“Ludicrous and Life-Threatening”—Biden Just Announced a Transit Ban for Migrants
A couple from Cuba wait to be processed to seek asylum after crossing the border into the United States.Gregory Bull/AP Fight disinformation: Sign up for the free Mother Jones Daily newsletter and follow the news that matters.After weeks of anticipation, the Biden administration has finally followed through with the plan to revive a policy first…
Mike Pence. Stephen Miller. The Supreme Court. Vaccine Mandates. What Could Possibly Go Wrong?
Mother Jones illustration; AP; Zuma Fight disinformation. Get a daily recap of the facts that matter. Sign up for the free Mother Jones newsletter.As a surge in omicron variant cases of Covid spurs a record high number of new infections and a rise in hospitalizations, including among children, the Supreme Court is set to decide…
Why a Second Trump Term Would Be Even Worse for Immigrants
For indispensable reporting on the coronavirus crisis, the election, and more, subscribe to the Mother Jones Daily newsletter.When the Migration Policy Institute, a nonpartisan think tank, published its review of all the immigration changes made by the Trump administration, it needed 126 pages to do the job. What unites the hundreds of executive orders, rules, and memos…
Stephen Miller’s Grandmother Died of COVID-19. Her Son Blames the Trump Administration.
Patrick Semansky/AP For indispensable reporting on the coronavirus crisis and more, subscribe to Mother Jones’ newsletters.This month, Stephen Miller, the extremist anti-immigrant Trump adviser who has promoted white nationalist ideas, lost a relative to the coronavirus pandemic, and his uncle tells Mother Jones that the Trump administration is partly to blame for this death. On July…