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.
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.
Local law enforcement agencies like the Ohio State Highway Patrol (OSHP) often work in concert with USBP agents in constructing a dragnet that serves as a force multiplier for USBP to funnel immigrants—most of whom have no criminal history—into deportation proceedings.
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)
Presents a troubling picture of the conditions faced by migrants, including children and families, detained between the primary and secondary barriers along the U.S.-Mexico border.
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.
Details U.S. immigration agencies’ confiscation of asylum seekers’ belongings on “hundreds” of documented occasions.
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.
Published by the New Yorker on January 28, 2024.
An excerpt from an upcoming book by New Yorker staff writer Jonathan Blitzer, telling the story of a Honduran woman whom the Trump administration separated from her sons in 2017.
Published by Capital and Main on January 23, 2024.
The dire situation of asylum seekers who are released onto U.S. streets after spending time in Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) detention facilities.
Published by the DHS Office of Inspector-General on January 23, 2024.
At ICE’s detention centers, the DHS Inspector-General looked at 6 cases of hysterectomies performed on detained migrant women—and found that 2 were medically unnecessary. (Link at oig.dhs.gov)
Published by U.S. Customs and Border Protection on December 8, 2023.
Finds that CBP took 1,751 formal disciplinary actions against members of its 60,000-person workforce in fiscal year 2022, 13 percent fewer than in 2021. (link at cbp.gov)
Published by the New York Times on October 3, 2023.
The Justice Department is jailing 5,000 migrants apprehended at the border under an 18th-century law allowing detention of “material witnesses.”
Published by the Southern Border Communities Coalition on September 26, 2023.
A report submitted for the 2023 Review of U.S. Compliance with the International Covenant on Civil and Political Rights finds U.S. border law enforcement compliance sorely lacking.
Published by the Southern Border Communities Coalition on September 26, 2023.
Explains the difficulty in achieving accountability for the fatal 2010 beating of a Mexican man by CBP and Border Patrol personnel at the San Ysidro port of entry.
Publicado por Ojo Público el 24 de septiembre de 2023.
Examines causes and trends of Darién Gap migration.
Published by ACAPS on September 22, 2023.
Finds overcrowding, a lack of resources, and violence in the municipality that is the main jumping-off point for migrants en route to the Darién Gap.
Published by Amnesty International on September 21, 2023.
Finds that Colombia, Peru, Ecuador and Chile are failing to comply with their obligations under international law to protect those fleeing Venezuela.
Published by the Los Angeles Times on September 20, 2023.
A narrative from Eagle Pass, Texas, a border city at the heart of the state government’s “Operation Lone Star.”
Published by the New York Times on September 18, 2023.
An exposé of the miserable labor conditions suffered by many underage migrants who work long shifts, often at night, in dangerous conditions in U.S. food processing plants or similar facilities.
Published by the U.S. District Court for the Central District of California on September 15, 2023.
A court-appointed monitor voices concerns about aspects of CBP’s custody of migrant children, especially short-term separations from parents at times when processing is near capacity. (Link at courtlistener.com)
Published by the Women’s Refugee Commission on September 14, 2023.
Recalls 10 facts that often get overlooked in heated U.S. debates over the border and migration policy.