“So the northern part of the migrant route is emptied out a bit, but the southern and middle parts remain extremely full and filling up all the time,” said Adam Isacson, director for defense oversight and a close observer of the border at WOLA, a Washington-based human rights organization...
mann,“A Lost Opportunity for Border Justice at the European Court of Human Rights”, ejil:Talk!, 3 February 2022, available at: <https://www.ejiltalk.org/a-lost-opportunity-for-border-justice-at-the-european-court-of-human-rights/>. 59 H.A. v. Italy, Application No. 26049/18, Judg...
an Obama-era policy suspended by Trump, under which migrants apprehended at the border would be released in the US, on the condition that they later show up for an immigration court hearing. Unsurprisingly, few ever do, and even those who play...
EL PASO, Texas(El Paso Matters)— About 600 migrants have been released to the streets of El Paso by border enforcement agents since Friday as federal holding facilities and nonprofit shelters are again bursting at the seams. “The decision to provisionally release migrants was det...
When the emergency power is triggered or invoked, access to the U.S. asylum system would be preserved at official border crossings. In fact, the bill mandates that the government be able to process at least 1,400 asylum-seekers at ports of entry each day when the power is activated. ...
million pesos — about $5,100 — by a guerrilla group. That could qualify him for asylum, but he said he didn’t request asylum at the border for “a lack of knowledge.” He said he was let through the border anyway and, after a week in government custody, got on a bus to New ...
The illegal traffic has been a long-standing concern at the Manitoba border. In 2017, two Ghanaian border crossers lost their fingers because of frostbite. In 2022, a family of four from India, including two children, was found frozen to death after attempting to cross into the United States...
Immigration minister claimed as much, before being immediately confronted by migrant activists saying they would do no such thing
from 2020 to 2024, fifth behind Guatemala, Honduras, Mexico and El Salvador, according to Witness at the Border, an advocacy group that tracks flight data. It accepted 124 deportation flights in 2024.Colombia is also among the countries that last year began accepting U.S.-funded depo...
Although increasing numbers of people have been crossing at multiple locations along the US border with Mexico, the Rio Grande Valley in south Texas sees some of the highest crossing rates in the country. Once in the US, migrants pass through urban areas such as McAllen, Harlingen, and Browns...