Links to long-form information about U.S. border governance and migration
Published by the Cato Institute on September 18, 2023.
Lays out reasons in favor of the Humanitarian Parole program that the Biden administration has launched for citizens of Cuba, Haiti, Nicaragua, and Venezuela.
Published by the Women’s Refugee Commission on September 14, 2023.
Recalls 10 facts that often get overlooked in heated U.S. debates over the border and migration policy.
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.
The latest example of House Republicans using the border situation to build a case against DHS Secretary Alejandro Mayorkas. (Link at homeland.house.gov)
Published by the U.S. Western District of Louisiana District Court on November 22, 2022.
In their suit to preserve Title 42, Republican state officials argue against the Biden administration’s granting of humanitarian exceptions to the pandemic expulsion authority. (Original link)
Published by the Atlantic on October 27, 2022.
Laments the failure to pass a law outlawing separation of migrant families at the U.S.-Mexico border.
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 Intercept on October 12, 2022.
A report from Kinney County, Texas, along the border between Del Rio and Eagle Pass, where local leadership enthusiastically backs the Texas state government’s anti-migrant measures.
Published by Grid on October 12, 2022.
“The federal government is tasked with executing dated and dysfunctional laws,” contends this analysis of the current state of U.S. immigration policy.
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.
Published by the Texas Tribune on September 28, 2022.
A look at the data questions the results of the Texas state government’s border crackdown.
Published by the U.S. District Court of Massachusetts on September 20, 2022.
Lawsuit filed on behalf of migrants whom Florida’s state government arranged to put on a plane to Martha’s Vineyard, Massachusetts in September 2022. (Original link)
Published by the Texas Tribune on September 12, 2022.
Shifting political dynamics appeared to favor Republicans in Texas border counties.
Published by the Washington Post on September 7, 2022.
A story citing many migrants and aid workers finds medium-term shelter among the most acute needs for the nearly 10,000 migrants whom Texas Gov. Greg Abbott has bused to Washington, DC since March.
Published by the Dallas Morning News on September 1, 2022.
The Texas state government’s controversial border security deployment.
Publicado por Efecto Cocuyo el 26 de agosto de 2022.
Venezuelan migrants without U.S. support connections are living in shelters after boarding buses to Washington, DC funded by Texas’s Republican governor.
Published by palabra on August 11, 2022.
Dives deeply into the story of CBP’s improper targeting of U.S. advocates and journalists whom the agency believed had some involvement with 2018-19 migrant caravans through Mexico.
Published by the Atlantic on August 7, 2022.
An extensive narrative of how the U.S. government came to carry out the Trump administration’s family separation policy, by investigative reporter Caitlin Dickerson.
Published by the Los Angeles Times on May 13, 2022.
“Patriots for America,” a conservative Christian militia, is intercepting migrant children in mid-Texas while Border Patrol and local authorities look on.
Published by the New York Times on May 9, 2022.
An alarming story of far-right activists waiting by the borderline in Arizona and intercepting unaccompanied migrant children.
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.
Published by ProPublica, the Texas Tribune, and the Marshall Project on April 27, 2022.
Finds seven examples in which Texas’s state government has been less-than-forthcoming, to say the least, about the results of Gov. Greg Abbott’s (R) state border crackdown.
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.
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?”
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.
