The Number of Families Crossing the Border Is Shattering Records
A Honduran mother walks with her children next to the US-Mexico border fence as they turn themselves in to Border Patrol agents in Texas last month.John Moore/Getty Looking for news you can trust?Subscribe to our free newsletters. A record number of families fleeing poverty and violence are crossing the US-Mexico border, according to data released…
Trump Bypassed Lawmakers to Build His Wall. Here’s How They Are Fighting Back.
Doug Mills/CNP via ZUMA Wire Looking for news you can trust?Subscribe to our free newsletters. By his own admission, President Donald Trump declared a national emergency at the southern border to turbocharge the construction of a border wall that Congress refused to fund. “I could do the wall over a longer period of time,” he…
New Lawsuit Details Allegations of Violence, Illegal Searches During ICE Raid
A demonstration in New York City in February 2017 to protest Immigration and Customs Enforcement raidsErik Mcgregor/Pacific Press/ZUMA Wire Looking for news you can trust?Subscribe to our free newsletters. In April 2018, employees at a meatpacking plant in small-town Tennessee had just started what seemed like a normal day at work when they were suddenly rushed by…
I Told Her We Were Brought Over the Rio Grande on a Raft. I Never Called It a Smuggling.
A man carries a child on his shoulders as part of a migrant caravan to the United States. Orlando Sierra/AFP/Getty Images Looking for news you can trust?Subscribe to our free newsletters. This story was co-published by ProPublica and Guernica. The first stories we can correct are the ones we tell ourselves. My story, the one I…
Diane Guerrero Is the Complicated Superhero We Need Right Now
Diane Guerrero in Doom PatrolJace Downs / 2018 Warner Bros Entertainment Inc. Looking for news you can trust?Subscribe to our free newsletters. You may know Diane Guerrero as the actor who plays Maritza, the bubbly and sassy inmate in Orange Is the New Black, or the ditzy waitress Lina from Jane the Virgin. You may…
Trump Takes Refuge from His National Emergency at Florida Golf Course
President Donald Trump departs Mar-a-lago in Palm Beach, Fla., Saturday, Feb. 16, 2019, to travel to Trump International Golf Club in West Palm Beach, Fla. Andrew Harnik/AP Looking for news you can trust?Subscribe to our free newsletters. The morning after declaring a national emergency, President Donald Trump was spotted at the omelette bar of his…