If Mexican drug cartels can tunnel into a SuperMax prison, they can tunnel under Trump’s wall.
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Trump Just Realized He’s Not Getting His Wall
Trump doesn’t pay any attention to his actual job, so everything comes as a surprise, like the fact that Congress isn’t funding his wall.
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When Trade Negotiations Resemble a Mob Deal
Trump is using Mexico to threaten Canada.
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Andrew Sullivan Is Wrong About Trump’s Wall
Sullivan fails to explain how the wall would help the humanitarian crisis on the border.
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Hey, Wasn’t Trump Supposed to Stop This?
So much for those “America first” economic policies, eh? There’s usually no turning back once a factory closure is announced. That didn’t stop Massachusetts Senator Edward J. Markey from trying, after Philips Lighting recently decided to shut down manufacturing operations in Fall River. Philips plans to eliminate about 160 production and product development jobs in […]
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Reversal of Fortune: Progressive Media in a Democratic White House
Turnabout is fair play, no? CNN’s Brian Stelter apparently shares my concern about the excessive influence of the Fox News Channel on this administration, noting this morning that Rupert Murdoch’s creation is directly responsible for Donald Trump’s decision to deploy National Guard troops to Mexico: Yes, the nexus between Fox and the Trump administration is […]
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Why Do Trump and Republicans Want to Waste Money On a Border Wall?
It has little to do with illegal immigration.
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The People and Terrain That Stand in the Way of Trump’s Wall
Too often we forget that long before this country was formed, the land that makes up the Southwest belonged to Mexico. As a result of the Mexican-American War in the 1840s, that territory was ceded to the United States. Between the Treaty of Guadalupe Hidalgo and a later addition in the Gadsden Purchase, the border between […]
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The Fiscal and Moral Bankruptcy of Walls
The wall is about xenophobia, not protecting American national security.
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Who Is Guarding the Guardians?
Here’s why the recent ICE raids are so chilling.
