Uline turned to Mexico to staff warehouses, but paid them a fraction of US workers, sources say

At company owned by a Trump mega-donor workers brought from Mexico earned per day about the same as their US counterparts were paid by the hour….

https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025/feb/12/uline-trump-mega-donors-underpaid-mexican-workers

 

Death at the Border: How CBP Agents Urged Mexican Teen to Drink the Liquid Meth That Killed Him - YouTube

Newly released video footage shows U.S. Customs and Border Protection agents telling 16-year-old Mexican teenager Cruz Velazquez to drink from a bottle of liquid methamphetamine at a border checkpoint in San Diego, causing him to die from an acute drug overdose....
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=U5NOUUm_KLs&t=19s

Arizona, fine with Confederate monuments, is fighting to keep Mexican-American studies banned

In Arizona—where Confederate monuments continue to be on public display despite pleas from residents to have them removed—a trial over whether state Republicans intentionally discriminated against Latino students by ending a Mexican-American studies program in public schools started last week. Commemorating history is fine so long as it’s white history, apparently:...
https://www.dailykos.com/stories/1677516

Keeping out Mexican immigrants won’t help U.S. workers

The U.S. once tried to shut out immigrants to increase jobs and wages, but it failed at both goals....
https://thinkprogress.org/immigration-braceros-wages-jobs-dd73e93315e3#.tofza010b

The Secret Cost of Chinese Buffets: Part 1

Wang’s Employment Agency is nestled on the third floor of a barbershop in Flushing, N.Y. No sign outside suggests its existence. Inside, there is an undecorated, white-walled office where a dozen middle-aged Chinese immigrants sit and wait in nervous silence. Wang, the owner of the agency, is a heavyset woman in her early 50s. She snacks on walnuts from a Styrofoam cup as she considers people’s job requests....
http://www.truthdig.com/report/item/the_secret_cost_of_chinese_buffets_part_1_20161102?utm_source=feedburner&utm_medium=feed&utm_campaign=Feed%253A+Truthdig+Truthdig%253A+Drilling+Beneath+the+Headlines

Pence actually tried to defend Trump’s ‘rapists’ comments on Mexico

During the vice presidential debate on Tuesday, Gov. Mike Pence (R-IN) defended Trump’s controversial comments on Mexicans — at one point merely brushing it off as “that Mexican thing.” Pence tried to fact-check Democratic vice presidential candidate Sen. Tim Kaine (VA) when he brought up Trump’s comments about Mexicans....
https://thinkprogress.org/pence-defends-trumps-mexico-comments-4657b48a0e3d#.mkgn8xnvw

Gary Johnson - Libertarian candidate says Mexican immigrants more law-abiding than U.S. citizens

Libertarian presidential nominee Gary Johnson challenged Donald Trump’s label of Mexican immigrants as murderers and rapists, saying they actually follow the law more than U.S. citizens.

In a July 3 interview on CNN’s State of the Union, Johnson spoke with host Brianna Keilar about comments the presumptive Republican nominee has made about Muslims and Mexicans.

Johnson, a former New Mexico governor, said Trump has said things that would disqualify anyone else from running for president. Keilar asked Johnson if he thought Trump was racist.

"When it comes to Mexican immigration and that he would call immigrants from Mexico murderers and rapists look, that’s just not true," Johnson said. "They are more law-abiding than U.S. citizens, and that is a statistic."...
http://www.politifact.com/truth-o-meter/statements/2016/jul/14/gary-johnson/mexican-immigrants-more-law-abiding/