Last updated September 3, 2023. Download a PDF packet of infographics at bit.ly/wola_border_infographics.
Nationalities Expelled During Title 42
Tag: Expulsions
Title 42 Expulsions and Regular Apprehensions of All Migrants at the U.S.-Mexico Border
Last updated August 27, 2023. Download a PDF packet of infographics at bit.ly/wola_border_infographics.
US-expelled Haitians fuel charter business to Latin America
Published by the Associated Press on June 14, 2022.
Charter tour operators are making large sums of money flying Haitian migrants back out of their country after the U.S. government expels them.
U.S. Migration Policy is Enriching Cartels at the Busiest, and Most Dangerous, part of the U.S.-Mexico Border
Published by WOLA on April 5, 2022.
A brief report from fieldwork at the Texas-Mexico border finds that Title 42 has been a boon to the cartels that control much of daily life on the Mexican side of the border.
Haitians Being Returned to a Country in Chaos
Published by Human Rights Watch on March 24, 2022.
Details the dangers faced by Haitians, including those apprehended at the U.S.-Mexican border, after they get expelled or removed to their country.
A tragic milestone: 20,000th migrant deported to Haiti since Biden inauguration
Published by WOLA on February 17, 2022.
Aboard the Biden administration’s 198th flight deporting or expelling people to Haiti was the 20,000th migrant sent back to the Caribbean nation since Inauguration Day 2021.
Re: Ending Title 42 return flights to countries of origin, particularly Haiti.
Published by Harold Hongju Koh on October 2, 2021.
A memo from Harold Hongju Koh, a senior adviser on the State Department’s legal team and former dean of Yale University’s law school, issued before his October 4 resignation from the Biden administration. (Link at politico.com)
What New Official Data Tells Us About the Ongoing Tragedy at the U.S.-Mexico Border
Published by WOLA on October 16, 2020.
As the Homeland Security Department completes its 2020 fiscal year, a walk through some of the prominent findings from the year-end data.
The US detained hundreds of migrant children in hotels as the pandemic flared
Published by CNN on September 3, 2020.
Details ICE’s practice of holding migrant families and children under contractors’ custody in border-town hotels before expelling them under measures put in place due to COVID-19.
Her Rapist Threatened to Make Her “Disappear.” Instead of Asylum, ICE Put Her in a Hotel and Sent Her Back.
Published by ProPublica on August 4, 2020.
Over 3,000 unaccompanied children have been summarily expelled back to Mexico or Central America, with no way even to track what’s happened to them. Some first spend days in hotels guarded by unlicensed contractors.
Podcast: Beyond the Wall: A Roundtable Discussion on Border and Migration
Published by WOLA on June 18, 2020.
WOLA launches a new animated video, and a panel from WOLA discusses the mid-pandemic state of the border.
Explainer on U.S. Deportations and Expulsions During the COVID-19 Pandemic
An overview of the dangers and illegality of the Trump administration’s quick expulsions of asylum seekers during the COVID-19 border closure.
Public Health Measures to Safely Manage Asylum Seekers and Children 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.
Expelling Asylum Seekers is Not the Answer: U.S. Border Policy in the Time of COVID-19
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.
Trump’s immigration crackdown is creating new coronavirus hotspots
Published by Business Insider via World Politics Review on April 25, 2020.
Four coronavirus “hotspots” that the Trump administration’s border and migration policies risk creating.
Podcast: “This is Patently Illegal”: The Undermining of Asylum at the U.S.-Mexico Border
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.
U.S. Deportations During Global Pandemic Risk Spreading COVID-19
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.
The Trump Administration’s COVID-19 Response at the Border Puts Us All At Risk
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.
Podcast: “This is the Scenario the Trump Administration Would’ve Liked Since Day One”
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.
Key Questions About How the U.S.-Mexico Border Shutdown Will Impact Vulnerable Asylum Seekers and Migrants
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.