Last updated November 3, 2022. Download a PDF packet of infographics at bit.ly/wola_border_infographics.
9,460 Migrant Remains Recovered By Border Patrol in 25 years
Tag: Migrant Deaths
Spotlight on the Borderlands: How Militarization and Border Control Impact Migrants and Border Residents on the U.S.-Mexico Borderlands
Published by the National Network for Immigrant and Refugee Rights on October 27, 2022.
Articles and analyses from “frontline leaders and organizers with direct experience, both in theory and practice, of migrant human rights.”
The Most Surveilled Place in America
Published by The Verge on August 3, 2022.
Explores the humanitarian impact of U.S. border law enforcement agencies’ adoption of sophisticated technologies to deter migrants.
The Missing Migrants of South Texas
Published by the New Yorker on August 2, 2022.
A profile of the South Texas Human Rights Center, which leaves water and helps identify remains of missing migrants in Falfurrias, Texas, and the Center’s director, Eddie Canales.
The Tragedy in Texas Was Avoidable, Just Like Hundreds of Other Migrant Deaths on U.S. Soil This Year
Published by WOLA on June 28, 2022.
The Texas tragedy highlighted a worsening trend of migrant deaths along the border, which result in large part from “prevention through deterrence” policies and Title 42.
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.
Southwest Border: CBP Should Improve Data Collection, Reporting, and Evaluation for the Missing Migrant Program
Published by the U.S. Government Accountability Office on April 20, 2022.
The congressional oversight agency finds that Border Patrol has failed to collect, record, or report to Congress data about migrant deaths at the border. (Link at gao.gov)
Climate impact or policy choice? The spatiotemporality of thermoregulation and border crosser mortality in southern Arizona
Published by the Geographical Journal on March 22, 2022.
Finds that border policies, more than climate conditions, are responsible for the sharp rise in migrant deaths in southern Arizona’s deserts.
8,258 Migrant Remains Found By Border Patrol in 23½ years
Last updated February 27, 2022. Download a PDF packet of infographics at bit.ly/wola_border_infographics.
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.
Podcast: Missing in Brooks County: A tragic outcome of U.S. border and migration policy
Published by WOLA on September 27, 2021.
An interview with the creators of a documentary about the plague of migrant deaths in ranchland around a Border Patrol checkpoint in south Texas.
Notification and Review Procedures for Certain Deaths and Deaths in Custody
Published by Customs and Border Protection on September 22, 2021.
Explains new CBP guidelines for reporting deaths of migrants, both in custody and otherwise. Migrant remains found by CBP are now considered “not reportable.” (Link at cbp.gov)
Migrant Deaths in Southern Arizona: Recovered Undocumented Border Crosser Remains Investigated by the Pima County Office of the Medical Examiner, 1990 – 2020
Published by the University of Arizona Binational Migration Institute in April 2021.
An analysis of numeric trends and demographic characteristics of the remains of at least 3,356 border crossers recovered in Arizona between 1990 and 2020.
Migrant Death Mitigation: Fiscal Year 2020 Report to Congress
Published by U.S. Customs and Border Protection on February 12, 2021.
A report, required by Congress, on steps taken to reduce the hundreds of migrants who die of dehydration, exposure, and other causes each year on U.S. soil. (Link at dhs.gov)
Podcast: Beyond the Wall: “It’s all about the families”, Eddie Canales on preventing deaths and identifying missing migrants in Texas borderlands
Published by WOLA on October 30, 2020.
A conversation with Eduardo Canales of the South Texas Human Rights Center, about his organization’s fight to stop migrant deaths and to identify remains.
What New Official Data Tells Us About the Ongoing Tragedy at the U.S.-Mexico Border
Published by WOLA on October 16, 2020.
As the Homeland Security Department completes its 2020 fiscal year, a walk through some of the prominent findings from the year-end data.
COVID-19 Border Closure Could Lead to Jump in Migrant Deaths in Summer Months
Published by WOLA on June 26, 2020.
May 2020 saw an increase in apprehensions of single adults, many of whom may seek to avoid apprehension by migrating through dangerous border sectors during the hot summer months.
Migrant Deaths in South Texas
Published by the University of Texas Strauss Center on May 26, 2020.
Researchers find that more than 3,253 people in 22 years—far more than Border Patrol estimates—have lost their lives attempting to migrate through south Texas.
Fiscal Year 2019 Customs and Border Protection Border Statistics
Published by Customs and Border Protection on February 11, 2020.
All of the prior-year data that CBP posts to its statistics page, combined in a single PDF file. Includes sector profile, family unit and UAC apprehensions, family unit apprehensions by sector, monthly apprehensions, apprehensions from Mexico and other than Mexico, staffing statistics, deaths, apprehensions by sector, apprehensions since 1925, and budget statistics.
“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.