
Published by Human Rights Watch on June 6, 2022.
A field report on abuses of migrant rights in Mexico’s southern-border city of Tapachula, focusing on the asylum-seeking migrant population stranded there.
Links to long-form information produced by non-governmental organizations (other than WOLA)
Published by Human Rights Watch on June 6, 2022.
A field report on abuses of migrant rights in Mexico’s southern-border city of Tapachula, focusing on the asylum-seeking migrant population stranded there.
Published by Human Rights Watch on May 31, 2022.
Documents the especially dangerous conditions that lesbian, gay, bisexual, and transgender asylum seekers face in Mexican border towns after U.S. policies like Title 42 block them from seeking protection in the United States.
Published by the Migration Policy Institute on May 25, 2022.
A look at the history and recent increase in maritime migration to the United States, mainly of Cuban and Haitian citizens.
Published by the Migration Policy Institute on May 25, 2022. (Español)
Proposes alternatives to the perilous journey across Mexico for protection-seeking Central American migrants.
Publicado por la Fundación para la Justicia y otras organizaciones el 24 de mayo de 2022.
A multimedia microsite about the increasing use of military force to confront migration in Mexico, the United States, and elsewhere in the region.
Publicado por el Servicio Jesuita a Migrantes – México el 11 de mayo de 2022.
A troubling record of the Jesuit Refugee Services’ work seeing to find or identify more than 1,200 missing migrants in Mexico since 2007.
Published by the Georgetown Law Center on Privacy and Technology on May 10, 2022.
An investigation reveals that Immigration and Customs Enforcement has built a surveillance apparatus that gathers personal information about a majority of U.S. citizens.
Published by Refugees International on April 28, 2022.
An investigation, based on interviews, of the conditions Haitian migrants face in Mexico and, in some cases, after crossing into the United States.
Published by Human Rights First, the Haitian Bridge Alliance, and Al Otro Lado on April 27, 2022.
An investigation of the human toll of Title 42 expulsions on migrants in San Diego and Tijuana.
Published by the Mixed Migration Center on April 21, 2022.
A compendium of recent data and statistics on migratory movements around the hemisphere.
Published by Human Rights First on April 21, 2022.
Finds that DHS under the Biden administration has detained tens of thousands of asylum seekers, placing them in miserable conditions and making it difficult to pursue their claims.
Published by the Center for Human Rights and Constitutional Law on April 11, 2022.
A series of legal complaints details cases of physical and verbal abuse of children in CBP custody.
Published by the Project on Government Oversight on April 7, 2022.
Newly obtained documents point to the DHS Inspector-General suppressing, delaying, and watering down information about serious sexual harassment and domestic abuse patterns within the Department’s law enforcement agencies, including CBP and ICE.
Published by the Government Accountability Project on April 5, 2022.
Government whistleblowers voice alarm about conditions for unaccompanied migrant children being held at Office of Refugee Resettlement facilities, especially a site at Fort Bliss, Texas.
Published by UNHCR in March 2022.
A set of best practices for states to adopt to meet the challenge of processing asylum-seeking migrants upon arrival. (Link at refworld.org)
Published by the Migration Policy Institute on March 31, 2022.
Looks at possible outcomes once the Title 42 expulsions policy is lifted, and how the U.S. asylum system might work more smoothly at the U.S.-Mexico border.
Published by Robert F. Kennedy Human Rights and the Haitian Bridge Alliance on March 29, 2022.
Documents examples of U.S. and Mexican personnel abusing and mistreating Haitian migrants during and after a large-scale September 2021 migration event in Del Rio, Texas.
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 the Geographical Journal on March 22, 2022.
Finds that border policies, more than climate conditions, are responsible for the sharp rise in migrant deaths in southern Arizona’s deserts.
Published by Human Rights First on March 17, 2022.
The organization’s latest accounting, with statistics and anecdotal examples, of human rights abuses against asylum seekers that have resulted from U.S. government policies or actions.
Published by the American Immigration Council on March 17, 2022.
A primer about the alternative programs frequently applied to asylum-seeking families apprehended at the U.S.-Mexico border.
Published by the Border Network for Human Rights on February 22, 2022.
The latest of a series of “abuse documentation” reports with troubling findings about the behavior of some U.S. border law enforcement personnel in the El Paso sector, especially CBP officers working at ports of entry.
Published by the University of Texas at Austin Strauss Center on February 22, 2022.
The latest in a series of updates detailing asylum waitlists and shelter capacity in Mexican border cities.
Published by Refugees International on February 11, 2022.
Report from a visit to Remain in Mexico court hearings in El Paso in January 2022.
Published by the Project on Government Oversight on February 11, 2022.
A government Integrity Committee is investigating DHS’s Inspector General for accusations of ordering a “retaliatory” investigation of subordinates who criticized his management.