Bracero 2.0: Deportation First, Permission Later

Bracero 2.0: Deportation First, Permission Later

by | Apr 17, 2025

There’s a dangerous echo rolling through the immigration debate again—and this time it’s dressed up like progress. President Donald Trump has floated a proposal that sounds suspiciously familiar: Allow undocumented immigrants to return to work only after they leave...
When They Come for the Children It’s Personal

When They Come for the Children It’s Personal

by | Apr 16, 2025

There’s a line we used to believe no one would cross. A line etched in moral clarity: You don’t come for the children. But that line’s been blurred. And now, it’s being crossed—in broad daylight. Last week, agents presumed to be from Homeland Security walked into two...
Homegrown Are Next: When Citizenship Becomes Conditional

Homegrown Are Next: When Citizenship Becomes Conditional

by | Apr 15, 2025

Some warnings are subtle.This wasn’t one of them. Walking into the Oval Office the president of El Salvador, Donald Trump reportedly made a statement so blunt, so authoritarian in tone, that it didn’t just cross a line—it erased it: “Homegrown are next.” Let that...
Through Brown Eyes: A Tribute to the Roots of My Reporting

Through Brown Eyes: A Tribute to the Roots of My Reporting

by | Apr 8, 2025

I didn’t start out swinging. I started out writing obits. Back at The Daily Californian, my job was to memorialize strangers with brevity and dignity. No politics. No heat. Just names, dates, and silence. That’s how I learned to write—by confronting the end of stories...