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W.Va. National Guard a pawn in a political game

We care deeply about the devastating impact fentanyl has had on our communities. And the best way to address the very real fentanyl crisis is to address the source: Organized transnational criminal activity that works to smuggle the deadly drug through legal ports of entry, often done by ...

The border isn’t an impossible problem

by Christopher M. Richardson While the end of Title 42 did not lead to the border surges some anticipated, America still faces an immigration crisis, with a backlog of nearly 1.6 million asylum cases. Officials apprehended migrants crossing the border more than 5 million times from ...

Harassing Samaritans on brand for GOP

by Francis Wilkinson The Republican war on migrants and asylum seekers has been one of the more successful GOP campaigns of recent years if you measure success by volume of vitriol.  GOP politicians travel repeatedly to the border to provide fresh content for Fox News and to ...

‘Bomb the Mexicans’ new ‘Build the Wall’

by Jean Guerrero When then-President Donald Trump proposed shooting migrants in the legs and firing missiles into Mexico to destroy drug labs, he did so in private.  Republican politicians are now expressing their bloodlust in public. As “Build the Wall” loses its edge, ...

America needs both parties to secure the border

Donald Trump’s solution was to build a wall and insult migrants. Left off his playbook for curbing illegal immigration was any punishment for employers who hired undocumented workers. That would inconvenience farmers, he said.  As it turned out, the wall wasn’t built, and those ...