Biden Has a Plan for Thousands of Asylum Seekers Stuck at the Border
MATAMOROS, MEXICO – 2020/07/13: A woman talks on phone with children playing next to her in an isolation area. There are around 1,500 people living in tents inside a fenced off area of the park as they wait for their asylum hearings in the United States.Lexie Harrison-Cripps/SOPA Images/LightRocket via Getty Images Let our journalists help…
Murder, Heart Attacks, Suicide, COVID—Immigrants are Dying in “America’s Waiting Room”
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.In 2015, Austin Kocher, who studies immigration enforcement and the courts as a research assistant professor at Syracuse University’s Transactional Research Access Clearinghouse, was at a taco…
Biden’s Towering Conundrum: the Fate of Trump’s Border Wall
Roberto E. Rosales/ Albuquerque Journal/ ZUMA 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.This story is the final of three installments in a series by High Country News and Arizona Public Media and is reproduced here as part…
The Biden Administration Is Telling Asylum Seekers They Still Have to Wait
Asylum seeking families stuck south of the border amid the pandemic. Ross D. Franklin/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 Wednesday, White House Press Secretary Jen Psaki said the Biden administration will continue to expel asylum…
Biden Is Trying to Jettison Trump’s Cruel “Remain in Mexico” Policy. It’s Not Going to Be Easy.
A woman and her sons sit in a makeshift refugee camp for asylum seekers near the border in Ciudad Juarez Mexico in late October 2019. Fernanda Echavarri / Mother Jones 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.President…
Joe Biden Just Signed an Executive Order to Start Undoing the Misery Wrought by Family Separation
A woman with her child crosses the Rio Bravo, Mexico, to reach the United States surrender to border patrol agents and request asylum, on May 19, 2019.David Peinado/NurPhoto via Getty Images Let our journalists help you make sense of the noise: Subscribe to the Mother Jones Daily newsletter and get a recap of news that…