Publicado por Contra Corriente el 16 de mayo de 2022.
Mexico is increasingly becoming the final destination for Central Americans fleeing misrule by increasingly authoritarian governments.
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Publicado por Contra Corriente el 16 de mayo de 2022.
Mexico is increasingly becoming the final destination for Central Americans fleeing misrule by increasingly authoritarian governments.
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.
Publicado por BBC Mundo el 12 de mayo de 2022.
A detailed account of a Venezuelan woman’s journey across Mexico and to the United States with her young daughter.
Published by the Nation on May 11, 2022.
Concerns about surveillance technologies that the Biden administration is increasingly installing along the border.
Published by the New Humanitarian on May 10, 2022.
A multimedia presentation recounts the route that a Cuban asylum seeker took through Panama’s dangerous Darién Gap jungles, and on through Central America and Mexico.
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 New Yorker on April 26, 2022.
National Guardsmen assigned to Texas Gov. Greg Abbott’s (R) “Operation Lone Star” are seeking to exercise a new federal right to form a union.
Published by BuzzFeed on April 22, 2022.
Explores the double-standard between nationalities at the Tijuana-San Diego border: Ukrainians are being admitted at ports of entry, but all other nationalities have Title 42 applied to them.
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 Propublica, the Texas Tribune, and the Marshall Project on April 18, 2022.
A look back at 17 years of Texas governors’ border security operations, usually launched in the run-up to elections, none of which appears to have had any lasting impact on security or migration.
Published by the Houston Chronicle on April 14, 2022.
Texas Gov. Greg Abbott’s “disaster” declaration at the border has allowed the state to engage in contracts without a formal solicitation process.
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 Texas Monthly on April 4, 2022.
“Patriots for America,” a heavily armed far-right militia group, has been patrolling the border with the support, or at least the toleration, of authorities in Kinney County, Texas.
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.
Publicado por Chiapas Paralelo el 31 de marzo de 2022.
A multimedia essay about the waves of migration that have marked the history of Mexico’s southern border-zone city of Tapachula.
Published by BuzzFeed on March 30, 2022.
Finds that asylum-seeking adults sent back to Mexican border cities are facing danger and precarious shelter conditions under the Biden administration’s court-ordered revival of “Remain in Mexico.”
Publicado por Agencia Ocote el 29 de marzo de 2022.
On-the-ground reporting documents the continued severity of the push factors forcing Hondurans to migrate, even after a change of government.
Published by Bethesda Magazine on March 28, 2022.
Profiles Central American children who arrived at the border unaccompanied and are now trying to adjust to life and school in Montgomery County, in suburban Washington, DC.
Publicado por Pie de Página el 27 de marzo de 2022.
Near the cargo train junctions north of Mexico City, criminal groups lie in wait, looking for migrants to kidnap or forcibly recruit.
Published by the San Antonio Express-News on March 27, 2022.
CBP plans to build up to 86 miles of new levee wall along the border in south Texas. Community members respond.
Published by the Intercept on March 22, 2022.
CBP documents and situation reports reveal extreme steps the agency, along with Mexican authorities, took to block “migrant caravan” participants’ attempt to seek asylum in early 2019.
Publicado por Divergentes y Revista Factum el 21 de marzo de 2022.
Nicaraguans facing the Managua regime’s repression are increasingly fleeing to the United States instead of Costa Rica.
Published by ProPublica on March 21, 2022.
An investigation finds that Texas’s state government has been using dubious statistics to inflate results from its costly border deployment.