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Antonio De Loera-Brust is the communications director for the United Farm Workers. He previously served as special assistant to U.S. Secretary of State Antony Blinken. He was an O’Hare fellow at America Media from 2017 to 2018.
Border policemen stand next to the sign at the Berlin Wall and Brandenburg Gate in Berlin June 17, 1986. The sign says: "Achtung! Sie verlassen jetzt West-Berlin" (Attention, you are leaving West Berlin). (CNS photo/Wolfgang Kumm, EPA)
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Antonio De Loera-Brust
From now on, Berlin will live with the memory of the wall for longer than it lived with the wall itself.
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Democrats, and the Republicans who understand Dreamers are owed protection, could take a lesson from people of color around the country in how to navigate a political process tainted by racism. The lives of 800,000 Dreamers depend on it.
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As one delves deeper and deeper into the text, one begins to sense that perhaps the two species are not as different as we might think.
US Air Force F-106As in flight in the early 1960s. Planes such as these were on high alert and ready to launch airstrikes on Soviet missile positions in Cuba during the Cuban Missile Crisis in October, 1962. (U.S. Air Force photo)
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While a comparison with the Cuban Crisis does little to reassure us, it can offer some lessons on how our government avoided disaster in an even worse situation. We have been closer to the brink and still found a way to walk back.
(Images: Gage Skidmore, Wikipedia Commons, Antonio De Loera-Brust, Sikelia Productions; Illustration by Antonio De Loera-Brust) 
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“Gangs of New York” reminds us that for as long as the United States has been a nation of immigrants, it has been infected by xenophobia.
Mexican President Enrique Peña Nieto speaks at the United Nations General Assembly in 2014. (Flickr / Mexican government photo) 
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Mr. Cardenas’s lawyers argued that Texas authorities had not properly informed him that as a Mexican citizen he was entitled to legal aid from the Mexican consulate.
Front: Lucas, Mike, and Dustin from Season 2 of Stranger Things. Back: A sign erected by white tenants seeking to prevent blacks from moving into a housing project in Detroit, 1942. (Netflix, Wikipedia Commons)
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Could Hawkins be a place haunted not just by the Upside Down, but by the ghosts of our country’s racist past?
The Nuns Fire in Sonoma County, California on Oct. 10. (CNS photo/Stephen Lam, Reuters)
Faith
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Almighty God, who alone created the beauty and the bounty of our land, who cares and loves everyone, be with your people in California now in the midst of the fires.
An aerial view of destruction in Santa Rosa, Calif., is seen on Oct. 11 after wildfires. (CNS photo/DroneBase, Reuters)
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Bishop Vasa called on all Catholics of the diocese to help their brothers and sisters who “have been severely impacted by the devastating fires and are in immediate need of your prayers."
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Antonio De Loera-Brust
‘We Were Eight Years in Power’ is a sort of “I told you so,” though Coates takes little pleasure in having to say it.