A Sweeping New Lawsuit Blasts ICE Over “Horrific, Inhumane” Conditions in Immigration Detention
Mother Jones illustration; DRA Legal; Getty Jose Segovia Benitez has a tattoo of the Statue of Liberty on his chest. He served two tours oversees as a US Marine in Iraq and Afghanistan, and he was honorably discharged in 2004 after being hit by an explosive device. When he went back home to Long Beach,…
“Dirtbag,” “Savages,” “Subhuman”: A Border Agent’s Hateful Career and the Crime That Finally Ended It
This story was originally published by ProPublica. It was late November 2017, and Matthew Bowen, a veteran Border Patrol agent, was seething. A fellow Border Patrol agent in Texas had just been found dead in the field, and Bowen was certain someone who’d been crossing the border illegally was responsible for murdering him. “Snuffed out…
I’ve Heard Anti-Latino Racism for Years. But the El Paso Massacre Weaponized It.
Mother Jones illustration; Lola Gomez/Zuma Last week, while sweating through my clothes reporting in El Paso in the wake of the deadliest attack on Mexicans and Mexican Americans in recent US history, I got on my phone and noticed a disturbing but familiar conversation happening on Twitter. The subject was what it’s like to be Latinx…
Cuccinelli’s Family Tree Suggests His New Immigration Rule Might Have Blocked His Ancestors
Acting Director of US Citizenship and Immigration Services Ken Cuccinelli unveils the new “public charge” rule at a White House briefing on Monday.Evan Vucci/AP On Monday, while rolling out a sweeping rule designed to make it harder for working-class immigrants to get legal residency, US Citizenship and Immigration Services Acting Director Ken Cuccinelli turned to…
What the Border’s History of Racist Violence Tells Us About the El Paso Shooting
Handmade crosses memorializing the victims.Mario Tama/Getty Images After his arrest, the El Paso shooter admitted to targeting Mexicans. Days later, federal agents rounded up and detained hundreds of Latino workers in Mississippi. For Monica Muñoz Martinez, the author of The Injustice Never Leaves You: Anti-Mexican Violence in Texas and an assistant professor of American studies and…
“It Felt Like We Were Responding to a Natural Disaster”: Inside the Chaos Following a Huge ICE Raid
Two women console each other while ICE agents raid the Koch Foods Inc. plant in Morton, Mississippi.ASSOCIATED PRESS Stephanie Teatro was in her office in Nashville, Tennessee, on Wednesday when the news hit: 680 workers in several Mississippi poultry plants had been detained by Immigration and Customs Enforcement in the largest workplace raid in more than…