Voice
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.
ICE is running a private prison that bans detained immigrants from hugging their families. Teresa Reyes drove three hundred miles from her home to sit across a pane of glass from her son Guillermo on his thirty-second birthday in May. He is a tattoo artist from San Jose. She brought no gift — there was no way to give one. She could not share a meal with him. She could not…
2026-09-04 · 9 MIN READThe Trump administration is detaining children indefinitely and arresting the relatives who come to claim them. Around 1,900 unaccompanied children were under federal control at the end of August. They had spent an average of 183 days in shelters or long-term foster care. At least 65 of them, kids with cases still moving through immigration court, had been held for over a…
2026-09-03 · 6 MIN READThe Trump administration is hiding detainee deaths by redefining custody. Lianyong Wei was the fifty-seventh. Wei was a 51-year-old Chinese man in the Commonwealth of the Northern Mariana Islands. The Commonwealth Department of Public…
2026-09-02 · 4 MIN READTrinity Health runs 91 hospitals. Last year it booked more than $25 billion in revenue and an operating margin north of five percent. It is a Michigan-based Catholic nonprofit, tax-sheltered as a charity, named for the Holy Trinity —…
2026-09-01 · 5 MIN READFriday in San Jose, U.S. District Judge Noël Wise did what courts are supposed to do when the executive forgets what country it is running. She read the First Amendment. She read the Fifth. She struck down the relevant provisions of the…
2026-08-29 · 5 MIN READThe United States is deporting families with U.S.-citizen infants into a country at war. A second charter flight in eight days carried 57 people — 51 men, six women — into Cap-Haïtien International Airport on Thursday. On board, alongside former Temporary Protected Status holders and recipients of humanitarian parole whose protection has now been revoked, were families whose…
2026-08-28 · 3 MIN READThe Justice Department is putting a Congresswoman on trial for witnessing ICE arrest a man. Inside Delaney Hall, in Newark, a woman I will call Rosa is on the phone with her six-year-old daughter in Honduras. The line is bad. The connection drops. She redials. A recorded voice tells her the number is no longer in service. She does not know if her daughter is safe. She does not…
2026-08-27 · 4 MIN READThe State Department is freezing legal immigration worldwide and abandoning families in the queue. At every U.S. embassy and consulate in the world, the people who lost their appointments were not abstractions. They were families who sold…
2026-08-26 · 4 MIN READThe Department of Homeland Security deported Cristy Maryori Villafranca-Trejo to Honduras on Monday. She is at least the seventh spouse or parent of an active-duty U.S. service member removed under this administration's immigration…
2026-08-25 · 6 MIN READI have sat across the table from a woman I will call Patricia. She came to this country eighteen months ago from Honduras with her two daughters. The men who killed her brother found her name on a list. Her asylum interview was scheduled…
2026-08-24 · 4 MIN READThe Trump administration is prosecuting Kilmar Ábrego García for the crime of winning his freedom back. The government is asking a court to let it punish a man for defeating it in the Supreme Court. The Department of Justice has appealed…
2026-08-18 · 9 MIN READPope Leo XIV mistakes San Marino’s power-sharing for human freedom. San Marino has a 60-member parliament. It elects two captains regent every six months. The captains serve jointly as heads of state. The arrangement limits the…
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In February, at the main gate of Camp Pendleton, a guard scanned Assim Alkhawaja's license and asked for another ID. Alkhawaja handed over the work permit the government itself issued, valid until February 2030. The guard left, and…
2026-08-21 · 5 MIN READDonald Trump's ICE is deporting Iranian asylum-seekers on lists the Iranian government wrote. The National Iranian American Council released hundreds of internal ICE emails Tuesday. They span three flights — September 2025, December 2025,…
2026-08-20 · 5 MIN READDonald Trump is deporting the people who bathe the dying. The news coverage calls it a labor crunch. A labor crunch is what happens to an economy. What is happening here happens to people. When the order ended Temporary Protected Status…
2026-08-17 · 4 MIN READColombia's new president was elected from the pulpit, and the poor will pay the bill. On Aug. 7, Abelardo de la Espriella was sworn in as president of Colombia, and the ceremony showed what had built him. An evangelical pastor led the…
2026-08-14 · 4 MIN READJose Chajon-Raxon was a Guatemalan man who came into federal custody on July 18. The day after, he had a seizure inside Delaney Hall, a privately run immigration jail in Newark, New Jersey. On July 22 the Department of Homeland Security…
2026-08-13 · 4 MIN READThe Trump administration has sent twenty-six thousand migrant children to immigration court without lawyers. You are a parent. You are nineteen years old and you sent your son north because the gang that ran the streets outside his school…
2026-08-12 · 5 MIN READDonald Trump is revoking immigrants’ visas to punish them for speech. Rümeysa Öztürk, a Turkish doctoral student at Tufts University, co-wrote an opinion piece criticizing the university’s position on the war in Gaza. The government pulled…
2026-08-11 · 4 MIN READImmigration authorities are detaining the families of active-duty troops for deportation. More than 50 spouses and parents of active-duty service members have been detained, according to Associated Press reporting. More than 60 lawmakers…
2026-08-10 · 3 MIN READTrump's ICE is strapping hunger strikers down and shoving tubes down their throats. Gabar Choli is forty years old. He is a Kurdish filmmaker, an activist for an independent Kurdistan, and an asylum seeker who crossed the border seeking…
2026-08-10 · 3 MIN READThe Trump Administration Is Sending Immigrants Into Court Alone to Face Deportation. On a recent morning in Sacramento, Kamalpreet Chohan ran her finger down a list of 57 people scheduled for immigration hearings. None had a lawyer. Not…
2026-08-09 · 3 MIN READDonald Trump is growing frustrated with Markwayne Mullin over repeated off-message remarks, but the conflict reveals how the administration uses Mullin to give mass deportation the appearance of orderly government. Markwayne Mullin tried…
2026-08-08 · 6 MIN READThe United States is charging poor Dominicans for permission to join their families. Not to enter. To apply. The bond required under the new pilot program, launched Wednesday at the U.S. Embassy in Santo Domingo, does not purchase entry or…
2026-08-07 · 4 MIN READCoreCivic is reopening a dead Minnesota prison to lock up strangers for seventy-five million dollars a year. Under a five-year federal contract finalized with Immigration and Customs Enforcement, this former state lockup — bought by the…
2026-08-05 · 5 MIN READThe Trump administration used a farm raid to test the bounds of cruelty. It came on a sunny morning last July—July 10, 2025—when hundreds of heavily armed agents in camouflage, face masks, and armored tactical vehicles descended on the…
2026-08-05 · 4 MIN READSpringdale Police Sent Jose Acosta Toward ICE Over a Traffic Violation. That is what his wife, Yaquelin Vasques, says happened on July 2. Acosta, a Honduran immigrant awaiting a green card, sat in his parked truck outside a commercial job…
2026-08-04 · 3 MIN READDavid Venturella sold the stock. The conflict did not leave with it. Venturella divested his GEO Group shares and recused himself from “all contracts and obligations related to detention” involving the private prison company. He told Sen.…
2026-08-03 · 5 MIN READThe Trump administration used border patrol agents to seize a journalist's phones — and the seizure followed, step-for-step, from a targeted online campaign by Trump ally Laura Loomer. On 10 July, at Dulles, Max Blumenthal — founder of the…
2026-08-01 · 5 MIN READThe United States government is formally codifying the principle that poverty is grounds for presumptive guilt, and it is loading the cost of its own suspicion onto the people it has already decided to suspect. Friday's draft Federal…
2026-07-31 · 3 MIN READYasmine — twenty years in this country, a DACA recipient, the mother of a girl who just turned eleven — told reporters at a press conference this week that her family could not celebrate their daughter's birthday outside the house. Not…
2026-07-30 · 3 MIN READThe court-appointed monitor said it plainly because the medical record would not let him say it any other way: the California City immigration processing center, the largest ICE prison in the state, lacks a reliable system to consistently…
2026-07-28 · 4 MIN READAuthorities in Bosnia are investigating the desecration of a statue of the Virgin Mary in Medjugorje, a popular Roman Catholic pilgrimage site in the southern part of the country. Someone painted the statue's face and hands black — the…
2026-07-28 · 5 MIN READThey are paying three-quarters of a billion dollars to keep beating migrants. The contract extension published last week by U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement makes this plain. Amentum Services Inc. will continue operating Camp East…
2026-07-27 · 7 MIN READFederal agents shot at Francisco Longoria for driving his truck down a California street. It was a Saturday morning in San Bernardino. Longoria runs a party supply business. He was delivering a bounce house to a customer. His son and his…
2026-07-27 · 6 MIN READThe Department of Justice arrested David Huerta for standing with immigrant workers. On Monday, the prosecutors dropped the charge because they had no case. The Torah does not permit what this administration is doing. The commandment to…
2026-07-27 · 5 MIN READICE gave a badge and a gun to a man his ex-wives had been warning about. Tom Homan, the man the White House put in charge of the border, went on CNN on Sunday and said the officer who killed Joan Sebastián Durán Guerrero on July 13 should…
2026-07-26 · 5 MIN READBrazil denied visas to two Trump administration officials this week. Riley Barnes, assistant secretary for democracy, human rights, and labor, and Samuel Samson, a deputy assistant secretary of state, were planning to travel to São Paulo.…
2026-07-25 · 5 MIN READICE Arrested a Father at His Green Card Interview and Took Him From His Children. Connor Read came to America when he was nine years old. He attended American schools. He married an American woman. He has three-year-old twin boys, Ryder…
2026-07-24 · 4 MIN READA detained pastor is free. That is good. We should be glad about it and not pretend otherwise, because the habit of refusing good news to preserve a rhetorical position is a spiritual sickness, not a political strategy. Ezra Jin Mingri,…
2026-07-24 · 4 MIN READThe sovereign state demands to know where you were born and whether you belong. The mother of God, in a small house in the Philippines, asks you nothing. A replica of the House of the Virgin Mary now stands in Alfonso, Cavite, a few hours…
2026-07-24 · 4 MIN READSixty-seven square meters of stone, placed in a field outside Manila, and the whole thing comes with a guarantee: no questions asked. That is the selling point Father Dennis Paez offers for his replica of the House of the Virgin Mary in…
2026-07-23 · 4 MIN READThe administration is arming violent, unvetted men, and immigrants are dying at traffic stops. David Brouillette killed Joan Sebastián Durán Guerrero on a road in Maine. His ex-wife says he had a history of domestic violence and severe…
2026-07-23 · 6 MIN READICE planned to warehouse thousands of people in buildings without enough drinking water. On Wednesday, the agency withdrew its appeal of Pennsylvania’s denial of water permits, effectively killing the plan. The state had determined that…
2026-07-23 · 5 MIN READICE tried to warehouse thousands of human beings in rural Pennsylvania warehouses without clean drinking water. Pennsylvania said no. The agency withdrew its appeal this week. The permits are still denied. It is a rare thing for a state…
2026-07-22 · 9 MIN READThe contract ends next week. After that, the government will have done something that no administration in modern American history has done at this scale: it will have taken the lawyers away from more than 20,000 children and sent them…
2026-07-22 · 4 MIN READDonald Trump is building a border wall that could flood a Texas town. The 3,200 people of Presidio stand before a levee whose intended purpose is to hold back the Rio Grande when it rises, and through that levee the Department of Homeland…
2026-07-22 · 5 MIN READThe United States has spent fifteen years preparing for a war it believed it did not want. Every doctrine review, every CENTCOM force posture assessment, every State Department diplomatic cable—for a decade and a half, American strategic…
2026-07-21 · 4 MIN READThe 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…
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,…
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…
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…
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 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…
2026-07-16 · 6 MIN READLorenzo 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…
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