Don’t Expect Any Justice for Haitians Who Were Abused at the Border
US Border Patrol officials expelled thousands of Haitian migrants who arrived at the small Texas city of Del Rio. Eric Thayer/Bloomberg/Getty Fight disinformation. Get a daily recap of the facts that matter. Sign up for the free Mother Jones newsletter.“They’re deporting evidence right in front of our eyes,” Patrice Lawrence told me recently. “We saw…
The Kids the Pandemic Left Behind
Fight disinformation. Get a daily recap of the facts that matter. Sign up for the free Mother Jones newsletter.On the night Esteban’s mother went to the hospital, five ambulances crowded the street in front of their red-brick walk-up in the DC suburbs. It was late May 2020, and COVID-19 had swept through their densely packed…
The Heartbreaking Work of Resettling Afghan Refugees When You’ve Been an Afghan Refugee
Afghan refugees arrive to Dulles International Airport.Tom Williams/CQ-Roll Call, Inc/Getty Fight disinformation. Get a daily recap of the facts that matter. Sign up for the free Mother Jones newsletter.The days and weeks leading up to and following the tumultuous withdrawal of US troops from Afghanistan were chaos for Sharifa Abbasi. The Afghan-born immigration attorney who…
“Illegal…Inhumane” Immigration Policy Prompts Another Big Resignation at the State Department
Harold Hongju Koh.Chip Somodevilla/Getty Fight disinformation. Get a daily recap of the facts that matter. Sign up for the free Mother Jones newsletter.Less than two weeks after the US special envoy for Haiti resigned in response to the “inhumane” deportation of Haitians arriving at the Southern border, a senior State Department official has also quit, decrying the…
“Even if You Win, You Stay Locked Up”: How ICE Uses Appeals to Keep Immigrants in Detention
Fight disinformation. Get a daily recap of the facts that matter. Sign up for the free Mother Jones newsletter.Sara Mendez-Morales had lost almost all hope. It was a cold stretch in early February, and she had spent nearly six months in the custody of US Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) in Butler County Jail, a…
DHS Secretary Says What We’ve All Been Thinking: The Immigration System Is “Completely Broken”
Anna Moneymaker/Getty Images Fight disinformation. Get a daily recap of the facts that matter. Sign up for the free Mother Jones newsletter.Speaking with candor on Meet the Press on Sunday, Department of Homeland Security Secretary Alejandro Mayorkas acknowledged that “we are working in a completely broken system.” No kidding. After a week in which Border…