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 ...
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.
Here is what I’ve seen about the U.S. military presence at the Ecuadorian Air Force’s base at Taura, in Guayas province, about 45 minutes from Guayaquil, Ecuador’s largest city.
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 ...
Catching up on what was said at a House Homeland hearing last week about the CBP One app, which Customs and Border Protection (CBP) is using to allow 1,450 asylum seekers per day inside Mexico use to ...
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 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’s a new “weekly” e-mail about stuff I’ve been working on, for those who’ve signed up to receive them. This week’s edition is as jam-packed as you’d expect from someone working on border and ...
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.