Kirsten Gillibrand Takes Aim at ICE After an Arrest at a New York Dairy Farm
Looking for news you can trust?Subscribe to our free newsletters. Things have gone sour for New York’s dairy industry, the third-largest of any US state. Years of low milk prices have led to steady stream of farm closings and farmer suicides. The industry’s workforce, which includes large numbers of immigrants, faces low wages, long hours, and high…
An Appeals Court Just Thwarted Trump’s Efforts to Punish Sanctuary Cities
An immigration protest outside the U.S. Capitol last month.Ting Shen/Xinhua via ZUMA Wire Looking for news you can trust?Subscribe to our free newsletters. A federal appeals court on Thursday upheld a lower court’s decision to issue a national injunction against the Trump administration’s efforts to deny federal funding to sanctuary cities. The three-judge panel sided with…
Immigrant Detainees Claim They Were Forced to Clean Bathrooms to Pay for Their Own Toilet Paper
A protest outside Stewart Detention CenterMike Haskey/AP Looking for news you can trust?Subscribe to our free newsletters. The Stewart Detention Center in rural Georgia has been called “the black hole of America’s immigration system” for overusing solitary confinement, cutting corners on mental health care, and deporting asylum seekers at extraordinary rates. Now it can add one more alleged human rights…
A Top Trump Official Says Syrian Refugees Don’t Want to Come to the US. In Reality, We’ve Effectively Banned Them.
Syrian refugees in a refugee camp on the Turkey-Syria border in 2015.Emrah Gurel/AP Looking for news you can trust?Subscribe to our free newsletters. Only 11 Syrian refugees have been admitted to the United States this year, down from more than 2,400 during the same period in 2017, even though Syria remains convulsed by a civil…
This Kafkaesque Nightmare Shows Just How Absurd the Travel Ban Is
Mother Jones illustration Looking for news you can trust?Subscribe to our free newsletters. Editor’s Note: On the anniversary of President Donald Trump’s travel ban, Mother Jones asked readers to share their stories about how the ban has affected them. We’re following up with readers and publishing their stories. You can share your own story at the bottom of this…
They Came Here Seeking Freedom and Were Imprisoned Instead. Look at Their Faces.
Looking for news you can trust?Subscribe to our free newsletters. When asylum seekers arrive in the United States they face a harsh reality. The ones who they aren’t illegally turned away at the border are often sequestered, shackled, and transported to a detention facility that resembles prison. Since the mid ’90s, the US has followed a policy of…