7 Sep, 2022
“Frances, do you remember the time we were all lined up against a wall to be shot?” I was in my early 20s and at an afternoon family gathering. As we sat on the patio chatting, my aunt – my mother’s older sister – asked my mother this question.
18 Aug, 2022
Texas and Arizona have begun busing refugees at their border – at a cost of millions – up to a couple liberal Northern cities . . . let’s see how they like it!
16 Jun, 2022
The Ukraine-Russia war has raged for more than a hundred days. Now is a critical time to reflect on the case for people of good will to urge their leaders to end the war...
Amid all the flag-waving, chants of “USA, USA,” and other nationalist hoopla that characterize mainstream politics in the United States, it’s easy to miss the fact that most Americans favor global governance...
22 Oct, 2021
Congressional Democrats are now considering a watered-down version of immigration reform, a version they might hope to send through the budget reconciliation process as part of President Biden’s “Build Back Better” spending bill...
6 May, 2021
A little more than a year ago, as the pandemic tightened its lethal grip on the nation, a 43-year-old agricultural worker named Nancy Silva received a letter from her employer.
8 Apr, 2021
You’d think that the “border crisis” begins and ends as a problem for Americans. Oh, what to do, what to do?
“In the past year, the struggle over immigration rights continued along a broad array of fronts. There were significant setbacks,...
“The biggest joke on the planet may be the phrase “national security.”…” Author: Robert C. Koehler Published in: North Ogden...
“If Donald Trump actually follows through on his recently tweeted promise that Immigrations and Customs Enforcement (ICE) “will begin deporting...
“The world hemorrhages. Refugees flow from its wounds. Is there a way to be innocent of this?…” Robert C. Koehler...
“Now comes the mid-term elections. Perhaps what is most astonishing for me, as both an anthropologist and educator, is the...
“If you visit a detainee at the Adelanto ICE Processing Center northeast of Los Angeles, you’ll turn off Highway 395...
“The little red house in the hilltown of Cummington, Mass. (pop. 800) sits not far along Main Street from the...
“With each passing week, the battle of words over immigration intensifies, as Trump administration officials continue honing their favorite rhetorical...
