“You’re Doing Nothing”: Judge Slams ICE for Failing to Vaccinate Detainees
People detained by Immigration and Customs Enforcement exercise at the Adelanto detention center in California in 2019.Chris Carlson/AP 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 Thursday morning, federal judge Lawrence Vilardo criticized Immigration and Customs Enforcement for…
Warren, Booker, and Sanders Push DHS to Investigate Allegations that Officers Threatened Asylum Seekers with COVID-19 Exposure
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.A group of US senators is urging the Department of Homeland Security to investigate allegations that guards at immigration detention centers beat asylum seekers into submitting their own deportations. “The allegations…
Two Controversial Detention Centers Will Reportedly Stop Holding Families Long Term
A Honduran asylum seeker, recently released from federal detention, holds the hand of her six-year-old daughter at a bus depot in McAllen, Texas.LOREN ELLIOTT/AFP via 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.In a significant change to…
The (Almost) Unbelievable Tortures of Steven Tendo
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.This story was published in partnership with the Delacorte Review. Steven Tendo kept everything he owned under his bunk bed mattress. His pillow was a lump of letters, transcripts, and postcards—all…
Biden Can’t Make Trump’s Immigration Cruelty Vanish Overnight
WASHINGTON, DC – FEBRUARY 15: An L.E.D. truck displaying messages expressing concern over the continuing mass deportations of Black immigrants drives past the Capitol Building prior to a #BidenAlsoDeports rally.Jemal Countess/Getty Images Let our journalists help you make sense of the noise: Subscribe to the Mother Jones Daily newsletter and get a recap of news…
Biden’s Towering Conundrum: the Fate of Trump’s Border Wall
Roberto E. Rosales/ Albuquerque Journal/ ZUMA 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.This story is the final of three installments in a series by High Country News and Arizona Public Media and is reproduced here as part…