Links to long-form information produced by journalistic sources
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.”
Publicado por Ojo Público el 24 de septiembre de 2023.
Examines causes and trends of Darién Gap migration.
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.”
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.
Published by the New York Times on September 14, 2023.
The role of organized crime and local communities, both of which are profiting handsomely, in facilitating record migration through the Darién Gap.
Published by palabra on September 13, 2022.
Profiles parents in the San Francisco Bay Area who had migrated without their children.
Published by A Dónde Van los Desaparecidos on September 11, 2023.
Excerpt from investigative journalist Marcela Turati’s book about the 2010 San Fernando migrant massacre and the power of organized crime in Tamaulipas, Mexico.
Published by the Intercept on September 2, 2023.
Asserts that much border and migration policy is based on the white-supremacist concept of “Herrenvolk democracy.”
Published by the Texas Observer on November 21, 2022.
From the start of the Biden administration to August 2022, “U.S. authorities have reported at least 372 cases of family separation,” but Observer reporters found additional cases.
Published by the Miami Herald on October 20, 2022.
Reveals new details about the Florida state government operation that sent dozens of migrants to Martha’s Vineyard, Massachusetts in September 2022.
Published by the New York Times on October 12, 2022.
Investigates a September 27, 2022 incident in which twin brothers, one the warden of a jail that has housed detained immigrants, shot at a group of migrants in Hudspeth County, Texas, killing one.
Published by the New York Times on October 7, 2022.
Reporters traversed the Darién Gap along with numerous migrants, including a large number of Venezuelan citizens.
Published by the New Humanitarian on September 21, 2022.
The grim situation of migrants stuck in Mexico’s southern-border city of Tapachula.
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.
Publicado por Efecto Cocuyo el 11 de septiembre de 2022.
Migrants contend with trauma after passing through Panama’s treacherous Darién Gap.
Published by the Guardian on June 14, 2022.
Former Border Patrol agent Jenn Budd, author of Against the Wall, writes about her harrowing experience in the agency and about the 2010 killing of migrant Anastasio Hernández-Rojas.
Published by the Texas Tribune on April 4, 2022.
A thorough takedown of Texas Gov. Greg Abbott (R)’s “Operation Lone Star,” in which state police arrested over 7,200 migrants, often on “trespassing” charges, in seven months.
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.
