More Than 100,000 Kids Could Show Up Alone at Our Border This Year. What’s Going On?
Central American migrants near Rio Grande City, Texas on December 8, 2015.John Moore/Getty Let our journalists help you make sense of the noise: Subscribe to the Mother Jones Daily newsletter and get a recap of news that matters.In his first testimony before a House committee since being confirmed in early February, Department of Homeland Secretary…
Biden’s Towering Conundrum: the Fate of Trump’s Border Wall
Roberto E. Rosales/ Albuquerque Journal/ ZUMA Let our journalists help you make sense of the noise: Subscribe to the Mother Jones Daily newsletter and get a recap of news that matters.This story is the final of three installments in a series by High Country News and Arizona Public Media and is reproduced here as part…
Trump’s Wall “Feels Like if Someone Got a Knife and Dragged It Across My Heart”
Arizona leaders and activists hold a rally in Tucson in 2019 to protest construction of the border wall, which they said would block animal migration, destroy Native American sites, and harm endangered species. Christopher Brown/ZUMA Wire Let our journalists help you make sense of the noise: Subscribe to the Mother Jones Daily newsletter and get…
The Government Wants to Scan Your Face When You Enter the US. It Hasn’t Gone Well So Far.
Officials at Dulles International Airport in Virginia unveil new biometric facial recognition scanners in September 2018.Bill O’Leary/Getty Let our journalists help you make sense of the noise: Subscribe to the Mother Jones Daily newsletter and get a recap of news that matters.In 2018, the federal government started scanning people’s faces as they drove into and…
The Border Patrol May Be Coming to Your Town
Federal officers in Portland, Oregon after clearing the streets with tear gas and other crowd control munitions, on July 18, 2020.Alex Milan Tracy/Sipa via AP Images) For indispensable reporting on the coronavirus crisis and more, subscribe to Mother Jones’ newsletters.The Trump administration says the Department of Homeland Security can occupy downtown Portland, tear gas protesters,…
Federal Agents Invade Portland, Citing Trump’s Executive Order Protecting Statues
Federal agents patrol in Portland after dispersing a crowd protesting police brutality on Independence Day.Nathan Howard/ZUMA For indispensable reporting on the coronavirus crisis and more, subscribe to Mother Jones’ newsletters.Portland has been invaded by federal agents—including unidentified, camouflage-clad officers who have emerged from unmarked minivans to arrest protesters. These officers have reportedly refused to say…