Teh Great Wall-Off Mexico
They say insanity is defined as doing the same thing over and over again expecting a different result. Given the way large-scale fortifications invariably fail, you'd think that John McCain wouldn't...
View ArticleArizona "Papers, please" law comes to Michigan
As predicted, the odious "Papers, please" law recently passed in Arizona is spreading like cancer throughout the country. In a couple of weeks, it hits Michigan.A Michigan lawmaker said she believes...
View Article"Mastering AZ Bill AB1070" : A hands-on course for United States Senators
President Obama joked in the recent Whitehouse Correspondent Dinner: "Unfortunately John McCain couldn't make it. Recently he claimed that he had never identified himself as a Maverick. And we all know...
View ArticleThe Next Republican Party
Can the Republican Party reinvent itself and remain a relevant political force?I don't think reinventing the Republican Party is a solution. The Republicans have to take responsibility for the mess...
View ArticleA Message for Advocates of Comprehensive Immigration Reform: Free the DREAM Act
Representative Luis Gutierrez has managed to incense immigrant youth again with his latest attempt to get the Obama Administration to show leadership on immigration issues.In the New York Times, the...
View ArticleBorn in the U.S.A.
Okay, Republicans, let's repeal or modify the 14th amendment so being born in the U.S. of A. makes you a citizen if, and only if your parents are legal. Now how do we handle a baby born to one legal...
View ArticleWhy Don't We Call It Ethnic Cleansing?
That is, after all, what it is. I mean the anti-immigrant movement regarding Hispanics. From Arizona's illegal immigrant law, to the call to rescind the 14th Ammendment? -- Not to mention to the...
View ArticleSome 'illegals' have been in the Americas longer than most of us.
Any “illegal” immigrant who has a percent of “Native American” blood is more of a citizen than most of us.
View ArticleHow would Meg Whitman govern? w/poll
The Whitman maid Nicky Daiz' illegal alien disclosure came at the worst time. The facts are in, almost all of them are not contested by the Whitman campaign, and there are several things we are...
View ArticleI've met Sheriff Dupnik, He's the Real Deal
Sheriff Clarence Dupnik has always been a smart, tough, and fair law enforcement official. I met Sheriff Dupnik in 2007 while making my film The Wall. We spoke for several hours about border policy...
View ArticleProposed Texas Abortion Bill Fuels Immigration Controversy
From The Desperate BloggerA bill recently introduced in the Texas state legislature would impose stiff fines and jail sentences on any medical professional who performs or facilitates the performance...
View ArticleDoes Wells Fargo Home Mortgage Have a Heart After All???
We've spent the last several years reading heartbreaking story after heartbreaking story about the immoral, unethical, often illegal, activities of the big banks in their heartless pursuit of...
View ArticleA Roadmap to Citizenship, and A Roadmap to Homeownership
Is anyone replacing entire lower skilled workcrews in your area with with minimum wage employees? I mean, you know its happening even if you have yet to run across it. But here's what you definitely...
View ArticleALEC's Immigration Legislation...no need for it unless you live in the U.S....
With the furor over immigration and entry into the U.S. by those avoiding the legal path, RepubliCons pushed for SB 1070 in AZ. in 2010 and in more than 30 states since then. They have had mixed...
View Articleupdated: prison companies profiting from the crackdown on immigration -- an...
On September 28, as part of its series on immigration detention, the New York Times addressed the scandal of seemingly uncontrollable immigrant abuse by the multinational prison industry in an article...
View ArticleAliens can help us fund Social Security and
we can bring them out of the shadow economy and into the real economy. We could give them the carrot of being able to join our Social Security if they pay into it for a certain number of years AND...
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Can This News Be Real?
Knowing the Daily Kos community is the best when it comes to especially political commentary. . .and something I'd rather not contribute to (therefore showing my ignorance on such subject matter. ....
View ArticleThe Republican Nightmare is the Democrats' Dream Act!
Ever since Donald Trump accused the President of being "Soft on Immigration" because he was secretly an immigrant himself...his fellow Republicans have wanted to get rid of the President's "Dream Act"...
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Republican Congressman Tweets ‘Illegal Aliens Have Just Invaded My DC Office’
ThinkProgress reports:One week after House Republicans passed an amendment that effectively deports DREAMers, undocumented high school students held a peaceful protest in Rep. Steve King’s (R-IA)...
View ArticleCBO Report on Immigration: Impact on Jobs, Labor Force
Senate bill S. 744 is the proposed immigration bill named “Border Security, Economic Opportunity, and Immigration Modernization Act”. Based on an assessment by a new report from the Congressional...
View ArticleSen. Lex Luthor Offers Solutions to Illegal Alien Problem
Only one man knows what it takes to stop the influx of illegal aliens. That man is the senior senator from wherever the hell Metropolis is.
View ArticleOh, Say What Did They See at Murieta?
I recently broke my political silence on Facebook to decry the Murieta protests against the unaccompanied minor illegal immigrants en route to a USCIS (fka INS) facility said to be better equipped for...
View ArticleChildren of Immigrants Saved from Immigrant Children: A Community Lashes Out...
“But Jesus said, “Let the children alone, and do not hinder them from coming to Me; for the kingdom of heaven belongs to such as these.”– Matthew 19:14A public meeting about a proposal by a church to...
View ArticleCartoon: The selective hearing of gun violence
I pass by the pier where Kathryn Steinle was killed probably six times a week. Never did I think that beautiful spot would become such fertile ground for campaign demagoguery. Donald Trump has found...
View ArticleTear Down the Wall
We do not need to build a wall across the 2,000 miles of our southern border. We need to tear down the walls and fences we have already built.The wall would cost at least $22.4 to $49 billion to build....
View ArticleHillary's Greatest Debate Moments
Hillary Rodham Clinton KILLED IT. Standing ovation at the end. Obama stumbles over his words, drowned out by the noise – the electrification. Bernie… Are you ready for Hillary? Bring on the...
View ArticleTrump: The Constitution is Unconstitutional!
Or at least Trump has declared that part of it is.According to Dylan Stableford of Yahoo News, The Donald says the 14th Amendment is unconstitutional."Donald Trump is defending his controversial...
View ArticleYogi Berra and the 14th Amendment
Donald Trump, Ted Cruz and several other rightwingnutcases want to repeal the "birthright citizenship" established in 1868 by the 14th Amendment.A search of the 1930 U.S. Census records reveals that...
View ArticleLet the Library of Congress know what you think about "Illegal aliens"...
About a month ago, I contributed a long—perhaps overlong—diary to DK, called Now They’re Coming After the Librarians. It detailed (eventually… I’m not journalist, I confess) a rather unfortunate series...
View ArticleWho is Jamiel Shaw and why does Donald Trump keep mentioning him?
Last Thursday during the Republican National Convention Donald Trump formally accepted his party’s nomination for president of the United States. Amongst other soundbites in his cobbled-together...
View ArticleDACA, supporting and protecting our immigrant communities.
As a result of the recent election many communities are stepping up to support their immigrant families, and to address the issues they now face due to the extremist positions of trump and his...
View ArticleWhen You Argue With a Fool...
My late father was a credit manager whose office walls were adorned with only one small plaque with the words...’when you argue with a fool, he is doing the same thing.’I have made the mistake of...
View ArticleSuperman: Undocumented Alien? (Video)
This brief video is an interesting take on the issue of whether or not Clark Kent aka Superman is an undocumented alien. #jtgxxYouTube Video
View ArticleTrump guilty of race baiting again ... in Tibbetts murder
Nothing infuriates more than the media amplifying racism by tagging a perpetrator of a terrible crime by stereotyping a class of hard-working innocent people. In reporting the murder as an illegal...
View ArticleWhat...what?
I was just thinking about WWII and when America was Great.President Trump promised us he'd make America great again.And that was when Ronald Reagan starred in 'This is the Army' with its drag number...
View ArticleThe refugee - a political football - and lies through omission.
The Dallas Express tells us today about Governor Abbott asking from help from other states to secure the border. And of course the leadership of states with the same views, like DeSantis, are sending...
View Article‘Let my immigrants stay’: US farm groups ask Trump to leave their ‘illegal’...
Rural America backs Trump. Farm states are typically red. And even in blue states with significant agricultural output — notably California and Illinois — the farm counties vote MAGA. This political...
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Magical thinking: The MAGAs who believe tariffs will lower prices
“To argue with a man who has renounced the use and authority of reason ... is like administering medicine to the dead”— Thomas Paine*People who believe you can lose weight with a supplement, but...
View ArticleThe well-regarded NIESR says America’s economy ‘risks massive Trump slump’
IntroductionWhen reading that the National Institute of Economic and Social Research (NIESR) says that Trump’s policies will lead to inflation, recession, and deficit increases, the critical thinker...
View ArticleAmerica’s anti-immigrant militias volunteer to be Trump’s neo-Nazi Brown Shirts
On Wednesday, the New York Times ran a story titled, Far-Right Militias Seek Role in Trump Deportation Plan. It began: A few days after the election, William Teer, who runs the Texas Three Percenters,...
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Another crack in the MAGA wall: A farmer explains Trump will be an economic...
Farmers are reliable Republican voters. They once embraced the Tea Party. Today, they are fully paid-up members of the MAGA cult. However, Trump is causing some of them to worry and possibly question...
View ArticleTrump "Border Czar" Tom Homan complains about immigration raid leaks - it...
Trump loudly campaigned on deporting all the undocumented immigrants in the US. Behind the scenes, he waffled. Nevertheless, to prove to the base that the new administration was full speed ahead, the...
View ArticleTrump enters office without the total control he craves - and people don't...
On Monday, Trump 2.0 started. To many, the sequel promises to be worse than the original. Trump has advantages in 2025 that he did not have in 2017. He enters office as the popular vote winner. The GOP...
View ArticleIt has begun: Farm workers getting rounded up
I knew this was coming.You knew this was coming.Everybody and his kid brother knew this was coming. The media were reporting its consequences everywhere. And if this report in the New Republic is...
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Trump's Canadian Border Rant
In another act of sidesteping being a backstabber to Ukraine, Trump decided to berate Justin Trudeau about illegal drugs coming through the Canadian border to the United States.Here are actual...
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Trump's Project Homecoming
Yesterday, there was an executive order signed by Trump's autopen handler called "Establishing Project Homecoming." The clip on his Truth Social post is just him talking about it. This one and 7 others...
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Major MAGA restaurant owner loses staff when ICE comes to town
Steve Smith, a successful local businessman in Tennessee, owns multiple restaurants in Nashville. Three of his establishments — Honky Tonk Central, The Diner and Kid Rock's Big Ass Honky Tonky and...
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MAGA farmers in blue state New York are losing workers - what did they think...
There are two New Yorks — the city and upstate. Overall, the state has been reliably blue in Presidential elections. The last time it voted for a Republican candidate was 41 years ago when Reagan won...
View Article"The only way to make the Fugitive Slave Law a dead letter is to make half a...
“The only way to make the Fugitive Slave Law a dead letter is to make half a dozen or more dead kidnappers. A half dozen more dead kidnappers carried down South would cool the ardor of the Southern...
View ArticleMAGA Alabama contractor discovers Trump's ICE raids delay construction...
A construction supervisor discovers the cost of his politics Robby Robertson is an Alabamian, a construction supervisor, and a Trump fan. He lives at the intersection where political allegiance and...
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