Border - Texas Outlaw Writers

Terlingua Creek

"Where once hundreds had lived in chosen isolation, there are now thousands, a dollar store, coffee shops, boutiques, and glass domes for rent on websites that enable weekenders to lie abed and parse the constellations. In the end, all things become Airbnb, and money runs through it."

Trump

A Soldier's Duty

"I was out there crying when I seen the little girl come around the corner, because they was bringing the kids down, too, had them zip tied to each other. One of them [soldiers] literally laughed. He was standing right here. He said, ‘Fuck them kids.’”

Trump

Apocalypse...Uh...Not Now. Somewhere Down the Road

It's been a heck of a week, Brownie.

Border

Gulag America

The process, as everyone knows, is called “profiling.” If you approach the checkpoint as a white person, the odds of you being detained are minimal. Traveling north while brown is more problematic.

Trump

The Nazification Escalation

Ridiculing the Trump deep state as Naziesque, joking around about his Nazi enablers seemed at times to be tiresome and so much amplified hysteria. Not anymore.

Border

Children of the Cane

It appeared a teenaged goat herder had been shot dead by a U.S. Marine on an anti-drug deployment. Esequiel had wanted to be Marine and had a recruiting poster hanging above his bed. When his death was confirmed, Esequiel’s younger brother tore the picture from the wall in their parents’ adobe home.

Texas Politics

Darlin' of the Devil

Label it evil: the drowning of immigrants, the dismantling of public education, children that go without healthcare, pardoning murderers, and making sure the next school shooter can buy a gun unimpeded. It's the work of a Devil.

Border

What Now?

What happens now? When the Border Patrol comes to exercise its federal authority to cut the razor wire to take immigrants into custody, will Texas soldiers turn their guns on fellow citizens charged with enforcing the law?

Immigration

Slamming Shut the Golden Door

“We lead the world because unique among nations, we draw our people, our strength from every country and every corner of the world. Here in America, we breathe life into dreams. We create the future. If we ever closed the door to new Americans, our leadership in the world would soon be lost.”

national politics

They're Coming to America

The people of Central America will keep marching northward, hoping for opportunity in the nation that destroyed their countries with its greed.

Border

Born Between Two Cupboards

"I was naïve and knew nothing of hurricanes but thought I had been clever by evading the evacuation order. In a phone booth in front of the restaurant, I called Associated Press Radio Network in Washington and told them I was on the island and had refused to be evacuated."

Border

Swimming to America

“Do you know what a foreign accent is? It’s a sign of bravery.” - Amy Chua, “Battle Hymn of the Tiger Mother”

Border

The Coming Sadness

In 1997, Esequiel Hernandez became the first American killed on native soil by this country’s military since the May 4, 1970, National Guard killings at Kent State during a Vietnam War protest. More American guns are pointing south along the border now. The odds go up daily for another tragedy.

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