Published by WOLA on March 27, 2020.
An interview about the devastating impact of the Trump border policies in the time of coronavirus, with Daniella Burgi-Palomino at the Latin America Working Group.
Published by WOLA on March 24, 2020.
Graphing out data on apprehensions and demographics of migrants to spot trends.
Published by WOLA on March 24, 2020.
An interview with Savitri Arvey of the University of California at San Diego’s U.S.-Mexico Center, co-author of a series of updates on “metering” along the border.
Published by WOLA on March 24, 2020.
WOLA warns against some serious risks of the Trump administration’s newly imposed regime of quarantine “expulsions” at the border.
Published by the U.S. Government Accountability Office on March 18, 2020.
GAO “found that separations from June 2018 through March 2019 weren’t accurately tracked—and agents inconsistently recorded details.” (link at gao.gov)
Published by the U.S. Government Accountability Office on March 18, 2020.
GAO finds that when DHS components fail to share information with each other on apprehended migrant families, the Department “risks removing individuals from the country who may be eligible for relief or protection based on their family relationships.” (link at gao.gov)
Published by Human Rights First on March 10, 2020.
A memo about the Trump administration’s sending of an additional 160 military personnel to the border, in response to a 9th Circuit Court of Appeals ruling that threatened to halt the “Remain in Mexico” program.
Published by WOLA on March 10, 2020.
WOLA experts discuss current challenges the region faces from ineffective migration policies and protection of migrant rights and what might be done to change the situation.
Published by the House Foreign Affairs Committee on March 6, 2020.
Democratic members of the Foreign Affairs Committee include some new information in a lengthy information request to the State Department about “Safe Third Country Agreements.” (link at foreignaffairs.house.gov)
Published by VQR on March 2, 2020.
An exploration by the secondary trauma suffered by people working with threatened migrants during the Trump administration.
The latest edition of a quarterly effort to document 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 the Migration Policy Institute on February 27, 2020.
Explains the various policies, rule changes, and programs that the Trump administration has used to eliminate the legal right to seek asylum at the border.
Published by Physicians for Human Rights on February 25, 2020.
An investigation of 17 adults and 9 children who had been separated in CBP custody finds “pervasive symptoms and behaviors consistent with trauma.”
Published by the Arizona Daily Star on February 24, 2020.
A look at Mexico’s crackdown on migration through its territory, even as the number of Mexican asylum seekers coming to the United States rises.
Published by The New Yorker on February 21, 2020.
An investigation of the policymaking process within the Trump administration and the outsized role played by a 34-year-old hardliner in the White House.
Published by The Guardian on February 21, 2020.
The plight of migrants forced to wait in Mexican border towns for a chance to seek asylum on the U.S. side.
Published by Human Rights Watch on February 12, 2020.
Health investigators find that “Remain in Mexico” subjects “children and families to crowded, unsanitary, insecure conditions with inadequate protection from infectious diseases.”
Published by Doctors Without Borders on February 11, 2020.
A documentation of the effects that U.S. asylum restriction policies are having on migrants’ physical and mental health, based on 480 interviews and testimonies with migrants and asylum seekers.
Published by ProPublica on January 31, 2020.
An investigation into the human consequences of giving broad discretionary powers to an agency with insufficient training and capacity.
Published by WOLA on January 27, 2020.
A conversation with WOLA’s Adam Isacson during a mid-January visit to El Paso and Ciudad Juárez.
Published by Human Rights First on January 22, 2020.
“Key facts and figures on the devastating impact on asylum seekers and migrants after a year of the Trump Administration’s immoral and illegal Remain in Mexico policy.”
Published by the Associated Press on January 19, 2020.
An investigation of the disorder that reigns in the Justice Department’s overwhelmed and untransparent immigration court system.
Published by Politico on January 5, 2020.
U.S. policies like metering and Remain in Mexico have created a large community of stranded asylum seekers, from many countries, in Tijuana.
Published by WOLA on December 19, 2019.
A memo reporting back from a field visit to El Paso and Ciudad Juárez.
Published by WOLA on December 17, 2019.
A report based on fieldwork performed along the Mexico-Guatemala border in August 2019.
