by Isaac Cubillos | Apr 16, 2025 | Brown Eyes, Clear Truth
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...
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...
