Instead of a Crisis, Can Biden Treat an Immigration Wave as an Opportunity?
Migrants walk up a riverbank at the Mexico-US border near Tijuana as they try to reach the United States. Ramon Espinosa/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 recent weeks, devastating hurricanes in Central America, a northbound…
Undocumented People Have Been on the COVID Front Lines for Months. Will They Be Scared Off the Vaccine?
Latino workers cross the street in the Westlake area by MacArthur Park, Los Angeles on May 21, 2020. – Undocumented immigrants impacted by the corornavirus shutdown could apply for California coronavirus emergency assistance plan for undocumented people in April.APU GOMES/AFP via Getty Images Let our journalists help you make sense of the noise: Subscribe to…
How a Private Prison Company’s Defamation Suit Against One of Its Critics Backfired
Robyn Beck/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.The mother who would end the Trump administration’s family separation policy arrived at the US-Mexico border in November 2017 with her 6-year-old daughter in tow. Ms. L, as she…
Congress Is About to Bar Unidentified Federal Agents From Policing Protests
Bureau of Prisons agents block protesters from assembling in front of Lafayette Park in Washington DC on June 3, 2020.Sue Dorfman/ZUMA Wire 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.Congress is set to approve a defense policy bill…
The Case for Climate Reparations
A man, displaced by Hurricane Eta in Honduras, cooks plantains in a refugee camp along the median of a highway in San Pedro Sula.Seth Sidney Berry/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 piece was originally published…
Inside the Lives of Immigrant Teens Working Dangerous Night Shifts in Suburban Factories
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 article is co-published with ProPublica Illinois, a nonprofit newsroom that investigates abuses of power. It’s a little before 6 a.m. and still dark when Garcia gets home from work this October…