Big Outbreaks Like The Coronavirus Actually Do Discriminate: Against the Poor and Most Needy
On Wednesday, the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention warned in a press conference that there is no end in sight to the rapidly expanding novel Coronavirus outbreak. As of Friday afternoon, there were 31,530 cases worldwide, including 12 in the United States, with estimates of 638 deaths, mostly in China. Dr. Nancy Messonnier, Director…
“A Fucking Disaster That Is Designed to Fail”: How Trump Wrecked America’s Immigration Courts
SAN DIEGO IMMIGRATION COURT, COURTROOM #2;PRESIDING: JUDGE LEE O’CONNOR Lee O’Connor has been in his courtroom for all of two minutes before a look of annoyance washes over his face. Eleven children and six adults—all of them from Central America, all of them in court for the first time—sit on the wooden benches before him.…
Immigrant Kids Were Restrained to Chairs With Bags Over Their Heads at a Juvenile Hall in Virginia
An 18-year-old Honduran who said he suffered abuse inside a Virginia immigration detention facility stands in front of a window in San Francisco. Eric Risberg, File/AP Antonio was tired of people calling him names. Staff members at the Virginia juvenile hall where he was held would call him pendejo and “onion head,” he said. After…
Trump’s Stealth Plan to Preserve White Electoral Power
Two days after Tropical Storm Imelda battered her district in Houston, state Sen. Carol Alvarado drove from its heavily Latino east side, past taquerias and signs for immigration attorneys, to another predominantly Latino neighborhood just north of the downtown skyline. Senate District 6 is shaped like a dragon whose head starts in the city’s industrial…
This Map Shows How Radically Trump Has Changed Immigration Detention
A guard escorts an immigrant detainee at the Adelanto Detention Facility in California.John Moore/Getty In 2016, Donald Trump ran for president on an immigration platform that promised to close the southern border, end the “catch and release” policy, and implement a “zero tolerance” approach to anyone crossing the border illegally. While the current immigration detention…
“There Is Still Respect”: How One Latinx Family Is Navigating Their Political Differences
Rosangela, Ana, and Juan in 2008Mother Jones illustration; photo courtesy of the Canino-Vázquez family I met the Canino-Vázquez family back in 2015, as the 2016 presidential election was starting to heat up and stories of “the Latino Vote” began to multiply across newsfeeds. I was reporting for Latino USA on NPR, and we were doing…