Published by the University of Texas at Austin Strauss Center on February 22, 2022.
The latest in a series of updates detailing asylum waitlists and shelter capacity in Mexican border cities.
Published by the University of Texas at Austin Strauss Center on February 22, 2022.
The latest in a series of updates detailing asylum waitlists and shelter capacity in Mexican border cities.
Published by the Border Network for Human Rights on February 22, 2022.
The latest of a series of “abuse documentation” reports with troubling findings about the behavior of some U.S. border law enforcement personnel in the El Paso sector, especially CBP officers working at ports of entry.
Published by the Washington Post on February 19, 2022.
“In the year since President Biden halted border wall construction,” the Post reports, “his administration has been developing plans to put its own stamp on Trump’s pet project, principally by remediating some of the environmental destruction.”
Published by WOLA on February 17, 2022.
Aboard the Biden administration’s 198th flight deporting or expelling people to Haiti was the 20,000th migrant sent back to the Caribbean nation since Inauguration Day 2021.
Published by Vice on February 15, 2022.
Over a dozen U.S. Marines stationed at Camp Pendleton, California have been court-martialed for smuggling undocumented migrants beginning in 2019.
Published by the U.S. Department of Justice on February 15, 2022.
A statistical annex to a monthly update provided to the U.S. District Court judge who ordered a restart of the Remain in Mexico program. (link at drive.google.com)
Published by the DHS Office of Immigration Statistics on February 15, 2022.
Presents statistical information about the asylum-seeking migrants placed in the Biden administration’s revived “Remain in Mexico” program in December 2021 and January 2022. (Link at dhs.gov)
Published by the Project on Government Oversight on February 11, 2022.
A government Integrity Committee is investigating DHS’s Inspector General for accusations of ordering a “retaliatory” investigation of subordinates who criticized his management.
Published by Refugees International on February 11, 2022.
Report from a visit to Remain in Mexico court hearings in El Paso in January 2022.
Published by the Arizona Office of the Attorney General on February 7, 2022.
Arizona’s Republican attorney general requests a legal opinion on whether the state has been “invaded” by hostile non-state actors, which in his view would justify the state defending itself with its militia (the Arizona National Guard). (Link at azag.gov)
Published by the DHS Office of Inspector-General on February 7, 2022.
A report on August 2021 inspections of CBP and Border Patrol facilities in the San Diego sector. (Link at oig.dhs.gov)
Published by the San Diego Union Tribune on February 5, 2022.
Asylum seekers, many of them Russian, are seeking to reach U.S. soil through San Diego’s main port of entry from Tijuana. One case led to a December 12, 2021 use of force incident.
Published by The Intercept on February 2, 2022.
An overview of human rights issues, morale problems, and mission questions surrounding the Texas state government’s large National Guard deployment.
Outlines 10 ways in which U.S. and Mexican migration policies are doing harm to women.
An article hails a DHS contractor’s development of Automated Ground Surveillance Vehicles, or “robot dogs,” and discusses their possible use at the U.S.-Mexico border. (Link at dhs.gov)
Published by Military Times and the Texas Tribune on February 1, 2022.
A thorough look at problems with Texas’s state National Guard deployment to the U.S.-Mexico border under what Gov. Greg Abbott (R) calls “Operation Lone Star.”