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America Is the Cause of Its Immigration ‘Problem’

Alexander Reed Kelly / Truthdig Sep 25, 2012 “Civil rights are for blacks,” conservative commentator Ann Coulter said on ABC’s “This Week” during a show on immigration and the Latino vote Sunday. That’s nonsense, says “Democracy Now!” co-host Juan Gonzalez, who along with filmmaker Eduardo Lopez directed a deeply informative film about the root causes of Latin American immigration to the United States. Dig deeper ( 3 Min. Read )

10 Americans Charged With Abduction in Haiti

Staff / Truthdig Feb 5, 2010 Disasters evoke a whole range of human qualities, from the charitable to the predatory and beyond. Thus it's not surprising, although it is upsetting, that a group of Americans was charged Thursday with abduction and criminal association after attempting to usher 33 Haitian children to an orphanage in the Dominican Republic last week even though many were not actually orphans. Dig deeper ( 1 Min. Read )

Baptist Do-Gooders in Trouble in Haiti

Staff / Truthdig Jan 31, 2010 Call it vigilante relief work or kidnapping, 10 American Baptists are in jail in Port-au-Prince after attempting to take 33 children out of Haiti in what they claim was an effort to "do the right thing." Dig deeper ( 1 Min. Read )