Publicado por Chiapas Paralelo el 17 de marzo de 2022.
Profiles Honduran migrants who have decided to settle in the relative safety of Tapachula, Chiapas, Mexico after seeing their efforts to reach the United States blocked.
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Publicado por Chiapas Paralelo el 17 de marzo de 2022.
Profiles Honduran migrants who have decided to settle in the relative safety of Tapachula, Chiapas, Mexico after seeing their efforts to reach the United States blocked.
Published by the Texas Tribune on March 16, 2022.
A new investigation of Texas’s troubled National Guard border deployment finds that some Guardsmen have been ordered to station themselves outside some of the wealthiest private ranches in south Texas, where they have little to do.
Published by Foreign Affairs on March 14, 2022.
Ana Raquel Minian of Stanford University contends that urging Mexico to serve as a bulwark against migration is a longstanding U.S. practice
Published by the Houston Chronicle on March 9, 2022.
A richly illustrated feature recounts Haitian migrants’ arduous journey from South America to the Texas-Mexico border.
Published by the Washington Post on February 19, 2022.
“In the year since President Biden halted border wall construction,” the Post reports, “his administration has been developing plans to put its own stamp on Trump’s pet project, principally by remediating some of the environmental destruction.”
Published by Vice on February 15, 2022.
Over a dozen U.S. Marines stationed at Camp Pendleton, California have been court-martialed for smuggling undocumented migrants beginning in 2019.
Published by the San Diego Union Tribune on February 5, 2022.
Asylum seekers, many of them Russian, are seeking to reach U.S. soil through San Diego’s main port of entry from Tijuana. One case led to a December 12, 2021 use of force incident.
Published by The Intercept on February 2, 2022.
An overview of human rights issues, morale problems, and mission questions surrounding the Texas state government’s large National Guard deployment.
Published by Military Times and the Texas Tribune on February 1, 2022.
A thorough look at problems with Texas’s state National Guard deployment to the U.S.-Mexico border under what Gov. Greg Abbott (R) calls “Operation Lone Star.”
Published by the New Yorker on January 28, 2022.
Profiles Andrea Flores, one of several immigration reform advocates who have left the Biden administration after being outmaneuvered by more political, centrist officials.
Published by Army Times on December 8, 2021.
An investigation exposes serious mission, morale, discipline, and equipment problems in the federal government’s National Guard mission at the border.
Published by The Intercept on September 4, 2021.
New information, obtained through the Freedom of Information Act, about the surprisingly robust activity of CBP’s Tactical Terrorism Response Teams.
Published by USA Today on November 12, 2020.
A policy-by-policy overview of what it would take for the Biden administration to undo the Trump administration’s hardline border and migration policies.
Published by The Intercept on November 1, 2020.
A public defender in El Paso ran up against the Trump administration’s early rollout of its family separation policy.
Published by The Intercept on October 31, 2020.
A look at the harms that border wall construction has inflicted in south Texas.
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 the London Review of Books on October 8, 2020.
An El Salvadoran journalist documents the hardships suffered by African migrants at the Mexico-Guatemala border.
Published by Bellingcat on October 1, 2020.
Using open-source data and imagery tools, this study documents how border wall construction is harming a fragile desert oasis in a southern Arizona protected area.
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.
Published by CBS 60 Minutes on September 27, 2020.
An investigation of the section of privately built border wall in Texas’s Rio Grande Valley, paid for by an organization whose management is now under indictment for fraud.
Publicado por Animal Político el 22 de septiembre de 2020.
Some Mexican families are among the hundreds of mostly Central Americans awaiting their turn to seek asylum on the U.S. side of the border in Matamoros, Mexico.
Published by The Washington Post on September 14, 2020.
A profile of the owner of Fisher Sand and Gravel, a company that has used connections to the President to gain a large share of border wall construction contracts.
Published by The Arizona Daily Star on September 12, 2020.
An investigation into how the U.S.-backed government of Juan Orlando Hernández is worsening conditions that cause so many Hondurans to migrate to the United States.
Published by Reveal on September 10, 2020.
ICE repeatedly rebuffed New Mexico state health officials’ offers to help control a worsening outbreak of COVID-19 at its Otero County Processing Center.
Published by The Intercept on September 5, 2020.
How the pandemic and the Trump administration’s crackdown on asylum are being experienced in southern Arizona.