Links to long-form information about U.S. border governance and migration
Published by WOLA on April 4, 2024.
An epidemic of migrant kidnappings and rapes in Tamaulipas, Mexico demands that CBP dramatically improve protection-seeking migrants’ access to ports of entry.
Published by the International Refugee Assistance Project on March 29, 2024.
Consensus-based recommendations for regional approaches to ensure the rights and well-being of climate-displaced people.
Published by the New York Review of Books on March 23, 2024.
“An unrealized proposal for a Border Patrol installation in Arizona reveals the tension between restricting immigration and freeing trade”
Finds that “SB 4 is already causing significant fear and concern among Mexican nationals living in Texas.” (link at courtlistener.com)
Published by the U.S. Government Accountability Office on March 20, 2024.
Finds that by including data limitations in its reports, Border Patrol could provide context for Congress and the public to better understand data on migrant deaths. (Link at gao.gov)
Published by TRAC Immigration on March 20, 2024.
“Troubling is the almost total lack of transparency on where and why these DHS failures occurred. Equally troubling is the lack of solid information on what happened to these many immigrants when DHS never rectified its failure”
Local law enforcement agencies like the Ohio State Highway Patrol (OSHP) often work in concert with USBP agents in constructing a dragnet that serves as a force multiplier for USBP to funnel immigrants—most of whom have no criminal history—into deportation proceedings.
Published by No More Deaths on March 18, 2024.
Researchers and journalists have extensively shown how CBP’s migrant death data—cited by scholars, journalists, and those who make the policies that most affect migrant mortality in the borderlands—is an undercount of the true number of recovered migrant remains.
Published by U.S. Customs and Border Protection on March 18, 2024.
Includes Border Patrol’s count of migrant remains recovered, across several characteristics, between 2018 and 2022. (Link at cbp.gov)
Published by U.S. Customs and Border Protection on March 18, 2024.
A report to Congress on CBP’s in-custody deaths, other CBP-involved deaths, and other deaths that congressional staff asked CBP’s Office of Professional Responsibility to review. (Link at cbp.gov)
Published by the Mixed Migration Centre on March 15, 2024.
This paper explores the use of smugglers by Latin American and Caribbean migrants on their journeys to North America. It is based on responses to more than 3,000 4Mi surveys conducted in Costa Rica, Honduras and Mexico in 2022 and 2023.
Published by the DHS Office of Inspector-General on March 15, 2024.
Found that detainees in the Donna and Ursula Centralized Processing Centers were held in custody longer than 72 hours
Publicado por la Universidad Ibero el 14 de marzo de 2024.
Informe sobre las implicaciones de la militarización del INM en las violaciones a derechos humanos de las personas migrantes.
Published by Texas Monthly on March 11, 2024.
U.S. policy is designed to force those entering Texas to cross at dangerous choke points. Those who don’t make it are often never identified.
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)
Published by Arizona Luminaria on March 7, 2024.
More migrants are crossing in the Tucson sector than anywhere else along the U.S.-México border, but there is only one port-of-entry to schedule appointments for an asylum claim through the CBP One app
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.
Presents a troubling picture of the conditions faced by migrants, including children and families, detained between the primary and secondary barriers along the U.S.-Mexico border.
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.
