The situation at our Southern border is horrific. Innocent people who want to escape hardship and cruelty in their home countries and achieve the American Dream, and even those who have crossed into our country illegally, are being denied adequate and timely due process and subjected to harsh treatment that most thought was confined to … Read more
Last month the Phoenix New Times followed up on a Buzzfeed report on the Plain View Project, a database created by a team of Philadelphia attorneys in an effort to catalog bigotry and racism among police officers nationwide on social media. Phoenix Cops Bash Muslims, Call Black People Thugs in Shocking Facebook Posts: The database includes 282 … Read more
It has been quite a reactionary couple of weeks for the four members of Arizona’s Republican House Delegation. In unison, Andy Biggs, Paul Gosar, Debbie Lesko, and David Schweikert all thought the best way to protect our federal election system was to vote against measures designed to secure them. Hopefully, their constituents will have an … Read more
Like Romeo and Juliet, star-crossed lovers Donald Trump and Kim Jon Un had to sneak away – to the DMZ – to share their forbidden love. (Such pairings are often said to be doomed from the start.) “Oh Kim, your love letters were so beautiful, I just had to defy my family and come see … Read more
The night of the first Dem debate I wrote: “Julian Castro dragged the rest of the field to the idea of repealing section 1325, thereby decriminalizing simple crossing of the border without authorization. In a single blow that would take away the legal basis for detaining immigrants and refugees until their status hearings.” Here is … Read more