This City May Become a Magnet for Climate Refugees
The inner harbor of Buffalo, New York on Lake Erie.Universal Images Group/Getty This piece was originally published in CityLab and appears here as part of our Climate Desk Partnership. When Hurricane Maria hit Puerto Rico, Maria Robles saw rainfall so severe that it punched a hole through her roof and flooded her home in San…
A Judge Says Thousands of Detainees May Sue a Prison Company for Using Them as a “Captive Labor Force”
John Moore/Getty Early one morning, Abdiaziz Karim was sleeping in his new dorm in an Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) detention center when an officer woke him up. The guard pointed out graffiti on the wall and a light fixture smeared with toothpaste, and demanded that Karim, a Somali waiting for an asylum hearing, clean…
Climate Change Is Brutal for Everyone but Worse for Women
Women carry belongings from their submerged house in the aftermath of Cyclone Bulbul in Amarabati Village, India on November 10./Zuma This piece was originally published in Wired and appears here as part of our Climate Desk Partnership. The climate crisis is so epic, so vicious, so wide-reaching, that at this point there are few aspects of…
New from the Mother Jones Podcast: Trump Is Winning His Border Wars. For Now.
Fernanda Echavarri / Mother Jones The Trump administration touts its “Remain in Mexico” policy as a resounding success. Critics call it cruel and illegal. What’s unquestionable is that President Donald Trump has now made it virtually impossible for migrants to seek asylum in the United States, leaving tens of thousands of migrant families stuck in…
At a Protest in Arizona, Border Communities Are Fighting Trump’s Wall
Over 300 environmentalists, Indigenous activists, Samaritan groups and human rights defenders gather to protest new U.S.-Mexico border wall construction.Russ McSpadden/Center for Biological Diversity This piece originally appeared in High Country News and appears here as part of our Climate Desk Partnership. On a Saturday morning in early November, Edwina Vogan and a few of her friends…
The Trump Administration Keeps Promoting Stephen Miller’s Immigration Hardliner Allies
Ron Sachs/CNP via Zuma Wire A Trump official who pushed for one of the administration’s cruelest immigration policies has been promoted to acting deputy director of US Citizenship and Immigration Services, just a week after the White House’s most notorious restrictionist, senior adviser Stephen Miller, was at the center of a scandal surrounding a trove…