Border Patrol’s Toxic Culture Goes Way Beyond Facebook Groups. It’s Actually for Sale on a T-Shirt.
Mother Jones photoillustration A Border Patrol agent who allegedly hit a migrant with his agency truck is going on trial next month, and a federal judge ruled Thursday that some of the racist text messages he sent before and after hitting the man can be used in court. On December 3, 2017, Matthew Bowen, an…
The History Behind the Supreme Court Showdown Over Tribal Land Is Bloody and Violent. For Rebecca Nagle, It’s Also Personal.
Rebecca Nagle, host of “This Land” podcast. Crooked Media “The Supreme Court case no one is talking about” began with a murder. It could end with 43 percent of Oklahoma’s land being returned to tribal governments. In a way Carpenter v. Murphy encapsulates the larger history of Native dispossession—a story of bloody violence dissolving into…
ICE Started Its Immigration Raids—But Its Agents Got Turned Away
Immigration and Customs Enforcement agents detain a person during a raid in Richmond, Virginia, in October.Steve Helber/AP Immigration and Customs Enforcement began its promised raids on undocumented immigrants on Saturday—but they didn’t get off to a good start. Federal immigration agents tried and failed to raid two New York City homes on Saturday. Officials were…
This Judge Said Coming from a “Good Family” Means a 16-Year-Old Couldn’t Be a Rapist
When a 16-year-old boy appeared in a New Jersey court, the question was whether he would be tried as an adult for having allegedly raped a 16-year-old girl. A New Jersey judge denied the waiver, but his rationale has launched an outpouring of online outrage. The boy, who was drunk, filmed himself penetrating an intoxicated…
“The Whole Facility’s Culture Is Rotted From the Core”: What Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez Saw Inside the El Paso Camps
Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez is swarmed by media on Monday after touring a Border Patrol station in Clint, Texas. Christ Chavez/Getty What stands out most about the budding concentration camps in El Paso, Texas, is that they don’t stand out at all. An unmarked beige-brick office building holds dozens of children, blinds shut to prying eyes…
Progressive Insurgent Tiffany Cabán Declares Victory in the Primary for Queens DA
Queens District Attorney candidate Tiffany Cabán embraces a supporter on June 11 after a press conference of civil rights activists calling for an investigation into the false conviction of the Central Park Five. Bebeto Matthews/AP Update, 11:30 p.m. ET: Tiffany Cabán has declared victory in the primary election for district attorney in Queens. With 99.5…