Published by the Migration Policy Institute on January 25, 2024.
Lessons from the past 30 years of border security and migration policy at the U.S.-Mexico border.
Links to long-form information about U.S. border governance and migration
Published by the Migration Policy Institute on January 25, 2024.
Lessons from the past 30 years of border security and migration policy at the U.S.-Mexico border.
Published by Capital and Main on January 23, 2024.
The dire situation of asylum seekers who are released onto U.S. streets after spending time in Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) detention facilities.
Published by WOLA on January 23, 2024.
A podcast about current migration trends at the U.S.-Mexico border and in the Americas.
Published by the DHS Office of Inspector-General on January 23, 2024.
At ICE’s detention centers, the DHS Inspector-General looked at 6 cases of hysterectomies performed on detained migrant women—and found that 2 were medically unnecessary. (Link at oig.dhs.gov)
Published by the Texas Tribune on January 22, 2024.
A detailed narrative of the high-profile dispute between Texas state and U.S. federal border forces in Eagle Pass, Texas.
Excerpts from interviews with Border Patrol sector chiefs. (Link at oversight.house.gov)
Published by the U.S. Department of Justice on January 14, 2024.
In a memo to the Supreme Court, the Solicitor General details what happened after the state of Texas barred the federal Border Patrol from a riverfront park in Eagle Pass. (Link at supremecourt.gov)
Published by iNewsource on January 12, 2024.
A photo narrative about asylum seekers arriving and seeking to turn themselves in at Jacumba Springs, California.
Published by TRAC Immigration on January 12, 2024.
Data about humanitarian parole granted to migrants who arrive at ports of entry.
Published by Customs and Border Protection on January 11, 2024.
Sets principles for “technical interoperability of relevant sensors and command and control systems” that Border Patrol uses. (Link at cbp.gov)
Published by the Migration Policy Institute on January 11, 2024.
Analyzes post-Title 42 border policy changes and recommends changes to adjust to rapidly altered migration realities.
Published by Witness at the Border on January 3, 2024.
Data about U.S. migrant removal flights during the past year.
Published by WOLA on December 18, 2023.
Report-back from a field visit to the Arizona-Sonora border, notes a humanitarian crisis and people having great difficulty accessing the U.S. asylum system.
Published by U.S. Customs and Border Protection on December 8, 2023.
Finds that CBP took 1,751 formal disciplinary actions against members of its 60,000-person workforce in fiscal year 2022, 13 percent fewer than in 2021. (link at cbp.gov)
Published by the University of Texas Strauss Center on November 29, 2023.
The latest in a series of updates detailing asylum waitlists and shelter capacity in Mexican border cities.
Published by WOLA on November 14, 2023.
Warns that congressional Republicans’ border and migration demands, a condition for 2024 supplemental budget funds, could spell a historic end to the right to seek asylum in the United States.
Published by WOLA on October 12, 2023.
A statement recalling and highlighting some of the basic principles underlying WOLA’s border and migration work.
Published by U.S. Customs and Border Protection on October 10, 2023.
The current status of mobile NII technology and proposals for enhancing it. (Link at dhs.gov)
Published by the New York Times on October 3, 2023.
The Justice Department is jailing 5,000 migrants apprehended at the border under an 18th-century law allowing detention of “material witnesses.”
Published by News 4 Buffalo on September 25, 2023.
A deep look at the April 2023 Border Patrol shooting of a man wielding a club, following a vehicle pursuit in New Mexico. Reveals that the man suffered from mental illness.
Published by inewsource on September 26, 2023.
A deep look at an April 2022 Border Patrol vehicle pursuit incident that took the life of 19-year-old U.S. citizen Jesús Manuel Saldaña Rocha.
Published by the Southern Border Communities Coalition on September 26, 2023.
A report submitted for the 2023 Review of U.S. Compliance with the International Covenant on Civil and Political Rights finds U.S. border law enforcement compliance sorely lacking.
Published by the Southern Border Communities Coalition on September 26, 2023.
Explains the difficulty in achieving accountability for the fatal 2010 beating of a Mexican man by CBP and Border Patrol personnel at the San Ysidro port of entry.
Published by the DHS Office of Inspector-General on September 25, 2023.
Finds deficiencies and inadequacies in CBP’s video and audio surveillance systems. (Link at oig.dhs.gov)
Publicado por Ojo Público el 24 de septiembre de 2023.
Examines causes and trends of Darién Gap migration.