
Published by WOLA on January 24, 2025.
Catalogues “dramatic shifts in U.S. policy that will reverberate across the region.”
Published by WOLA on January 24, 2025.
Catalogues “dramatic shifts in U.S. policy that will reverberate across the region.”
Published by the Senate Committee on Homeland Security and Governmental Affairs on January 16, 2025
Testimony opposing reinstatement of the “Remain in Mexico” policy, finding that it violated human rights, aided organized crime, complicated relations with Mexico, and was not much of a deterrent. (Link at hsgac.senate.gov)
Published by Customs and Border Protection on October 24, 2024.
Provides statistics about CBP’s internal investigations of alleged wrongdoing and subsequent disciplinary processes. (Link at cbp.gov)
Published by WOLA on October 3, 2024.
A brief set of principles and guidelines for the next U.S. administration’s border and migration policies.
Published by the American Civil Liberties Union and the ACLU of Texas on September 18, 2024.
Finds that immigration enforcement severely limits undocumented people’s access to abortions in Texas.
Published by WOLA on September 13, 2024.
Calls for federal investigation into Texas National Guard use of force against migrants on the borderline.
Published by the Florence Immigrant and Refugee Rights Project on September 12, 2024.
Interviews with children in Border Patrol custody find a surprisingly high proportion suffering verbal or physical abuse.
Published by WOLA on August 29, 2024.
Explains twelve trends marking U.S.-bound migration and the U.S.-Mexico border during the summer of 2024.
Published by WOLA on June 20, 2024.
A report on migration, security, U.S. policy, and protection needs, based on fieldwork along Colombia’s borders with Ecuador and Panama.
Published by several organizations, and hosted by Human Rights First, on June 14, 2024.
A report to the United Nations Working Group on Enforced or Involuntary Disappearances alleges that U.S. authorities’ treatment of migrants and asylum seekers in custody at the border is tantamount to enforced disappearances.
Published by the U.S. Government Accountability Office on May 13, 2024.
Finds that CBP’s Office of Professional Responsibility has made significant progress implementing new investigative standards, but it could strengthen investigator independence from the agency
Published by WOLA on April 4, 2024.
An epidemic of migrant kidnappings and rapes in Tamaulipas, Mexico demands that CBP dramatically improve protection-seeking migrants’ access to ports of entry.
Publicado por la Universidad Ibero el 14 de marzo de 2024.
Informe sobre las implicaciones de la militarización del INM en las violaciones a derechos humanos de las personas migrantes.
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 New York on February 27, 2024.
“The Trump administration forcibly separated 5,000 families at the border. Five years later, the work of reunifying them is painfully incomplete.”
Published by Rolling Stone on February 25, 2024.
“A dispatch from Eagle Pass, where the Texas governor has amped up the cruelty toward migrants to boost his political profile.”
Published by the Center for Public Integrity on February 23, 2024.
The Office of Refugee Resettlement handled 2,724 cases of unaccompanied migrant minors who went missing in the United States in 2022.
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.
Published by the Kino Border Initiative in late January, 2024.
The Nogales-based shelter and human rights defense organization offers a compendium of alleged abuses and rights violations from its regular reports to Congress.