Links to long-form information produced by non-governmental organizations (other than WOLA)
Published by Human Rights First on September 13, 2022.
As the Remain in Mexico “2.0” policy comes to an end, “a vanishingly small number of the mainly Cubans, Nicaraguans, and Venezuelans subjected to the policy were granted asylum.”
Published by Lawfare on July 7, 2022.
An explanation of the legal implications of the Supreme Court’s June 30, 2022 “Remain in Mexico” decision, and likely next steps, by Peter Marguiles of Roger Williams University School of Law.
Published by Human Rights First on June 16, 2022.
The organization’s latest accounting, with statistics and anecdotal examples, of human rights abuses against asylum seekers that have resulted from U.S. government policies or actions.
Published by Human Rights First on March 17, 2022.
The organization’s latest accounting, with statistics and anecdotal examples, of human rights abuses against asylum seekers that have resulted from U.S. government policies or actions.
Published by Refugees International on February 11, 2022.
Report from a visit to Remain in Mexico court hearings in El Paso in January 2022.
Published by Human Rights First on January 13, 2022.
The organization’s latest accounting, with statistics and anecdotal examples, of human rights abuses against asylum seekers that have resulted from U.S. government policies or actions.
Published by Human Rights First on October 21, 2021.
Among other findings is a count of “at least 7,647 kidnappings and other attacks on people blocked or expelled under Title 42 since President Biden took office.”
A fact sheet summarizing U.S. and Mexican government policies that are blocking and expelling protection-seeking migrants.
Published by the National Immigrant Justice Center (NIJC) and FWD.us on August 3, 2021.
Documents how the United States and other recipient governments have been steadily chipping away at the right to seek refuge for years.
Published by the ACLU on March 3, 2021.
A memo to the incoming Biden administration’s new Homeland Security secretary details numerous unresolved cases of CBP and Border Patrol misconduct and abuse. Accompanied by a 207-page appendix of complaints issued in 2019 and 2020.
Published by the ACLU on March 3, 2021.
A collection of ACLU complaints about CBP and Border Patrol misconduct and abuse in 2019 and 2020, accompanying a memo to the incoming Biden administration’s new Homeland Security secretary.
Published by Jesuit Refugee Service USA on May 19, 2020.
This report “shares the testimonies of people who are facing the real and often heart breaking consequences of U.S. asylum policies,” especially “Remain in Mexico.”
Published by Human Rights First on May 13, 2020.
A current overview of how the Trump administration’s COVID-19 response, including blanket expulsions of asylum-seeking Mexicans and Central Americans, including unaccompanied children, is worsening the humanitarian situation along the border.
Published by Human Rights First on March 10, 2020.
A memo about the Trump administration’s sending of an additional 160 military personnel to the border, in response to a 9th Circuit Court of Appeals ruling that threatened to halt the “Remain in Mexico” program.
Published by the Migration Policy Institute on February 27, 2020.
Explains the various policies, rule changes, and programs that the Trump administration has used to eliminate the legal right to seek asylum at the border.
Published by Human Rights Watch on February 12, 2020.
Health investigators find that “Remain in Mexico” subjects “children and families to crowded, unsanitary, insecure conditions with inadequate protection from infectious diseases.”
Published by Doctors Without Borders on February 11, 2020.
A documentation of the effects that U.S. asylum restriction policies are having on migrants’ physical and mental health, based on 480 interviews and testimonies with migrants and asylum seekers.
Published by Human Rights First on January 22, 2020.
“Key facts and figures on the devastating impact on asylum seekers and migrants after a year of the Trump Administration’s immoral and illegal Remain in Mexico policy.”
