Links to long-form information produced by journalistic sources
Published by the New York Times on October 3, 2023.
The Justice Department is jailing 5,000 migrants apprehended at the border under an 18th-century law allowing detention of “material witnesses.”
Published by News 4 Buffalo on September 25, 2023.
A deep look at the April 2023 Border Patrol shooting of a man wielding a club, following a vehicle pursuit in New Mexico. Reveals that the man suffered from mental illness.
Published by inewsource on September 26, 2023.
A deep look at an April 2022 Border Patrol vehicle pursuit incident that took the life of 19-year-old U.S. citizen Jesús Manuel Saldaña Rocha.
Publicado por Ojo Público el 24 de septiembre de 2023.
Examines causes and trends of Darién Gap migration.
Publicado por Ojo Público el 22 de septiembre de 2023.
A sweeping survey of the recent history of migration through the Americas.
Published by the Los Angeles Times on September 20, 2023.
A narrative from Eagle Pass, Texas, a border city at the heart of the state government’s “Operation Lone Star.”
Published by the New York Times on September 18, 2023.
An exposé of the miserable labor conditions suffered by many underage migrants who work long shifts, often at night, in dangerous conditions in U.S. food processing plants or similar facilities.
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.
Published by palabra on September 13, 2022.
Profiles parents in the San Francisco Bay Area who had migrated without their children.
Published by A Dónde Van los Desaparecidos on September 11, 2023.
Excerpt from investigative journalist Marcela Turati’s book about the 2010 San Fernando migrant massacre and the power of organized crime in Tamaulipas, Mexico.
Publicado por ContraCorriente el 8 de septiembre de 2023.
A town near Honduras’s border with Nicaragua is experiencing unprecedented levels of in-transit migration.
Published by the Marshall Project on September 8, 2023.
Asylum seekers need incomes, employers need workers, but the asylum system is getting in the way.
Published by the Dallas Morning News on September 6, 2023.
An examination of fentanyl supplies and attempts to interdict them.
Published by the Intercept on September 2, 2023.
Asserts that much border and migration policy is based on the white-supremacist concept of “Herrenvolk democracy.”
Published by the Texas Observer on November 21, 2022.
From the start of the Biden administration to August 2022, “U.S. authorities have reported at least 372 cases of family separation,” but Observer reporters found additional cases.
Published by the New York Times on November 9, 2022.
On a journey through the Darién Gap, a girl is separated from her mother for three days.
Published by USA Today on November 2. 2022.
Many migrants bused to New York from the border “step onto the buses with the promise of a new life in a new city and step off instantly homeless.”
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 the New York Times on October 12, 2022.
Investigates a September 27, 2022 incident in which twin brothers, one the warden of a jail that has housed detained immigrants, shot at a group of migrants in Hudspeth County, Texas, killing one.
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 New York Times on October 7, 2022.
Reporters traversed the Darién Gap along with numerous migrants, including a large number of Venezuelan citizens.
Published by InsightCrime on October 5, 2022.
A report from Altar, Sonora, Mexico, an organized crime-dominated town through which many migrants pass en route to Arizona.
