Around A.D. 49, the Roman emperor Claudius expelled the Jews from the city of Rome. Historians argue about the exact date and the reasons, but we know that Claudius did not want them holding office or bringing in more immigrants. Instead, he wrote that the Jews (pdf) “should rest content with what belongs to them by…
As this country continues its shock-and-awe terror agenda against undocumented immigrants, we get daily examples of how federal agents repeatedly dehumanize these immigrants in the process of what they call “upholding the law.” There is no defendable excuse for some of the stories we are hearing, and this latest…
Someone must have taken the old president’s brain out and replaced it with a pot roast because in a magical switch that can only be explained by science and a full-on lobotomy, the president has promised 25 lawmakers that if they can bring him a bill that will extend protections to 800,000 immigrants’ children, he…
