Above: a refugee camp in Costa Rica housing Cubans on their way to Mexico to walk across the U.S. border into Texas. Photo courtesy of Rep. Henry Cuellar (D-Texas) Cuban Exodus One dry foot on U.S. soil and they're in--legally--for good. Not since the infamous Mariel boatlift in 36 years ago have so many Cuban […]
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Bordertown USA and... the Cubans are coming
Some U.S. border towns have been infiltrated with Mexican drug cartel interests for so long it's become a way of life. Sunday on Full Measure, we'll continue our border reporting by visiting one such town. We'll hear from longtime residents and workers who frequently navigate corrupting influences. Also, the influx over the Mexican border you […]
8 Trump enemies helping him succeed
Regardless of what happens next, Trump has made it farther than virtually all original projections. With the benefit of hindsight, Trump's attackers might have accurately stated: "This is going to hurt me more than it hurts you." Here are eight Trump enemies helping him succeed. John McCain: McCain's insult of Trump supporters last summer launched one of the […]
Fact Check: Media claims that Trump is anti-immigrant
This morning on ABC's This Week, Univision's Jorge Ramos once again claimed Republican presidential candidate Donald Trump called all Mexicans "rapists." It's a theme often forwarded by opinion reporters, as well as supposedly unbiased journalists. Other common narratives include that Trump is "racist," "anti-immigrant," "anti-Muslim," "anti-Hispanic," and "anti-Mexican." For his part, Trump claims to be pro-immigration and says […]
Once upon a time, long before Apple and the FBI
Once upon a time, long before Apple and the FBI...one of America's spy agencies asked a telephone company to cooperate on a classified project that involved unspecified surveillance of private customers. The company was Qwest and the agency was the NSA--the National Security Agency. The phone companies have long cooperated with U.S. intelligence agencies on […]
Who controls our southern border? Us or them?
Multiple law enforcement officials have told me that the U.S. is no longer calling the shots on our southern border between Arizona and Mexico. They say Mexico's drug cartels decide who crosses. Sunday on Full Measure, we travel to the border to show you America's erratic approach to border control. In regions heavily trafficked by the […]
Human experiments without proper consent?
(Above image: one of the infants enrolled in the federally-backed SUPPORT study) This week on Full Measure, questions about modern informed consent: the tragic story of the federally-funded SUPPORT study that enrolled premature babies nationwide. Parents were never told about possible blindness and death. The government's own ethics body found the consent forms failed to disclose those serious […]
"Missing" government documents throughout the years
Hillary Clinton has been embroiled in document scandals for nearly 30 years. But she's not the only politician, and Democrats aren't the only party, surrounded by an air of mystery when it comes to turning over potentially damaging documents that should be in the public domain. Missing: Hillary Clinton S&L Records. In 1988, according to […]
