Mark Meckler is the president of the Convention of States Foundation and a leading proponent of the right-wing movement to get state legislatures to call for a dangerous Article V convention that will consider constitutional amendments to radically alter American government and society by making much of what the federal...
🤦🏻♀️ The attorney general of #Texas on Wednesday defied federal officials who demanded state authorities abandon a public park along the U.S.-#Mexico border that state National Guard soldiers seized last week, setting up a legal showdown with the Biden administration over the country's immigration policies.
"#HurricaneOtis is expected to make landfall as a Category 4 hurricane either late Tuesday or early Wednesday morning.
It could be the strongest hurricane to impact #Acapulco in decades.
Otis quickly strengthened into a major Category 3 hurricane on Tuesday afternoon. Just six hours earlier on Tuesday morning it was a tropical storm with 70 mph winds."
For the first time under President Joe #Biden, officials are using authority established under former President Donald #Trump to waive dozens of laws in order to continue construction on the racist southern #border wall.
👉🏼#SupremeCourt allowed Border Patrol agents to cut through or move razor wire #Texas installed on the U.S.-#Mexico border as part of an effort by the state to prevent illegal border crossings.
..Biden admin argued Texas was preventing agents from carrying out their duties.
The brief order noted that 4 conservative members of the nine-justice court would have rejected the government's request. They were Thomas, Alito, Gorsuch, Kavanaugh #legal#SCOTUS
Reuters: A US Appeals Court grants a temporary stay allowing #Texas to keep in place floating buoys that were placed in the middle of the Rio Grande to block migrants from illegally crossing from #Mexico.
The #CONCACAF Women's Gold Cup is starting up tonight. #Mexico vs #Argentina currently on, then #USWNT vs #DominicanRepublic at 10:15pm ET. You can watch on Paramount+ if you haven't canceled your #NWSL subscriptions already
Anoche me fui a dormir muy temprano. Por lo tanto, me desperté en medio de la noche y terminé viendo un video de Franco Pisso, un profesor de comunicación, que a mí me parece muy capo, sobre lo que está cambiando en el manejo de la #política latinoamericana a nivel comunicacional y lo quiero compartir con ustedes.
GOES West satellite view of #HurricaneOtis. Note that the eye is now north of the forecast track. Hope everyone in #Acapulo is paying attention and stays safe.
The satellite image refreshes after 15 minutes but you will need to either toggle that basemap off/on or re-open the map to see the new image. #Otis#Mexico#Hurricane#Huracan#Category5
Top story: The governor wants to build a wall along up to 800 miles of #Texas’ border with #Mexico, which, at this rate, could rack up a tab of around $20 billion and take decades to complete.
Did you know that there are reliefs from a pre-Columbian society that were thought to be innocuous, but modern #research suspects something much more #sinister...?
Remember the immigrants bused into New York and other liberal cities? In recent months, Democrats have started to sound more like Republicans when discussing the "migrant crisis."
”Organized crime has now extended its tentacles throughout #Mexico. Going down the list of the 32 states, at least half of them are wracked by #crime and violence at the highest levels we have seen in a century.”
#Lawsuit seeks $10B in damages & court order to force the companies named - Smith & Wesson, Colt, Glock, Beretta & Ruger - to change the way they do business. In Jan, a federal appeals court in Boston decided that industry’s immunity shield, which protected gun-makers from #CivilLiability, does not apply to Mexico’s lawsuit.
Nearly 80% of Texas' floating border barrier is technically in Mexico, survey finds (www.cbsnews.com)
A joint U.S.-Mexico topographical survey found that 787 feet of the 995-feet-long buoy line set up by Texas are in Mexico.
‘It’s That Simple’: Mark Meckler Says The Only Way To Secure The Border Is By Invading Mexico (www.rightwingwatch.org)
Mark Meckler is the president of the Convention of States Foundation and a leading proponent of the right-wing movement to get state legislatures to call for a dangerous Article V convention that will consider constitutional amendments to radically alter American government and society by making much of what the federal...
California Ph.D. student's research trip to Mexico ends in violent death: "He was in the wrong place" (www.cbsnews.com)
Authorities discovered Gabriel Trujillo's body in the state of Sonora, days after his fiancée reported him missing.