The U.S./Mexico border has become the focal point for an international human rights crisis that only seems to be getting worse. Veteran photographer Arturo Talavera captures images from refugee camps in Mexico City and Tijuana, and the desperate line
Immigration
Posted inCivil Rights in America
Texas Detention Players Ramp Up Trump’s For-Profit ‘Baby Jails’
A Texas court ruling on child-care providers offers the Trump administration a way around protections for underage migrants.
Posted inMoney, Politics, and Power
Donald Trump Will Never Change His Strategy
He thinks he won the midterms, so why do anything differently in 2020?
Posted inMoney, Politics, and Power
Local Officials Paid a Price on Tuesday for Cooperating with ICE
In a number of counties, voters ousted elected officials who’d directed their police departments to aid ICE in its deportations.
Posted inCivil Rights in America
Is Xenophobia Politically Rational?
The evidence from the 2018 election is now in.
Posted inAmerica and the World
Another Ominous Transition in Europe
With the impending departure of German Chancellor Angela Merkel, the continent’s fragmentation intensifies.
Posted inWorking in America
The Cross-Border Farmworker Rebellion
Workers in the berry fields of the United States and Mexico have the same transnational employers. Now, farmworker unions in those two nations have begun to work together.
Posted inMoney, Politics, and Power
Rick Scott’s Double-Speak on Immigration
The Republicans’ Florida senatorial nominee has one message in his Spanish-language ads and another in his English-language ones.
Posted inMoney, Politics, and Power
Trump and the Political Hysteria of Rural Life
Just for a moment, let’s ponder President Trump’s claim that the caravan of 5,000 Hondurans embarked on an epochal walk to the United States contains “unknown Middle Easterners” and other presumably would-be terrorists. There is, of course, no factual basis for Trump’s claim. Even as a hypothetical, though, it doesn’t make sense. Terrorist wannabes should […]
Posted inEconomic Policy
DHS Kicks the Ladder from Under Immigrants Seeking Green Cards
The department’s proposed rule could devastate the health care of millions of immigrants.
