It took 16 years for Herberth Cortez Gaitan to have his asylum case heard, 9 more for him to be deported — and 2 years for him to return to the US after a federal court found that immigration judges had made a mistake.
When it comes to American history, Americans are often on shaky ground. Even politicians can never seem to get straight which text “life, liberty and the pursuit of happiness” appears in, let alone where Mount Rushmore gets its name, or what happens in the Bill of Rights after the fifth amendment. How important is this […]
Members of the Oglala Sioux tribe live on the very rural Pine Ridge Indian Reservation, most of whom do not have cars. Traveling during winter months is compounded by infrequently plowed gravel and dirt roads. Given that their county only has six days of early voting in the presidential primaries – while residents in the rest […]