DHS Secretary Says What We’ve All Been Thinking: The Immigration System Is “Completely Broken”
Anna Moneymaker/Getty Images Fight disinformation. Get a daily recap of the facts that matter. Sign up for the free Mother Jones newsletter.Speaking with candor on Meet the Press on Sunday, Department of Homeland Security Secretary Alejandro Mayorkas acknowledged that “we are working in a completely broken system.” No kidding. After a week in which Border…
The US Special Envoy for Haiti Just Resigned Over the “Inhumane” Treatment of Haitian Migrants
A child and adult cross last week through through the Rio Grande River from Ciudad Acuña, Mexico toward Del Rio, Texas.Marie D. De Jesús/AP Fight disinformation. Get a daily recap of the facts that matter. Sign up for the free Mother Jones newsletter.In July, Secretary of State Anthony Blinken announced that Ambassador Daniel Foote, a…
Trump Weaponized COVID Concerns Against Migrants. Families Are Still Being Brutalized by the Policy.
Migrants expelled from the United States under Title 42 wait in Ciudad Juarez, Mexico.Herika Martinez/AFP/Getty Fight disinformation. Get a daily recap of the facts that matter. Sign up for the free Mother Jones newsletter.The US government has summarily expelled migrants and asylum seekers at the Southern border almost 1 million times since March 2020. At…
“Not Necessary”: The Biden Administration Just Canceled More Border Wall Contracts
Border wall construction ongoing on farmland in Texas last year.Eric Gay/AP Fight disinformation. Get a daily recap of the facts that matter. Sign up for the free Mother Jones newsletter.On Friday, the Biden administration canceled two border wall contracts along 31 miles of the Rio Grande in South Texas—continuing the process it began this spring…
Juneteenth at the Border: Families Reunite With Hugs and Benedictions. Then Their Three Minutes Are Up.
Andrea Guzman 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.After a four-hour drive from Albuquerque, the Silvas stood at the foot of the Rio Grande in El Paso, Texas, waiting for permission to walk onto a narrow wooden…
One Family’s Escape From Trump’s Border Hell: A 130-Week Diary
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. Their story—the one I was writing, and the one I wasn’t—had to have a happy ending. There was no other way. Juan Carlos Perla, a man of faith and a…