He Was Critically Ill in ICE Detention. A Translator May Have Saved His Life.
Mother Jones illustration; 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.For the six months Carlos remained in the custody of Immigration and Customs Enforcement, he barely understood what was happening. Carlos (whose real name we are withholding…
There’s Still Slavery in Mauritania. That Didn’t Stop ICE From Deporting People There on Tuesday.
Shackles lie on the tarmac as people’s belongings are loaded onto a plane for a deportation flight to El Salvador in 2018.David J. Phillip/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 the final full day of the…
The Government Wants to Scan Your Face When You Enter the US. It Hasn’t Gone Well So Far.
Officials at Dulles International Airport in Virginia unveil new biometric facial recognition scanners in September 2018.Bill O’Leary/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 2018, the federal government started scanning people’s faces as they drove into and…
Why a Second Trump Term Would Be Even Worse for Immigrants
For indispensable reporting on the coronavirus crisis, the election, and more, subscribe to the Mother Jones Daily newsletter.When the Migration Policy Institute, a nonpartisan think tank, published its review of all the immigration changes made by the Trump administration, it needed 126 pages to do the job. What unites the hundreds of executive orders, rules, and memos…
ICE Just Announced It Will Start to Deport People More Quickly—and Without Ever Seeing a Judge
An Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) detainee waves to activists while boarding a flight in Yakima, Washington.David Ryder/Getty Images For indispensable reporting on the coronavirus crisis, the election, and more, subscribe to the Mother Jones Daily newsletter.Immigration and Customs Enforcement just announced its agents can begin fast-track deportations of certain immigrants who can’t prove they’ve…
355 Days After He Was Detained, and Weeks After Recovering From COVID-19, a DACA Poster Child Is Released
Mother Jones illustration; courtesy of Sylvia Baldenegro For indispensable reporting on the coronavirus crisis and more, subscribe to Mother Jones’ newsletters.On Tuesday night, less than two weeks after I wrote about Carlos Martinez, a literal poster child for DACA who had spent the last 11 months at the Eloy Detention Center—where he lost DACA and fell…