Keep on walking
5 November 2018
Woodcut by Alfredo López Casanova
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The background of Mexican anti-clericalism and the "atheist" general who led the Catholic counter-revolution of the 1920s 128 pp., Editorial Mazatlán, 2012.
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What about the Caravan! How will you lead in protecting their safety from our armed forces?
What about the Caravan! How will you lead in protecting their safety from our armed forces?
One of the things I find interesting about the caravan is how many of those folks have spurned Mexico’s offers of asylum. Mexico is a place where such migrants already speak the language, where there’s certainly greater cultural continuity with the origin countries, and a place where such folks could more easily fit in. Yet they continue on to an openly-hostile USA where they risk separation from their children, indefinite detention until their asylum (or other) cases are heard, and continued hardship by further travels.
Of course in Mexico there are fewer freebies on hand. Still…
Saludos,
Kim G
Redding, CA
Where white, middle-aged men are mostly the ones doing yardwork. Surprisingly.