Published by Human Rights First on January 13, 2022.
The organization’s latest accounting, with statistics and anecdotal examples, of human rights abuses against asylum seekers that have resulted from U.S. government policies or actions.
Published by Human Rights First on January 13, 2022.
The organization’s latest accounting, with statistics and anecdotal examples, of human rights abuses against asylum seekers that have resulted from U.S. government policies or actions.
Published by the DHS Office of the Inspector-General on January 8, 2022.
CBP personnel “did not evaluate unsubstantiated information, and made unsupported conclusions” when they revoked the “trusted” status of two U.S. citizens whom they believed were aiding 2018-19 migrant caravans. (link at oig.dhs.gov)
Published by WOLA on December 7, 2021.
A discussion with Mexico-based experts about the state of Mexico’s asylum system and its increasingly militarized migration enforcement.
Published by Customs and Border Protection on November 18, 2021.
Finds that CBP took 2,021 formal disciplinary actions against members of its 60,000-person workforce in fiscal year 2020, up from 1,629 actions in 2019. (link at cbp.gov)
Published by the Department of Homeland Security on October 29, 2021.
A lengthy memo explaining the reasoning behind the Biden administration’s decision to “re-terminate” the Trump-era “Remain in Mexico” policy. (Link at dhs.gov)
Published by the Southern Border Communities Coalition on October 27, 2021.
Calls on Congress to look more deeply into the operations of secretive Border Patrol teams whose purpose appears to be to exonerate agents alleged to have committed serious human rights abuses.
Published by Human Rights Watch on October 21, 2021.
Details examples of human rights abuse by CBP personnel, reported by migrants to asylum officers and uncovered by a Freedom of Information Act lawsuit. Footnotes include an annex with many results of the Freedom of Information Act production.
Published by Human Rights First on October 21, 2021.
Among other findings is a count of “at least 7,647 kidnappings and other attacks on people blocked or expelled under Title 42 since President Biden took office.”
Published by the DHS Office of the Inspector-General on September 20, 2021.
Finds that CBP improperly targeted U.S. advocates whom the agency believed had some involvement with 2018-19 migrant caravans through Mexico. (link at oig.dhs.gov)
Lists numerous examples of abuse committed by CBP personnel in and around Nogales, Arizona.
Calls for reform of CBP’s vehicle pursuit policy after another in a long string of crashes, this one in New Mexico, kills two people.
Published by the ACLU on March 3, 2021.
A memo to the incoming Biden administration’s new Homeland Security secretary details numerous unresolved cases of CBP and Border Patrol misconduct and abuse. Accompanied by a 207-page appendix of complaints issued in 2019 and 2020.
Published by the ACLU on March 3, 2021.
A collection of ACLU complaints about CBP and Border Patrol misconduct and abuse in 2019 and 2020, accompanying a memo to the incoming Biden administration’s new Homeland Security secretary.
Published by WOLA on October 14, 2020.
Voices strong concerns about where a culture of cruelty and impunity is leading U.S. border agencies, and points to ways out.
A response to a pattern of Border Patrol surveillance, harassment, and raids on an Arizona-based humanitarian group.
Published by WOLA on August 19, 2020.
A conversation about Border Patrol’s organizational culture, and the disconnect between border communities and the rest of the country, with Francisco Cantú, author of The Line Becomes a River (2018).
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.
Published by the Inter-American Human Rights Commission on July 23, 2020.
The Commission finds admissible the case of Anastasio Hernandez, a Mexican citizen who was violently beaten and tasered to death by CBP agents on May 31, 2010.
Published by ACLU San Diego and Imperial Counties and ACLU Border Rights on July 7, 2020.
Includes numerous disturbing and explicit examples of Border Patrol agents’ verbal abuse of migrants, including children and asylum seekers, during their time in custody in the agency’s San Diego sector.
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.
Published by WOLA on June 15, 2020.
A quick review of the crisis that has been created at the border, and how to resolve it.