The Atlantic: Let’s Get Fascist So We Don’t Have To Elect Fascists

We must repel the barbarian horde, according to The Atlantic. Without immigration restrictions, there are no national borders. Without national borders, there are no nation-states. Without nation-states, there are no electorates. Without electorates, there is no democracy. If liberals insist that only fascists will enforce borders, then voters will hire fascists to do the job…

Read More

Mitch McConnell Gets an Earful Over Separated Migrant Children

Photo: Aaron P. Bernstein (Getty Images) Mitch McConnell got an earful from angry protesters shouting “Where are the babies?” Saturday as the Senate majority leader left a Louisville, KY restaurant. McConnell had just finished having lunch with Kentucky’s House Majority Floor Leader Jonathan Shell when the group of protesters challenged him to abolish Immigration and…

Read More

In America, Naturalized Citizens No Longer Have an Assumption of Permanence | The New Yorker

Last week, it emerged that the U.S. Citizenship and Immigration Service (U.S.C.I.S.) had formed a task force in order to identify people who lied on their citizenship applications and to denaturalize them. Amid the overwhelming flow of reports of families being separated at the border and children being warehoused, this bit of bureaucratic news went…

Read More

Trump Creates ‘Denaturalization’ Task Force to Pursue Deportation Against Thousands of U.S. Citizens

Director L. Francis Cissna of the US Citizenship and Immigration Services (USCIS), speaks during the daily press briefing at the White House on December 12, 2017, in Washington, D.C. Photo: Mark Wilson (Getty Images) There’s government pork and then there’s just swine. Our posturing president, who is wasting colossal amounts of money to appeal to…

Read More

Nativism Is Bad Politics

Photo: AP Since last Tuesday, centrist pundits have been apoplectic with fear that some progressive Democrats running to the left on immigration will harm the whole party’s chances in November and beyond. The underlying assumption in this argument is that the farthest left you can go on immigration, if you want to win in a…

Read More

Teens kept at Virginia center say they were cuffed, beaten

WASHINGTON (AP) — Immigrant children as young as 14 housed at a juvenile detention center in Virginia say they were beaten while handcuffed and locked up for long periods in solitary confinement, left nude and shivering in concrete cells. The abuse claims against the Shenandoah Valley Juvenile Center near Staunton, Virginia, are detailed in federal…

Read More

Youngest migrants held in ‘tender age’ shelters

Trump administration officials have been sending babies and other young children forcibly separated from their parents at the U.S.-Mexico border to at least three “tender age” shelters in South Texas, The Associated Press has learned. Lawyers and medical providers who have visited the Rio Grande Valley shelters described play rooms of crying preschool-age children in…

Read More