My grandma votes Republican because she believes in three things: money, strength, and the rule of law. Whether the Republican Party stands for any of those things is beside the point because, to her, and to a lot of other people still, the Republicans represent those values more than the Democrats.
People who hate Mexicans don’t know much about them or the country they come from.
Hector’s mom Yeni was born in a mountain village outside the Honduran capital of Tegucigalpa and immigrated to Chicago when she was six.
Hector chats with Todd Miller, a journalist who has covered border security for the past 20 years, and the author of several books including Border Patrol Nation (2014), Empire of Borders (2019), and the forthcoming Build Bridges, Not Walls
Hector chats with Ramón Lagos, a teacher in Salt Lake City who was born and raised in Puerto Rico, and is the son of an Afro-Honduran father and a Sicilian mother
No one understands that race is imaginary better than someone who’s multiracial
Hector chats with Jordana Timerman, a freelance reporter and public policy researcher based in Buenos Aires, and the editor of Latin America Daily Briefing
Refusing to eat tacos is un-American
