JEWS AGAINST ICE: WE'RE DOING WHAT THE GENTILES OF EUROPE SHOULD HAVE DONE | OPINIONThe immigrant detention center in Elizabeth, NJ, doesn't look like much. Within its barbed wire perimeter, an American flag hangs limply from a wall-mounted pole. In the parking lot next door, a line of cherry-red semi trucks awaits drivers. Periodically, the metallic whine of air traffic from Newark International Airport breaks the silence.
Convicted for leaving water for migrants in the desert: This is Trump’s justice A FEW weeks ago, federal prosecutors in Arizona secured a conviction against four humanitarian aid workers who left water in the desert for migrants who might otherwise die of heat exposure and thirst. Separately, they dropped manslaughter charges against a U.S. Border Patrol agent who fired 16 times across the border, killing a teenage Mexican boy. The aid workers face a fine and up to six months in jail. The Border Patrol officer faces no further legal consequences.
Scrutinizing Trump, and Pelosi and Schumer on Border “Since the Bill Clinton administration’s initiation of Operation Gatekeeper in 1994, Border Patrol agents have increased from 4,000 to almost 21,000 (mostly on the southern divide), and annual budgets for border and immigration enforcement have gone from $1.5 billion in 1994 to $23 billion in 2018 (if you combine Customs and Border Protection and Immigration and Customs Enforcement).
