Texas’s border standoff with the Biden administration shows no signs of waning, despite a Supreme Court decision last week permitting federal officials to remove razor wire planted by the state’s government along the Rio Grande. Indeed, on Monday, Texas lieutenant governor Dan Patrick vowed to step up the fortifications. “We are putting up wire…everywhere we can. … Read more
For perhaps the first time in eight years, Donald Trump is not the face of the far right’s anti-immigration fixation. In his stead sits Greg Abbott, the Republican governor of Texas who appears hell-bent on inducing a constitutional crisis by defying the federal government on two fronts. He has deployed the state’s military assets to … Read more
Texas is again defying federal authorities demanding access to a portion of the Southern border that is currently under the control of the Texas National Guard. In a Wednesday letter, Ken Paxton, the attorney general of Texas, rejected a cease and desist from the Biden administration calling for an end to the “clearly unconstitutional” blockade. … Read more
Greg Abbott escalated his cruel border stunt this week, sending a chartered flight of around 100 asylum-seekers on Tuesday to Chicago—the host city of the 2024 Democratic National Convention that has struggled to keep up with an influx of migrants the Texas governor has been bussing in for more than a year. On Wednesday, Chicago … Read more
There wasn’t anything ambiguous in Donald Trump’s racist rant at a rally in New Hampshire over the weekend. And yet, Republicans are once again bending over backward to pretend he didn’t say exactly what he meant when he said immigrants from South America, Africa, and Asia are “poisoning the blood of the country.” “I think … Read more
