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WOLA Senior Associates Adam Isacson and Maureen Meyer report on a trip to south Texas (Laredo, McAllen, and Brownsville) and Matamoros, Tamaulipas, finding increased migration and drug trafficking, a lack of spillover violence, and a worrisome trend of deportations to dangerous Mexican border cities.
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.
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.
View this report as a PDF Read the executive summary Lea el resumen ejecutivo en español Key Findings Contrary to…
The limits to using walls for migration, drug trafficking challenges Following one of the Trump White House’s first executive orders,…
An Impossible and Inhumane Approach Toward Asylum-Seekers at the Border On April 6, 2018, Attorney General Jeff Sessions notified all…
The zero tolerance policy’s most visible outcome was the mass separation of asylum-seeking parents and children. The Trump administration’s ham-fisted…
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Carolina Jiménez Sandoval
Maureen Meyer
Gimena Sánchez-Garzoli
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