Links to long-form information about U.S. border governance and migration
Published by U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement on December 30, 2022.
Annual report notes that ICE removals increased sharply in 2022, because of an increase in CBP handovers of migrants apprehended at the U.S.-Mexico border. (Original link)
Published by Human Rights First on August 3, 2022.
Warns that the Biden administration’s plans to expand use of expedited removal “would result in the illegal return of refugees to persecution and torture.”
Published by U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement on March 11, 2022.
The agency’s annual report recounting activities and statistics for 2021. (Link at ice.gov)
Published by Witness at the Border on January 3, 2022.
Data about expulsion and deportation flights during the past year.
A fact sheet summarizing U.S. and Mexican government policies that are blocking and expelling protection-seeking migrants.
Published by The Arizona Republic on October 28, 2020.
ICE deported back to Guatemala hundreds of people who tested positive for COVID-19.
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.
Publicado por la Unidad de Política Migratoria, Secretaría de Gobernación en junio de 2020.
The Mexican government’s collection of 2019 statistics on migrant apprehensions, deportations, deportations from the United States, and other data. (Link at segob.gob.mx)
Published by Witness at the Border on May 29, 2020.
“This report will quantify, in stark terms, the likely transmission of COVID through ICE Air flights shuffling detainees between detention centers.”
An overview of the dangers and illegality of the Trump administration’s quick expulsions of asylum seekers during the COVID-19 border closure.
Published by Witness at the Border on May 7, 2020.
An analysis of ICE deportation flights and the certainty that they are spreading COVID-19.
Published by Business Insider via World Politics Review on April 25, 2020.
Four coronavirus “hotspots” that the Trump administration’s border and migration policies risk creating.
Published by Brújula Ciudadana on April 13, 2020.
An analysis by me, in English and Spanish, of how the Trump administration’s coronavirus measures have not only put its whole immigration agenda in place, but are also threatening to spread the virus.
Published by the Latin America Working Group on April 8, 2020.
A statement from 61 organizations objecting to the Trump administration’s harsh border, asylum, and deportation measures during the COVID-19 emergency.
Published by WOLA on April 6, 2020.
Some of what the Trump administration is implementing at the border risks worsening the COVID-19 pandemic at home and exporting it to other countries.
