Published by the Center for Public Integrity on February 23, 2024.
The Office of Refugee Resettlement handled 2,724 cases of unaccompanied migrant minors who went missing in the United States in 2022.
Links to long-form information about U.S. border governance and migration
Published by the Center for Public Integrity on February 23, 2024.
The Office of Refugee Resettlement handled 2,724 cases of unaccompanied migrant minors who went missing in the United States in 2022.
Published by the U.S. Government Accountability Office on February 22, 2024.
A review of major DHS acquisition programs, including 10 CBP programs supporting border security operations.
Published by the Niskanen Center on February 20, 2024.
An analysis of plans being drawn up by advisors to Donald Trump’s 2024 campaign for radically altering immigration policy if their candidate wins.
Publicado por BBC Mundo el 19 de febrero de 2024.
A family of Venezuelan asylum seekers who missed their CBP One appointment because they were kidnapped for ransom in Mexico’s violent border state of Tamaulipas.
Publicado por ACNUR el 19 de febrero de 2024.
Statistics and information about protection risks faced by people transiting Honduras.
Published by the New York Times on February 18, 2024.
Arizona borderland ranchers Jim and Sue Chilton’s remote desert land, long traversed by smugglers and migrants seeking to avoid detection, has now become a destination for asylum seekers.
Published by the New Yorker on February 17, 2024.
A profile of the Homeland Security Secretary, based on lengthy interviews.
Published by the Government Accountability Project on February 19, 2024.
More whistleblower disclosures reveal malfeasance at CBP’s Office of the Chief Medical Examiner and its contractor.
Published by the Pew Research Center on February 15, 2024.
Poll data give low approval ratings to the Biden administration’s handling of the border and migration.
Published by the U.S. Government Accountability Office on February 14, 2024.
identifies gaps in DHS’s handling of employee misconduct, particularly in the equitable adjudication between supervisors and non-supervisors. (Link at gao.gov)
Details U.S. immigration agencies’ confiscation of asylum seekers’ belongings on “hundreds” of documented occasions.
Published by Human Rights First on February 12, 2024.
Documents prolonged waits, discrimination, poor healthcare access, targeted violence, and other harms suffered by Black asylum seekers.
Publicado por La Verdad de Juárez el 8 de febrero de 2024.
Waits for increasingly scarce CBP One appointments are growing longer in Ciudad Juárez, Mexico.
Published by the Mixed Migration Centre on February 7, 2024.
A quarterly update on migration trends and dynamics in the Americas.
Published by the U.S. Government Accountability Office on February 7, 2024.
Finds that DHS lacked criteria for starting and ending its task forces, and hadn’t set measurable performance goals for them. (Link at gao.gov)
Published by the Center for American Progress on February 5, 2024.
A set of policy recommendations for fixing the U.S. asylum system and helping stabilize countries in the Americas.
Published by the House Committee on Homeland Security on February 3, 2024.
House Homeland Republicans lay out their case for impeaching DHS Secretary Alejandro Mayorkas, alleging mismanagement of the border and migration. (Link at house.gov)
Published by the New York Times Magazine on February 2, 2024.
A lengthy interview with the Biden administration’s homeland security secretary.
Published by the International Organization for Migration in early February 2024.
A statistical overview of migration trends in the Americas. (Link at iom.int)
Published by the Kino Border Initiative in late January, 2024.
The Nogales-based shelter and human rights defense organization offers a compendium of alleged abuses and rights violations from its regular reports to Congress.
Published by the Danish Refugee Council in late January 2024.
Using survey and other data, details the conditions faced by migrants along the route, and seeking to integrate, in the named countries.
Published by WOLA on January 31, 2024.
A bill under negotiation in the Senate continues the tradition of attempting deterrence policies, even though the numbers show that this has failed
Published by the New York Times on January 30, 2024.
A chronicle of the Biden administration’s three years of struggles with border and migration policy.
Published by Just Security on January 29, 2024.
Constitutional scholar Frank Bowman disputes claims that Republican governors have a constitutional right to defend against an “invasion” of migrants.
Published by the New Yorker on January 28, 2024.
An excerpt from an upcoming book by New Yorker staff writer Jonathan Blitzer, telling the story of a Honduran woman whom the Trump administration separated from her sons in 2017.