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Sep 25

Trump’s policies created the huge numbers that crossed during the Biden Administration

Donald Trump’s policies created the huge numbers that crossed during the Biden Administration’s first three years.

May 17

Trump and Border Patrol lied about not knowing who was in the caravans.

In the last eight years, the US government has witnessed border crisis after border crisis. Each built upon the last with different...

Apr 16

The only walls needed on the border are memorials.

When I was a junior agent in Campo, Californian, we did not a have a border wall. The 32 linear miles of southern border I patrolled from...

Mar 6

Exercising Resistance Muscles

At times when it feels futile, when I hear that President Biden who promised to bring humanity to the US asylum system chooses instead to...

Feb 13

Thirty Years of US Immigration Policy: Lazy Man's Genocide

Can Americans sleep at night knowing that we are intentionally doing this to migrant and asylum seeking families?

Dec 23, 2023

Media Failing in Another Border Crisis

Everywhere I look, I see headline after headline claiming that Border Patrol agents are overwhelmed by migrants crossing the border. I...

Sep 2, 2021

Biden's Latest Immigration Policy Breaks the Law

Photo by Adam Schultz It's understandable if you have not heard the latest cruel immigration policy in regard to Central American asylum...

Jul 16, 2021

They are Still Separating Families

Las Americas in El Paso, Texas I recently spent ten days driving the southern border from San Diego, California to El Paso, Texas. I made...

Jul 7, 2021

There is No Asylum

Photo by John Kurc. Twitter @MoiDarwin I am always hopeful when I visit migrant shelters. When Linda Rivas, attorney for Las Americas in...