355 Days After He Was Detained, and Weeks After Recovering From COVID-19, a DACA Poster Child Is Released
Mother Jones illustration; courtesy of Sylvia Baldenegro For indispensable reporting on the coronavirus crisis and more, subscribe to Mother Jones’ newsletters.On Tuesday night, less than two weeks after I wrote about Carlos Martinez, a literal poster child for DACA who had spent the last 11 months at the Eloy Detention Center—where he lost DACA and fell…
ICE Has to Release Kids From Detention. It Refuses to Let Their Parents Join Them.
Immigrants seeking asylum hold hands as they walk across the ICE South Texas Family Residential Center, Friday, Aug. 23, 2019, in Dilley, Texas. Eric Gay / AP Photo For indispensable reporting on the coronavirus crisis and more, subscribe to Mother Jones’ newsletters.Time has run out for Immigration and Customs Enforcement to release the more than…
He Was Praised on the Senate Floor as a Model DACA Recipient. Now He’s in Detention—With COVID-19.
Mother Jones illustration; courtesy of Sylvia Baldenegro For indispensable reporting on the coronavirus crisis and more, subscribe to Mother Jones’ newsletters.Carlos Martinez was one of the first people in Arizona to get DACA back in 2012. He was literally a poster child for the program: In 2012 and again in 2015, Sen. Richard Durbin (D-Ill.)…
Diane Guerrero, of “Jane the Virgin” and “Orange Is the New Black,” in Conversation on COVID-19 and Immigration
Diane Guerrero and Mother Jones immigration reporter Fernanda EchavarriMother Jones For indispensable reporting on the coronavirus crisis and more, subscribe to Mother Jones’ newsletters.In case you missed the insightful and timely conversation Thursday with actor, activist, and author Diane Guerrero and Mother Jones immigration reporter Fernanda Echavarri, catch it here, a highlight of our “In…
Guards Pepper-Spray Protesting Asylum Seekers at an ICE Detention Center
People in Immigration and Customs Enforcement custody participate in outdoor recreational activities at the Winn Correctional Center, a for-profit prison in Louisiana used by ICE, in September.Gerald Herbert/AP For indispensable reporting on the coronavirus crisis and more, subscribe to Mother Jones’ newsletters.Guards at an immigration detention center in Louisiana pepper-sprayed asylum seekers this week who…
Trump Ended Asylum at the Border Indefinitely. But Apparently That’s Not Enough.
A Border Patrol agent in South Texas gives instructions to families, mostly from Central America, who had crossed the Rio Grande in September 2019.John Moore/Getty Images For indispensable reporting on the coronavirus crisis and more, subscribe to Mother Jones’ newsletters.Over the past couple of years, the Trump administration has been slowing chipping away at asylum…