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A Mexican-American carpenter, former Army combat medic, and pastoral worker whose authority comes from formation, not credentials: an El Paso childhood where classmates vanished in pre-dawn ICE raids, a tour in Iraq, and years of ministry to abandoned veterans and undocumented neighbors. He writes on immigration and on the way power keeps borrowing the language of mercy while practicing its opposite — naming cruelty plainly while leaving even those who commit it a way back.
Tom Homan is deploying armed agents to punish New York City. You made a promise, Mr. Homan, and you are keeping it: retaliation for a state's decision to stop lending its jail cells to your deportation machine. Governor Hochul signed the bill last month because New Yorkers demanded an end to the entanglement of local police with federal deportation operations. Your response,…
4 MIN READDonald Trump weaponized the tax agency to hunt migrants. The IRS handed Immigration and Customs Enforcement the home addresses of nearly 47,000 taxpayers—so agents could find them and deport them. The Treasury Inspector General for Tax Administration confirmed it Monday: the matching process was inconsistent, the safeguards for confidential tax information were not met, and…
4 MIN READIn Tonganoxie, residents raise signs against the data center that will turn their town into a cooling tower. In Indianapolis, a councilor wakes to gunshots and a note against server farms. In Texas, a twenty-year-old heads to the house of…
5 MIN READAaron Spencer executed a man on the highway and the courts freed him. A thirteen-year-old girl was violated, and the men who wore the badges and carried the gavels failed her. They released her abuser on a fifty-thousand-dollar bond while…
4 MIN READVladimir Putin is weaponizing hunger to strangle Armenia’s sovereignty. Armenia went to the polls Sunday and delivered a verdict the Kremlin has been dreading. Prime Minister Nikol Pashinyan stands for a new course — one that pulls his…
9 MIN READYou are sixteen years old. You want to feel the wind. The world is expensive. The streets are paved for heavy cars. The machines sold in dealerships cost more than a used sedan. So you find a lightweight electric bike. You twist the throttle and you feel alive. This is not a crime wave. It is a cry for joy. We who grew up with the open road forget what it means to be locked in…
8 MIN READCalifornia institutions exalted Junipero Serra while displacing Mildred Howard from Berkeley. In a West Oakland warehouse, Howard keeps a ten-foot statue of the Spanish missionary bound and blindfolded, the colonizer-saint mummified in the exact “Make America Great Again” red she names. It is the newest work in her Untold Histories / Hidden Truths series. Isaiah warned against…
4 MIN READThe party establishment treats human suffering as a branding deficit instead of a moral failure. The machinery of modern politics asks the people to wait while consultants draft an autopsy, then asks them to wait again when the report…
3 MIN READYou suspended lawful immigration by the accident of national origin. A federal judge in Rhode Island saw the record and called it what it was: a policy born of anti‑immigrant sentiment that placed countless lives in indeterminate legal…
4 MIN READA bag sits packed by the door. It has been there for days, weeks, months. A child’s shoes are inside it because oil futures rose three points this morning. This is the architecture of life in Gaza, in southern Lebanon, in Tehran — flight…
9 MIN READIn April, German factory orders fell 3.8 percent. The data agency Destatis reported it plainly. Economists had predicted a decline, but not this deep; the Wall Street Journal's panel expected a 2.2 percent dip. The graph lines have teeth…
7 MIN READA man suffered a stroke at the Adelanto detention center, contracted the coronavirus in custody, and was released to die three days later. The ledger closed while his body was still warm. His death prompted a 2021 rule requiring the agency…
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Retailers are doubling restocking fees to punish shrinking bodies. The business press reports a fifty percent spike in apparel returns as customers on GLP-1 medications drop a clothing size every month. Shoppers order two sizes, keep the…
7 MIN READAlan Wilson sent armed agents into a South Carolina metal plant to drag 48 workers from their jobs. He announced it at a press conference, standing behind a podium with the seal of his office, the state’s top law‑enforcement officer,…
7 MIN READSergeant Darryl Brown stole $10,000 in camera equipment from a journalist who was bleeding from the knee. Angelina Katsanis was documenting the hunger strike and growing unrest outside Delaney Hall, the private detention center where…
5 MIN READFederal agents enter houses of worship to drag the stranger from the altar. The pastor of Cities Church in St. Paul wants the protesters who interrupted his January service in handcuffs. When the city attorney declined to file state…
4 MIN READJamshid Ghomi is facing twenty years in a prison cell for doing what the world’s largest suppliers of terror-state technology do with impunity, provided they have the right corporate headquarters and the proper Washington lobbyists to sign…
5 MIN READThe administration is signing paper truces while Israel bombs hospitals. In Washington, diplomats draw maps for "pilot zones" along the Litani river, negotiating the architecture of a truce that did not last since April. On the same day,…
6 MIN READBritain's political class protects Jeffrey Epstein by silencing his victims. The survivors pleaded for accountability, and the government met that plea with the same institutional silence described in the report where Epstein survivors say…
3 MIN READThe Trump administration is terrorizing the World Cup. It has not deployed armed agents to the turnstiles — not yet — but the architecture of fear engineered over months of border crackdowns, trade wars, and threats of mass deportation is…
4 MIN READThe administration is ordering the deportation of people who are already dead. Levi Mendez-Maldonado was nineteen when he was murdered in a North Carolina shooting in November 2024. He had arrived from Honduras as an unaccompanied minor,…
6 MIN READWashington is bombing Iranian territory while insisting the ceasefire still holds. The sequence is documented: the United States imposes an economic blockade by military force, disables a sanctioned oil tanker attempting to cross it,…
4 MIN READThe ceasefires in Gaza, Lebanon, and Iran are killing people every day. The official wires call it a truce; the hospitals in Gaza and Beirut call it what it is: a grinding continuation of the butchery, muffled behind diplomatic language.…
5 MIN READThe gas company is letting children sleep above exploding gas lines. Thursday afternoon in the Oak Cliff neighborhood of Dallas, the pipes beneath a two-story apartment complex caught fire, shaking nearby homes, killing a child and at…
7 MIN READKyle Adler was nine months old when he left Chile and arrived in an affluent Chicago suburb, unaware that his adoption was built on state-sponsored child trafficking. It took thirty-six years and a DNA database for the truth to surface,…
5 MIN READThe American Catholic Church segregated the Body of Christ. Pope Leo XIV is a Creole Catholic from Louisiana. His presence at the Chair of Peter confronts the American Catholic Church with what it spent two centuries denying: that the…
4 MIN READThe cries of a mother in Mongbwalu, demanding the return of her child's body so she might bury her own, are not a security problem to be managed with armed police. They are the sound of a world that has decided African suffering does not…
9 MIN READWe are building AI on the bodies of the poor. Pope Leo XIV said it plainly in his first encyclical: the artificial intelligence systems that increase productivity for some are built on "the sort of invisible labor behind these AI systems"…
5 MIN READCongress is debating compensation for people convicted of beating police officers during the January 6, 2021 attack on the Capitol while the agency that deports asylum-seekers and separates families waits for restored funding. The Senate…
6 MIN READThe contracts are already signed — $3.16 billion for steel bollards stretching across Hudspeth, Jeff Davis, and Presidio counties, with $4.4 million for a monitoring crew to stand watch over a landscape where Border Patrol apprehensions…
6 MIN READMarkwayne Mullin is blocking airports to punish sanctuary cities. The Homeland Security secretary has confirmed he is removing U.S. Customs and Border Protection officers from airports in jurisdictions that limit their cooperation with the…
4 MIN READThe Trump administration is ordering thousands of green-card applicants who already call this country home to upend their lives and leave, tearing families apart in the process. Doug Rand, a former senior advisor at USCIS, notes that this…
3 MIN READDonald Trump is forcing families to leave their homes and lives by mandate, requiring long-term legal residents to depart the United States simply to apply for a green card. For over fifty years, foreign nationals with temporary legal…
4 MIN READThe Trump administration is firing immigration judges in the middle of asylum hearings. On April 10, Judge Nina Fróes sat on the bench at Chelmsford Immigration Court, hearing a straightforward asylum case. At 3:01 p.m., a notification…
5 MIN READDonald Trump is firing immigration judges who grant asylum. Immigration courts granted asylum to 2,753 people in March 2025. One year later, in March 2026, the number was 700. That is a seventy-five percent collapse. Two thousand…
7 MIN READCain Clark and Caleb Vazquez dragged guns into a mosque to kill strangers. The two teenagers entered the space carrying firearms, while the cache of over thirty guns and a crossbow found at their residences confirmed their arming, a…
3 MIN READDonald Trump is demanding a billion dollars to dress up his ballroom while families cannot afford bread, and Republican lawmakers are preparing to staple that expenditure onto an immigration enforcement bill through the blunt instrument of…
5 MIN READMinnesota CEOs stayed silent while federal agents killed, then called for peace. Target, Best Buy, UnitedHealth, 3M, General Mills — more than sixty of the state's largest corporations issued an open letter on Sunday calling for…
3 MIN READDonald Trump is seizing a Catholic mountain to build his wall. The Department of Homeland Security, under Secretary Kristi Noem, filed an eminent domain lawsuit seeking fourteen acres of Mount Cristo Rey in Sunland Park, New Mexico, where…
5 MIN READDonald Trump is ordering banks to check customer citizenship status. The order, signed Tuesday, directs federal regulators and government departments to examine whether people without legal status are opening accounts or obtaining loans or…
3 MIN READThe state of Ohio built a trap to terrorize Maria DeAraujo. It worked. DeAraujo, a naturalized Brazilian immigrant, registered to vote at a Bureau of Motor Vehicles counter because a government clerk told her to. The state filed no…
3 MIN READMarco Rubio Is Deporting a Family Because of Who Their Relatives Were. The administration has reached across forty years to revoke the green cards of Eissa Hashemi, Maryam Tahmasebi, and their son—arresting them in Los Angeles and holding…
3 MIN READDonald Trump is trading human dignity for political loyalty, using immigration enforcement to distract from an economy that is failing his own base. We who watched the empty desks in El Paso understand the precise alchemy of this…
7 MIN READICE Agent Christian Castro shot a Venezuelan migrant without cause in a Minnesota home. Now he must answer to the state. Hennepin County Attorney Mary Moriarty has charged him with four counts of second-degree assault and one count of…
4 MIN READMarco Rubio is tearing a family apart for a crime committed before any of its younger members were born, holding them in a Texas detention cell as payment for a grievance forty-seven years cold. Eissa Hashemi, his wife Maryam Tahmasebi,…
5 MIN READDonald Trump’s detention system killed Emmanuel Damas by neglecting a toothache. The fifty-six-year-old Haitian man spent months at the Central Arizona Florence Correctional Center, a private prison ICE pays to hold human beings—and during…
3 MIN READMarco Rubio is jailing an Iranian family for a crime committed by their aunt in 1979. Eissa Hashemi taught at a private university; his wife, Maryam Tahmasebi, taught psychology and statistics at a community college; their son sat in…
6 MIN READDonald Trump is arresting immigrants who show up for their court dates. On Monday a federal judge barred immigration agents from making routine arrests at New York City’s immigration courthouses. On Tuesday, ICE arrested a 21-year-old man…
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