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Tag Archives: immigration
Concentration camps, context and feigned outrage
RIGHT-WING NUTS (there’s a redundancy there, I know) are going bonkers over U.S. Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez’s use of the term “concentration camps” in reference to the Trump administration’s camps for undocumented immigrants. An insult to the millions who were murdered … Continue reading
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Tagged Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez, Carrie Gibson, concentration camps, El Norte: The Epic and Forgotten Story of Hispanic north America, Holocaust, immigrants, immigration, Jose Angel Gutierrez, KKK, La Raza Unida, Liz Cheney, lynching, Masha Gessen, New Yorker, Sam Houston, slavery, Stephen F. Austin, Texas Rangers, Texas Revolution
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Adios to a Complete Liberal
On February 4, 1994, I published this column in The Houston Post under the headline, “’Complete’ liberal gives Clinton piece of his mind.” I’m sharing it with you for two reasons. You’ll figure them out when you read it: NOT … Continue reading
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Tagged Bill Clinton, Blanca O'Leary, border wall, Carlos Uzeta, El Paso, immigration, Silvestre Reyes, tortilla curtain
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The fear, the dreadful fear of children of immigrants
I RECENTLY LISTENED to a radio program about coincidences and about people who claimed they were always experiencing them. I told myself that coincidences don’t happen to me. Last night, a couple of hours after I had watched a report on … Continue reading
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Tagged Angel Rayos, Arizona, border patrol, children of immigrants, deport, deportation, Guadalupe Garcia de Rayos, ICE, immigration, INS, Jacqueline Rayos, Mesa, Phoenix
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My nightmares
LISTENING TO young Karla Ortíz addressing the DNC, talking about her fears that any day her immigrant parents might be deported, brought back some painful memories from my childhood. I had those fears. Not every day, but there were enough of … Continue reading
Don’t be afraid to be an American
ONE OF THE pleasures of working as a columnist for The Houston Post was the letters (and phone calls)I’d get from readers. This was before most people had access to email, so readers actually had to go through the trouble of finding some … Continue reading
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Tagged founding fathers, Houston Post, immigrants, immigration, letters to newspapers, Mexico, multiculturalism, newspaper columns, newspapers, Trump
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