Last updated December 3, 2023. Download a PDF packet of infographics at bit.ly/wola_border.
U.S. Deportations of Mexican Citizens into Mexico
Tag: Mexico
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.
Migrant Encounters from Mexico plus El Salvador plus Guatemala plus Honduras, and From Elsewhere
Last updated November 19, 2023. Download a PDF packet of infographics at bit.ly/wola_border_infographics.
Citizens of Mexico: CBP Encounters At and Between Ports of Entry
Last updated November 19, 2023. Download a PDF packet of infographics at bit.ly/wola_border_infographics.
San Fernando: última parada. Viaje al crimen autorizado en Tamaulipas
Published by A Dónde Van los Desaparecidos on September 11, 2023.
Excerpt from investigative journalist Marcela Turati’s book about the 2010 San Fernando migrant massacre and the power of organized crime in Tamaulipas, Mexico.
Fentanyl at the U.S. border: How the drug is made, smuggled, discovered and seized
Published by the Dallas Morning News on September 6, 2023.
An examination of fentanyl supplies and attempts to interdict them.
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.
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.
How the Biden Administration May Keep Asylum out of Reach After Title 42
Published by WOLA on February 17, 2023.
Should Title 42 end, the Biden administration may reject asylum seekers using a “transit ban” and expedited removal procedures, if Mexico takes deportees. The blow would be softened by two currently flawed programs, humanitarian parole and use of the “CBP One” app.
Tijuana’s migrant shelters under increased attack, as the U.S. sends hundreds of migrants per day
Published by WOLA on January 31, 2022.
Local media point to a rising tide of threats to migrant shelters in Tijuana, a city to which U.S. authorities expelled or deported about 48,000 people during the last quarter of 2022.
Biden Administration Takes Fresh Steps to Limit Access to Protection in the United States
Published by WOLA on January 5, 2023.
A reaction to the Biden administration’s expansion of the scope of Title 42 expulsions into Mexico.
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.
How the Mexican revolution of 1910 helped shape U.S. border policy
Published by NPR on July 5, 2022.
A conversation between radio host Terry Gross and Kelly Lytle Hernández, author of Bad Mexicans: Race, Empire, and Revolution in the Borderlands.
Thousands of Migrants Have Been Waiting for Months to Enter U.S.
Published by the New York Times on May 19, 2022.
Asylum seekers remain stranded in Mexican border cities waiting for a chance to seek protection in the United States, which Title 42 prevents them from doing.
Informe Sobre Desaparición De Personas Migrantes en México: Una Perspectiva Desde El Servicio Jesuita a Migrantes-México
Publicado por el Servicio Jesuita a Migrantes – México el 11 de mayo de 2022.
A troubling record of the Jesuit Refugee Services’ work seeing to find or identify more than 1,200 missing migrants in Mexico since 2007.
Mar Adentro: Migrantes y Náufragos en el Mar
Publicado por la Organización Internacional para la Migración el 20 de diciembre de 2021.
Maps some of the mostly short-hop maritime routes that migrants have been taking to avoid land-based interdiction efforts between Central America, Mexico, and the U.S.-Mexico border.