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A Teenager’s Visit to the Border, and the Mile That Changed Her

If she wanted to, 17-year-old Mary Grace Geise could pretend that what is happening to migrants at our southern border has nothing to do with her lucky life.She lives with both parents and her younger sister in Bay Village, a predominantly white, affluent suburb of Cleveland. She is a rising ...

The Real Message Behind the Inspector General’s Report

There is a different standard of law when it comes to certain people in this country. That is the real message behind the inspector general's report just released on June 14. And although many on the left are doing a happy dance about it, they shouldn't be.First, as authors like Andrew McCarthy ...

Demand action against inhumane immigration enforcement

The nation has been consumed in the debate and subsequent outrage by an increase in children being detained separately from their families after crossing the U.S. border illegally under a new zero-tolerance policy in conjunction with laws put in place under previous presidents’ ...

Enforcement, not separation, is the issue

President Donald Trump climbed down on separating families at the border, but the underlying argument is not going away.The central question isn't whether we should separate families -- even most immigration hawks would prefer to hold families together -- but whether migrants should stay in the ...

Thumbs Up, Thumbs Down

<em>Each week the Standard-Examiner hashes out issues large and small and takes a thumbs-up, thumbs-down stance. Have a thumbs-up or thumbs-down you’d like to give? Email a submission of 100 words or less to jmccabe@standard.net.</em><em>Here’s what ...

Trump and the Invasion of the West

"It is cruel. It is immoral. And it breaks my heart," says former first lady Laura Bush of the Trump administration policy of "zero tolerance," under which the children of illegal migrants are being detained apart from their parents."Disgraceful," adds Dr. Franklin Graham."We need to be ... a ...