An account of my travel to testify in El Paso federal court on October 2, in a hearing to halt border barrier construction in and near Big Bend National Park. We won a key round—a preliminary ...

A U.S. Government Accountability Office (GAO) report released on September 7, covering harms done by Trump-era U.S.-Mexico border wall construction, includes the only number I’ve seen of the total ...

Warning: I am absolutely not WOLA’s lead analyst on Venezuela; our Venezuela program is led by my colleague Laura Dib, and our president, Carolina Jiménez Sandoval, is a Venezuelan citizen and a top ...

The Trump administration’s Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) had 288 Venezuelan and Salvadoran migrants in its custody. A vast majority, we now know, were not accused of committing crimes, and ...

tl;dr: This piece doesn’t make a human rights argument about asylum access, though it does acknowledge cruelty and human cost. Instead, the argument here is cold, analytical, and practical: the past ...

The U.S. government’s 2023 fiscal year ended on September 30. Here’s a comparison of migration at the U.S.-Mexico border, by migrants’ nationalities, over the past three fiscal years.

Update January 29, 2024: CBP has released final December 2023 data. Read an updated post with nine charts illustrating migration trends. (This number does not include approximately 50,000 more ...

The list below is an excerpt from tomorrow’s Border Update, which I’m still drafting. But it deserves to be shared separately. But even though none committed any crimes in El Salvador, the government ...

Here is one key point ahead of today’s House of Representatives debates and votes on War Powers Resolutions to stop the illegal boat strikes and to stop an unauthorized military attack on Venezuela.

U.S. military personnel are actively participating in operations in Ecuador, one of the most advanced parts of the Trump administration’s new “joint operations” framework for Latin America military ...

On social media this morning I underwent a messy process of trying to piece together the timeline of what happened yesterday, as the Trump administration raced to get 238 Venezuelan citizens on planes ...

Latin America this week, that I know about, that can be attended in person in Washington or online anywhere.