Published by the Marshall Project on September 8, 2023.
Asylum seekers need incomes, employers need workers, but the asylum system is getting in the way.
Migrants Desperate for Jobs Trapped in Asylum Maze
38 Media Reports tagged “Asylum”
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U.S. Border Policy Must Adapt to the Region’s New Migration Patterns
Published by World Politics Review on October 12, 2022.
The drastically changed profile of migration requires a much different response at the U.S.-Mexico border, argues WOLA’s Adam Isacson.
After Being Deported by U.S., Walter Cruz-Zavala Disappeared in Notorious Salvadoran Crackdown
Published by the Intercept on September 20, 2022.
A Salvadoran man, deported despite courts’ findings that he would face danger, disappears amid the Salvadoran government’s sweeping crackdown on suspected gang members.
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.
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.
Forced to flee Mexico due to death threats, journalists seek to rebuild their lives in Phoenix
Published by the Arizona Republic on July 25, 2022.
Profiles threatened Mexican journalists who have had to seek refuge in Arizona.
Across southern Arizona, a full range of border woes for Biden
Published by the Washington Post on July 8, 2022.
A report from Yuma and Nogales, where two very different populations of migrants have been arriving in large numbers.
‘I felt like I was a prisoner’: The rapid rise of US immigration authorities’ electronic surveillance programs
Published by CODA on May 26, 2022.
Journalist Erica Hellerstein investigates the “quiet but quick” expansion of alternatives to detention programs to surveil released migrants in the United States.
Thousands of Migrants Have Been Waiting for Months to Enter U.S.
Published by the New York Times on May 19, 2022.
Asylum seekers remain stranded in Mexican border cities waiting for a chance to seek protection in the United States, which Title 42 prevents them from doing.
México, el limbo de los nuevos refugiados centroamericanos
Publicado por Contra Corriente el 16 de mayo de 2022.
Mexico is increasingly becoming the final destination for Central Americans fleeing misrule by increasingly authoritarian governments.
“Algunos llegan sin uñas porque las dejan agarrando los arbustos”: la peligrosa travesía de una venezolana con su hija de 3 años a EE.UU.
Publicado por BBC Mundo el 12 de mayo de 2022.
A detailed account of a Venezuelan woman’s journey across Mexico and to the United States with her young daughter.
‘The invisibles’: A Cuban asylum seeker’s dangerous odyssey
Published by the New Humanitarian on May 10, 2022.
A multimedia presentation recounts the route that a Cuban asylum seeker took through Panama’s dangerous Darién Gap jungles, and on through Central America and Mexico.
Title 42, the Trump-era border policy dividing Democrats, explained
Published by Vox on April 29, 2022.
An explainer about Title 42, the public health measure used since March 2020 to expel migrants without even the chance to ask for protection in the United States.
Is the border ready for the lifting of Title 42, the health policy that turns away asylum seekers?
Published by the Dallas Morning News on April 22, 2022.
Examines whether the Department of Homeland Security will be ready to process an increased arrival of asylum-seeking migrants after the likely lifting of the Title 42 pandemic expulsion policy.
Ukrainians Are Getting Special Treatment At The US Border That Other Asylum-Seekers Fleeing Violence Aren’t, Immigration Lawyers Say
Published by BuzzFeed on April 22, 2022.
Explores the double-standard between nationalities at the Tijuana-San Diego border: Ukrainians are being admitted at ports of entry, but all other nationalities have Title 42 applied to them.
Disagreement and Delay: How Infighting Over the Border Divided the White House
Published by the New York Times on April 9, 2022.
A thorough account of the Biden administration’s infighting around border and migration policy, with the President reportedly demanding in March 2021, “Who do I need to fire to fix this?”
Internal CBP Documents Detail “Transnational Effort to Shut Down Asylum”
Published by the Intercept on March 22, 2022.
CBP documents and situation reports reveal extreme steps the agency, along with Mexican authorities, took to block “migrant caravan” participants’ attempt to seek asylum in early 2019.
CBP staffs up border line as asylum seekers try to reach U.S. soil by driving across
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.
Biden might need years to reverse Trump’s immigration policies on DACA, asylum, family separation, ICE raids, private detention and more
Published by USA Today on November 12, 2020.
A policy-by-policy overview of what it would take for the Biden administration to undo the Trump administration’s hardline border and migration policies.
The El Paso Experiment: A Public Defender’s Lonely Fight Against Family Separation
Published by The Intercept on November 1, 2020.
A public defender in El Paso ran up against the Trump administration’s early rollout of its family separation policy.
Unraveling of Trump policies a distant hope for separated immigrant families
Published by Reuters on September 29, 2020.
Migrants in limbo have hope for change if Donald Trump loses the election, but walking back many of the Trump administration’s anti-asylum policies will be difficult.
Mexicanos desplazados que buscan asilo en EU, atrapados y sin ayuda en un campamento en Matamoros
Publicado por Animal Político el 22 de septiembre de 2020.
Some Mexican families are among the hundreds of mostly Central Americans awaiting their turn to seek asylum on the U.S. side of the border in Matamoros, Mexico.
“There Is No Mercy”: As the Coronavirus Descended on the Border, the Trump Administration Escalated Its Crackdown on Asylum
Published by The Intercept on September 5, 2020.
How the pandemic and the Trump administration’s crackdown on asylum are being experienced in southern Arizona.
Returned
Published by The San Diego Union-Tribune on August 21, 2020.
A “deep dive” into the U.S. asylum system and what has been done to it during the Trump years.
Her Rapist Threatened to Make Her “Disappear.” Instead of Asylum, ICE Put Her in a Hotel and Sent Her Back.
Published by ProPublica on August 4, 2020.
Over 3,000 unaccompanied children have been summarily expelled back to Mexico or Central America, with no way even to track what’s happened to them. Some first spend days in hotels guarded by unlicensed contractors.