Biden Vastly Expands “Protected Areas” Where ICE Can’t Arrest Immigrants
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Biden’s Pick to Lead CBP Just Confirmed Trump’s Harsh Border Policy Isn’t Going Anywhere
Chris Magnus testifies at a Senate Finance Committee hearing on his nomination to be the next US Customs and Border Protection Commissioner on Capitol Hill.Anna Moneymaker/Getty Images Fight disinformation. Get a daily recap of the facts that matter. Sign up for the free Mother Jones newsletter.While today’s confirmation hearing for President Joe Biden’s pick to…
Biden Is About to Restart One of the Cruelest Parts of Trump’s Anti-Immigrant Regime
Children play between tents at a makeshift migrant camp in Matamoros.Alejandro Cegarra/Bloomberg/Getty Fight disinformation. Get a daily recap of the facts that matter. Sign up for the free Mother Jones newsletter.Under a court-mandated order, the Biden administration is gearing up to bring back a Trump-era border policy that pushed thousands of non-Mexican asylum seekers into…
Don’t Expect Any Justice for Haitians Who Were Abused at the Border
US Border Patrol officials expelled thousands of Haitian migrants who arrived at the small Texas city of Del Rio. Eric Thayer/Bloomberg/Getty Fight disinformation. Get a daily recap of the facts that matter. Sign up for the free Mother Jones newsletter.“They’re deporting evidence right in front of our eyes,” Patrice Lawrence told me recently. “We saw…
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…