CMS: The Untold Story: Migrant Deaths Along the US-Mexico Border and Beyond October 16, 2024 01:00 PM - 02:00 PM (ET) The Journal on Migration and Human Security will soon release a special edition issue, “ Forced Migration, Deterrence, and Solutions...
Reece Jones, Oct. 2, 2024 "“Open borders” has become an epithet that Republican use to attack Democrats, blaming many problems in the United States on the lack of attention to the border. However, rather than countering with a more humane policy...
Sandra Sanchez, Border Report, Oct. 1, 2024 "Recent reports that over 435,000 convicted criminals are on U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement’s non-detained docket (NDD) — meaning they are not detained by the agency while they await immigration...
Muzaffar Chishti and Colleen Putzel-Kavanaugh, MPI, Sept. 27, 2024 "The Democratic Party’s approach to the U.S.-Mexico border has fundamentally shifted, as was illustrated most clearly at the 2024 Democratic National Convention. While the 2020 convention...
Human Rights Watch, Sept. 18, 2024 "Dear President Biden, Secretary Mayorkas and Secretary Blinken, We, the undersigned human rights, humanitarian, civil society , and faith-based organizations, are writing to you in response to the recent announcement...
Refugees International, Sept. 5, 2024 "United We Dream and the undersigned 83 national, international, state and local organizations write to express our unwavering objection to the Border Act of 2024 (S.4361) . Recently, some have touted this bill as a...
Todd Miller, The Border Chronicle, Sept. 5, 2024 "How does one go from a U.S. Special Forces Green Beret in El Salvador to doing humanitarian aid work on the border? This is where Tohono O’odham Mike Wilson begins this podcast conversation, with a...
Much is being made about the drop in numbers of unauthorized crossings, and asylum requests, at the southern border. Whether the drop is due to recent Biden policy moves, or to other factors, is an open question. The purpose of this post is to explain, in layperson’s...
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AIC, Aug. 14, 2024 "Since the creation of the Department of Homeland Security (DHS) in 2003, the federal government has spent an estimated $409 billion on the agencies that carry out immigration enforcement, and tens of billions more on border barriers and...
Melissa del Bosque, The Border Chronicle, Aug. 20, 2024 "While he lived, Eduardo "Eddie" Canales saved countless lives in the remote South Texas ranchlands. A statewide center in Texas to identify missing migrants would be a fitting legacy."...
Monique O. Madan, The Markup, Aug. 10, 2024 "The thing that can be unsettling is that there are so many ways that you are probably being watched. You’re aware that you’re being watched, but you can’t see it with your eyes. But you have...
USA v. Abbott Majority: "[W]e hold that the district court clearly erred in finding that the United States will likely prove that the barrier is in a navigable stretch of the Rio Grande." Dissents: "The majority’s novel test not only departs...
My friend Morgan Smith wrote this note about the Rio Grande in July 2024. Learn more about Morgan here , here and here .
Immigrants’ Rights Policy Clinic, Center for Immigration Law and Policy, UCLA School of Law, June 2024 "This white paper addresses two misconceptions. The first is that family separations at the U.S.-Mexico border began under the administration of...