Politics & Policy
March 16, 2020
Non-Immigration Lawyers Are Helping Asylum Seekers Stuck in Mexico
For the 25,000 migrants awaiting hearings and subject to Trump’s Migrant Protection Protocols, representation can be hard to come by.
Trump Administration
Border & Immigration
September 12, 2019
The Trump Administration Is Blocking the Public From Attending Asylum Hearings in Brownsville
On the first day of “return to Mexico” hearings, attorneys and journalists were turned away from the tent courtrooms where the hearings are taking place.
Border & Immigration
July 5, 2019
The Cruelty at the Border Is Increasingly Pointless
As the Trump administration ratchets up its dehumanization of migrants, we Americans stand to lose our moral center.
Border & Immigration
March 20, 2019
Controversial Trump Administration Protocol for Asylum Seekers Will Begin in El Paso
The ”Migrant Protection Protocols” will send asylum seekers to Mexico to wait while their cases are processed.
Border & Immigration
January 11, 2019
Tornillo’s Tent City No Longer Houses Children, But Facilities Like It Aren’t Going Away
Even as the Tornillo tent city shuts down, the Trump administration’s policies will call for more centers like it.
Border & Immigration
January 9, 2019
The Rise and Fall of the Tornillo Tent City for Migrant Children
A detention camp that became the symbol of perhaps the largest mass incarceration of children not charged with a crime since the WWII internment of Japanese Americans will soon become history.
Border & Immigration
September 11, 2018
Tornillo Tent City Will Expand To Hold Even More Migrant Kids
The facility near El Paso will more than double its capacity for unaccompanied minors, expanding to 3,800 beds.
Border & Immigration
August 6, 2018
The Government Reunited Some Immigrant Families—Then Took the Children Away a Second Time
As the government contends with 500 children who remain in government facilities, nightmarish tales are emerging of aborted reunifications.
Border & Immigration
June 7, 2018
Taking Children From Immigrant Parents Is ‘Brutal, Offensive,’ Federal Judge Rules
A ruling allows a woman featured on our site, who was reunited with her son after months of separation, to sue federal government to stop the practice.
Politics & Policy
October 4, 2017
Amid Reports He Called Trump a Moron, Rex Tillerson Announces He’s Not Resigning
A weird news story gets weirder.