Deadline Poet / January 14, 2025

Terrorist Attack in New Orleans

Calvin Trillin
Bourbon Street in the French Quarter of New Orleans after the terrorist attack.(Matthew Hinton / Getty)
Trump ties the attack to undocumented immigrants and Joe
Biden’s “open border” policy.—News reports

Jabbar was from Houston—that’s Texas, in fact.
He crossed in his truck a state line, not a border.
And Beaumont, in Texas, was where he was born.
Are mass deportations of Texans in order?

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