From Texas to Arizona, the GOP Border “Invasion” Argument Keeps Getting Crazier
National Guardsmen stands watch over a fence near the International bridge in Del Rio, Texas.Eric Gay/AP Facts matter: Sign up for the free Mother Jones Daily newsletter. Support our nonprofit reporting. Subscribe to our print magazine.During a press conference on July 5, several county officials from Texas gathered to pray, read the Pledge of Allegiance,…
SCOTUS May Have Ended Trump’s Cruel Border Policy. It’s Hardly a “Home Run” Victory for Immigrants.
Woman protests against the “Remain in Mexico” policy in front of the Supreme Court.Michael Brochstein/Sipa USA/AP Facts matter: Sign up for the free Mother Jones Daily newsletter. Support our nonprofit reporting. Subscribe to our print magazine.On June 30, the Supreme Court handed down its last and virtually only uplifting decision in an otherwise regressive and chilling term.…
Non-Mexican Migrants Awaiting US Hearing Must Stay in Mexico—for Now
Asylum seekers in limbo at the US-Mexico border.Michael Nigro/Sipa USA/AP Facts matter: Sign up for the free Mother Jones Daily newsletter. Support our nonprofit reporting. Subscribe to our print magazine.The Supreme Court ruled last week, in the final case of its term, that the Biden administration may rescind the Trump-era Migrant Protection Protocols (MPP). Known…
Supreme Court Has Just Ruled the Biden Administration Can End Remain in Mexico Policy
Migrants wait in line to get a meal in an encampment near the Gateway International Bridge in Matamoros, Mexico.Veronica G. Cardenas/AP Facts matter: Sign up for the free Mother Jones Daily newsletter. Support our nonprofit reporting. Subscribe to our print magazine.In one of the biggest immigration cases before the Supreme Court, and the last case…
First Roe, Then Plyler? The GOP’s 40-Year Fight to Keep Undocumented Kids Out of Public School
Facts matter: Sign up for the free Mother Jones Daily newsletter. Support our nonprofit reporting. Subscribe to our print magazine.On August 31, 1977, Rosario Robles walked her five children to Bonner Elementary School in Tyler, Texas. Rosario and her husband, Jose, had immigrated to the United States from Mexico five years earlier and settled in…
“This Is Not Our First Rodeo”: Key Border Cities Say They’re Ready for the End of Title 42
Migrant families live in tents in Tijuana, Mexico, as Title 42 border restrictions continue.Patrick T. Fallon/AFP/Getty Facts matter: Sign up for the free Mother Jones Daily newsletter. Support our nonprofit reporting. Subscribe to our print magazine.Republicans—and more than a few Democrats—have been lashing out at the Biden administration for planning to lift a Trump-era border…