Tough Stuff at the Border for Asylum Seekers and Immigrants

Immigration Reform

https://chieforganizer.org/wp-content/uploads/2020/08/CN08062020.mp3Podcast: Play in new window | DownloadSubscribe: Apple PodcastsNew Orleans     The President is still running and running hard against immigrants and immigration, even though the issue has now fallen out of the top ten concerns for the American public. It seems a classic case of fighting the last war, rather than the current war, when …

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Finally, The End for Kris Kobach

ACORN Health Care National Politics

https://chieforganizer.org/wp-content/uploads/2020/08/CN08052020.mp3Podcast: Play in new window | DownloadSubscribe: Apple PodcastsNew Orleans     What a great birthday present – happy birthday to me!  Kris Kobach was defeated in the Republican primary in Kansas in his latest bid for another elected job, this time vying for an open seat in the U.S. Senate.  That wasn’t the only great …

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US Police Roots Spring from Slavery

Ideas and Issues

https://chieforganizer.org/wp-content/uploads/2020/08/CN08042020.mp3Podcast: Play in new window | DownloadSubscribe: Apple PodcastsNew Orleans     We would all love to simply believe that the police are there, and have always been there, as the slogan goes, “to serve and protect.”  Jill Lepore, the noted Harvard historian and frequent New Yorker indefatigable and invaluable contributor, in a recent piece in …

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