Publicado por El Faro el 24 de mayo de 2020.
A photo-filled report from the Mexican border city of Matamoros, where thousands of mostly Central American asylum-seekers are stranded by “Remain in Mexico” and the COVID-19 border closure.
Publicado por El Faro el 24 de mayo de 2020.
A photo-filled report from the Mexican border city of Matamoros, where thousands of mostly Central American asylum-seekers are stranded by “Remain in Mexico” and the COVID-19 border closure.
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 ProPublica and The Texas Tribune on May 18, 2020.
Under cover of COVID-19 response, the Trump administration has been moving aggressively to deport unaccompanied children who are already in the system—in addition to those already being expelled at the border.
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.
Published by WOLA on May 7, 2020.
An interview with El Paso-based asylum lawyer Taylor Levy.
Published in the Federal Register on May 1, 2020.
Text of the “safe third country” agreement between the United States and Honduras. (Link at federalregister.gov)
The report documents the growth of immigrant detention, inhumane conditions, poor quality of health care, and difficulty of obtaining parole.
Published by Refugees International on April 27, 2020.
A brief making a legal argument against the Centers for Disease Control Rule and Order closing the border to asylum seekers on public health grounds.
Published by WOLA on April 23, 2020.
A public comment submitted on the CDC rule shutting the border to asylum seekers during the COVID-19 outbreak.
Published by the University of California San Diego US Immigration Policy Center on April 22, 2020.
This study finds no past relationship between a migrant’s documentation status at the border and a migrant’s infection with flu-like disease.
Published by The Nation on April 20, 2020.
A view of the right to seek asylum at the U.S.-Mexico border, and its recent dismantlement.
Published by Just Security on April 13, 2020.
A thorough legal analysis, by Lucas Guttentag of Stanford University, of the Trump administration’s use of an old quarantine statute to shut down the right to seek asylum at the border.
Published by Just Security on April 17, 2020.
An analysis of the Trump administration’s claim that it can expel asylum seekers in the name of limiting the spread of COVID-19.
Published by WOLA on April 14, 2020.
An interview about the asylum process, and how the Trump administration has eviscerated it, with Aaron Reichlin-Melnick of the American Immigration Council.
Published by Brújula Ciudadana on April 13, 2020.
An analysis by me, in English and Spanish, of how the Trump administration’s coronavirus measures have not only put its whole immigration agenda in place, but are also threatening to spread the virus.
The latest in a series of reports documenting the status of asylum seekers forced by metering to wait in Mexico for a chance to approach U.S. border ports of entry.
Published by WOLA and other organizations on April 9, 2020.
A statement from numerous organizations expressing alarm at the expulsions of protection-seeking migrants at the border resulting from the Trump administration’s COVID-19 response.
Published by the Latin America Working Group on April 8, 2020.
A statement from 61 organizations objecting to the Trump administration’s harsh border, asylum, and deportation measures during the COVID-19 emergency.
Published by Lawfare on April 8, 2020.
This legal analysis posits that adding drug trafficking organizations to the U.S. terrorist list could complicate asylum claims for victims who were forced to pay extortion.
Published by WOLA on April 6, 2020.
Some of what the Trump administration is implementing at the border risks worsening the COVID-19 pandemic at home and exporting it to other countries.
Published by WOLA on April 6, 2020.
An interview with Joanna Williams, Director of Education and Advocacy at the Kino Border Initiative in Nogales, Arizona/Sonora.