Published by WOLA on September 13, 2024.
Calls for federal investigation into Texas National Guard use of force against migrants on the borderline.
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Published by WOLA on September 13, 2024.
Calls for federal investigation into Texas National Guard use of force against migrants on the borderline.
Published by WOLA on August 29, 2024.
Explains twelve trends marking U.S.-bound migration and the U.S.-Mexico border during the summer of 2024.
Published by WOLA on June 20, 2024.
A report on migration, security, U.S. policy, and protection needs, based on fieldwork along Colombia’s borders with Ecuador and Panama.
Published by WOLA on June 4, 2024.
Explains and contextualizes the Biden administration’s June 2024 executive actions curtailing asylum access at the border, in a Q&A format.
Published by WOLA on April 18, 2024.
Seeks to explain the very atypical springtime lull in migration at the border in 2024. A crackdown in Mexico seems to be the main cause.
Published by WOLA on April 4, 2024.
An epidemic of migrant kidnappings and rapes in Tamaulipas, Mexico demands that CBP dramatically improve protection-seeking migrants’ access to ports of entry.
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 WOLA on January 23, 2024.
A podcast about current migration trends at the U.S.-Mexico border and in the Americas.
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 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 WOLA on August 30, 2023.
Gretchen Kuhner directs the Mexico City-based Institute for Women in Migration (IMUMI). She explains the challenges and complexities—and occasional advocacy successes—of the current moment of record migration and changing policies, viewed from Mexico.
Published by the Border Chronicle on August 24, 2023.
A interview covers WOLA’s August 2023 joint report on border law enforcement accountability with the Kino Border Initiative.
Published by WOLA and the Kino Border Initiative on August 2, 2023.
Drawing heavily on this site’s database and the accountability work of the Nogales-based Kino Border Initiative, this in-depth report looks at the chronic nature of human rights abuse at the U.S.-Mexico border, how DHS’s accountability system is meant to work, and where it often fails. It offers more than 40 policy recommendations.
Published by MSNBC on July 19, 2023.
A column notes that Texas state authorities’ abuse of migrants happens in a context of larger national border policies that inflict suffering in order to “deter” migrants.
Published by WOLA on June 2, 2023.
A report back from a 10-day research trip in Honduras in late April and early May 2023. Discusses migrants transiting Honduras, Honduran migrants, assistance, and policies. (Resumen en español)
Published by MSNBC on May 17, 2023.
Explains that following the end of the Title 42 policy, migrants went into “wait and see mode” and numbers or arrivals at the border fell, contrary to many predictions.
Published by WOLA on May 9, 2023. (Español)
What might happen when the pandemic expulsions policy ends, how Title 42 changed migration, and what a better policy might look like.
Published by WOLA on May 1, 2023.
A podcast recorded by WOLA staff from Tegucigalpa, shortly after returning from two days at the Honduras-Nicaragua border at a time of very heavy migration in transit.
Published by WOLA on March 29, 2023.
A response to the March 27, 2023 tragedy in a migrant detention facility in Ciudad Juárez, Mexico.
Published by WOLA on March 22, 2023.
WOLA’s comment submitted on the Biden administration’s draft rule that would deny opportunities to apply for asylum to most migrants who passed through third countries en route to the U.S.-Mexico border.
Published by WOLA on March 8, 2023.
Raises 10 fatal cases since 2020, from this database, for which a reasonable doubt exists about whether deadly force was warranted.
Published by WOLA on February 17, 2023.
Should Title 42 end, the Biden administration may reject asylum seekers using a “transit ban” and expedited removal procedures, if Mexico takes deportees. The blow would be softened by two currently flawed programs, humanitarian parole and use of the “CBP One” app.
Published by WOLA on January 31, 2022.
Local media point to a rising tide of threats to migrant shelters in Tijuana, a city to which U.S. authorities expelled or deported about 48,000 people during the last quarter of 2022.
Published by WOLA on January 5, 2023.
A reaction to the Biden administration’s expansion of the scope of Title 42 expulsions into Mexico.