Published by the New York Review of Books on March 23, 2024.
“An unrealized proposal for a Border Patrol installation in Arizona reveals the tension between restricting immigration and freeing trade”
Checkpoint Dreams
159 Media Reports
Links to long-form information produced by journalistic sources
More Migrants Are Drowning in the Rio Grande Than Ever. No Agency Is Keeping Track of How Many.
Published by Texas Monthly on March 11, 2024.
U.S. policy is designed to force those entering Texas to cross at dangerous choke points. Those who don’t make it are often never identified.
In Nogales, an asylum bottleneck forces a choice: Monthslong wait or dangerous desert crossing
Published by Arizona Luminaria on March 7, 2024.
More migrants are crossing in the Tucson sector than anywhere else along the U.S.-México border, but there is only one port-of-entry to schedule appointments for an asylum claim through the CBP One app
Honduras-Frontera Comalapa: La ruta de la trata
Publicado por Quinto Elemento Lab el 28 de febrero de 2024.
The southern Mexico border town of Frontera Comalapa, Chiapas is a hub for trafficking of Honduran migrant women, with the complicity of officials in both countries.
Will the Families Separated by Trump Ever Be Reunited?
Published by New York on February 27, 2024.
“The Trump administration forcibly separated 5,000 families at the border. Five years later, the work of reunifying them is painfully incomplete.”
In Line at St. Brigid
Published by Curbed on February 26, 2024.
Interviews with migrants outside a New York City shelter “reticketing center” reveal asylum seekers’ struggles, trauma, and lack of institutional support.
The Human Toll of Greg Abbott’s War at the Border
Published by Rolling Stone on February 25, 2024.
“A dispatch from Eagle Pass, where the Texas governor has amped up the cruelty toward migrants to boost his political profile.”
When migrant children disappear, many cases remain unsolved
Published by the Center for Public Integrity on February 23, 2024.
The Office of Refugee Resettlement handled 2,724 cases of unaccompanied migrant minors who went missing in the United States in 2022.
“Nos secuestran y nos roban la cita con Migración en EE.UU.”: la nueva modalidad de los carteles mexicanos para extorsionar a los migrantes en la frontera
Publicado por BBC Mundo el 19 de febrero de 2024.
A family of Venezuelan asylum seekers who missed their CBP One appointment because they were kidnapped for ransom in Mexico’s violent border state of Tamaulipas.
A Family Ranch, Swallowed Up in the Madness of the Border
Published by the New York Times on February 18, 2024.
Arizona borderland ranchers Jim and Sue Chilton’s remote desert land, long traversed by smugglers and migrants seeking to avoid detection, has now become a destination for asylum seekers.
The Trials of Alejandro Mayorkas
Published by the New Yorker on February 17, 2024.
A profile of the Homeland Security Secretary, based on lengthy interviews.
Cuando los cruces ilegales a Estados Unidos superan las citas por CBP One
Publicado por La Verdad de Juárez el 8 de febrero de 2024.
Waits for increasingly scarce CBP One appointments are growing longer in Ciudad Juárez, Mexico.
No One Is Happy About the Border. We Asked Mayorkas What Went Wrong.
Published by the New York Times Magazine on February 2, 2024.
A lengthy interview with the Biden administration’s homeland security secretary.
How the Border Crisis Shattered Biden’s Immigration Hopes
Published by the New York Times on January 30, 2024.
A chronicle of the Biden administration’s three years of struggles with border and migration policy.
“Do I Have to Come Here Injured or Dead?”
Published by the New Yorker on January 28, 2024.
An excerpt from an upcoming book by New Yorker staff writer Jonathan Blitzer, telling the story of a Honduran woman whom the Trump administration separated from her sons in 2017.
A Dead Cellphone, $27 in Cash and Nowhere to Turn
Published by Capital and Main on January 23, 2024.
The dire situation of asylum seekers who are released onto U.S. streets after spending time in Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) detention facilities.
In Eagle Pass, a tense border standoff between Texas and the federal government is reaching a crescendo
Published by the Texas Tribune on January 22, 2024.
A detailed narrative of the high-profile dispute between Texas state and U.S. federal border forces in Eagle Pass, Texas.
San Diego’s remote border region is now a destination for US-bound migrants from around the world
Published by iNewsource on January 12, 2024.
A photo narrative about asylum seekers arriving and seeking to turn themselves in at Jacumba Springs, California.
Jailed by the Thousands, Without Charges, to Act as Witnesses
Published by the New York Times on October 3, 2023.
The Justice Department is jailing 5,000 migrants apprehended at the border under an 18th-century law allowing detention of “material witnesses.”
West Seneca man fatally shot by border agents in New Mexico desert
Published by News 4 Buffalo on September 25, 2023.
A deep look at the April 2023 Border Patrol shooting of a man wielding a club, following a vehicle pursuit in New Mexico. Reveals that the man suffered from mental illness.
18 months after US teen died in chase with Border Patrol, his family is still asking why
Published by inewsource on September 26, 2023.
A deep look at an April 2022 Border Patrol vehicle pursuit incident that took the life of 19-year-old U.S. citizen Jesús Manuel Saldaña Rocha.
Crisis en el Darién: se eleva número de migrantes de Ecuador, Chile y Perú
Publicado por Ojo Público el 24 de septiembre de 2023.
Examines causes and trends of Darién Gap migration.
Migrar: el hemisferio en movimiento
Publicado por Ojo Público el 22 de septiembre de 2023.
A sweeping survey of the recent history of migration through the Americas.
Operation Lone Star transformed this Texas border town, but the battle didn’t start there
Published by the Los Angeles Times on September 20, 2023.
A narrative from Eagle Pass, Texas, a border city at the heart of the state government’s “Operation Lone Star.”
The Kids on the Night Shift
Published by the New York Times on September 18, 2023.
An exposé of the miserable labor conditions suffered by many underage migrants who work long shifts, often at night, in dangerous conditions in U.S. food processing plants or similar facilities.