Category: Immigrants
-
California State Senator Anna Caballero, one of the ten professionals featured in the documentary short film Migrant Child Farmworkers – Now High-Profile Professionals©, narrated by Xolo Maridueña (star of Blue Beetle and Cobra Kai), supports the farm workers and agricultural economy of our state as she explains here: I proudly joined my colleagues in the California Legislative…
-
Arguments rarely change opinions; stories sometimes can. Maureen Dowd, in her New York Times piece, “Donald Trump, Our Foundering Father“, describes how she and her Trump-loving brother recently visited the “Founding Friends, Founding Foes” tour at Monticello where people could explore their divergent, fraught political relationships as Jefferson and Adams did back in the day.…
-
BY: John J. Pitney, Jr., Roy P. Crocker Professor of American Politics at Claremont McKenna College. On January 2, 1855, New York Mayor Fernando Wood wrote to President Franklin Pierce: The disease and pauperism arriving here almost daily is, of itself, a sufficient evil; but when to it is added crime, we must be permitted…
