Last updated September 23, 2022. Download a PDF packet of infographics at bit.ly/wola_border_infographics.
CBP Migrant Encounters at the U.S.-Mexico Border, by Country of Origin
Migrant Encounters from Mexico and the Northern Triangle, and From Elsewhere
Last updated September 23, 2022. Download a PDF packet of infographics at bit.ly/wola_border_infographics.
Unique Individuals Encountered by Border Patrol Between U.S.-Mexico Border Ports of Entry
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U.S.-Mexico Border Migrant Encounters
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All Migrants Encountered / Permitted to Present at U.S.-Mexico Border Ports of Entry
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Border Patrol Migrant Apprehensions and Encounters at the U.S.-Mexico Border, October 2011-July 2022
Data table since fiscal year 2020
Last updated September 23, 2022. Download a PDF packet of infographics at bit.ly/wola_border_infographics.
Migration Through Panama’s Darién Gap
Last updated September 12, 2022. Download a PDF packet of infographics at bit.ly/wola_border_infographics.
2022 Monthly Migration Through Panama’s Darién Gap
Last updated September 12, 2022. Download a PDF packet of infographics at bit.ly/wola_border_infographics.
DHS Technology Systems Do Not Effectively Support Migrant Tracking at the Southwest Border
Published by the DHS Office of Inspector-General on September 9, 2022.
Finds that IT and record-keeping problems have led DHS to lose track of migrants and prolong family separations. (Link at oig.dhs.gov)
Border Wall Construction in Defiance of President Biden’s Executive Order
Published by the Center for Biological Diversity on September 8, 2022.
Reproduces documents obtained through a Freedom of Information Act lawsuit, indicating that the Army Corps of Engineers used “a narrow emergency exemption” to resume some border wall construction after President Biden called a halt to wall-building in 2021.
9,355 Migrant Remains Found By Border Patrol in Less Than 25 years
Last updated September 8, 2022. Download a PDF packet of infographics at bit.ly/wola_border_infographics.
Asylum Requests Made Before Mexican Authorities
Last updated September 8, 2022. Download a PDF packet of infographics at bit.ly/wola_border_infographics.
Asylum Requests in Mexico by Nationality
Last updated September 8, 2022. Download a PDF packet of infographics at bit.ly/wola_border_infographics.
From border town to ‘border town,’ bused migrants seek new lives in D.C. area
Published by the Washington Post on September 7, 2022.
A story citing many migrants and aid workers finds medium-term shelter among the most acute needs for the nearly 10,000 migrants whom Texas Gov. Greg Abbott has bused to Washington, DC since March.
U.S. Deportations of Mexicans into Mexico
Last updated September 6, 2022. Download a PDF packet of infographics at bit.ly/wola_border.
Mexico’s Migrant Apprehensions
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Mexico’s Apprehensions of All Migrants, January 2013-July 2022
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Fleeing Nicaraguans strain Costa Rica’s asylum system
Published by the Associated Press on September 2, 2022.
Costa Rica’s asylum system is so overwhelmed that applicants are being given appointments in 2030.
Fiscal Year 2021 Southwest Border Enforcement Report
Published by the DHS Office of Immigration Statistics on September 1, 2022.
Breaks down data on migrant encounters at the U.S.-Mexico border in the previous fiscal year. (Link at dhs.gov)
Drones, choppers, chases: How Texas DPS pursues migrants under $4B Abbott border effort
Published by the Dallas Morning News on September 1, 2022.
The Texas state government’s controversial border security deployment.
Asylum Processing Rule Cohort Report
Published by the DHS Office of Immigration Statistics on August 31, 2022.
Processing and outcomes of asylum requests under a Biden administration rule first implemented in 2022. (Link at dhs.gov)
Metering Update: August 2022
Published by the University of Texas at Austin Strauss Center on August 31, 2022.
The latest in a series of updates detailing asylum waitlists and shelter capacity in Mexican border cities.
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.
Yuma in Year 2 of a global humanitarian crisis as US ports of entry remain closed
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.
Taken Away: U.S. Border Agents’ Widespread Confiscation of Migrants’ Valuable Personal Items
Published by WOLA on August 25, 2022.
Compiles recent items in the Border Oversight database about agents’ confiscation, non-return, and disposal of migrants’ valuables and documents.