“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…
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,…
The Biden Administration Just Revealed the Layers of Hypocrisy in Its Border Policy
Migrants sit against a fence while waiting to board a Border Patrol bus after crossing the Rio Grande in November 2021. Brandon Bell/Getty Images Fight disinformation. Get a daily recap of the facts that matter. Sign up for the free Mother Jones newsletter.The Biden administration argued in court Wednesday in defense of Title 42, a…
Texas Is Just Going to Build Its Own Border Wall Now
Pool/Zuma Fight disinformation. Get a daily recap of the facts that matter. Sign up for the free Mother Jones newsletter.On Friday, Texas Republican Gov. Gregg Abbott announced that the state had begun construction on its own fence along the US–Mexico border in the Rio Grande Valley. “Texas is stepping up to do the federal government’s…
The Biden Administration Thinks Europe Holds the Key to Humane Borders. It’s Not That Simple.
New multi-purpose reception and identification migrant center on the island of Samos, Greece.Michael Svarnias/AP Fight disinformation. Get a daily recap of the facts that matter. Sign up for the free Mother Jones newsletter.Thousands of migrants freezing in sub-zero temperatures in the forest along the Belarus-Poland border. A “shadow immigration system” that throws asylum seekers into…