Opinion: Border wars and the consequences of a lack of empathy
(WorldNews Mexico)

As the government shutdown continues, the record shows a United States president creating a false crisis over our southern border, a prominent congressman and presidential hopeful insisting the president is delusional, and private citizens exhorting the American public to resist. I´m speaking of course, about James K. Polk, Abraham Lincoln and Henry David Thoreau. One hundred and seventy five years ago, the civic culture of Pan America exploded over a land grab that forms the foundation, literally and figuratively, of our current debate about the southern border. American slave holders in Texas territory wanted land to preserve slavery. Mexico...