Prepare for the war zone and death trap that is and has long been our border with Mexico did not begin with POTUS Trump. He isn’t the first president to make a case for sending troops to the border to fend off a perceived crush of undocumented immigrants. And he likely won’t be the last.

The US border has indeed become a place where the world’s most powerful military faces off against people who represent blowback from various Washington policies and are in flight from persecution, political violence, economic hardship, and increasing ecological distress.

Happy Birthday and RIP Edward R Murrow Egbert Roscoe Murrow was born on April 25, 1908 – and died on April 27, 1965. Murrow was an American broadcast journalist and war correspondent, who gained prominence during World War II with a series of CBS live radio broadcasts during the war he recruited and worked closely with a team of war correspondents who came to be known as the Murrow Boys.