A Surprise Inspection of an ICE Detention Center Reveals Horrific Conditions
Immigrants wait in a processing cell at Adalanto Detention Facility.John Moore/Getty Images Looking for news you can trust?Subscribe to our free newsletters. Inside an immigration detention center in the desert outside Los Angeles, guards threw detainees into solitary confinement without hearings, routinely forced them into shackles, and cut off visits with family. Doctors signed off…
The Trump Administration Set a Record-Low Limit for Refugee Admissions. It Let In Half That Number.
A displaced Syrian woman holds a toddler in camp “Hope” in the Syrian village of Kafr Lusein in September. Omar Haj Kadour/Getty Looking for news you can trust?Subscribe to our free newsletters. A year ago, the Trump administration cut the United States’ annual limit on refugee admissions to the lowest level on record. The 45,000-person…
Government Report Details Trump Administration’s Incompetent Implementation of Family Separation Policy
Genesis, a five-year-old from Honduras, peers through fencing in June along a bridge connecting Brownsville, Texas, and Matamoros, Mexico.Miguel Roberts/AP Looking for news you can trust?Subscribe to our free newsletters. The Department of Homeland Security’s internal watchdog has concluded that the agency was not fully prepared to implement the zero-tolerance policy that separated more than…
What an Explosive Story About Devin Nunes’ Family Farm Means for His High-Profile House Race
Rep. Devin Nunes (R-Calif.)Bill Clark/ZUMA Press Looking for news you can trust?Subscribe to our free newsletters. Yesterday, Esquire dropped a story exposing a “politically explosive secret” about Rep. Devin Nunes (R-Calif.)—one that he and his family have been harboring for more than decade. Nunes’ oft-repeated origin story is that he’s a local boy with a…
New Trump Administration Rule Could Cause Fearful Immigrants to Forgo Public Benefits
Marina Alejandre, an immigrant from Mexico, waits for her country to be called at a naturalization ceremony in Tampa, Florida, in December 2017.Monica Herndon/AP Looking for news you can trust?Subscribe to our free newsletters. When the Trump administration’s draft guidelines for reinterpreting who is eligible for green cards leaked earlier this year, one provision looked…
Sessions Is Poised to Make It Vastly Harder for Asylum-Seekers to Get Out of Detention
Charlie Riedel/AP Looking for news you can trust?Subscribe to our free newsletters. A new decision from Attorney General Jeff Sessions is likely to make it dramatically harder for tens of thousands of asylum-seekers to get out of detention. On Tuesday, in a now-familiar tactic, Sessions used his broad authority over America’s immigration courts to refer…