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The Deportation Should Be the Punishment, Not the Funeral
A post on Threads has gone viral: immigration is paperwork law, and nobody should die over paperwork. No caveats can soften that sentence, and none are needed. It sets a moral floor that predates any statute. The floor has needed restating all year, in different states, under different agencies. An ICE officer fatally shot a man on Canal Street in a predominantly Latino neighborhood of Houston in July, prompting LULAC to demand release of all body cam, dash cam, and bystander

Maria Salinas
Jul 173 min read


Texas Just Made Itself Its Own Border Patrol
Texas Senate Bill 4 For more than 150 years, immigration enforcement in the United States operated under a straightforward legal principle: it belongs to the federal government. States assist. States cooperate. That legal architecture changed Friday when the Fifth Circuit Court of Appeals, ruling 10 to 7, lifted the preliminary injunction that had kept Texas Senate Bill 4 from taking effect, finding that the plaintiffs who challenged the law lacked standing to sue. Judges exp

Maria Salinas
Apr 273 min read
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