![]() ![]() Former President Donald Trump’s anti-immigrant Rasputin, Stephen Miller, revived it in 2020 during the Covid crisis, to keep people from applying for asylum. to turn back people at borders during public health emergencies. Title 42 is an obscure regulation that allows the U.S. Related As Biden Continues Trump’s War on Asylum, Danger Mounts in the Deadly Sonoran Desert That hostility may bode badly in the coming weeks and months, in Texas and throughout the country as we reach the end of Title 42. (More about this later.) Meanwhile, the narrative around the killings has ignored details about history and current conditions in Brownsville - about animus against people like Alvarez that spans generations. For contesting that false claim in court, Alvarez was once considered a civil rights hero. Sauceda failed to clarify that it was Brownsville police who assaulted Alvarez years ago, not the other way around. During a press conference, Brownsville Police Chief Felix Sauceda pointed to a list of Alvarez’s numerous criminal priors. The police charged him with manslaughter, and they are investigating whether he committed hate crimes or acted intentionally. The driver was identified as George Alvarez. On Democracy Now!, a human rights activist called the killings a hate crime. A reporter I know told me that human gore and bone lay in the grass for hours afterward, putrefying in the heat and reeking. ![]() A video of the collision shows his vehicle knocking people down like matchsticks. The man who crashed into a group of mostly Venezuelan migrants in Brownsville, Texas, on Sunday - killing eight of them - sounds in the media like a cipher, if not a monster. ![]() A man lights a candle at a memorial for eight migrants who were struck by a car and killed waiting at a bus stop on May 7, 2023, in Brownsville, Texas. ![]()
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