Published by Arizona Luminaria on August 26, 2022.
Field report from Yuma, Arizona, where asylum seekers from around the world are arriving in large numbers.
Yuma in Year 2 of a global humanitarian crisis as US ports of entry remain closed
7 Media Reports in August 2022
Links to long-form information produced by journalistic sources
Migrantes venezolanos en Washington DC: dormir en un refugio para desamparados
Publicado por Efecto Cocuyo el 26 de agosto de 2022.
Venezuelan migrants without U.S. support connections are living in shelters after boarding buses to Washington, DC funded by Texas’s Republican governor.
Record Numbers of Migrants Arrested at Southern Border, With Two Million Annual Total in Sight
Published by the Wall Street Journal on August 15, 2022.
A review of migration statistics through July 2022 and how they reveal the counterproductive nature of the Title 42 pandemic expulsions policy.
Bad Intelligence
Published by palabra on August 11, 2022.
Dives deeply into the story of CBP’s improper targeting of U.S. advocates and journalists whom the agency believed had some involvement with 2018-19 migrant caravans through Mexico.
An American Catastrophe
Published by the Atlantic on August 7, 2022.
An extensive narrative of how the U.S. government came to carry out the Trump administration’s family separation policy, by investigative reporter Caitlin Dickerson.
The Most Surveilled Place in America
Published by The Verge on August 3, 2022.
Explores the humanitarian impact of U.S. border law enforcement agencies’ adoption of sophisticated technologies to deter migrants.
The Missing Migrants of South Texas
Published by the New Yorker on August 2, 2022.
A profile of the South Texas Human Rights Center, which leaves water and helps identify remains of missing migrants in Falfurrias, Texas, and the Center’s director, Eddie Canales.