“He Only Cries”: The Heartbreaking Testimonies of Immigrant Parents Separated From Their Children
Children listen to speakers during a family separation protest June 18 in Phoenix.Ross D. Franklin/AP Looking for news you can trust?Subscribe to our free newsletters. New documents filed in a federal court Friday reveal the heartbreaking toll that President Donald Trump’s family separation policy has taken on the thousands of migrant parents whose children have…
Using 23andMe to Reunite Families at the Border Comes With Serious Privacy Risks
David Bro/ZUMA Wire Looking for news you can trust?Subscribe to our free newsletters. On Wednesday, President Donald Trump announced an end to administration’s policy of separating families at the border. But the administration hasn’t figured out how to reunite the parents and children that have already been split apart. A day after Trump’s announcement, Rep.…
The Trump Administration Is Looking for Space to Detain 15,000 Immigrant Parents and Children
Eric Gay/AP Looking for news you can trust?Subscribe to our free newsletters. Immigrations and Customs Enforcement is looking for space to detain 15,000 immigrant parents and children—six times the number of people held in the government’s existing family detention centers. That’s according to a request for information posted Friday afternoon on FedBizOpps.gov, a site used by federal…
The Trump Administration Still Doesn’t Have a Coherent Plan to Reunite the Families It Separated
Children protest the Trump administration’s family separation policy in New York.G. Ronald Lopez/ZUMA Looking for news you can trust?Subscribe to our free newsletters. On Friday morning, for the first time in nearly a month, there were no parents at the McAllen, Texas, courthouse who had been separated from their children. Standing outside the court, Efrén Olivares,…
United States Gets an F for Failing to Help Its Neediest
Jerry Kinchen, 61, accepts food from a religious mission pantry in Holiday, Florida, in August 2009.Kainaz Amaria/ZUMA Looking for news you can trust?Subscribe to our free newsletters. A blistering report delivered to the United Nations’ Human Rights Council Friday morning slammed America’s record on poverty, two days after ambassador Nikki Haley announced that the United States…
We Need to Figure Out How to Fight Weaponized Disinformation
Looking for news you can trust?Subscribe to our free newsletters. As I mentioned a few weeks ago, we’re raising money for a new team to fight disinformation here at Mother Jones. Our fundraising drive is nearly over, so I wanted to make one more pitch for contributions. I think that conventional wisdom says that fundraising…