Here’s What Happens When Trump Policy Comes to Trump Country
Organizers Marilyn Torres and Marbella Chavez celebrate after a private prison company withdrew its proposal for an immigration detention center in Elkhart County.Mother Jones Illustration/Michael Caterina/AP Looking for news you can trust?Subscribe to our free newsletters. Elkhart County, Indiana, is proud of its recreational vehicles. The county—90 percent white, 41 percent factory workers, and located…
A Dictionary of the Immigration Codewords Trump Will Use in His State of the Union
Looking for news you can trust?Subscribe to our free newsletters. In recent weeks, President Donald Trump has boiled his immigration agenda down to four words: lottery, chain, merit, and wall. In his first State of the Union address, Trump is likely to argue that each of those four pillars should be part of any deal…
There Are More Than 5 Million Syrian Refugees. The Trump Administration Has Admitted 2 of Them.
Women from Syria walk with their children in a refugee camp in Cyprus in September.Petros Karadjias/AP Looking for news you can trust?Subscribe to our free newsletters. The United Nations estimates that there are 5.5 million Syrian refugees. In the past three months, the United States has allowed two of them to enter the country—down from…
A New Report Shows How the Trump Administration Is Targeting Asylum Seekers
Customs and Border Patrol agents pick up immigrants suspected of crossing into the United States illegally along the Rio Grande near Granjeno, Texas, in August 2017. Eric Gay/AP Looking for news you can trust?Subscribe to our free newsletters. When President Trump issued an executive order last January to make the criminal prosecution of immigration offenses a “high…
After Two Decades in America, This Family Is Terrified of Being Kicked Out
Carmen Paz holds a picture of her children at her Maryland apartment.Noah Lanard/Mother Jones Looking for news you can trust?Subscribe to our free newsletters. Here are a few things that have happened since Carmen Paz came to the United States from Honduras: Bill Clinton was impeached, the Twin Towers fell, she fell in love with another…
How Do I Reassure My Children About the Future When the Future Is Terrifying?
Mother Jones illustration Looking for news you can trust?Subscribe to our free newsletters. This story first appeared at TomDispatch.com. As a mother and an activist, here’s what I’ve concluded as 2018 begins: It’s getting harder and harder to think about the future—at least in that soaring Whitney Houston fashion. You know the song: “I believe…