Published by the Department of Homeland Security on March 11, 2024.
The budget materials that U.S. Customs and Border Protection sends to Congress each year. (Link at dhs.gov)
Links to long-form information about U.S. border governance and migration
Published by the Department of Homeland Security on March 11, 2024.
The budget materials that U.S. Customs and Border Protection sends to Congress each year. (Link at dhs.gov)
Publicado por ACNUR y varias organizaciones el 6 de marzo de 2024.
Surveys of migrants in Mexico find that about 66% of respondents feared for their life, security, or freedom if returned to their country of origin, with 54% facing direct threats. (Link at mexico.un.org)
Published by the University of Texas Strauss Center on March 1, 2024.
The latest in a series of updates detailing asylum waitlists and shelter capacity in Mexican border cities.
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.
Published by the Migration Policy Institute on February 28, 2024.
Explains the federal-state conflict over border and migration enforcement in Eagle Pass, Texas.
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.”
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.
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.”
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.
Published by the U.S. Government Accountability Office on February 22, 2024.
A review of major DHS acquisition programs, including 10 CBP programs supporting border security operations.
Published by the Niskanen Center on February 20, 2024.
An analysis of plans being drawn up by advisors to Donald Trump’s 2024 campaign for radically altering immigration policy if their candidate wins.
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.
Publicado por ACNUR el 19 de febrero de 2024.
Statistics and information about protection risks faced by people transiting Honduras.
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.
Published by the New Yorker on February 17, 2024.
A profile of the Homeland Security Secretary, based on lengthy interviews.
Published by the Government Accountability Project on February 19, 2024.
More whistleblower disclosures reveal malfeasance at CBP’s Office of the Chief Medical Examiner and its contractor.
Published by the Pew Research Center on February 15, 2024.
Poll data give low approval ratings to the Biden administration’s handling of the border and migration.
Published by the U.S. Government Accountability Office on February 14, 2024.
identifies gaps in DHS’s handling of employee misconduct, particularly in the equitable adjudication between supervisors and non-supervisors. (Link at gao.gov)
Details U.S. immigration agencies’ confiscation of asylum seekers’ belongings on “hundreds” of documented occasions.
Published by Human Rights First on February 12, 2024.
Documents prolonged waits, discrimination, poor healthcare access, targeted violence, and other harms suffered by Black asylum seekers.
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.
Published by the Mixed Migration Centre on February 7, 2024.
A quarterly update on migration trends and dynamics in the Americas.
Published by the U.S. Government Accountability Office on February 7, 2024.
Finds that DHS lacked criteria for starting and ending its task forces, and hadn’t set measurable performance goals for them. (Link at gao.gov)
Published by the Center for American Progress on February 5, 2024.
A set of policy recommendations for fixing the U.S. asylum system and helping stabilize countries in the Americas.
Published by the House Committee on Homeland Security on February 3, 2024.
House Homeland Republicans lay out their case for impeaching DHS Secretary Alejandro Mayorkas, alleging mismanagement of the border and migration. (Link at house.gov)