u.s.-mexico border
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Four Volunteers Convicted for Leaving Food and Water Near Border as Four More Await Trial
Four of the nine volunteers working with the aid group No More Deaths are set to stand trial over exhibiting common decency to migrants near the U.S.-Mexico border. After four workers were convicted of misdemeanor charges for leaving food and water for migrants crossing in 2017, four more are set to stand trial over similar…
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Border Agents Would Rather Migrants Die Than Let Them Have Food and Water as They Cross the Desert
Last week during his Oval Office confessional, Donald Trump asserted that there is a humanitarian crisis at the U.S./Mexico border. While what Trump actually considers to be a humanitarian crisis is up for debate, there are in fact problems at our border that emphasize the way the United States continues to dehumanize those who come…
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Oval Office Confessions: Trump Goes Live on National Television to Talk About His Dumb Wall
Previously on White House Apprentice, we found out that the magical wall of doom your “president” won’t stop talking about was never really supposed to be a thing in the first place. It was revealed that the “wall” was actually a mnemonic meant to help the then-candidate remember to talk about being tough on immigration…
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MAGA Raises Over $14 Million (and Counting) to Build Trump's Wall But They Might Be Getting Refunds Instead
While the grassroots online campaign We the People Will Fund the Wall—noted for their innate ability to adore nachos while simultaneously hating Mexican people, as well keep a running total of all of their black friends—has raised over $14 million (and counting) in their quest to Make America Caucasian Again, it turns out that their…
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Seven-Year-Old Girl in U.S. Custody at Mexican Border Goes 90 Minutes Without Medical Care, Dies
Jakelin Amei Rosmery Caal Maquin showed symptoms of dehydration and shock before she was transported from a remote area near the border to a border station. When she arrived at the border station three hours later, she had stopped breathing. After two revival attempts, Caal was pronounced dead by her father’s side. She had been…
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Fox & Friends Guest Claims Pepper Spray Is So Safe, You Can ‘Put It on Your Nachos and Eat It’
On Monday morning, pictures began circulating of Sunday’s confrontation on the U.S./Mexico border between dozens of Central American asylum seekers and U.S. Border Patrol agents—though let’s be real: The “confrontation” was one-sided. As multiple news outlets reported, U.S. Border Patrol launched tear gas and pepper balls at a group of 70 or 80 migrants, which…
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8-Year-Old Girl Thwarts Attempted Kidnapping at US-Mexico Border
Two more minutes, and the children might have disappeared. Thankfully, because of her quick wits and courage, an 8-year-old girl was able to avert disaster, saving herself and her brother from a kidnapping at the U.S.-Mexico border. Malaiah Cole and her 3-year-old brother were in the back seat of their family car on Monday, waiting…
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2nd Verse Same as the 1st! Former Mexican President on Trump’s Wall: ‘We’ll Never Pay for That Fucking Wall’
Former Mexican President Vicente Fox might be the only politician not named Maxine Waters who warms my heart. That’s because Fox is not here for any of President Donald Trump’s fuck shit. None of it. During an interview with CNN, Fox repeated his refrain that has now become a sound bite for anyone wondering whether…
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Trump Is Going to Build His Damn Wall, and Other Questionable Executive Orders
President (ugh) Trump continued his bull-in-a-china-shop routine Wednesday by signing a few questionable executive orders, including one to build a border wall with Mexico, one to cut off funds to cities that do not report undocumented immigrants, and one that could restart an interrogation program that was dismantled in 2009 after being condemned as torture.…