DC Mayor Responds to Months-Long Migrant Busing By Declaring a Public Emergency
Migrants get off bus from Texas within view of the US Capitol.Stefani Reynolds/AFP Fight disinformation: Sign up for the free Mother Jones Daily newsletter and follow the news that matters.On Thursday, Washington, DC, Mayor Muriel Bowser declared a public emergency in response to the buses of migrants arriving from Texas and Arizona to the Nation’s…
The Chinese Exclusion Act May Be in the Past, But Racism Still Drives Most Immigration Policies
German federal police officers guide a group of migrants between Austria and Germany.Kerstin Joensson/AP Fight disinformation: Sign up for the free Mother Jones Daily newsletter and follow the news that matters.In 1882, the Chinese Exclusion Act, which prohibited the immigration of workers from China for 10 years, became law in the United States. It was the…
From Texas to Arizona, the GOP Border “Invasion” Argument Keeps Getting Crazier
National Guardsmen stands watch over a fence near the International bridge in Del Rio, Texas.Eric Gay/AP Facts matter: Sign up for the free Mother Jones Daily newsletter. Support our nonprofit reporting. Subscribe to our print magazine.During a press conference on July 5, several county officials from Texas gathered to pray, read the Pledge of Allegiance,…
“This Is Not Our First Rodeo”: Key Border Cities Say They’re Ready for the End of Title 42
Migrant families live in tents in Tijuana, Mexico, as Title 42 border restrictions continue.Patrick T. Fallon/AFP/Getty Facts matter: Sign up for the free Mother Jones Daily newsletter. Support our nonprofit reporting. Subscribe to our print magazine.Republicans—and more than a few Democrats—have been lashing out at the Biden administration for planning to lift a Trump-era border…
Democratic Senators Also Don’t Get Why Biden Is Still Using a Cruel Trump-Era Border Policy
Asylum seekers wait to be processed by border patrol, in Yuma, Arizona.Katie McTiernan/Anadolu Agency via Getty Images Fight disinformation. Get a daily recap of the facts that matter. Sign up for the free Mother Jones newsletter.More than a year has passed since President Biden decided to continue enforcing a Trump-era border closure policy that claimed…
“People Like Us Are Capable of Representing Us”
Fight disinformation. Get a daily recap of the facts that matter. Sign up for the free Mother Jones newsletter.It was a vision of the Democratic Party’s enduring dream for Texas: a charismatic and telegenic candidate backed by a crowd of cheering, flag-waving Latinos and Latinas, the demographic long expected to end nearly three decades of…