I feel bad for Dusty Johnson. Our rookie Congressman is a better man than the liars he’s stuck traveling with in the Republican Party. Our…
Tag: immigration
Following up on yesterday’s post about how Huron, Brookings, and other rural communities depend on immigration for their economic survival, an eager reader asked, “What…
While Dusty trolls the border, this morning’s New York Times notes how much less full our not-nearly full country would be without immigration: International migration helped rural…
Representative Dusty Johnson’s Easter break junket to Arizona invites all sorts of interesting commentary about the politics of immigration. First off, our rookie Congressman danced…
Senator M. Michael Rounds was thrilled to announce that South Dakota is not full and needs more foreign workers to fill out construction and tourism jobs:…
The absurdity of Donald Trump’s latest cryptoracist tagline—”the country is full!”—is patently obvious to any South Dakotan driving out past I-229: We don’t have enough…
The University of Texas Board of Regents will meet today and probably name Heather Wilson the next president of the University of Texas at El…
Senator John Thune put on a show for Sturgis Brown High School students on Wednesday. Thune’s show appears to consist mostly of satire and tall…
In a lesson for Americans seeking responsive government, a Trumpist white supremacist (that’s redundant) shoots 49 people to death in New Zealand, and New Zealand…