How to keep my head when everyone's lost theirs On the Monday before election day Stew and I left on a three-day excursion to Pátzcuaro, a beautiful colonial town about three hours from San Miguel. And on the day after the election, while sitting on a bench in the main square of Erongarícuaro, a nearby …
Category: immigration
Dogs and Cats are on the Menu
Served with sides of racism and xenophobia about immigration If we all could get past the sheer lunacy of Trump's assertion that Haitian immigrants eat the dogs and cats of people of Springfield, Ohio, or destroy the local economy, this could be a propitious moment for both parties to inject some rational, fact-based thinking 0n …
The hard and tangled lives of our ranch hands
One leaves for Texas, another witnesses a knifing and the third has a near fatal motorcycle accident One night a year ago, Félix, our gardener of twelve years, left without notice with his two brothers to work at high-paying construction jobs in Texas. Stew didn't take it well and cussed Félix for his disloyalty for …
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Craven stunts over immigration
If you don't have any good ideas to deal with the U.S.'s immigration problem, just put on a show Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis’s hypocritical move to recruit undocumented immigrants in Texas and then dump them in Martha's Vineyard in Massachussets, follows the example of Texas Gov. Greg Abbott, who’s also been also shipping busloads …
Our gardener's Texas odyssey and the self-defeating politics of U.S. immigration
It's been almost a year since our gardener Félix went to work in Texas, along with his brothers Juan and Sergio, all of them undocumented. This was Félix's fourth trip across the border. He was a teenager the first two times, and was detained and sent back the third time by Mexican cops, who stole …
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