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On the Front Lines: Border Security, Migration, and Humanitarian Concerns in South Texas
With Congress debating a Department of Homeland Security funding bill, the issue of border security is in the spotlight. But while some in Washington quarrel over a nebulous “crisis” at the border, a lesser-known—but in many ways more grim—situation is playing out in Texas’s Rio Grande Valley region.
Mexico’s Other Border: Security, Migration, and the Humanitarian Crisis at the Line with Central America
In February 2014, WOLA investigators paid a 12-day visit to several points along Mexico’s southern border with Guatemala. Their new report examines border security conditions, migration trends, and the push factors that force Central American migrants to abandon their countries of origin.
A Cautionary Tale: Plan Colombia’s Lessons for U.S. Policy Toward Mexico and Beyond
Whenever people discuss solutions to Mexico’s out-of-control violence, someone will inevitably bring up Colombia as a “model.” The report concludes that the ‘success’ of the past several years in Colombia is only a partial, and fragile, victory at best—and it has come at an unacceptably high human and institutional cost.
Ready, Aim, Foreign Policy: How the Pentagon Takes Over More and More Areas of Foreign Policy
In a little-noticed but disturbing transformation, U.S. foreign policy decision-making is moving from the Department of State to the Department of Defense.
Blurring the Lines: Trends in U.S. military programs with Latin America
Report by WOLA, LAWG, and CIP, exploring the “war on terror” as the new guiding mission for assistance programs in Latin America.