“Somebody in Washington” Wanted the US-Mexico Border Covered in Razor Wire, and This Mayor is Pissed
Looking for news you can trust?Subscribe to our free newsletters. Back when President Donald Trump sent thousands of soldiers to the US-Mexico border in the fall, his critics pointed out that the military’s presence was useless, that they couldn’t do much to secure the border. There was one thing, however, that they could do: Put…
Report: Immigration Applications Are Seeing “Crisis-Level” Delays Under the Trump Administration
Immigrants at a naturalization ceremony in Los Angeles, California. Damian Dovarganes/AP Looking for news you can trust?Subscribe to our free newsletters. Over the past two fiscal years, case processing times for immigrants applying for legal status and other benefits have surged by 46 percent, causing “crisis-level delays,” according to a report released Wednesday by the American Immigration Lawyers Association. US…
Why Trump’s Plan to Make Asylum-Seekers Wait in Dangerous Mexican Border Cities May Be Illegal
Pedestrians pass a makeshift encampment where migrants seeking asylum wait in January on a bridge connecting Matamoros, Mexico, and Brownsville, Texas.Eric Gay/AP Looking for news you can trust?Subscribe to our free newsletters. The Trump administration is set to begin its latest crackdown on asylum-seekers, forcing some of them to wait in Mexico instead of letting them make their cases for…
Two Years Ago, This Immigration Lawyer Marched on an Airport. Today, He’s Running for State House.
Hassan Ahmad in his law firm in McLean, VirginiaKanyakrit Vongkiatkajorn/Mother Jones Looking for news you can trust?Subscribe to our free newsletters. The day after President Donald Trump announced his travel ban two years ago, on January 28, 2017, Hassan Ahmad headed to Dulles International Airport in Virginia hoping to help. A local immigration lawyer, Ahmad says he felt like he had…
Trump Returns to Making False Claims About Rampant Voter Fraud
Evan Vucci/AP Looking for news you can trust?Subscribe to our free newsletters. President Donald Trump made unfounded claims about Texas voters on Sunday morning, reiterating falsely that “voter fraud is rampant” across the United States—a claim he has made repeatedly during his campaign and two years in office. Trump tweeted, without evidence, that “58,000 non-citizens voted in Texas, with 95,000…
Trump’s Businesses Spent the Shutdown Firing Undocumented Workers
Andrew Milligan/ZUMA Looking for news you can trust?Subscribe to our free newsletters. President Donald Trump lost his battle to shut down the government to get funding for a border wall demand on Friday. But tucked away during the longest shutdown in government history was a quiet plan throughout Trump’s resort businesses to begin firing undocumented…