Published by the Kaiser Family Foundation on May 26, 2022.
Explains Title 42’s impact on migrant families’ health and well-being, and the implications of lifting the pandemic measure.
Title 42 and its Impact on Migrant Families
Tag: Public Health
The psychological effects of forced family separation on asylum-seeking children and parents at the US-Mexico border: A qualitative analysis of medico-legal documents
Published by PLoS ONE on November 24, 2021.
Finds evidence of long-lasting mental disorders among migrants whose families were forcibly separated at the border during the Trump administration
Unresolved Complaints of CBP Misconduct Require Immediate Attention and Accountability
Published by the ACLU on March 3, 2021.
A memo to the incoming Biden administration’s new Homeland Security secretary details numerous unresolved cases of CBP and Border Patrol misconduct and abuse. Accompanied by a 207-page appendix of complaints issued in 2019 and 2020.
Appendix of Unresolved Complaints
Published by the ACLU on March 3, 2021.
A collection of ACLU complaints about CBP and Border Patrol misconduct and abuse in 2019 and 2020, accompanying a memo to the incoming Biden administration’s new Homeland Security secretary.
‘They were sending the virus’: Guatemala reels after U.S. deports hundreds of deportees with COVID-19
Published by The Arizona Republic on October 28, 2020.
ICE deported back to Guatemala hundreds of people who tested positive for COVID-19.
The Trump Administration’s Mistreatment of Detained Immigrants: Deaths and Deficient Medical Care by For-Profit Detention Contractors
A 14-month investigation by House committee staff finds poor conditions and urgent health risks for migrants in ICE’s network of privatized detention centers. (Link at oversight.house.gov)
Mexicanos desplazados que buscan asilo en EU, atrapados y sin ayuda en un campamento en Matamoros
Publicado por Animal Político el 22 de septiembre de 2020.
Some Mexican families are among the hundreds of mostly Central Americans awaiting their turn to seek asylum on the U.S. side of the border in Matamoros, Mexico.
ICE Detention Facilities: Failing to Meet Basic Standards of Care
Published by the House Committee on Homeland Security on September 21, 2020.
A year-long study based on site visits to eight ICE detention centers finds deficient medical care, abuse of solitary confinement, challenges accessing legal services, and unsanitary conditions. (Link at homeland.house.gov)
‘We sent 500 tests. They don’t answer calls’: Inside ICE’s coronavirus testing disaster
Published by Reveal on September 10, 2020.
ICE repeatedly rebuffed New Mexico state health officials’ offers to help control a worsening outbreak of COVID-19 at its Otero County Processing Center.
“There Is No Mercy”: As the Coronavirus Descended on the Border, the Trump Administration Escalated Its Crackdown on Asylum
Published by The Intercept on September 5, 2020.
How the pandemic and the Trump administration’s crackdown on asylum are being experienced in southern Arizona.
Early Experiences with COVID-19 at CBP Border Patrol Stations and OFO Ports of Entry
Published by the Department of Homeland Security Inspector-General on September 4, 2020.
“Overall, the majority of respondents reported their facilities were prepared to address COVID-19.” The report makes no recommendations. (Link at oig.dhs.gov)
The US detained hundreds of migrant children in hotels as the pandemic flared
Published by CNN on September 3, 2020.
Details ICE’s practice of holding migrant families and children under contractors’ custody in border-town hotels before expelling them under measures put in place due to COVID-19.
Her Rapist Threatened to Make Her “Disappear.” Instead of Asylum, ICE Put Her in a Hotel and Sent Her Back.
Published by ProPublica on August 4, 2020.
Over 3,000 unaccompanied children have been summarily expelled back to Mexico or Central America, with no way even to track what’s happened to them. Some first spend days in hotels guarded by unlicensed contractors.
New Asylum Ban, Recycled Pretext: Proposed Rule Would Illegally, Unjustly Bar Many Asylum Seekers on Public Health Grounds
Laying out the strong case against the Trump administration’s proposed July 9, 2020 rule that would make permanent restrictions on asylum first implemented as a COVID-19 response.
Denied, Deported And Abandoned — Assault On U.S. Asylum
Published by Texas Public Radio on July 24, 2020.
An audio report and accompanying text, reported from the Rio Grande Valley, El Paso, and Mexico City, about the impact of the Trump administration’s virtual ending of the right to asylum at the border during the pandemic.
Border wall, touted as health protection, was useless as COVID-19 surged in region
Published by The Arizona Daily Star on July 19, 2020.
As Arizona coronavirus cases soar, the state’s extensive border wall system was irrelevant to stopping its spread.
The Hidden Curve: Estimating the Spread of COVID-19 among People in ICE Detention
Published by the Vera Institute of Justice on June 30, 2020.
An epidemiological model of COVID-19 in ICE detention centers finds that “by day 60 of the simulation—corresponding to May 15, 2020—the estimated number of cumulative COVID-19 cases would be 15 times higher than the number of cases ICE reported.”
Between Borders
Published by The Texas Observer on June 30, 2020.
A look at the severe impact of COVID-19 on the Texas borderlands, especially on asylum seekers.
Unless the United States Deploys These 5 Regional Migration Strategies, COVID-19 Could Portend Another Humanitarian Crisis On Our Border
Published by WOLA on June 30, 2020.
Migration is likely to increase again at the border. But through inexpensive, low-drama strategies, the U.S. government can manage it in an orderly, humane way.
Podcast: Beyond the Wall: A Roundtable Discussion on Border and Migration
Published by WOLA on June 18, 2020.
WOLA launches a new animated video, and a panel from WOLA discusses the mid-pandemic state of the border.
ICE Air: 1,677 Flights While Covid-19 Rages (Jan-April 2020)
Published by Witness at the Border on May 29, 2020.
“This report will quantify, in stark terms, the likely transmission of COVID through ICE Air flights shuffling detainees between detention centers.”
Matamoros: un botadero de migrantes en plena pandemia
Publicado por El Faro el 24 de mayo de 2020.
A photo-filled report from the Mexican border city of Matamoros, where thousands of mostly Central American asylum-seekers are stranded by “Remain in Mexico” and the COVID-19 border closure.
Explainer on U.S. Deportations and Expulsions During the COVID-19 Pandemic
An overview of the dangers and illegality of the Trump administration’s quick expulsions of asylum seekers during the COVID-19 border closure.
Family Separation 2.0: “You aren’t going to separate me from my only child.”
Published by Amnesty International on May 21, 2020.
A report on ICE’s new practice, during the COVID-19 pandemic, of giving migrants in family detention the choice of either separating from their children or staying together in indefinite detention.
Podcast: Beyond the Wall—The Human Consequences of ICE Detention Centers
Published by WOLA on May 19, 2020.
Interviews with Sarah Sanchez and Isabel Ribe, two advocates at the Santa Fe Dreamers Project working with detained migrants; and with Dr. Tracy Green, a Brandeis University professor and Dana Gold, senior counsel with the Government Accountability Project.