The Tea Party Got What It Wanted
A May 29, 2010, rally organized by members of the Arizona Tea Party movement to show support for Arizona law SB1070, which made it a state crime to be in the US illegally and required immigrants to carry papers with them at all times. ZUMA Press/Jack Kurtz A couple weeks ago, the New York Times…
These 127 Military Construction Projects Will Lose Funding Because of Trump’s Border Wall
Chip Somodevilla/Getty Since President Donald Trump declared a national emergency at the southern border in February, we’ve known that the US military would bear the majority of the cost for Trump’s vaunted border wall. Now the Pentagon has figured out which programs will be stripped of their funding, according to a document sent by Defense…
The Trump Administration’s Court-Packing Scheme Fills Immigration Appeals Board With Hardliners
A woman sits with her son along the border in Tijuana in July as they wait to apply for asylum in the United States.Gregory Bull/AP In his first six years as an immigration judge in New York and Atlanta, from 1993 to 1999, William Cassidy rejected more asylum seekers than any judge in the nation.…
Congress Told ICE to Detain Fewer People. Instead It Keeps Adding Private Prisons.
Officers stand on the roof of and outside the Adams County Correctional Facility during a 2012 riot. ICE recently started sending asylum seekers to the prison.Lauren Wood/AP In a now familiar pattern, Immigration and Customs Enforcement has started sending immigrants to another for-profit jail in the Deep South. Mother Jones has learned that the latest…
Trump’s New Indefinite Family Detention Plan Completes a Cruel Agenda
Detained immigrant children line up in the cafeteria at the Karnes family detention center in Texas in 2014.Eric Gay/AP In April, after starting a new system of sending asylum seekers back to Mexico to wait for their US court dates, the Trump administration received a familiar piece of news: A judge in California was blocking…
Beatings, Kidnappings, and Rape: Sobering New Data Shows Just How Much Violence Migrants Through Mexico Endure
AlxeyPnferov/Getty In recent months, migrants at the southern border have endured grim living conditions and forced deportations. A sobering study led by researchers at Mexico’s National Institute of Public Health and published in the academic journal PLOS ONE sheds light on what migrants go through to arrive at the border in the first place. The…