“Fox News host Emily Compagno said that the United States needs a ‘fortified boundary’ or another type of wall on the northern border with Canada” because of increased border crossing, Raw Story reported on Monday, January 30, 2023 (read story here). The Maginot Line was a se[...]
Posts Tagged ‘Immigrants’
January 30th, 2023 - 4:43 pm § in Politics, Republicans
Fox host calls for Maginot Line on Canada border
January 20th, 2023 - 7:33 pm § in Business
Oklahoma pork plant fired worker, then called cops who killed him
Guymon, Oklahoma, is a town in the dusty Oklahoma panhandle. It was a dying town until the pork plant came in the 1990s. In 2014, an Oklahoma newspaper gushed (here), “On the northeast corner of town, cradled by a cluster of dilapidated trailer homes, sits a business that many credit for start[...]
January 28th, 2022 - 5:40 pm § in Politics
Not even butterfly rescuers are safe from Trumpers
Nobody is safe from these people, not even butterfly refuge workers. The National Butterfly Center (profile here) in Mission, Texas, announced it will be closed to the public during a nearby Trumper rally on the weekend of Jan. 28 – 30, 2022, due to “credible threats” of violence a[...]
July 16th, 2021 - 6:00 pm § in Law and Courts
A federal judge just ruled DACA is illegal; will it stick?
A Bush-appointed (i.e., conservative) federal judge in Texas issued an expected ruling on Friday, July 16, 2021, declaring that the Obama-era DACA program, which shields immigrant minors illegally brought to the U.S. by their parents from deportation, is illegal. However, the judge stayed immediate [...]
March 17th, 2020 - 1:43 am § in America
St. Patty’s Day: Why is the Medal of Honor so IRISH?
“Of the 3,515 Medals of Honor awarded by the United States, some 2,018 have gone to Irish-Americans, according to Patrick McDermot of Irish Veterans Post 2, created in Tampa in 2017.” Perhaps there are lessons here for today’s immigrant-haters. And yes, America’s highest award for combat[...]
March 6th, 2019 - 6:35 pm § in America
SCANDAL: Trump’s Border Patrol blacklists, arrests, and questions reporters, lawyers, and activists it doesn’t like
“Customs and Border Protection has compiled a list of 59 mostly American reporters, attorneys and activists for border agents to stop for questioning when crossing the U.S-Mexican border at San Diego-area checkpoints, and agents have questioned or arrested at least 21 of them,” NB[...]
October 30th, 2018 - 7:53 pm § in America, Donald Trump
Should children of illegals born in the U.S. be citizens?
Under current law, they are, based on a Supreme Court interpretation of the 14th Amendment dating back to the 19th century. But some conservatives want to challenge that interpretation. Their argument that the 14th Amendment doesn’t necessarily confer citizenship upon everyone born on U.S. soil ha[...]
August 13th, 2018 - 3:38 pm § in Donald Trump
What makes someone an American?
Floyd Gibbons (1887-1939) was a war correspondent for the Chicago Tribune whose reporting turned Belleau Wood into legend. Badly wounded himself in the first days of the battle, he filed his most famous dispatch from a hospital bed. It is a story about immigrants: Most of the U.S. Marines who fought[...]
November 30th, 2017 - 5:38 pm § in Donald Trump, Politics
Acquittal in Steinle murder trial
During the 2016 campaign, President Trump exploited the Kate Steinle shooting as a vehicle to rail against illegal immigrants and promote his border wall. A jury today decided her death was an accident. The defense claimed Garcia Zarate merely picked up a shirt he found lying on a bench, and a gun[...]