How Greece Secretly Adopted the World’s Most Brazen—and Brutal—Way of Keeping Out Refugees
Fight disinformation. Get a daily recap of the facts that matter. Sign up for the free Mother Jones newsletter.It was a clear spring morning on the Greek island of Chios, and the waves pummeled the shoreline, whipping the Aegean into a froth. Antonis Bourmas’ house clung to the edge of a rocky point that faced…
More Than 1.5 Million Refugees Have Fled Ukraine
A girl wrapped in a blanket waits with others after fleeing Ukraine at the border crossing in Medyka, Poland on March 5.Markus Schreiber/AP Fight disinformation. Get a daily recap of the facts that matter. Sign up for the free Mother Jones newsletter.More than 1.5 million refugees have fled Ukraine since the Russian invasion began 10…
Trump Sent Asylum Seekers Back Into “the Depths of Hell”
Gendarmes patrol Omar Bongo Square in southwestern Cameroon.Marco Longari/Getty Fight disinformation. Get a daily recap of the facts that matter. Sign up for the free Mother Jones newsletter.In August 2019, I wrote an article for the now-defunct Pacific Standard magazine about Martin, an asylum seeker from Cameroon who was denied protection by the United States…
More Immigrants Are Waiting in Legal Limbo Than Ever Before. Why Is It So Hard to Fix the Backlog in the Courts?
Mother Jones illustration; Unsplash Fight disinformation. Get a daily recap of the facts that matter. Sign up for the free Mother Jones newsletter.For years, under multiple presidents of both parties, the immigration court system has been something of a mess, struggling with a huge backlog of cases that has just seemed to snowball and snowball,…
Eight Red States Are Suing to Keep Migrants and Their Kids Apart
A migrant child from Guatemala waits in the McAllan, Texas airport after being released from a US detention center.Ed Jones/AFP/Getty Fight disinformation. Get a daily recap of the facts that matter. Sign up for the free Mother Jones newsletter.Eight Republican-led states sued Friday to stop a Biden administration program that allows Central American child refugees to legally…
The Biden Administration Just Revealed the Layers of Hypocrisy in Its Border Policy
Migrants sit against a fence while waiting to board a Border Patrol bus after crossing the Rio Grande in November 2021. Brandon Bell/Getty Images Fight disinformation. Get a daily recap of the facts that matter. Sign up for the free Mother Jones newsletter.The Biden administration argued in court Wednesday in defense of Title 42, a…