Posted on March 19th, 2008 by Freckles Cassie
Sometimes I think I live in an entirely backwards state that does more harm than good. Other days I read stories like these that make me proud to be a Texan:
El Paso denies feds access to road for border fence
from HoustonChronicle
EL PASO, Texas — The country’s largest border city has decided to block efforts [...]
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Filed under: 4th of July, Featured Stories, FrecklesCassie, Immigration, Opinion, Texas, border fence, freedom of speech, prison, prisons
Posted on June 30th, 2007 by Aryeh
Why don’t we kill three birds with one stone, fix both our immigration woes, the bad economy of Canada, the U.S. and Mexico simultaneously, and stop the Mexican sweatshops with one, final motion? America should take initiative and set up an American Union, like the EU. We would be able to have smoother immigration talks, [...]
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Filed under: Activism, Aryeh, Congress, Economy, Environment, Europe, Featured Stories, Foriegn Affairs, Government, Immigration, Labor Issues, NAFTA, Opinion
Posted on June 13th, 2007 by Aryeh
After reading Jonathan Swift’s A Modest Proposal, I was inspired to create a solution to America’s modern immigration, population, and economic problems. And I soon came up with one that is both affordable and practical.
Since the Mexican immigrants are, judging by the current administration’s policies, nothing but thieves and criminals that cross the [...]
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Filed under: Aryeh, Economy, Government, Immigration, Labor Issues, Secondary Featured Stories, poverty, taxes
Posted on June 11th, 2007 by Freckles Cassie
There was a very important ruling today in a federal appeals court that is known for being conservative. According to the AP, the court “delivered a harsh rebuke to the Bush administration’s anti-terrorism strategy Monday, ruling that U.S. residents cannot be locked up indefinitely as “enemy combatants” without being charged.” In this case, [...]
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Filed under: Constitution, Featured Stories, Freedom of the Press, Government, Immigration, Moral Issues, Opinion, Terrorism, War on Terror
Posted on June 8th, 2007 by Aryeh
Yesterday, the extremely controversial immigration overhaul bill did not pass the senate committee vote, with the vote short of 15 votes that it needed. This bill has some of the weirdest siding that I have ever seen, and it has left me extremely disappointed in the Democrats, who sided with Bush. It was 37 to [...]
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Filed under: Aryeh, Congress, Featured Stories, Foriegn Affairs, Immigration, Moral Issues
Posted on April 12th, 2007 by Aryeh
I recently saw a Code Pink newsletter about the Hutto Center, where the phrase “concentration camp” arose several times. It made me think about how the word is being used today, over sixty years after the fall of Hitler and the Nazis, when [millions] of Jews, blacks, gypsies, and gays were free from the places [...]
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Filed under: Aryeh, Immigration, Opinion, Politics, Secondary Featured Stories