The Obscure Public Health Law Trump Wielded Against Migrants Is Still Ruining Lives
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. Migrants were found lost in the desert, tucked under rocks in the mountains, and trapped by the rushing tides of the Rio Grande. Some were experiencing heat exhaustion in 115-degree…
A New Report Just Blew Up One of the Trump Administration’s Favorite Lines About Family Separation
A child separated from her parents as part of the Trump administration’s “zero tolerance” policy was later reunited with them in Guatemala.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.The Trump administration denied parents the opportunity to…
From Radical Activist to Senate Obstructionist: The Metamorphosis of Kyrsten Sinema
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.Kyrsten Sinema wasn’t the only Democrat to vote against including a $15 federal minimum wage in the $1.9 trillion Covid relief bill in early March, but she was the only one…
“I Longed for That Hug”: A Mother Reunites With Her Sons Four Years After Being Separated at the Border
Australian Broadcasting Corporation 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.The last time Keldy Mabel Gonzáles Brebe de Zúniga hugged her sons Erik and Mino, they were 13 and 15 years old and seemed “so little” to her.…
A Trump-Era Rule Is Still Turning Away Migrants at the Border. El Paso Activists are Marching to Demand Biden End It.
Andrea Guzman/Mother Jones 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 Friday in El Paso, Texas, activists carrying plush toys and signs saying “free them” walked from the Paso Del Norte Bridge to Fort Bliss, a military base…
I Asked Obama’s Refugee Chief: The US Really Can Handle Both Unaccompanied Kids and More Refugees
Young unaccompanied migrants sit inside a play pen in the Department of Homeland Security holding facility in Donna, Texas in March. Dario Lopez-Mills/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.“We have the experience and the expertise to…