John Washington
John Washington writes about immigration and border politics, as well as criminal justice and literature. His first book, "The Dispossessed: A Story of Asylum at the US-Mexico Border and Beyond," was published in 2020 by Verso Books. Washington is also a translator, having co-translated, most recently, "The Hollywood Kid," by Óscar Martínez and Juan Martínez, and Blood Barrios, by Alberto Arce, which won a PEN Translates Award. Find more of his work at www.jblackburnwashington.com.
The Coronavirus CrisisHunger Strikers Win Historic Relief Fund for Undocumented New York Workers — With Strings Attached
The $2.1 billion relief package was a major win for organizers, but some undocumented workers worry they’ll be left behind.
The War on ImmigrantsPrivate Companies Maneuvering to Cash In on Biden’s Child Migrant Detention
Two of the firms poised to vie for new lucrative child detention contracts have checkered pasts in migrant detention.
A Syrian Asylum-Seeker’s Case Reframes Migrant Abuses as Enforced Disappearances
From family separation to European “pushbacks,” there’s a new legal effort to label anti-immigrant abuses as enforced disappearances.
The Coronavirus CrisisICE Threatened to Expose Asylum-Seekers to Covid-19 if They Did Not Accept Deportation
Amid a rush of deportations, four detainees at two different ICE detention centers said that guards threatened to put them in Covid-19 wards.