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    Border Update 24 Oct 2025

    Weekly U.S.-Mexico Border Update: Mexico updates, military role, mass deportation, migrant deaths

    Mexico, United StatesMigration
    Adam Isacson, Director for Oversight at WOLA

    Adam Isacson
    Adam Isacson, Director for Oversight at WOLA

    Adam Isacson

    Director for Defense Oversight

    Adam Isacson has worked on defense, security, and peacebuilding in Latin America since 1994. He now directs WOLA’s Defense Oversight...

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    Due to a heavy schedule of internal planning meetings this week, we must present this week’s Border Update in abbreviated form, as a categorized set of links to reports and coverage. We will return to “normal” prose format next week.

    I. Updates from Mexico and Central America

    I.A. Mexico

    I.B. Guatemala

    I.C. Belize “Safe Third Country” Agreement

    II. The U.S. military role

    II. A. National Guard deployments in the U.S. interior, challenged in the federal courts

    II. B. $10 billion to the U.S. Navy’s Supply Systems Command to assist detention facility construction

    II. C. At the border: a poll in Texas

    III. “Mass deportation” and operations in the U.S. interior

    III. A. Chicago

    III. A. 1. September 30 South Shore apartment raid
    III. A. 2. Protest response, tear gas, body cameras, Chief Bovino
    III. A. 3. Uses of deadly force
    III. A. 4. Other Chicago coverage

    III. B. New York

    III. C. San Francisco

    III. D. Los Angeles

    III. E. Portland

    III. F. “Kavanaugh Stops” and detentions of U.S. citizens

    III. G. Pregnant women in detention

    III. H. Detention conditions

    III. I. Personnel and recruitment

    III. J. Use of force

    III. K. Cybersecurity and civil liberties

    III. L. The immigration court system

    III. M. Accountability efforts

    III. N. Mass deportation and democracy

    III. O. Mass deportation and the economy

    IV. CBP added several migrant deaths notifications to its “accountability and transparency” web page

    V. Other news

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