Published by the Department of Homeland Security on March 11, 2024.
The budget materials that U.S. Customs and Border Protection sends to Congress each year. (Link at dhs.gov)
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 the Department of Homeland Security on August 21, 2023.
A 5-year program plan for DHS with allocations of resource requirements according to the Department’s projected funding. (Link at dhs.gov)
Published by the Department of Homeland Security on March 27, 2023.
A spending plan for the CBP and ICE “operations and support” accounts. (Link at dhs.gov)
Updates about implementation of several technology and surveillance programs along the U.S.-Mexico border. (Link at dhs.gov)
Published by the Senate Appropriations Committee on July 28, 2022.
The Senate Appropriations Committee’s narrative report to accompany its bill funding the Department of Homeland Security’s 2023 budget. (Link at appropriations.senate.gov)
Published by the House of Representatives on July 1, 2022.
The House Appropriations Committee’s narrative report to accompany its bill funding the Department of Homeland Security’s 2023 budget. (Link at congress.gov)
Published by Propublica, the Texas Tribune, and the Marshall Project on April 18, 2022.
A look back at 17 years of Texas governors’ border security operations, usually launched in the run-up to elections, none of which appears to have had any lasting impact on security or migration.
Published by the Houston Chronicle on April 14, 2022.
Texas Gov. Greg Abbott’s “disaster” declaration at the border has allowed the state to engage in contracts without a formal solicitation process.
Published by the DHS Inspector-General on January 25, 2022.
Finds that about 15 percent of CBP’s 2021 budget was spent on activities with a counter-drug purpose. (link at oig.dhs.gov)
Published by WOLA on February 10, 2021.
The state of wall-building and funding, and options for the Biden administration to cease all construction and repair at least some of the damage.
Published by the Department of Homeland Security Inspector-General on September 28, 2020.
Looks at how CBP misspent much of $192 million that Congress had appropriated to attend to the humanitarian needs of migrants in custody. (Link at oig.dhs.gov)
Published by The Washington Post on September 14, 2020.
A profile of the owner of Fisher Sand and Gravel, a company that has used connections to the President to gain a large share of border wall construction contracts.
Published by the Department of Defense Inspector-General on August 18, 2020.
A detailed look at the funding, management, and legal authority for the Trump administration’s deployments of military personnel to the U.S.-Mexico border. (Link at dodig.mil)
Published by the Washington Office on Latin America on July 27, 2020.
An overview of key measures in the House of Representatives’ version of the 2021 DHS appropriation, including cutting border wall spending, defunding “Remain in Mexico,” reducing ICE detention, and others.
Published by the U.S. Government Accountability Office on July 15, 2020.
Finds serious fault with CBP’s handling of the health of children in custody and its use of funds designated by Congress for humanitarian purposes. (Link at gao.gov)
Published by the House Appropriations Committee on July 14, 2020.
The House appropriators’ narrative report accompanying the 2021 bill to fund the Department of Homeland Security. (Link at appropriations.house.gov)
Published by the U.S. Government Accountability Office on June 11, 2020.
GAO finds that CBP failed to spend emergency funds for detained migrants’ consumables, medical care, and humane processing as Congress intended, instead devoting the money to items like boats, dirt bikes, and office upgrades. (Link at gao.gov)
Published by the U.S. Government Accountability Office on April 9, 2020.
GAO found that Customs and Border Protection wildly overspent on a tent facility to house apprehended migrants during late 2019. (Link at gao.gov)
Published by the Defense Department Comptroller on February 13, 2020.
A Defense Department notification to Congress that it is transferring $3.8 billion to the Department of Homeland Security for construction of border fencing, in accordance with President Donald Trump’s emergency declaration. (link at comptroller.defense.gov)
Published by the Department of Homeland Security on February 11, 2020.
The annual budget request to Congress for the agency that includes Border Patrol, CBP officers at ports of entry, and an Air and Marine Division operating along U.S. borders. Includes the request for border wall construction. (link at dhs.gov)
Published by the Department of Homeland Security on February 11, 2020.
ICE’s annual funding request submitted to Congress with descriptions of its planned activities and their cost. (link at dhs.gov)
Published by Customs and Border Protection on February 11, 2020.
All of the prior-year data that CBP posts to its statistics page, combined in a single PDF file. Includes sector profile, family unit and UAC apprehensions, family unit apprehensions by sector, monthly apprehensions, apprehensions from Mexico and other than Mexico, staffing statistics, deaths, apprehensions by sector, apprehensions since 1925, and budget statistics.
Published by The Washington Post on February 6, 2020.
A detailed, graphical look at every segment of ongoing border wall construction.
