My friend Morgan Smith wrote this note about the Rio Grande in July 2024. Learn more about Morgan here , here and here .
J.A.M. v. USA "The Court holds that Oscar is entitled to a much lower, but still notable award of $175,000 because he was somewhat older at the time of the incident, was detained for about half...
Path2Papers, July 17, 2024 " What are the policy changes the Biden administration is implementing regarding temporary work visas? On June 18, 2024, the Biden administration announced a policy...
DOJ, July 18, 2024 "The Justice Department has filed a lawsuit against Southwest Key Programs Inc. (Southwest Key), a Texas-based nonprofit that provides housing to unaccompanied children who are...
Jeanne Kuang, CalMatters, July 18, 2024 "Even with all the industries where Californians went on strike during last year’s “hot labor summer,” some of the most active sites of...
Melissa del Bosque, The Border Chronicle, Dec. 6, 2022
"In 2008, I wrote about the first border walls built after 9/11 in Texas, and over the last 15 years I’ve continued to document walls, walls, and more border walls under every president since George W. Bush. But Governor Doug Ducey’s double-decker shipping container wall is altogether something next level. And it is being built illegally through the Coronado National Forest at breakneck speed by a Florida disaster remediation firm, which is ironic if you think about it. If you want to call it a wall. I was not prepared for what I was about to see when I arrived at the construction site last Tuesday: A slapped together—a friend called it scrap-dash—collection of rusting shipping containers topped with razor wire. In many places the old boxcars are jammed together leaving huge gaps, which the contractors have tried to weld together with scraps of aluminum. I was so alarmed, I posted a few photos I took at the site on Twitter. The tweet went viral. More than one million people have seen these photos, which is mind boggling. The most common comment—even from MAGA folks—has been “This is a joke, right? Is this real?” ..."
[EDITOR'S NOTE: Please read the entire article. Major failure by the mainstream media (so far) in covering this story. Massive kudos to Melissa del Bosque and other independent journalists and everyday citizens for shining a light.]