Last updated September 3, 2023. Download a PDF packet of infographics at bit.ly/wola_border_infographics.
Border Patrol Migrant Encounters in Rio Grande Valley Sector
Tag: Rio Grande Valley
Border Wall Construction in Defiance of President Biden’s Executive Order
Published by the Center for Biological Diversity on September 8, 2022.
Reproduces documents obtained through a Freedom of Information Act lawsuit, indicating that the Army Corps of Engineers used “a narrow emergency exemption” to resume some border wall construction after President Biden called a halt to wall-building in 2021.
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.
Vulnerable people, unmet protection needs, and a wasteful security buildup at the busiest section of the U.S.-Mexico border
Published by WOLA on March 21, 2022.
A photo essay from a WOLA staff visit to the Texas-Mexico border, from Del Rio to Brownsville including four Mexican border cities.
Rio Grande Valley Area Border Patrol Struggles with High Volumes of Detainees and Cases of Prolonged Detention but Has Taken Consistent Measures to Improve Conditions in Facilities
Published by the Department of Homeland Security Office of Inspector-General on January 27, 2022.
A report on a July 2021 visit to holding facilities of Border Patrol’s Rio Grande Valley sector in South Texas. (link at oig.dhs.gov)
A Monument to Stupidity: The Trauma of Trump’s Border Wall
Published by The Intercept on October 31, 2020.
A look at the harms that border wall construction has inflicted in south Texas.
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.
Why a private section of the border wall is allegedly failing
Published by CBS 60 Minutes on September 27, 2020.
An investigation of the section of privately built border wall in Texas’s Rio Grande Valley, paid for by an organization whose management is now under indictment for fraud.
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.
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.
He Built a Privately Funded Border Wall. It’s Already at Risk of Falling Down if Not Fixed.
Published by ProPublica on July 2, 2020.
A section of private border wall on the banks of the Rio Grande in south Texas, built by a pro-Trump company with donated funds, is threatened by erosion.