Links to long-form information produced by non-governmental organizations (other than WOLA)
Published by the International Refugee Assistance Project on August 2, 2021.
Recommends that the U.S. Department of Justice issue an “opinion that clarifies that climate change serves as grounds for refugee status under U.S. law.”
Published by the University of Arizona Binational Migration Institute in April 2021.
An analysis of numeric trends and demographic characteristics of the remains of at least 3,356 border crossers recovered in Arizona between 1990 and 2020.
Published by the ACLU on March 3, 2021.
A memo to the incoming Biden administration’s new Homeland Security secretary details numerous unresolved cases of CBP and Border Patrol misconduct and abuse. Accompanied by a 207-page appendix of complaints issued in 2019 and 2020.
Published by the ACLU on March 3, 2021.
A collection of ACLU complaints about CBP and Border Patrol misconduct and abuse in 2019 and 2020, accompanying a memo to the incoming Biden administration’s new Homeland Security secretary.
Published by Refugees International on November 12, 2020.
How Mexico can improve its asylum system and other provisions for a fast-rising number of protection-seeking migrants.
A response to a pattern of Border Patrol surveillance, harassment, and raids on an Arizona-based humanitarian group.
Published by Project South on September 14, 2020.
A whistleblower complaint about health risks—possibly including non-consensual surgeries on women—and unsafe work practices at the Irwin County ICE detention facility in Georgia.
Published by the Center for Migration Studies on August 24, 2020.
A summary of recent experience with border security and migration, with a long list of recommendations.
Published by the Migration Policy Institute on July 31, 2020.
Catalogues more than 400 administrative changes to the U.S. border security and immigration regime during the Trump administration, and what it might take to undo them.
Laying out the strong case against the Trump administration’s proposed July 9, 2020 rule that would make permanent restrictions on asylum first implemented as a COVID-19 response.
“Highlights ways the United States can restore and advance protections for migrants and refugees and use principled diplomacy to stand with civil society forces for change.”
Published by Human Rights First on July 15, 2020.
Details the human rights impact of the third-country transit ban that the Trump administration imposed in July 2019 and a federal court struck down on June 30, 2020.
Published by ACLU San Diego and Imperial Counties and ACLU Border Rights on July 7, 2020.
Includes numerous disturbing and explicit examples of Border Patrol agents’ verbal abuse of migrants, including children and asylum seekers, during their time in custody in the agency’s San Diego sector.
Published by the Vera Institute of Justice on June 30, 2020.
An epidemiological model of COVID-19 in ICE detention centers finds that “by day 60 of the simulation—corresponding to May 15, 2020—the estimated number of cumulative COVID-19 cases would be 15 times higher than the number of cases ICE reported.”
Published by the Georgetown Law Human Rights Initiative on June 10, 2020.
Documents how the Guatemala “safe-third country” agreement is effectively denying Salvadorans and Hondurans a chance to seek asylum.
Published by the Project on Government Oversight on June 5, 2020.
A look at the laws the Trump administration is waiving or violating in order to build as much border fence as possible before the president’s term ends.
Published by Witness at the Border on May 29, 2020.
“This report will quantify, in stark terms, the likely transmission of COVID through ICE Air flights shuffling detainees between detention centers.”
Published by the University of Texas Strauss Center on May 26, 2020.
Researchers find that more than 3,253 people in 22 years—far more than Border Patrol estimates—have lost their lives attempting to migrate through south Texas.
Published by Amnesty International on May 21, 2020.
A report on ICE’s new practice, during the COVID-19 pandemic, of giving migrants in family detention the choice of either separating from their children or staying together in indefinite detention.
Published by the Niskanen Center on May 21, 2020.
An overview of the Trump administration’s systematic dismantling of the right to seek asylum, and recommendations for how to restore it.
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 Refugees International and Human Rights Watch on May 19, 2020.
Based on fieldwork in Guatemala, researchers piece together what happened to 939 Salvadoran and Honduran asylum-seekers whom U.S. authorities sent to Guatemala between November 2019 and March 2020 under a “safe third country agreement.”
Published by Jesuit Refugee Service USA on May 19, 2020.
This report “shares the testimonies of people who are facing the real and often heart breaking consequences of U.S. asylum policies,” especially “Remain in Mexico.”
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 Human Rights First on May 13, 2020.
A current overview of how the Trump administration’s COVID-19 response, including blanket expulsions of asylum-seeking Mexicans and Central Americans, including unaccompanied children, is worsening the humanitarian situation along the border.
