MORGANTOWN – West Virginia Attorney General Patrick Morrisey filed a federal lawsuit Thursday against the Biden administration, saying the termination of a Trump-era immigration policy is facilitating the flow of […]
Tag: border crisis
Aug. 15 letters to the editor
Familiar anti-immigrant talk reappearing My great-grandparents fled the oppression of Jewish people in Czarist Russia, arriving in the United States, some not entirely legally, between 1886 and 1903. My father’s […]
Invasion by any other name: Immigration crisis continues
Semantics are important for how we communicate and define issues. One who controls words controls the narrative. So, take the words migrant and invader. Is there a difference? It’s all […]
Voters really do want order on the southern border
With COVID-19 receding — at least in vaccinated parts of the country — but crime hanging on, law and order looks to be a leading issue in the 2022 midterm […]
GOP closed border argument is flimsy
There’s a certain irony in witnessing members of a party now infamous for downplaying the severity of COVID-19 use the disease as justification to keep the southern border tightly closed. […]
Biden’s border problem is big
Joe Biden was elected president and soon enough reversed Donald Trump’s reduction of illegal southern border crossings to the point that we now have the highest influx in 20 years. […]
VP’s callous border remarks do harm
by Jean Guerrero Associated Press Kamala Harris’ first international trip as vice president started in Guatemala with a blunt message for migrants: “Do not come,” she said, shaking her head […]
Biden should be better at seeing what lies ahead
In 2012, Pew Research asked 1,008 Americans to describe then-Vice President Joe Biden in one word. The responses ranged from “Good,” the most common answer, to “Goofy.” But almost five […]
Biden needs to talk tough on immigration — and fast
Undocumented immigrants have been surging to the U.S. border, some wearing T-shirts with the Biden campaign logo and the words “Please let us in!” What gave them the idea that […]
Border influx intrudes on Biden’s victory lap for ARP
by Michael Smolens Alternate partisan political realities are emerging that could go a long way toward shaping next year’s congressional campaigns. President Joe Biden and Democrats are fanning out across […]
