More Than 100,000 Kids Could Show Up Alone at Our Border This Year. What’s Going On?
Central American migrants near Rio Grande City, Texas on December 8, 2015.John Moore/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 his first testimony before a House committee since being confirmed in early February, Department of Homeland Secretary…
COVID Relief Efforts Want to Offer Citizenship to Essential Workers. But This Group Is Falling Through the Cracks.
Farmworkers wear face masks while harvesting curly mustard in February 2021 in Ventura County, California. Patrick T. Fallon/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.A year ago, when the coronavirus pandemic caused the shutdown of…
Biden Will Grant Thousands of Venezuelans Temporary Protected Status to Stay in the United States
Dozen of Venezuelans in DC protest against Maduro.Lenin Nolly/Sipa USA/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.In a significant policy change, the Biden administration will allow Venezuelans in the United States to apply for temporary protected status…
“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…
Biden Might Reopen a Child Migrant Shelter With a Troubling Past of Sexual Abuse Allegations
Children line up to enter a tent at the Homestead Temporary Shelter for Unaccompanied Children.Wilfredo Lee/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 June 28, 2019, then-Sen. Kamala Harris visited the Homestead temporary shelter for migrant children…
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…