The GOP Border Bill Would Deport Families of Child Migrants
Mother Jones illustration; Unsplash Fight disinformation: Sign up for the free Mother Jones Daily newsletter and follow the news that matters.As the battle over the border rages in Congress, many Republicans are pushing to advance a bill that would revive one of the Trump era’s harshest policies: deporting family members in the US who step…
The Biden Administration Is Still Looking For Migrant Families Separated Under Trump
FILE – A pair of migrant families from Brazil wait to be processed by US Border Patrol agents after passing through a gap in the border wall from Mexico in Yuma, Ariz., Thursday, June 10, 2021, to seek asylum.Eugene Garcia/AP Fight disinformation: Sign up for the free Mother Jones Daily newsletter and follow the news…
Migrants’ DNA Is Fueling a Massive Expansion of the FBI’s Genetic Database
Teresa Canino Rivera/AP Fight disinformation: Sign up for the free Mother Jones Daily newsletter and follow the news that matters.Ever since the Trump administration scaled up DNA collection from migrants in federal custody, immigration officials have been pouring massive quantities of genetic data into the FBI’s national law enforcement database. New submissions to CODIS—short for…
A Judge Just Halted Efforts to End Immigration Detention in New Jersey
Mother Jones; Aaron M. Sprecher/AP; Detention Watch Network Fight disinformation: Sign up for the free Mother Jones Daily newsletter and follow the news that matters.Yanet Candelario could feel her body grow tense as she remembered some of her experiences during the 13 months she spent at the Elizabeth Detention Center in New Jersey. A dual…
Deported and No Way Back Home
Fight disinformation: Sign up for the free Mother Jones Daily newsletter and follow the news that matters.Carlos Sauceda called the United States home for 27 years, more than half of his life. In 1992, he left Honduras as an 11-year-old boy to reunite with his mother, who had moved north when he was just 18…
The DOJ Just Moved to Stop Florida’s “Sabotage” of Biden’s Border Plans
Migrants reach through a border wall for clothing handed out by volunteers, as they wait between two border walls to apply for asylum Friday, May 12, 2023, in San Diego.Gregory Bull/AP Fight disinformation: Sign up for the free Mother Jones Daily newsletter and follow the news that matters.Just hours before the pandemic-era immigration rule Title…