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 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.
Last updated April 11, 2024. Download a PDF packet of infographics at bit.ly/wola_border_infographics.
Published by Arizona Luminaria on March 7, 2024.
More migrants are crossing in the Tucson sector than anywhere else along the U.S.-México border, but there is only one port-of-entry to schedule appointments for an asylum claim through the CBP One app
Publicado por ACNUR y varias organizaciones el 6 de marzo de 2024.
Surveys of migrants in Mexico find that about 66% of respondents feared for their life, security, or freedom if returned to their country of origin, with 54% facing direct threats. (Link at mexico.un.org)
Published by the University of Texas Strauss Center on March 1, 2024.
The latest in a series of updates detailing asylum waitlists and shelter capacity in Mexican border cities.
Presents a troubling picture of the conditions faced by migrants, including children and families, detained between the primary and secondary barriers along the U.S.-Mexico border.
Last updated February 28, 2024. Download a PDF packet of infographics at bit.ly/wola_border_infographics.
Published by Curbed on February 26, 2024.
Interviews with migrants outside a New York City shelter “reticketing center” reveal asylum seekers’ struggles, trauma, and lack of institutional support.
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.
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 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 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 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 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 iNewsource on January 12, 2024.
A photo narrative about asylum seekers arriving and seeking to turn themselves in at Jacumba Springs, California.
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 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.
Last updated November 19, 2023. Download a PDF packet of infographics at bit.ly/wola_border_infographics.
Last updated November 19, 2023. Download a PDF packet of infographics at bit.ly/wola_border_infographics.
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 the Women’s Refugee Commission on September 14, 2023.
Recalls 10 facts that often get overlooked in heated U.S. debates over the border and migration policy.
Published by Jesuit Refugee Service on September 12, 2023.
A situation report, mainly on conditions for asylum seekers, from El Paso and Ciudad Juárez.