Key Takeaways News in Brief Trump’s Mexico Tariffs Could Start Another Trade War, Economists Warn This round could be even more costly for U.S. agriculture and consumers. Emily Moon
Key Takeaways News in Brief ‘I Am Not a Coward’: Key Takeaways From the President of Mexico’s Letter to Trump As Trump announced he would raise tariffs on Mexican goods, the president of Mexico published an open letter to Trump. Jack Herrera
Key Takeaways News in Brief A Court Just Handed Trump an Immigration Victory. What Will It Mean for Asylum Seekers? A federal court has decided to allow the administration to continue sending asylum seekers back to Mexico as the lawsuit against the Remain in Mexico plan makes its way through the legal system. Jack Herrera
Key Takeaways News in Brief Armed Militias on the Border Have a Long—and Often Racist—History A recent arrest put armed militias patrolling the southern border in the public spotlight, but they have a lineage as long as the border itself. Jack Herrera
News in Brief What Back-and-Forth Decisions on the ‘Remain in Mexico’ Plan Mean for Asylum Seekers and Their Lawyers In the last 10 days, the Remain in Mexico plan was blocked by one judge, only for that judge's preliminary injunction to be stayed by another court. Jack Herrera
Social Justice Kirstjen Nielsen’s Role in Family Separation: A Timeline The secretary of Homeland Security, who resigned over the weekend, oversaw most of the Trump administration's family separation efforts. Jack Herrera
News in Brief A Federal Judge Blocks Trump’s ‘Remain in Mexico’ Plan A federal judge in San Francisco has issued a preliminary injunction against the Migrant Protection Protocols. Jack Herrera
News in Brief Border Patrol Can Stop Most Americans in Their Own Neighborhoods. Presidential Candidate Julián Castro Wants to Change That. For Border Patrol, the border encompasses a 100-mile zone that stretches inwards from Mexico, Canada, and every coast. Jack Herrera
News in Brief What Would Closing the Border Mean for the Thousands of American Citizens Who Cross It Each Day for Work? If President Donald Trump were to close the border, these people's daily lives (and in many cases, their livelihoods), would be deeply affected. Jack Herrera
News in Brief The Week in Photos In El Paso, Border Patrol Keeps Families Under a Bridge (in Photos) The agency said that, with government detention facilities overwhelmed, it had nowhere else to hold the families. Jack Herrera