Blogs about: Extralegal Citizen

People of Faith United For Immigrants- Lutheran Church2 comments

Matthew Webster wrote 5 months ago: While the Lutheran Church Missouri Synod (LCMS) claims to have no “…special wisdom from … more »

Tags: Border, Christian, criminalization, English as a Second Language, ESL, Immigrants, Immigration, Secure Fence Act of 2006, Social Justice

What is meant by 'Real Immigration Reform?'5 comments

Matthew Webster wrote 6 months ago:         Yesterday, a good friend of mine in Austin pressed me about my oft-repeated phrase of … more »

Tags: Border Patrol, Citizenship, Immigrants, Immigration, Secure Fence Act of 2006, Quota, Raymondville, Quota System, Immigration reform

Duty Free2 comments

Matthew Webster wrote 6 months ago:         The border is a fascinating anomaly. Here, pesos and dollars can be spent on either s … more »

Tags: 1942, Americalmosts, Border, Border Patrol, Bracero, Citizen, Citizenship, Civil Disobedience, duty

Duty Free2 comments

Matthew Webster wrote 6 months ago:         The border is a fascinating anomaly. Here, pesos and dollars can be spent on either s … more »

Tags: nonviolence, Immigration, Citizen, Citizenship, Border, frontera, Gandhi, Immigrants, Justice

Learning to Communicate

Matthew Webster wrote 7 months ago:   Humans thrive on communication. To feel that your morals and ideas are understood and valid … more »

Tags: Border, Border Patrol, Citizen, Citizenship, Civil Discourse, Gandhi, Immigrants, Immigration, Martin Luther King

Learning to Communicate

Matthew Webster wrote 7 months ago: Humans thrive on communication. To feel that your morals and ideas are understood and validated is … more »

Tags: nonviolence, MLK, Martin Luther King, Immigration, Citizen, Citizenship, Border, Gandhi, Immigrants

Bring Democracy Home

Matthew Webster wrote 7 months ago: On June 27, 1950, the United States invaded North Korea, attempting to bring democracy to some 9 mi … more »

Tags: MLK, Martin Luther King, Immigration, Citizen, Immigrants, War, democracy, Border Patrol, Homeland Security!

Rio Grande Valley Tactical Infrastructure EIS Document Response, or The Difference between 1907 and 20071 comment

Matthew Webster wrote 8 months ago:     2007 marks the centennial of the United States’ peak year of immigration. 1907 marked … more »

Tags: 1907, 1924 Immigration Quota, america, Border, Borderland, Catch-22, Chinese Exclusion Act, Citizen, Citizenship

We do not need illegal immigrants...3 comments

Matthew Webster wrote 8 months ago:      Talk to any economist or realist, and they will assuredly agree that immigrant labor has ma … more »

Tags: america, Americalmosts, Catch-22, Citizen, Citizenship, criminalization, Immigrants, Immigration

Badges of Citizenship4 comments

Matthew Webster wrote 8 months ago:      At the end of the first movie to feature color photography, a certain “cowardly” lion g … more »

Tags: Immigration, Citizen, Citizenship, Education, School, america, Immigrants, ESL, criminalization

Guy Fawke's Day3 comments

Matthew Webster wrote 8 months ago: Guy Fawke’s Day comes to a close uneventfully in America’s borderland. The British … more »

Tags: nonviolence, MLK, School, Protest, america, V for Vendetta, Guy Fawkes, Borderland, Academia

Criminalization

Matthew Webster wrote 9 months ago: Much dialogue on marijuana in the last few decades has centered around the large rates of incarcerat … more »

Tags: nonviolence, MLK, Martin Luther King, Immigration, Citizen, Citizenship, Border, america, Justice

The Border Crossed Us2 comments

Matthew Webster wrote 9 months ago: “The law was added so that the trespass might increase. But where sin [read disobedience] increase … more »

Tags: nonviolence, MLK, Martin Luther King, Immigration, Citizen, Citizenship, Border, Immigrants

A United Sense of Somebodiness

Matthew Webster wrote 9 months ago: The United States of America needs more than a wall. The proposed border fence, whose environmental … more »

Tags: nonviolence, MLK, Martin Luther King, Immigration, Citizen, Citizenship, america, Immigrants

An Idea Whose Time has Come

Matthew Webster wrote 9 months ago: In 2006, the Secure Fences Act was passed in both Congress and the Senate. The funds have since been … more »

Tags: nonviolence, MLK, Martin Luther King, Immigration, Citizen, Citizenship, Border, frontera, america

Summoning Self-Worth Amidst Obscurity

Matthew Webster wrote 10 months ago: “A just law is a law that squares with a moral law…[An unjust law] does not square with th … more »

Tags: MLK, Martin Luther King, Immigration, Citizen, Citizenship, Gandhi, america, Immigrants

A demonstration

Matthew Webster wrote 10 months ago: This past weekend I had the pleasure of taking part in a demonstration against the border wall here … more »

Tags: nonviolence, Immigration, Citizen, Citizenship, frontera, Protest, america, Immigrants


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