Published by the University of Texas Strauss Center on March 1, 2024.
The latest in a series of updates detailing asylum waitlists and shelter capacity in Mexican border cities.
Asylum Processing at the U.S.-Mexico Border: February 2024
Tag: Metering
Asylum Processing at the U.S.-Mexico Border: November 2023
Published by the University of Texas Strauss Center on November 29, 2023.
The latest in a series of updates detailing asylum waitlists and shelter capacity in Mexican border cities.
Children and Families Allowed to Present at Ports of Entry
Last updated November 19, 2023. Download a PDF packet of infographics at bit.ly/wola_border_infographics.
All Migrants Encountered at U.S.-Mexico Border Ports of Entry
Last updated November 19, 2023. Download a PDF packet of infographics at bit.ly/wola_border_infographics.
Asylum Processing at the U.S.-Mexico Border: August 2023
Published by the University of Texas Strauss Center on August 31, 2023.
The latest in a series of updates detailing asylum waitlists and shelter capacity in Mexican border cities.
Metering Update: August 2022
Published by the University of Texas at Austin Strauss Center on August 31, 2022.
The latest in a series of updates detailing asylum waitlists and shelter capacity in Mexican border cities.
Metering Update: May 2022
Published by the University of Texas at Austin Strauss Center on May 2, 2022.
The latest in a series of updates detailing asylum waitlists and shelter capacity in Mexican border cities.
Metering Update: February 2022
Published by the University of Texas at Austin Strauss Center on February 22, 2022.
The latest in a series of updates detailing asylum waitlists and shelter capacity in Mexican border cities.
CBP staffs up border line as asylum seekers try to reach U.S. soil by driving across
Published by the San Diego Union Tribune on February 5, 2022.
Asylum seekers, many of them Russian, are seeking to reach U.S. soil through San Diego’s main port of entry from Tijuana. One case led to a December 12, 2021 use of force incident.
Metering Update: November 2021
Published by the University of Texas at Austin Strauss Center on December 1, 2021.
The latest in a series of updates detailing asylum waitlists and shelter capacity in Mexican border cities.
Pushing Back Protection: How Offshoring and Externalization Imperil the Right to Asylum
Published by the National Immigrant Justice Center (NIJC) and FWD.us on August 3, 2021.
Documents how the United States and other recipient governments have been steadily chipping away at the right to seek refuge for years.
Unresolved Complaints of CBP Misconduct Require Immediate Attention and Accountability
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.
Appendix of Unresolved Complaints
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.
Mexicanos desplazados que buscan asilo en EU, atrapados y sin ayuda en un campamento en Matamoros
Publicado por Animal Político el 22 de septiembre de 2020.
Some Mexican families are among the hundreds of mostly Central Americans awaiting their turn to seek asylum on the U.S. side of the border in Matamoros, Mexico.
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.
The Moving Border
Published by National Public Radio Latino USA on May 27, 2020.
A two-part audio series looks at the impact of the Trump administration’s crackdown on asylum, reporting from Ciudad Juárez and Tapachula.
Metering & COVID-19
The latest in a series of reports documenting the status of asylum seekers forced by metering to wait in Mexico for a chance to approach U.S. border ports of entry.
Podcast: “There are 15,000 people waiting without access to asylum”
Published by WOLA on March 24, 2020.
An interview with Savitri Arvey of the University of California at San Diego’s U.S.-Mexico Center, co-author of a series of updates on “metering” along the border.
Metering Update: February 2020
The latest edition of a quarterly effort to document the status of asylum seekers forced by metering to wait in Mexico for a chance to approach U.S. border ports of entry.
Interlocking Set of Trump Administration Policies at the U.S.-Mexico Border Bars Virtually All from Asylum
Published by the Migration Policy Institute on February 27, 2020.
Explains the various policies, rule changes, and programs that the Trump administration has used to eliminate the legal right to seek asylum at the border.
How the American dream died on the world’s busiest border
Published by The Guardian on February 21, 2020.
The plight of migrants forced to wait in Mexican border towns for a chance to seek asylum on the U.S. side.
No Way Out: The Humanitarian Crisis for Migrants and Asylum Seekers Trapped Between the United States, Mexico and the Northern Triangle of Central America
Published by Doctors Without Borders on February 11, 2020.
A documentation of the effects that U.S. asylum restriction policies are having on migrants’ physical and mental health, based on 480 interviews and testimonies with migrants and asylum seekers.
How Trump Created a New Global Capital of Exiles
Published by Politico on January 5, 2020.
U.S. policies like metering and Remain in Mexico have created a large community of stranded asylum seekers, from many countries, in Tijuana.
“I Can’t Believe What’s Happening—What We’re Becoming”: A memo from El Paso and Ciudad Juárez
Published by WOLA on December 19, 2019.
A memo reporting back from a field visit to El Paso and Ciudad Juárez.