Religion Dispatches
…the fact that there is already a wall along the vast majority of the U.S.-Mexico border, a January report from the Pew Research Center found that less than half of Americans consider Trump’s much-touted “border wall” to be a priority for immigration reform. It is unclear where Priebus got his information that “80 percent” of Americans want a taller, thicker border wall, but no one onstage today challenged his claim. Among other dubious claims tha…
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…OP contender Donald Trump in February on his return from a six-day trip to Mexico, where he visited the U.S.-Mexico border. In response, Trump called Francis “disgraceful.” Avoiding pregnancy is not an absolute evil. In certain cases, as in this one, as in the one that I mentioned of Blessed Paul VI, it was clear. –On the same trip, Francis suggested that women could use contraception to avoid becoming infected with the Zika virus, which had been…
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…mmigration in the United States, the tension between the United States and Mexico. One reason people are coming here is that with industrial farming in Mexico, the water sources are increasingly drying up and people are moving farther and farther north, trying to get access to good water. That’s going to be a continuing flashpoint. It doesn’t have a lot to do with the fact that immigrants want refrigerators and nice suburban homes. It has to do wi…
Read More…oints out that some of the region’s larger economic powers like Brazil and Mexico could greatly improve their scores by placing more emphasis on women’s rights, access to education and access to formal jobs. For example, only 37 percent of the working population in Mexico has access to formal employment. Increasing this number has great potential to reduce poverty. Significant economic growth and increasing stability in Latin America means that mo…
Read More…Blade’s Michael Lavers, who reports that attendees included activists from Mexico, Honduras, Nicaragua, Costa Rica, Panama, Jamaica, the Bahamas, the Dominican Republic, St. Lucia, Barbados, Trinidad and Tobago, Colombia, Venezuela, Guyana, Brazil, Ecuador, Peru, Bolivia, Uruguay, Argentina, Chile, Spain and the U.S. Lavers recaps the regional context of change and continuing problems for LGBTs: Same-sex couples are able to legally marry in 19 sta…
Read More…sor and supporters have admitted that they were prompted to act by the New Mexico Supreme Court’s decision in the Elane Photography case—where the court ruled that a photographer violated that state’s human rights act by refusing service to a lesbian couple—it seems difficult to conclude that there could be a better description of it. And given that the bill’s supporters couldn’t come up with a single example of how religious liberty had been infr…
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…repeal the infamous bracero program which imported exploited laborers from Mexico leading to the law’s 1965 expiration and he traveled to Mexico for a meeting with politicians to discuss improving working conditions for Mexican workers. in 1973 the UFW was one of the first unions to oppose the federal law making it illegal for employers to hire undocumented workers. Chavez’s goal was to undo hatred, writ large on the American landscape; for this,…
Read More…is expected to be upgraded to the season’s first hurricane in the Gulf of Mexico. But the storm looks like it could be a mixed blessing: On one hand, according to the Associated Press, “skimming vessels may be idled because they can’t operate in such swells. Floating oil-containment booms could be rendered useless by waves slopping over them and may have to be pulled out of the water.” But on the other, “waves churned up by Alex—as high as 12 fee…
Read More…oiling the Mormon West. After all, the place we now call Utah was actually Mexico when Brigham Young and the original band of pioneers arrived. Which means our beloved Mormon pioneers were probably illegal immigrants too. The immigration debate has brought out some real ugliness in the Book of Mormon-belt, including the nationally-publicized release of a watchlist of 1300 alleged illegal immigrants in Utah composed by an anonymous vigilante group….
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…’re about to be kicked out again.” Eat Oysters While You Can Meanwhile, in Mexico Beach, Florida, at the tiny Regent’s restaurant, patrons lined up at the bar ordering Apalachicola oysters. As Great Britain played the United States in the World Cup on the television overhead, people ate quietly, reverently. Each oyster a sacrament. Apachicola is famous for its oysters, which are sweet and briny and taste of the Gulf’s clear water and of life’s ear…
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