Who Is Guarding Our Borders?

Right now, this is a legitimate question. If President Donald Trump is putting together invading forces of up to 75,000 people to send into our cities using members of the border guard, ICE, and the US Coast Guard…who is left to guard our borders? Or did we finish the wall…

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Is Trump Actually Weakening Our Southern Border?

This week, as President Trump continues his war on sanctuary cities in the United States, it was announced that border swat teams were being pulled from the border. Their new assignments were to support ICE agents in sanctuary cities…although they wouldn’t be able to use their normal training and resources…

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Mumps? Now Mumps Is A Problem In US Detention Centers?

I mean…what the flock? We aren’t doing any testing for communicable diseases? We aren’t providing even the basic health screenings for those we have in custody? Mumps has swept through 57 immigration detention facilities in 19 states since September, according to the first U.S. government report on the outbreaks in…

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They Weren’t Rapists, Or Drug Dealers, Or Human Traffickers

yet Immigration and Customs Enforcement agents rounded up 680 people who might be illegal immigrants…at their places of work. at their places of work. So instead of rapists or gang members or drug dealers or human traffickers…ICE rounded up hard working individuals who had jobs and have families and were…

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Trump, The Wall and The Budget

Remember when President Trump wanted more money to build his ‘wall’ on the southern border and Congress wouldn’t give it to him…again and again and again? And then he declared a national emergency with the intention of moving budget money around from other accounts to pay for building his wall?…

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President Trump Cares About National Security?

Well maybe not so much. This is just a little cut and paste from a recent article in the Washington Post: Acting DHS Secretary Elaine Duke and Thomas Homan, the acting head of [ICE] So, seven months into his administration and the president hasn’t seen fit to appoint new permanent…

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Why Did We Even Need To Ask This Question?

The Austin American-Statesman reports that U.S. Immigration and Customs police won’t do sweeps of shelters for evacuees of Hurricane Harvey for non-criminal illegal immigrants. Why is this even an issue? Shouldn’t all police and first responders be focused on preserving life during an emergency like this?? Yes that would include…

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