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.
Published by the International Organization for Migration on August 24, 2023.
Finds that 2022 was the deadliest year on record for migrants in the Americas, with nearly half happening at the U.S.-Mexico border.
Published by MSNBC on July 19, 2023.
A column notes that Texas state authorities’ abuse of migrants happens in a context of larger national border policies that inflict suffering in order to “deter” migrants.
Published by WOLA on March 29, 2023.
A response to the March 27, 2023 tragedy in a migrant detention facility in Ciudad Juárez, Mexico.
Last updated February 28, 2023. Download a PDF packet of infographics at bit.ly/wola_border_infographics.
Last updated February 28, 2023. Download a PDF packet of infographics at bit.ly/wola_border_infographics.
Last updated February 28, 2023. Download a PDF packet of infographics at bit.ly/wola_border_infographics.
Last updated February 28, 2023. Download a PDF packet of infographics at bit.ly/wola_border_infographics.
Last updated February 9, 2023. Download a PDF packet of infographics at bit.ly/wola_border_infographics.
Published by U.S. Customs and Border Protection on February 6, 2023.
“Includes statistical data on a total of 151 deaths, which occurred during FY 2021, including 55 in-custody deaths, 53 reportable CBP-involved deaths, and 43 additional deaths that Appropriations staff requested OPR to review.” (Original link)
Published by the Department of Homeland Security Office of Inspector-General on February 1, 2023.
Narrates what is known about deaths in the agencies’ custody during fiscal 2021, including five cases of deaths in CBP custody. (Original link)
Published by the Consulate of Mexico in San Diego on January 27, 2023.
Lists 100 Mexican nationals killed, and 555 injured, while crossing from the Tijuana area to the San Diego area 2020-2022. (Original link)
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.”
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.
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.
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.
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.
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)
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.
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.
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.
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)
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.
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)
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.
