After a Deadly Earthquake, He Rebuilt His Life In America. Now Trump Threatens to Knock Him Down Again.
Keshav Bhattarai (left) with his family in Florida.Mother Jones; Courtesy Keshav Bhattarai Looking for news you can trust?Subscribe to our free newsletters. When Keshav Raj Bhattarai and his wife came to the United States in May 2015, they left behind a city where roads had cracked in two and historical landmarks had collapsed into rubble.…
Trump Is Spoiling for Yet Another Big Fight Over Border Wall Funding
President Donald Trump speaks to reporters before leaving for Alabama to survey areas devastated by powerful tornadoes, in Washington D.C., on March 8, 2019. Ting Shen/Xinhua via ZUMA Looking for news you can trust?Subscribe to our free newsletters. On Monday, President Donald Trump will again plunge the nation into a bitter fight and more uncertainty…
The Trump Administration May Have to Locate and Reunite More Separated Families
David J. Phillip/AP Looking for news you can trust?Subscribe to our free newsletters. On Friday, a federal judge ruled that the Trump administration is responsible for immigrant children who have been taken away from their parents, including those separated before the Department of Homeland Security instituted a “zero tolerance” policy at the border. In March…
Get In Line. Follow the Rules. Go to Jail.
Looking for news you can trust?Subscribe to our free newsletters. It was from two small faces on a video monitor that Ansly Damus learned the trees outside his jail cell were turning colors. It was late October, and Damus, a 42-year-old former teacher from Haiti who legally claimed asylum at the border in 2016, had…
Tijuana Is Overwhelmed by a Rush of Asylum-Seekers—Many of Them Women With Children
Sister Salome Limas at the Madre Asunta shelter for women and children in Tijuana Mexico. Fernanda Echavarri Looking for news you can trust?Subscribe to our free newsletters. Sister Salome Limas says she recently added a new category to the intake ledger at the women’s shelter in Tijuana. She pulls out a large book, opens it…
The Private Prison Industry Just Suffered A Major Blow. And It Could Just Be the Beginning.
A protester inside a Chase bank in December 2019.SOPA Images/Getty Images Looking for news you can trust?Subscribe to our free newsletters. Last month, on Valentine’s Day, dozens of protesters gathered outside the Upper East Side apartment of Jamie Dimon with a mariachi band and signs urging the JP Morgan Chase CEO to “break up with” private…