Five Charts Show How Dramatically the Border Changed in 2019
Tents just south of the border in Matamoros, Mexico, in November. Asylum seekers forced back to Mexico while they await their US court dates have been living at the encampment. Lexie Harrison-Cripps/Getty At the border, 2019 felt like two separate years. The first ran from January through May, as the number of families crossing the…
This Map Shows How Radically Trump Has Changed Immigration Detention
A guard escorts an immigrant detainee at the Adelanto Detention Facility in California.John Moore/Getty In 2016, Donald Trump ran for president on an immigration platform that promised to close the southern border, end the “catch and release” policy, and implement a “zero tolerance” approach to anyone crossing the border illegally. While the current immigration detention…
The National Guard Expelled 2 Members for White Supremacist Ties—But the Military Still Has a Problem
President Donald Trump addresses service members during a surprise Thanksgiving Day visit to Bagram Air Field on November 28, 2019 in Bagram, Afghanistan. Dominique A. Pineiro/Planetpix/Planet Pix via ZUMA The National Guard has expelled two members for participating in a religious group with ties to white supremacists, the AP reported Friday. The incident highlights the…
Monsters of the 2010s: Your Landlord
Mother Jones illustration; Heritage Images/Getty The staff of Mother Jones is rounding up the decade’s heroes and monsters. Find them all here. Landlords. Where do you start? Do you start with the property company evicting two unhoused mothers and their kids for moving into a home that the “distressed” housing brokers preferred empty, for getting in the way…
Heroes of the 2010s: Fearless, Fed-Up Students Who Called Out All the Bullshit
Armando Franca/Andrew Harnik/AP/Mother Jones The staff of Mother Jones is rounding up the decade’s heroes and monsters. Find them all here. Furious, funny, and fed up. True heroes of the decade: the students who spoke up, walked out, and shook us from paralysis and moral complacency. I’m talking, of course, about the recent youth movements—March For Our Lives…
“There Is Still Respect”: How One Latinx Family Is Navigating Their Political Differences
Rosangela, Ana, and Juan in 2008Mother Jones illustration; photo courtesy of the Canino-Vázquez family I met the Canino-Vázquez family back in 2015, as the 2016 presidential election was starting to heat up and stories of “the Latino Vote” began to multiply across newsfeeds. I was reporting for Latino USA on NPR, and we were doing…