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Labor Day Reminds Us That Work Is the Spice of Life Aug. 28, 2025
SAN DIEGO — This Labor Day, here's a tip that might save you work down the line: Listen to you... Read More
Florida's Secretive Immigration Detention Center, Explained Aug. 18, 2025
Rights & Resistance with the ACLU
Deep in the Florida Everglades, a new immigration detention facility has appeared almost overnight. ... Read More
For Immigrant Day Laborers, Work Is About Survival, Not Fun and Games Aug. 12, 2025
SAN DIEGO — Immigrants do so much for Americans. They care for our children, look after our el... Read More
Trump's Birthright Citizenship Executive Order: What Happens Next Aug. 11, 2025
Rights & Resistance with the ACLU
On his first day in office, President Donald Trump issued an executive order seeking to end the cons... Read More
Superman, Not MAGA, Stands For the American Way Jul. 23, 2025
When I was a kid, I read "Superman" comics at the corner drugstore and watched reruns of the 1950s T... Read More
As Trump Continues To Terrorize Los Angeles, the Question Remains: Who Are These Masked Men? Jun. 26, 2025
SAN DIEGO — As they try to tell the complicated story of what has been happening for the last ... Read More
What Is Due Process? Jun. 17, 2025
Rights & Resistance with the ACLU
In the first months of his administration, President Donald Trump repeatedly threatened due process,... Read More
Unable To Remove All Undocumented Migrants, Trump Administration Tries Bribing Them To Self-Deport May. 08, 2025
SAN DIEGO — For the last few months, the Trump administration has offered undocumented immigra... Read More
15 Truths About Immigration, Some More Uncomfortable Than Others Apr. 24, 2025
SAN DIEGO — The U.S. presidency is like a high-stakes poker game. And for President Donald Tru... Read More
What's Just as Important as Free Speech? A Few Things, Actually. Apr. 01, 2025
SAN DIEGO — I occasionally find myself speaking to Latino immigrants, legal and otherwise. I ... Read More
Celebrate the Resilience of Immigrant Mothers During Women's History Month Mar. 07, 2025
My mother-in-law was born on a small ranch in San Luis Potosi, Mexico, in 1951. After her mother die... Read More
Why America Needs Birthright Citizenship Jan. 31, 2025
It's part of who we are. The White House executive order theoretically ending birthright citizenship... Read More
Return to Sender: Trump's Deportations Complicate Relationship Between Migrants and Their Home Countries Jan. 30, 2025
SAN DIEGO — The relationship between Americans and the millions of undocumented immigrants who... Read More
Trump's Executive Tantrums Are Damaging America Jan. 28, 2025
SAN DIEGO — My brain works in threes. So now that President Donald Trump is back in the White ... Read More
Mexican Firefighters 'Invade' California. We're Blessed To Have Them. Jan. 14, 2025
SAN DIEGO — Hyperbolic conservatives have long claimed that Mexico is staging an "invasion" of... Read More
Trump's Remarks on Birthright Citizenship, Explained Dec. 16, 2024
Rights & Resistance with the ACLU
President-elect Donald Trump has said that he intends to issue an executive order to end birthright ... Read More
My Foreign Friends Dec. 06, 2024
When I was a high school kid in Missouri, around 1972 or so, there were people in our town who used ... Read More
Biden Should Pardon Millions of Undocumented Immigrants -- Before Trump Gets His Hands on Them Dec. 03, 2024
SAN DIEGO — What a strange time. Americans are embroiled in a heated national conversation ab... Read More
A Pro-Trump Immigrant's Story Oct. 31, 2024
After speaking in a pro-Trump town hall in Phoenix, I got up early the next morning to make a flight... Read More
Ways the Media Introduces Bias to the Immigration Debate Oct. 08, 2024
Rights & Resistance with the ACLU
For more than two years, the immigration debate has revolved around one issue: "the border." Despite... Read More
