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 Might Reopen a Child Migrant Shelter With a Troubling Past of Sexual Abuse Allegations
Children line up to enter a tent at the Homestead Temporary Shelter for Unaccompanied Children.Wilfredo Lee/AP 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.On June 28, 2019, then-Sen. Kamala Harris visited the Homestead temporary shelter for migrant children…
Mr. Biden, Tear Down This Wall!
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.At least once a week for the last few years, Laiken Jordahl, a staffer for the Center for Biological Diversity based in Tucson, Arizona, would head into the desert with a…
Biden Has a Plan for Thousands of Asylum Seekers Stuck at the Border
MATAMOROS, MEXICO – 2020/07/13: A woman talks on phone with children playing next to her in an isolation area. There are around 1,500 people living in tents inside a fenced off area of the park as they wait for their asylum hearings in the United States.Lexie Harrison-Cripps/SOPA Images/LightRocket via Getty Images Let our journalists help…
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…
The Biden Administration Is Telling Asylum Seekers They Still Have to Wait
Asylum seeking families stuck south of the border amid the pandemic. Ross D. Franklin/AP 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.On Wednesday, White House Press Secretary Jen Psaki said the Biden administration will continue to expel asylum…