Links to long-form information about U.S. border governance and migration
Published by the Associated Press on June 14, 2022.
Charter tour operators are making large sums of money flying Haitian migrants back out of their country after the U.S. government expels them.
Published by WOLA on April 5, 2022.
A brief report from fieldwork at the Texas-Mexico border finds that Title 42 has been a boon to the cartels that control much of daily life on the Mexican side of the border.
Published by Human Rights Watch on March 24, 2022.
Details the dangers faced by Haitians, including those apprehended at the U.S.-Mexican border, after they get expelled or removed to their country.
Published by WOLA on February 17, 2022.
Aboard the Biden administration’s 198th flight deporting or expelling people to Haiti was the 20,000th migrant sent back to the Caribbean nation since Inauguration Day 2021.
Published by Harold Hongju Koh on October 2, 2021.
A memo from Harold Hongju Koh, a senior adviser on the State Department’s legal team and former dean of Yale University’s law school, issued before his October 4 resignation from the Biden administration. (Link at politico.com)
Published by WOLA on October 16, 2020.
As the Homeland Security Department completes its 2020 fiscal year, a walk through some of the prominent findings from the year-end data.
Published by CNN on September 3, 2020.
Details ICE’s practice of holding migrant families and children under contractors’ custody in border-town hotels before expelling them under measures put in place due to COVID-19.
Published by ProPublica on August 4, 2020.
Over 3,000 unaccompanied children have been summarily expelled back to Mexico or Central America, with no way even to track what’s happened to them. Some first spend days in hotels guarded by unlicensed contractors.
Published by WOLA on June 18, 2020.
WOLA launches a new animated video, and a panel from WOLA discusses the mid-pandemic state of the border.
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 several organizations on May 15, 2020.
A memo explaining how, even in a public health emergency, U.S. border authorities c0uld be attending to asylum seekers and unaccompanied children instead of expelling them.
Published by Refugees International on April 27, 2020.
A brief making a legal argument against the Centers for Disease Control Rule and Order closing the border to asylum seekers on public health grounds.
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 WOLA on April 14, 2020.
An interview about the asylum process, and how the Trump administration has eviscerated it, with Aaron Reichlin-Melnick of the American Immigration Council.
Published by WOLA and other organizations on April 9, 2020.
A statement from numerous organizations expressing alarm at the expulsions of protection-seeking migrants at the border resulting from the Trump administration’s COVID-19 response.
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.
Published by WOLA on March 27, 2020.
An interview about the devastating impact of the Trump border policies in the time of coronavirus, with Daniella Burgi-Palomino at the Latin America Working Group.
Published by WOLA on March 24, 2020.
WOLA warns against some serious risks of the Trump administration’s newly imposed regime of quarantine “expulsions” at the border.
