What if there were a Newspaper Covering Immigration as if a War?

   Day of the Rose, the first newspaper to cover immigration as if it were a war. I picked up a copy of it while in El Paso.

   Those who oppose undocumented immigration speak of it as if an invasion. And, the Trump administration did call on the National Guard to oppose the flow of immigrants. The same, do not suppose Day of the Rose a paper that just sides with the anti-immigration effort.

   The writers and editors aim to tell what happens on day-by-day basis. No, they do not settle for estimates from the government on how many people are entering this country illegally each month. They go right to the battlefront, meeting the migrants as they cross the border, ferreting out as many of them as they can, both those who turn themselves in for asylum consideration and those seeking to stay illegally.

   Both.

   Day of the Rose, trying to give you a daily count, not a monthly estimate. And, it does it with stories of those who come. The paper's writers interview the migrants, telling their stories, day by day. They follow the Border Patrol agents, covering the agents as they make the arrests. They interview the border agents, daily, asking what they experienced that day. They interview the townspeople in the border towns, asking them if they have seen any new migrants each day. When casualties come -- migrants who die while seeking to cross -- they cover their stories. When ranches are raided by the newcomers, they report it. When asylum cases reach the courts in those border towns, they are there to report them.

   Your newspaper at the battlefront, Day of the Rose. I wish such a paper existed. Why can't we have this kind of coverage?