In a 6-3 decision in the case Mullin v. Doe, the Supreme Court has ruled that the Trump administration is allowed to end Temporary Protected Status (TPS) for roughly 350,000 Haitian immigrants. That fact is awful, but seems sterile and anodyne out of any proper context. The preeminent scholar of the global history of genocide and … Read more
What floats to the top? Megyn Kelly and Stephen Miller are two examples of it. In the immediate aftermath of the Supreme Court’s putting up a White’s Only sign on immigrant entry to the United States with its two rulings against those seeking asylum and Temporary Protected Status (TPS,) former Fox and NBC news ‘Eva … Read more
In today’s ruling by the conservative majority 6 to 3 United States Supreme Court, Samuel ‘Roe v Wade was erroneously decided’ Alito wrote that Haitian immigrants’ claims that Donald Trump’s decision to strip them and Syrians from the Temporary Protected Status they, up until today, enjoyed, was not “overtly” motivated by racism and therefore could … Read more
It is always nice to report good news in these dark times. After being detained in an ICE facility in Texas, Tempe Residents Margot Paredes Ortiz and her 14-year-old son, Dilan were released and allowed to return to their home in Arizona. This release is partially a credit to the intervention of local community leaders … Read more
The recent coverage of the Reflecting Pool by the Lincoln Memorial is funny, and another demonstration of Donald Trump destroying something he touches. However, while this episode is another example of Trump’s ineptitude, mismanagement, environmental destruction, and endangering living organisms (a duck died,) there are other events happening that merit more news coverage than this. … Read more