Published by the Florence Immigrant and Refugee Rights Project on September 12, 2024.
Interviews with children in Border Patrol custody find a surprisingly high proportion suffering verbal or physical abuse.
Published by U.S. Customs and Border Protection on August 16, 2024.
Outlines specific procedures for the handling, storage, transference, and return of personal property belonging to detainees held in short-term holding facilities. (Link at cbp.gov)
Documents U.S. border officials executing a new asylum restriction in such a way that even people who badly need protection are refused a hearing.
Documents people who have faced “insurmountable due process violations” after trying to seek asylum at the border after the Biden administration’s June 2024 asylum ban went into effect.
Published by several organizations, and hosted by Human Rights First, on June 14, 2024.
A report to the United Nations Working Group on Enforced or Involuntary Disappearances alleges that U.S. authorities’ treatment of migrants and asylum seekers in custody at the border is tantamount to enforced disappearances.
Published by the U.S. Government Accountability Office on May 23, 2024.
Finds that CBP has guidance for handling personal property, but some of it is unclear, resulting in field locations interpreting it differently. (Link at gao.gov)
Published by the U.S. Government Accountability Office on May 13, 2024.
Finds that CBP’s Office of Professional Responsibility has made significant progress implementing new investigative standards, but it could strengthen investigator independence from the agency
Published by TRAC Immigration on March 20, 2024.
“Troubling is the almost total lack of transparency on where and why these DHS failures occurred. Equally troubling is the lack of solid information on what happened to these many immigrants when DHS never rectified its failure”
Local law enforcement agencies like the Ohio State Highway Patrol (OSHP) often work in concert with USBP agents in constructing a dragnet that serves as a force multiplier for USBP to funnel immigrants—most of whom have no criminal history—into deportation proceedings.
Presents a troubling picture of the conditions faced by migrants, including children and families, detained between the primary and secondary barriers along the U.S.-Mexico border.
Published by the Government Accountability Project on February 19, 2024.
More whistleblower disclosures reveal malfeasance at CBP’s Office of the Chief Medical Examiner and its contractor.
Published by the U.S. Government Accountability Office on February 14, 2024.
identifies gaps in DHS’s handling of employee misconduct, particularly in the equitable adjudication between supervisors and non-supervisors. (Link at gao.gov)
Details U.S. immigration agencies’ confiscation of asylum seekers’ belongings on “hundreds” of documented occasions.
Published by the Kino Border Initiative in late January, 2024.
The Nogales-based shelter and human rights defense organization offers a compendium of alleged abuses and rights violations from its regular reports to Congress.
Published by the New Yorker on January 28, 2024.
An excerpt from an upcoming book by New Yorker staff writer Jonathan Blitzer, telling the story of a Honduran woman whom the Trump administration separated from her sons in 2017.
Published by U.S. Customs and Border Protection on December 8, 2023.
Finds that CBP took 1,751 formal disciplinary actions against members of its 60,000-person workforce in fiscal year 2022, 13 percent fewer than in 2021. (link at cbp.gov)
Published by News 4 Buffalo on September 25, 2023.
A deep look at the April 2023 Border Patrol shooting of a man wielding a club, following a vehicle pursuit in New Mexico. Reveals that the man suffered from mental illness.
Published by the Southern Border Communities Coalition on September 26, 2023.
Explains the difficulty in achieving accountability for the fatal 2010 beating of a Mexican man by CBP and Border Patrol personnel at the San Ysidro port of entry.
Published by the Southern Border Communities Coalition on September 26, 2023.
A report submitted for the 2023 Review of U.S. Compliance with the International Covenant on Civil and Political Rights finds U.S. border law enforcement compliance sorely lacking.
Published by inewsource on September 26, 2023.
A deep look at an April 2022 Border Patrol vehicle pursuit incident that took the life of 19-year-old U.S. citizen Jesús Manuel Saldaña Rocha.
Published by CBP on August 30, 2023.
CBP’s Office of Professional Responsibility shares a study of corruption cases between 2005 and 2017, along with structured interviews, to determine patterns and causes of corruption. (Link at cbp.gov)
Published by the Border Chronicle on August 24, 2023.
A interview covers WOLA’s August 2023 joint report on border law enforcement accountability with the Kino Border Initiative.
Published by WOLA and the Kino Border Initiative on August 2, 2023.
Drawing heavily on this site’s database and the accountability work of the Nogales-based Kino Border Initiative, this in-depth report looks at the chronic nature of human rights abuse at the U.S.-Mexico border, how DHS’s accountability system is meant to work, and where it often fails. It offers more than 40 policy recommendations.
A report from organizations monitoring asylum seekers’ limited access to land-border ports of entry in the month after the Title 42 policy’s termination.
Published by the Southern Border Communities Coalition on May 13, 2023.
A complaint to the DHS Civil Rights and Civil Liberties office about Border Patrol’s practice of penning asylum seekers between layers of the border wall south of San DIego for days before processing them.
