Last updated July 8, 2024. Download a PDF packet of infographics at bit.ly/wola_border_infographics.
Border Patrol Migrant Encounters in Tucson Sector
Tag: Tucson
Checkpoint Dreams
Published by the New York Review of Books on March 23, 2024.
“An unrealized proposal for a Border Patrol installation in Arizona reveals the tension between restricting immigration and freeing trade”
In Nogales, an asylum bottleneck forces a choice: Monthslong wait or dangerous desert crossing
Published by Arizona Luminaria on March 7, 2024.
More migrants are crossing in the Tucson sector than anywhere else along the U.S.-México border, but there is only one port-of-entry to schedule appointments for an asylum claim through the CBP One app
Kino Border Initiative Congressional Year-End Report
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.
The U.S. Needs Better, Not Less, Access To Asylum
Published by WOLA on December 18, 2023.
Report-back from a field visit to the Arizona-Sonora border, notes a humanitarian crisis and people having great difficulty accessing the U.S. asylum system.
Desperation in the Desert: The Industrialization of Migrant Smuggling on the US-Mexico Border
Published by InsightCrime on October 5, 2022.
A report from Altar, Sonora, Mexico, an organized crime-dominated town through which many migrants pass en route to Arizona.
Across southern Arizona, a full range of border woes for Biden
Published by the Washington Post on July 8, 2022.
A report from Yuma and Nogales, where two very different populations of migrants have been arriving in large numbers.
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.
Seeking Input on Border Barrier Remediation in Tucson, AZ
Published by U.S. Customs and Border Protection in January 2022.
A presentation mapping out CBP’s post-Trump administration plans to close border wall gaps and perform environmental remediation in Arizona. (Link at storymaps.arcgis.com)
Due Process Denied: CBP Abuses at the Border October 2020-July 2021
Lists numerous examples of abuse committed by CBP personnel in and around Nogales, Arizona.
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.
Letter on behalf of No More Deaths
A response to a pattern of Border Patrol surveillance, harassment, and raids on an Arizona-based humanitarian group.
The Disappearance of Quitobaquito Springs: Tracking Hydrologic Change with Google Earth Engine
Published by Bellingcat on October 1, 2020.
Using open-source data and imagery tools, this study documents how border wall construction is harming a fragile desert oasis in a southern Arizona protected area.
“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.
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.
Border hysteria misrepresents, hurts border towns
Published by the Arizona Daily Star on May 4, 2020.
Media and entertainment portrayals of the U.S.-Mexico border as far more dangerous and uncontrolled than they are cause harm to towns in the border region.
Podcast: Beyond the Wall: Seeking Shelter in the Age of COVID-19
Published by WOLA on April 6, 2020.
An interview with Joanna Williams, Director of Education and Advocacy at the Kino Border Initiative in Nogales, Arizona/Sonora.