added fuel to his latest immigration row, declaring the United States had “absolute legal right” to send migrants detained at the border to various sanctuary cities throughout the country. The president also demanded that California, a heavily blue-leaning state he has publicly…
A Death, a Life, and a Border Wall
The border wall between the USA and Mexico in Arizona.Getty Images In the fall of 1993, Aaron Bobrow-Strain arrived in Tucson, Arizona, near the jagged ridge of the United States’ southern border. Dominating the news was debate over the North American Free Trade Agreement, which would be passed by the House that November. As Bobrow-Strain settled…
Seattle’s Mayor Had the Perfect Response to Trump’s Threat to Send Immigrants to Sanctuary Cities
Jenny Durkan announces her candidacy for Seattle mayor in May 2017.Ted S. Warren/AP On Friday, President Donald Trump said his administration was seriously considering sending undocumented immigrants caught along the border to sanctuary cities around the country as a way to punish Democrats who opposed his border wall. The proposal was first floated last year,…
New Government Data Shows Trump Wanted to Close the Wrong Border
A sign marking the US-Canada border.Joe Raedle/Getty In January, with the government shut down over President Donald Trump’s insistence on a border wall, the White House began pushing a new talking point. Seventeen thousand criminals had been arrested at the southern border in the previous year, Trump, Vice President Mike Pence, and former Homeland Security…
Asylum Was Pretty Much Dead Before Trump. Now He’s Trying to Finish the Job.
The US Coast Guard arrives on a Haitian refugee boat in 1992. Haitians intercepted at sea were generally returned to Haiti or detained in Guantanamo Bay, Cuba.Jacques Langevin/Getty In October 2013, 368 mostly Eritrean migrants died after their ship sank off the coast of the Italian island of Lampedusa. Italy honored them with honorary citizenship…
Vigilantes Not Welcome: A Border Town Pushes Back on Anti-Immigrant Extremists
In late August last year, 39-year-old Michael Lewis Arthur Meyer exited La Gitana bar in Arivaca, Arizona, took out his phone, and started recording a video for his Facebook page: “So down here in Arivaca, if you like to traffic in children, if you like to make sure women and children have contraceptives before handing…