Can Trump’s Radical Vision for Mass Deportations Be Realized?
Mother Jones illustration; Shannon Stapleton/EFE/ZUMA; Hal Gatewood/Unsplash Fight disinformation: Sign up for the free Mother Jones Daily newsletter and follow the news that matters.At a December rally in Reno, Nevada, GOP frontrunner Donald Trump made his regular promise: To treat immigration as if the United States is at war. He accused President Joe Biden of launching…
Three Migrants Drowned After Texas’ Attempt to Seize Control of the Border
The Texas National Guard erected wire in front of entrances to the Shelby Park in Eagle Pass, Texas, and blocked Border Patrol from accessing the area after migrants drowned there Friday, the Department of Justice said in a new court filing.Adam Davis/EFE via ZUMA Fight disinformation: Sign up for the free Mother Jones Daily newsletter…
Abbott: Texas Would Shoot Migrants, But Biden “Would Charge Us With Murder”
Texas Gov. Greg Abbott lamented the inevitable murder charge that shooting migrants crossing the border would bring in a recent appearance on a former NRA spokesperson’s radio show.Adam Davis/EFE via ZUMA Fight disinformation: Sign up for the free Mother Jones Daily newsletter and follow the news that matters.Texas Gov. Greg Abbott has told a right-wing…
Republicans Are Grasping for a Reason to Impeach DHS Secretary Alejandro Mayorkas
DHS Secretary Alejandro Mayorkas at a House Homeland Security Committee hearing.Annabelle Gordon/CNP/ZUMA Fight disinformation: Sign up for the free Mother Jones Daily newsletter and follow the news that matters.On Wednesday, House Republicans renewed their plan to impeach Department of Homeland Security Secretary Alejandro Mayorkas. It is part of a long attempt to pin the failures—both real…
Excessive Heat and Air Pollution Are Putting Farmworkers’ Lives at Risk
Gosia Wozniacka/AP This story was originally published by Inside Climate News and is reproduced here as part of the Climate Desk collaboration. For most of July 2019, stifling heat hung over the agricultural fields of California’s Central Valley, as farmworkers like William Salas Jiminez labored under the sun’s searing rays. Temperatures had dipped from 99 to 95 degrees…
Scores of Farmworkers Are Dying in the Heat
Gosia Wozniacka/AP This story was originally published by Inside Climate News and is reproduced here as part of the Climate Desk collaboration. For most of July 2019, stifling heat hung over the agricultural fields of California’s Central Valley, as farmworkers like William Salas Jiminez labored under the sun’s searing rays. Temperatures had dipped from 99 to 95 degrees…