by Isaac Cubillos | Oct 10, 2025 | Brown Eyes, Clear Truth
In the early 1990s, I sat down with Dr. David Hayes-Bautista at UCLA to talk about a provocative book he had just published: The Burden of Support. At the time, the national conversation about Latinos in America was dominated by deficit thinking — stories about...
by Isaac Cubillos | Jul 18, 2025 | Brown Eyes, Clear Truth
California just got kneecapped by a jobs crash so sharp it made the Great Recession look like a fender-bender. And no, it wasn’t a stock market crash or a wildfire or even another tech bubble popping. It was good ol’ fashioned jackboot immigration enforcement. Yep....
by Isaac Cubillos | Jul 2, 2025 | Brown Eyes, Clear Truth, Journal
Well, here we go again. Another round of red-faced shouting over “Sanctuary Cities,” as if your local sheriff were secretly running a coyote ring out of the jail basement and giving undocumented immigrants a free pass to Disneyland. You’ve heard the chorus. “They’re...
by Isaac Cubillos | Jul 2, 2025 | Brown Eyes, Clear Truth, Journal
They built it in eight days. Dropped it right in the Everglades. Surrounded it with alligators and pythons like some kind of bad Florida joke. Wrapped it in razor wire and gave it a name that belongs in a comic book: Alligator Alcatraz. This isn’t a plotline from some...
by Isaac Cubillos | Jun 27, 2025 | Brown Eyes, Clear Truth, Journal
Today’s Supreme Court decision didn’t just sidestep the meaning of the 14th Amendment—it cracked the door open to a fractured republic. At issue was a challenge involving birthright citizenship, the guarantee that anyone born on U.S. soil is a citizen. It’s one of the...
by Isaac Cubillos | May 18, 2025 | Brown Eyes, Clear Truth
I’ve walked the decks of the Cuauhtémoc while reporting for a newspaper. I’ve stood on her planks, leaned against the rail, and watched her crew—Mexican Navy cadets in pressed whites—handle her lines with precision and pride. She’s more than a ship. She’s a symbol. A...
