by Isaac Cubillos | Apr 15, 2025 | Brown Eyes, Clear Truth
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...
by Isaac Cubillos | Apr 14, 2025 | Brown Eyes, Clear Truth
You can say a lot of things about the Trump administration’s immigration policy. But “legal” sure as hell isn’t one of them. Let’s talk about Kilmar Abrego Garcia—a man with a Green Card, living in Maryland, protected by an immigration judge’s 2019 ruling that barred...
by Isaac Cubillos | Apr 11, 2025 | Brown Eyes, Clear Truth, Journal
They say justice is blind. Maybe. But in America, justice sure as heck knows how to squint—especially when a brown face walks into view. Case in point: Paul Akeo and his wife Christy, two nice folks from Michigan who got nabbed south of the border after a resort tiff...
by Isaac Cubillos | Apr 8, 2025 | Brown Eyes, Clear Truth
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...
