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A Mexican-American carpenter, former Army combat medic, and pastoral worker whose authority comes from formation, not credentials: an El Paso childhood where classmates vanished in pre-dawn ICE raids, a tour in Iraq, and years of ministry to abandoned veterans and undocumented neighbors. He writes on immigration and on the way power keeps borrowing the language of mercy while practicing its opposite — naming cruelty plainly while leaving even those who commit it a way back.
The government killed a man driving to a construction job with his brother and lied about it for ten days. On July 7, ICE officers in Houston opened fire on a vehicle and killed Lorenzo Salgado Araujo, a 52-year-old Mexican national who had lived in this country for 35 years. He was a father of three. He was driving to a job site. His brother was in the passenger seat. The…
2026-07-18 · 6 MIN READICE agents killed a man they were not even targeting. Lorenzo Salgado Araujo was 52 years old. He had lived in the United States for 35 years — most of his life. He was a father of three. He was close to obtaining legal status. On July 7, he was driving to a Houston construction job site with three co-workers, one of whom was his brother. An ICE officer shot him dead. The…
2026-07-17 · 6 MIN READSSPX bishops broke the church to save it. Two weeks ago, four men were consecrated as bishops without the consent of Pope Leo XIV — the act the Vatican names as one of the faith's gravest crimes. The Society of St. Pius X, which has…
2026-07-17 · 7 MIN READPhu Nguyen was crying on the ground of Terminal 3 at Harry Reid International Airport, one arm still cuffed. The federal agents put the handcuff on his arm, realized someone was filming them, and walked away. They did not arrest him. They…
2026-07-17 · 6 MIN READICE is killing Mexican immigrants in custody and calling it self-defense. Lorenzo Salgado Araujo was fifty-two years old. He had lived in this country thirty-five years. He had no criminal record. On 9 July 2026 he was driving his…
2026-07-16 · 5 MIN READThe Trump administration is moving to charge immigrant families $100,000 to join their own. The State Department is developing a proposal to require green-card seekers at U.S. consulates abroad to post a bond — officials have floated a figure of $100,000 — that they would receive back only after becoming citizens. Citizenship takes at least five years. The applicants most…
2026-07-16 · 3 MIN READDonald Trump's immigration agents are killing bystanders during enforcement raids. In coastal Biddeford, Maine, an officer shot and killed a 26-year-old man leaving a residence where agents were conducting an operation about someone else's removal order. In Houston the week before, an officer killed a man during an enforcement operation in which, federal authorities have…
2026-07-16 · 5 MIN READMexico has announced it will file criminal complaints and civil lawsuits in the United States over the deaths of seventeen Mexican citizens in the custody of Immigration and Customs Enforcement, and Mexico is right to do it. Seventeen of…
2026-07-16 · 6 MIN READICE is killing detained immigrants by denying them medical care. Jesús Manuel Arenas-Silva was a forty-five-year-old Venezuelan man with a medical condition. Last Thursday, when ICE agents arrested him at his home in Dallas, Georgia, his…
2026-07-16 · 5 MIN READCongress is using $46.5 billion to wall off Big Bend ranchers from their own river. That money is now concrete and steel. A Montana firm named Barnard received a $960 million contract to build through Presidio County. Illegal crossings in…
2026-07-16 · 4 MIN READLindsey Graham funded the deportation machine, and he knew what it was doing. The longest partial government shutdown in American history had shuttered the Department of Homeland Security. Graham — chair of the Senate Budget Committee —…
2026-07-16 · 6 MIN READA 28-year-old man whose name was not released ran from federal agents in St Augustine on Tuesday morning and was struck and killed by a semi truck on a highway. The Florida highway patrol spokesperson called it an "encounter." Three dead…
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Lorenzo Salgado Araujo rose before dawn on Tuesday in Houston. He had lived in this country for thirty-five years. He was driving a white van to work with his brother Victor Hugo and two others when federal immigration agents tried to stop…
2026-07-10 · 7 MIN READICE killed Lorenzo Salgado Araujo in Houston on Tuesday and DHS called it self-defense. This is not an isolated tragedy. This is the operating procedure of an enforcement regime that has fired into civilian vehicles at least a dozen times…
2026-07-08 · 3 MIN READDonald Trump's ICE is sending armed agents to the homes of Americans who criticize the agency. David Streever is a United States citizen from Rochester, New York. In January, after an ICE officer named Jonathan Ross shot and killed a…
2026-07-07 · 6 MIN READAlexandra Lozano sold desperate immigrants into deportation. She promised miracles to tens of thousands of people trapped in the twilight status of an unworking legal system, and instead she handed them forged narratives of trauma, copied…
2026-06-29 · 5 MIN READFlorida and the Trump administration built a torture camp in the Everglades, shackled human beings inside metal cages, and now they are making the victims disappear. ICE announced this week that all detainees have been transferred out of…
2026-06-16 · 4 MIN READChemical manufacturers are poisoning America’s newborns. The proof arrived this week in a peer‑reviewed study of breast‑milk samples from Seattle: 92 percent contained hormone‑disrupting chemicals — BPA, BPS, melamine, cyanuric acid,…
2026-06-14 · 6 MIN READThe Juneau Assembly evicted thirteen tenants for an empty lot. The lot does not yet exist. The developer is not yet chosen. The financing is not yet arranged. But the tenants are gone, and the homes — one of them the oldest still standing…
2026-06-14 · 6 MIN READHe made a man tell his family he would die. And then he smiled when they brought him into the Manhattan federal courthouse to hear his sentence. “He smiled,” a woman near David Rohde said, watching Haji Najibullah walk in. “How dare he…
2026-06-13 · 5 MIN READYou are killing people and praising God for it. You called the strike that killed Hector Rusthenford Guerrero Flores "swift and lethal kinetic," and then you posted the unclassified video of the building exploding. You said the men you…
2026-06-12 · 6 MIN READAdministrator Loeffler, you are shutting the door on the stranger who lives among you, pays your taxes, and has done everything your laws require except be born here — a door our country has held open for seventy years. The Small Business…
2026-06-12 · 4 MIN READKeiko Fujimori is building a police state on the bones of her father's regime. She won by a fraction of a percent—a handful of ballots out of millions—and her first promise is the same one Alberto Fujimori made before the death squads and…
2026-06-12 · 4 MIN READJavier Milei is cutting tariffs on luxury American vehicles while millions of Argentines cannot afford to eat. The 10,000-unit exemption his government is finalizing will slash the price of Ford F-150s, Chevrolet Suburbans, and…
2026-06-11 · 5 MIN READMost parents would rather swallow glass than bring their child to a casket and invite them to touch the cold, waxy skin of a corpse. Most would delete the open-casket photos before the family album ever saw the daylight. That’s the whole…
2026-06-11 · 3 MIN READCoupang exposed thirty-seven million private lives and harvested your browsing history without asking. It was not a sophisticated cyberattack that cracked open the databases of names, phone numbers, and delivery addresses. The Personal…
2026-06-11 · 6 MIN READPresident Trump is gambling American lives to force an Iranian surrender. Three days of fighting have frayed the ceasefire you declared in April, and the recent exchange of strikes after a helicopter was downed near the Strait of Hormuz…
2026-06-10 · 3 MIN READSecretary Markwayne Mullin is paving the Big Bend desert to hunt the migrant. Last Monday, the Homeland Security Secretary signed a waiver that sweeps aside a century of environmental protection across more than 100 miles of the…
2026-06-10 · 4 MIN READThe United States is allowing its pastors to rot in North Korean prisons while its officials offer the families of the detained only the thin broth of diplomatic reassurance. In Seoul this week, the Trump administration sent its senior…
2026-06-10 · 6 MIN READThe Trump Administration Is Closing San Francisco's Immigration Court to Bury Asylum Seekers. You are pulling more than a hundred thousand pending cases from a city built by immigrants and shuffling them across the Bay to Concord. You fire…
2026-06-10 · 3 MIN READThe United States is bombing Iran while traders watch gold. The financial press reports the strikes as a pivot in a technical chart—support broken at $4,350, the next target $4,000. I carry the formation of a combat medic who served in…
2026-06-10 · 5 MIN READEarly this morning Israeli forces struck targets in Lebanon and central and western Iran; Iran answered with missiles aimed at Israeli military bases. Air-raid sirens sounded across Israel. Sirens wail over Beirut and over Tel Aviv while…
2026-06-08 · 4 MIN READTom Homan is deploying armed agents to punish New York City. You made a promise, Mr. Homan, and you are keeping it: retaliation for a state's decision to stop lending its jail cells to your deportation machine. Governor Hochul signed the…
2026-06-08 · 4 MIN READLet me tell you what Bob Packwood did. The former senator from Oregon, dead at ninety-three, spent twenty-seven years in the Senate building a reputation as the Republican who defended abortion rights, who voted across party lines, who…
2026-06-07 · 4 MIN READIn Tonganoxie, residents raise signs against the data center that will turn their town into a cooling tower. In Indianapolis, a councilor wakes to gunshots and a note against server farms. In Texas, a twenty-year-old heads to the house of…
2026-06-07 · 5 MIN READAaron Spencer executed a man on the highway and the courts freed him. A thirteen-year-old girl was violated, and the men who wore the badges and carried the gavels failed her. They released her abuser on a fifty-thousand-dollar bond while…
2026-06-07 · 4 MIN READVladimir Putin is weaponizing hunger to strangle Armenia’s sovereignty. Armenia went to the polls Sunday and delivered a verdict the Kremlin has been dreading. Prime Minister Nikol Pashinyan stands for a new course — one that pulls his…
2026-06-07 · 9 MIN READYou are sixteen years old. You want to feel the wind. The world is expensive. The streets are paved for heavy cars. The machines sold in dealerships cost more than a used sedan. So you find a lightweight electric bike. You twist the…
2026-06-07 · 8 MIN READCalifornia institutions exalted Junipero Serra while displacing Mildred Howard from Berkeley. In a West Oakland warehouse, Howard keeps a ten-foot statue of the Spanish missionary bound and blindfolded, the colonizer-saint mummified in the…
2026-06-07 · 4 MIN READThe party establishment treats human suffering as a branding deficit instead of a moral failure. The machinery of modern politics asks the people to wait while consultants draft an autopsy, then asks them to wait again when the report…
2026-06-06 · 3 MIN READYou suspended lawful immigration by the accident of national origin. A federal judge in Rhode Island saw the record and called it what it was: a policy born of anti‑immigrant sentiment that placed countless lives in indeterminate legal…
2026-06-05 · 4 MIN READA bag sits packed by the door. It has been there for days, weeks, months. A child’s shoes are inside it because oil futures rose three points this morning. This is the architecture of life in Gaza, in southern Lebanon, in Tehran — flight…
2026-06-05 · 9 MIN READA man suffered a stroke at the Adelanto detention center, contracted the coronavirus in custody, and was released to die three days later. The ledger closed while his body was still warm. His death prompted a 2021 rule requiring the agency…
2026-06-05 · 6 MIN READRetailers are doubling restocking fees to punish shrinking bodies. The business press reports a fifty percent spike in apparel returns as customers on GLP-1 medications drop a clothing size every month. Shoppers order two sizes, keep the…
2026-06-05 · 7 MIN READAlan Wilson sent armed agents into a South Carolina metal plant to drag 48 workers from their jobs. He announced it at a press conference, standing behind a podium with the seal of his office, the state’s top law‑enforcement officer,…
2026-06-04 · 7 MIN READSergeant Darryl Brown stole $10,000 in camera equipment from a journalist who was bleeding from the knee. Angelina Katsanis was documenting the hunger strike and growing unrest outside Delaney Hall, the private detention center where…
2026-06-04 · 5 MIN READFederal agents enter houses of worship to drag the stranger from the altar. The pastor of Cities Church in St. Paul wants the protesters who interrupted his January service in handcuffs. When the city attorney declined to file state…
2026-06-04 · 4 MIN READJamshid Ghomi is facing twenty years in a prison cell for doing what the world’s largest suppliers of terror-state technology do with impunity, provided they have the right corporate headquarters and the proper Washington lobbyists to sign…
2026-06-04 · 5 MIN READThe administration is signing paper truces while Israel bombs hospitals. In Washington, diplomats draw maps for "pilot zones" along the Litani river, negotiating the architecture of a truce that did not last since April. On the same day,…
2026-06-04 · 6 MIN READBritain's political class protects Jeffrey Epstein by silencing his victims. The survivors pleaded for accountability, and the government met that plea with the same institutional silence described in the report where Epstein survivors say…
2026-06-04 · 3 MIN READThe Trump administration is terrorizing the World Cup. It has not deployed armed agents to the turnstiles — not yet — but the architecture of fear engineered over months of border crackdowns, trade wars, and threats of mass deportation is…
2026-06-04 · 4 MIN READThe administration is ordering the deportation of people who are already dead. Levi Mendez-Maldonado was nineteen when he was murdered in a North Carolina shooting in November 2024. He had arrived from Honduras as an unaccompanied minor,…
2026-06-03 · 6 MIN READWashington is bombing Iranian territory while insisting the ceasefire still holds. The sequence is documented: the United States imposes an economic blockade by military force, disables a sanctioned oil tanker attempting to cross it,…
2026-06-03 · 4 MIN READThe ceasefires in Gaza, Lebanon, and Iran are killing people every day. The official wires call it a truce; the hospitals in Gaza and Beirut call it what it is: a grinding continuation of the butchery, muffled behind diplomatic language.…
2026-06-03 · 5 MIN READThe gas company is letting children sleep above exploding gas lines. Thursday afternoon in the Oak Cliff neighborhood of Dallas, the pipes beneath a two-story apartment complex caught fire, shaking nearby homes, killing a child and at…
2026-05-29 · 7 MIN READKyle Adler was nine months old when he left Chile and arrived in an affluent Chicago suburb, unaware that his adoption was built on state-sponsored child trafficking. It took thirty-six years and a DNA database for the truth to surface,…
2026-05-28 · 5 MIN READThe American Catholic Church segregated the Body of Christ. Pope Leo XIV is a Creole Catholic from Louisiana. His presence at the Chair of Peter confronts the American Catholic Church with what it spent two centuries denying: that the…
2026-05-26 · 4 MIN READThe cries of a mother in Mongbwalu, demanding the return of her child's body so she might bury her own, are not a security problem to be managed with armed police. They are the sound of a world that has decided African suffering does not…
2026-05-25 · 9 MIN READWe are building AI on the bodies of the poor. Pope Leo XIV said it plainly in his first encyclical: the artificial intelligence systems that increase productivity for some are built on "the sort of invisible labor behind these AI systems"…
2026-05-25 · 5 MIN READCongress is debating compensation for people convicted of beating police officers during the January 6, 2021 attack on the Capitol while the agency that deports asylum-seekers and separates families waits for restored funding. The Senate…
2026-05-24 · 6 MIN READThe contracts are already signed — $3.16 billion for steel bollards stretching across Hudspeth, Jeff Davis, and Presidio counties, with $4.4 million for a monitoring crew to stand watch over a landscape where Border Patrol apprehensions…
2026-05-23 · 6 MIN READMarkwayne Mullin is blocking airports to punish sanctuary cities. The Homeland Security secretary has confirmed he is removing U.S. Customs and Border Protection officers from airports in jurisdictions that limit their cooperation with the…
2026-05-23 · 4 MIN READThe Trump administration is ordering thousands of green-card applicants who already call this country home to upend their lives and leave, tearing families apart in the process. Doug Rand, a former senior advisor at USCIS, notes that this…
2026-05-23 · 3 MIN READDonald Trump is forcing families to leave their homes and lives by mandate, requiring long-term legal residents to depart the United States simply to apply for a green card. For over fifty years, foreign nationals with temporary legal…
2026-05-22 · 4 MIN READThe Trump administration is firing immigration judges in the middle of asylum hearings. On April 10, Judge Nina Fróes sat on the bench at Chelmsford Immigration Court, hearing a straightforward asylum case. At 3:01 p.m., a notification…
2026-05-22 · 5 MIN READDonald Trump is firing immigration judges who grant asylum. Immigration courts granted asylum to 2,753 people in March 2025. One year later, in March 2026, the number was 700. That is a seventy-five percent collapse. Two thousand…
2026-05-22 · 7 MIN READCain Clark and Caleb Vazquez dragged guns into a mosque to kill strangers. The two teenagers entered the space carrying firearms, while the cache of over thirty guns and a crossbow found at their residences confirmed their arming, a…
2026-05-21 · 3 MIN READDonald Trump is demanding a billion dollars to dress up his ballroom while families cannot afford bread, and Republican lawmakers are preparing to staple that expenditure onto an immigration enforcement bill through the blunt instrument of…
2026-05-21 · 5 MIN READMinnesota CEOs stayed silent while federal agents killed, then called for peace. Target, Best Buy, UnitedHealth, 3M, General Mills — more than sixty of the state's largest corporations issued an open letter on Sunday calling for…
2026-05-21 · 3 MIN READDonald Trump is seizing a Catholic mountain to build his wall. The Department of Homeland Security, under Secretary Kristi Noem, filed an eminent domain lawsuit seeking fourteen acres of Mount Cristo Rey in Sunland Park, New Mexico, where…
2026-05-21 · 5 MIN READDonald Trump is ordering banks to check customer citizenship status. The order, signed Tuesday, directs federal regulators and government departments to examine whether people without legal status are opening accounts or obtaining loans or…
2026-05-20 · 3 MIN READThe state of Ohio built a trap to terrorize Maria DeAraujo. It worked. DeAraujo, a naturalized Brazilian immigrant, registered to vote at a Bureau of Motor Vehicles counter because a government clerk told her to. The state filed no…
2026-05-20 · 3 MIN READMarco Rubio Is Deporting a Family Because of Who Their Relatives Were. The administration has reached across forty years to revoke the green cards of Eissa Hashemi, Maryam Tahmasebi, and their son—arresting them in Los Angeles and holding…
2026-05-20 · 3 MIN READDonald Trump is trading human dignity for political loyalty, using immigration enforcement to distract from an economy that is failing his own base. We who watched the empty desks in El Paso understand the precise alchemy of this…
2026-05-20 · 7 MIN READICE Agent Christian Castro shot a Venezuelan migrant without cause in a Minnesota home. Now he must answer to the state. Hennepin County Attorney Mary Moriarty has charged him with four counts of second-degree assault and one count of…
2026-05-19 · 4 MIN READMarco Rubio is tearing a family apart for a crime committed before any of its younger members were born, holding them in a Texas detention cell as payment for a grievance forty-seven years cold. Eissa Hashemi, his wife Maryam Tahmasebi,…
2026-05-19 · 5 MIN READDonald Trump’s detention system killed Emmanuel Damas by neglecting a toothache. The fifty-six-year-old Haitian man spent months at the Central Arizona Florence Correctional Center, a private prison ICE pays to hold human beings—and during…
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