Last updated December 3, 2023. Download a PDF packet of infographics at bit.ly/wola_border_infographics.
Mexican Military Personnel Deployed on Border and Migration Missions
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Mexico’s Apprehensions of All Migrants
Last updated December 3, 2023. Download a PDF packet of infographics at bit.ly/wola_border_infographics.
Mexico’s Migrant Apprehensions (Since 2022)
Last updated December 3, 2023. Download a PDF packet of infographics at bit.ly/wola_border_infographics.
La esperanza en el camino: La REDODEM en un país de impunidad, militarización y violencias.
Publicado por REDODEM on September 12, 2023.
A 273-page research report about migration trends, policies, and human rights in Mexico in 2021 and 2022.
Podcast: Advocacy for Migrants at a Challenging Time: The View from Mexico
Published by WOLA on August 30, 2023.
Gretchen Kuhner directs the Mexico City-based Institute for Women in Migration (IMUMI). She explains the challenges and complexities—and occasional advocacy successes—of the current moment of record migration and changing policies, viewed from Mexico.
Few Ways Forward, No Way Back: Asylum Seekers’ Search for safety at the El Paso-Ciudad Juárez Border
Published by WOLA on December 15, 2022.
A field research update, with embedded video, based on conversations with asylum-seeking migrants, many of them Venezuelan, stranded in Ciudad Juárez, Chihuahua.
Migration in the Americas: ‘There is a double standard at the U.S. border’
Published by WOLA on October 19, 2022.
WOLA staff discuss the latest trends in migration to the United States and the consequences of the U.S. focus on reducing the number of migrants arriving at the border.
As numbers rise, the hardships of migration through Mexico multiply
Published by the New Humanitarian on September 21, 2022.
The grim situation of migrants stuck in Mexico’s southern-border city of Tapachula.
Abusos, engaños y pesadillas: mujeres migrantes viven con traumas psicológicos en México
Publicado por Efecto Cocuyo el 11 de septiembre de 2022.
Migrant women stranded in Mexico suffer untreated symptoms of psychological stress.
Journey to reach Mexico fraught with danger and uncertainty for migrants
Published on July 25, 2022 by Cronkite News.
A report from Tapachula, near the Mexico-Guatemala border, where stranded migrants face hunger, discrimination, and insecurity.
Mexico: Asylum Seekers Face Abuses at Southern Border
Published by Human Rights Watch on June 6, 2022.
A field report on abuses of migrant rights in Mexico’s southern-border city of Tapachula, focusing on the asylum-seeking migrant population stranded there.
Caravanas 2021: Nuevos Retos para las Movilidades en México
Publicado por la Comisión Nacional de Derechos Humanos, 3 de junio de 2022.
The Mexican government’s human rights ombusdman reports on the human rights aspects of attempts to form migrant caravans in 2021. (Link at cndh.org.mx)
Struggling to Survive: Plight of Asylum Seekers at Mexico’s Southern Border Highlights Need for Regional Action
Published by WOLA on June 2, 2022.
Report on a March 2022 research visit to Tapachula, near Mexico’s border with Guatemala, where large numbers of asylum-seeking migrants are stranded by U.S. and Mexican policies.
Beyond the U.S.-Mexico Border: Migration Trends in the Americas, Explained
Published by WOLA on May 26, 2022. (Español)
A look at migration beyond the U.S.-Mexico border, examining recent trends in human mobility and the challenges migrants, refugees, and asylum seekers are facing throughout the hemisphere
Bajo la Bota
Publicado por la Fundación para la Justicia y otras organizaciones el 24 de mayo de 2022.
A multimedia microsite about the increasing use of military force to confront migration in Mexico, the United States, and elsewhere in the region.
México, el limbo de los nuevos refugiados centroamericanos
Publicado por Contra Corriente el 16 de mayo de 2022.
Mexico is increasingly becoming the final destination for Central Americans fleeing misrule by increasingly authoritarian governments.
“Algunos llegan sin uñas porque las dejan agarrando los arbustos”: la peligrosa travesía de una venezolana con su hija de 3 años a EE.UU.
Publicado por BBC Mundo el 12 de mayo de 2022.
A detailed account of a Venezuelan woman’s journey across Mexico and to the United States with her young daughter.
‘The invisibles’: A Cuban asylum seeker’s dangerous odyssey
Published by the New Humanitarian on May 10, 2022.
A multimedia presentation recounts the route that a Cuban asylum seeker took through Panama’s dangerous Darién Gap jungles, and on through Central America and Mexico.
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.
Beyond the Bridge: Documented Human Rights Abuses and Civil Rights Violations Against Haitian Migrants in the Del Rio, Texas Encampment
Published by Robert F. Kennedy Human Rights and the Haitian Bridge Alliance on March 29, 2022.
Documents examples of U.S. and Mexican personnel abusing and mistreating Haitian migrants during and after a large-scale September 2021 migration event in Del Rio, Texas.
Internal CBP Documents Detail “Transnational Effort to Shut Down Asylum”
Published by the Intercept on March 22, 2022.
CBP documents and situation reports reveal extreme steps the agency, along with Mexican authorities, took to block “migrant caravan” participants’ attempt to seek asylum in early 2019.
Vulnerable people, unmet protection needs, and a wasteful security buildup at the busiest section of the U.S.-Mexico border
Published by WOLA on March 21, 2022.
A photo essay from a WOLA staff visit to the Texas-Mexico border, from Del Rio to Brownsville including four Mexican border cities.
Hondureños, del sueño americano al tapachulteco
Publicado por Chiapas Paralelo el 17 de marzo de 2022.
Profiles Honduran migrants who have decided to settle in the relative safety of Tapachula, Chiapas, Mexico after seeing their efforts to reach the United States blocked.
The Long History of the U.S. Immigration Crisis
Published by Foreign Affairs on March 14, 2022.
Ana Raquel Minian of Stanford University contends that urging Mexico to serve as a bulwark against migration is a longstanding U.S. practice
La caravana migrante en la Ciudad de México 12-22 Diciembre de 2021
Publicado por la Universidad Ibero el 31 de enero de 2022.
A memoir of a migrant caravan whose members walked from Tapachula to Mexico City in late 2021.