How Greece Secretly Adopted the World’s Most Brazen—and Brutal—Way of Keeping Out Refugees
Fight disinformation. Get a daily recap of the facts that matter. Sign up for the free Mother Jones newsletter.It was a clear spring morning on the Greek island of Chios, and the waves pummeled the shoreline, whipping the Aegean into a froth. Antonis Bourmas’ house clung to the edge of a rocky point that faced…
Trump Sent Asylum Seekers Back Into “the Depths of Hell”
Gendarmes patrol Omar Bongo Square in southwestern Cameroon.Marco Longari/Getty Fight disinformation. Get a daily recap of the facts that matter. Sign up for the free Mother Jones newsletter.In August 2019, I wrote an article for the now-defunct Pacific Standard magazine about Martin, an asylum seeker from Cameroon who was denied protection by the United States…
More Immigrants Are Waiting in Legal Limbo Than Ever Before. Why Is It So Hard to Fix the Backlog in the Courts?
Mother Jones illustration; Unsplash Fight disinformation. Get a daily recap of the facts that matter. Sign up for the free Mother Jones newsletter.For years, under multiple presidents of both parties, the immigration court system has been something of a mess, struggling with a huge backlog of cases that has just seemed to snowball and snowball,…
“It’s Not Over and They Have to Fix What They Did”: An Afghan Refugee Demands the US Not Forget Her Family
Mother Jones illustration; Getty Fight disinformation. Get a daily recap of the facts that matter. Sign up for the free Mother Jones newsletter.Weeda has had to leave her home twice in the past few years, each time without saying goodbye to her friends or family. The second time was this fall, when the 25-year-old Afghan arrived…
Trump’s Harsh Remain in Mexico Policy Will Officially Restart Next Week
Asylum-seeking migrants at a worship service in a Tijuana migrant shelter. Over 300 migrants are waiting there for the opportunity to apply for asylum in the US.Mario Tama/Getty Images Fight disinformation. Get a daily recap of the facts that matter. Sign up for the free Mother Jones newsletter.The Biden administration has reached a deal with…
Biden Is Supposedly Reinstating a Harsh Trump Border Policy Any Day Now. But Key Stakeholders Are Still in the Dark.
As seen from above, a migrants camp where asylum seekers wait for US authorities to allow them to start their migration process, outside Tijuana, Baja California state, Mexico on March 17, 2021.Guillermo Arias / AFP via Getty Images Fight disinformation. Get a daily recap of the facts that matter. Sign up for the free Mother…