border closing yesterday was political theatre. The notion that a couple hundred asylum seekers with hungry, barefoot children are a national security threat is not real.
Maria Luisa Cardenas is traveling with her 15 year-old son Javier Antonio who has Down syndrome. Gangs burnt her house, killed her 2 brothers. She left on the day of their funeral. Javier is sick. He’s vomiting blood in the…
Frustrated, sick, some hungry others who had just arrived, still exhausted from journey. A couple hundred cops in riot gear for the perfunctory photo op, as corporate news crews pushed and shoved their way to the front for the money…
The Honduran diaspora is the first wave of many to come. Right now, there are some 3,000 plus asylum seekers, now refugees, in a camp near the border in Tijuana. It’s filthy and lovely. Lots of small children, young people,…
The caravan is north of Mexico City headed for Tijuana. I’m going to find them tomorrow and start streaming Wednesday. I’ll be live streaming on Twitter @SamSlovick and as contributor for @HappsNews.