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Trump’s Deportation Policies: Cruel, Careless, and Now Blessed by the Supreme Court

Monday, April 7, 2025 at 8:52 PM
Written by Anthony L. Hall

Kilmar Abrego Garcia: ‘administrative error,’ and zero accountability The Trump administration’s deportation program has always been a cocktail of malice and mismanagement. But its treatment of Kilmar Abrego Garcia reeks of the collateral damage we expect only from autocracies like Russia. It deported him to El Salvador. Never mind that, like hundreds of other deportees,… Read more.

Dominican Republic Showing Trump Admin How to Execute Mass Deportations

Tuesday, December 10, 2024 at 9:33 AM
Written by Anthony L. Hall

A few weeks ago, I observed that Tom Homan, Trump’s “border czar,” comes across like a beat cop playing a military general without having to do so under enemy fire. Listening to him, you’d think he was gearing up for war with Russia, not rounding up scared immigrants like a farmer herding cattle. The Dominican… Read more.

Trump’s Mass Deportation: More Talk than Action — Just Like His Border Wall

Friday, November 22, 2024 at 6:37 AM
Written by Anthony L. Hall

Trump claims there are 15-20 million undocumented immigrants living in the US. According to the Census Bureau, there are 11 million. The point, though, is that every one of them reportedly fears Trump’s plan for mass deportation as if it were Judgment Day. But this plan reeks of sound and fury, signifying that the only… Read more.

Africans Dying to Become Europeans

Monday, May 13, 2019 at 7:22 AM
Written by Anthony L. Hall

Reports about African migrants dying to breathe free have become normalized. They hardly register in public consciousness, let alone prick our collective conscience. At least 65 migrants have died after their boat capsized in the Mediterranean off the coast of Tunisia. … The incident is thought to be one of the deadliest shipwrecks involving migrants… Read more.