2025 Archives

To get an honest immigration system, we must reverse Reaganism... Trump says he's going to imprison and then deport millions of brown-skinned immigrants. He's going after the wrong people. It seems that ever time a Republican goes on one of the national political TV shows, they make sure to get in the lie that "Joe Biden opened the southern border wide open," or toss in a reference to "Biden's open borders." It is, of course, a vicious lie — but one that's almost never called out by the hosts because it's peripheral or tangential to the topic being discussed. And, as is so often the case, this all started with Reagan (more on that in a moment). While it's true that two factors have driven a lot of migration over the past few decades (climate change wiping out farmland, and political dysfunction and gangs caused by the Reagan administration devastating the governments of El Salvador, Honduras, and Guatemala) the latest main driver of would-be immigrants and refugees is the Republican Party itself.