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#border-policy

Abraham Lincoln first earned national attention by calling out President James K. Polk's lies about the lead-up to the conflict, which lasted from April 1846 to February 1848, on the floor of Congress. Ulysses S. Grant called the war "one of the most unjust ever waged." Henry David Thoreau's famous essay "Resistance to Civil Government" was written partly in response to the Mexican-American War, which he decried as "the work of comparatively a few individuals using the standing government as their tool." Other American paragons of virtue who were publicly opposed at the time: William Lloyd Garrison, Ralph Waldo Emerson and Frederick Douglass.

The U.S.'s population growth is slowing as immigration has declined amid President Donald Trump's deportation push and stricter border policies. According to new Census Bureau data, the drop-off is the biggest since the COVID-19 pandemic. From July 2024 to July 2025, the population of the United States grew by 1.8 million people (about 0.5%). This was mostly driven by immigration: During that period, the U.S. added 1.3 million immigrants.

Like so many brown-skinned inhabitants of the Americas, the Río Grande may not be beautiful through European eyes. In the desert reaches of the Americas though, the brown waters of the lower Río Grande are a beautiful, living-giving force. She is but another form of Chalchiuhtlicue, the Aztec goddess of water. She is the protector of mothers in childbirth, babies, fishermen, and navigators. The Aztec view of water as a goddess bestows an attribute of vitality to the environment that the Anglo-centric ideas of the American Dream, Manifest Destiny, and capitalism violate when people pollute and misuse the river.

Former White House press secretary Kayleigh McEnany slammed Kamala Harris's forthcoming book as an attempt at posturing for 2028, while trashing her on Tuesday. McEnany, who served in the Trump administration from 2020 to 2021, appeared on Fox & Friends Wednesday morning to offer her take on the first excerpt from Harris's new memoir, which was published by The Atlantic earlier in the day.

Homan described the app as "horrendous" and criticized CNN for supposedly enabling criminal aliens to evade law enforcement, calling for a DOJ investigation.