ICE appoints itself supreme authority for detainment and deportation
As the sanctuary movement illustrates, federal authority in immigration cases is not welcome in many places. It is certainly not welcome here in Massachusetts.
Tag Archives: immigration
State of the Union theater
One decision is easy to make: ask for more money to maintain and supply the prisons, build the wall, and train new officers. We have to keep the developing police state in the southwest moving forward.
Welcome to our country
I don’t follow your reasoning. Do you say that because your family came to America first, they deserve better treatment than families who come to America now?
Law enforcement when law does not exist
The greatest threat to our security does not come from abroad. It comes from people who wear badges, who display the name of their agency on the backs of their jackets. It comes from greedy, predatory officials who run a protection racket no one dares resist.
KKK, ICE, intimidation, and law
When you talk about use of cruelty to instill fear, the KKK and ICE have a good deal in common.
Bracamontes ad on Sunday Night Football
The ad is the worst piece of garbage dressed up as political propaganda I’ve ever seen. It is so bad I would not put it down my gargage disposal, because it would muck it up.
Feds sing the immigration blues
We make sure the adolescent girls are raped no more than once or maybe twice a week. That way they can recover. As for the boys, we put them in the secure housing unit only when necessary.
Show me your papers
Immigration officials claim all the highest motives, but in fact they represent another instance of storm trooper government. They are mindless, armed and uniformed heavyweights who follow the empire’s orders.
Widening gyre
People look to Mr. Trump for hope, too, but we are about to see how quickly bad policies lead to illusions and failure. We are about to see what happens when a democracy destroys itself.
“The whole country is a prison camp”, Immigration and the Tea Party
I ran across a video about a strip search and police brutality today that was so disturbing, I couldn’t post …
Unexceptional Truths about America
How American exceptionalism became a contested concept in the culture wars is an interesting, significant story. I only know part …
The Jeffersonian 