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Articles by Al Kamalizad
“We Can’t Go Back to the Shadows”: Six Dreamers Tell Their Stories
Last September, the Trump administration announced it would rescind the protections granted by DACA, or Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals—an Obama-era program that shielded from deportation undocumented immigrants who came to the United States as children. Though the action was quickly challenged by several federal lawsuits, there has been no clear resolution, leaving more than 700,000 DACA recipients and their families in limbo.
He told me he had everything to live for. Two months later, he was dead.
When I first met Doc and Dre last August, they thought I was an undercover cop, or maybe a heroin user who was just getting started. They were standing with a group of guys under an awning on a gray, humid afternoon on Baltimore’s North Avenue, smoking and chatting in the sticky heat. A steady stream of users came by, knowing to go straight to Doc, a 30-year-old who was quick to laugh and seemed to own this patch of cement. He’d reach into his jean pockets to exchange a baggie for a wad of cash.
We went to prison to hang out with the creators of one of America's top podcasts
For indispensable reporting on the coronavirus crisis and more, subscribe to Mother Jones' newsletters. In a shabby, low-slung bungalow on the grounds of California’s San Quentin State Prison, Adnan Khan sits nervously in front of a microphone. A slender 33-year-old with dark, slicked-back hair and skin the color of cinnamon, he’s clad in typical prison fashion—jeans, powder-blue button-down over a white T-shirt, standard-issue dark jacket.
We went to prison to hang with the creators of one of America's top podcasts
In a shabby, low-slung bungalow on the grounds of California’s San Quentin State Prison, Adnan Khan sits nervously in front of a microphone. A slender 33-year-old with dark, slicked-back hair and skin the color of cinnamon, he’s clad in typical prison fashion—jeans, powder-blue button-down over a white T-shirt, standard-issue dark jacket.
3 Months Ago, Donald Trump Threw Vincent’s Life Into Chaos. This Is His Story.
It’s been a tumultuous year for Vincent Ronquillo, 33. For the last five years, Ronquillo, like 800,000 other previously undocumented immigrants, has been protected from deportation thanks to the Obama-era program called Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals, or DACA. But in September, Attorney General Jeff Sessions rescinded the program—exactly what Ronquillo was afraid would happen when Trump took office.
Meet the Border Angels, the Group Trying to Save Migrants’ Lives
Border Angels is an immigrant-advocacy group that organizes hikes into the southern California desert to distribute water along various routes for migrants crossing the US-Mexico border. Last month, along with about 40 volunteers, I tagged along to film one of these “water drops.” After five hours working under the desert sun, a handful of the Border Angels crew hung around a gas station parking lot.
It Was Like Any Other Concert Security Gig. Then: “A Maze of Bodies.”
Royce Christensen, 21, choked back tears at a candle-lit vigil in Las Vegas on Tuesday night as he remembered one reaction he had during the attack he survived two days earlier: laughter, born of shock. “How do you react to something so insane? So ridiculous?” he said. Christensen, along with his entire family, works for Contemporary Services Corporation, a crowd management company that provided security for the Route 91 Country music festival.
We Visited a “Full Contact Gunfight Arena” in Las Vegas to Ask: Has Anything Changed?
In addition to interviewing gun control advocates who were demonstrating in Las Vegas on Wednesday night, Mother Jones filmmaker Al Kamalizad also focused his camera on a local business-owner who works with guns every day. We wanted to know: Will the massacre change any of his opinions on the gun control debate?
The US-Mexico Border Wall Actually Juts Into the Ocean-Where Surfers Staged a Glorious Protest
Grey-brown dunes covered by a patchwork of shrubbery make the drive into Border Field State Park resemble any other coastal park in Southern California. But the final stretch leading to the parking lot draws you next to something unique: the U.S.-Mexico border wall. This section of the southern border in San Diego County has had some kind of permanent wall since 1989, with upgrades and reinforcements over the years.
Let’s Do Something Almost No Republican Senator Has Been Willing to Do: Listen to Real People’s Health Care Concerns
Republicans in Congress still can’t figure out what they want to do for health care. Despite no consensus among his party, Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell (R-Ky.) promised to bring his latest plan to gut Obamacare to a vote next week, after his first two attempts collapsed without the necessary votes.
Fox Allegedly Fires Bill O’Reilly While He’s Still On Vacation
It’s (reportedly) official. As of Wednesday morning, Fox News has decided to let go of Bill O’Reilly, following a series of sexual harassment allegations that embroiled the cable news host in controversy, New York magazine reports. O’Reilly has yet to return from his European vacation, but network executives told the magazine they plan on announcing the end of his 21-year career with Fox before he’s scheduled to return on April 24.
This Is The Creepy Song That North Korea Blares Through Pyongyang To Wake Up Its Residents
Just when you thought North Korea couldn’t get any weirder, you learn that the government wakes up the citizens of its capital city, Pyongyang, by blaring this “song” through the city via loudspeakers. I put “song” in scare quotes because, well, the song is really, really scary. And it resembles music only in the vaguest sense. The “song” really sounds more like the entire city is haunted by ghosts.
13 Photos That Show What It’s Like When War Is A Way Of Life
Maad Mohaamed is a “fixer,” someone who provides access to restricted sites, serves as translator, bribes officials, and, most importantly, tries to not get those who hire him killed. Photo by Aaron Ohlmann.
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