Analysis
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Migrant Caravans in Mexico (2019-20)
For the past four decades, large-scale migration out of the Northern Triangle of Central America (NTCA)—Guatemala, Honduras, and El Salvador—has brought millions of people to the United States. Originally, this migration was made up of refugees fleeing civil wars and natural disasters. In more recent years, migrants have been driven out of their communities by…
Caravanas de Migrantes en México (2019-20)
Durante las últimas cuatro décadas, la migración a gran escala del Triángulo Norte de Centroamérica (TNC) —Guatemala, Honduras y El Salvador— ha traído a millones de personas a los Estados Unidos. Originalmente, esta migración estaba compuesta por refugiados que huíande guerras civiles y desastres naturales. En años más recientes, los migrantes han sido expulsados de…
Andrés Manuel López Obrador’s Migratory Policy in Mexico (2019-20)
On December 1, 2018, Mexican President Andrés Manuel López Obrador assumed office and promised to change Mexico’s migratory policy. Initially, López Obrador championed a humanitarian approach to migration, placing migrant rights defenders in key policy positions and directing INM to issue an unprecedented number of humanitarian visas. However, this approach did not last. By June…
Las Políticas Migratorias de Andrés Manuel López Obrador en México (2019-20)
El 1 de diciembre de 2018, el presidente de México Andrés Manuel López Obrador asumió el cargo y prometió cambiar la política migratoria de México. Inicialmente, López Obrador abogó por un enfoque humanitario hacia la migración, colocando a defensores de los derechos de los migrantes en posiciones políticas clave y ordenando al Instituto Nacional de…
Metering Update: May 2020
Since April 2018, U.S. Customs and Border Protection (CBP) officials have been stationed at the United States’ international boundary with Mexico and have informed arriving asylum seekers that U.S. ports of entry are full. Simultaneously, CBP officials also began accepting limited numbers of asylum seekers each day, in a process that is known as metering….
Migrant Deaths in South Texas
This report builds on previous research related to migrant deaths in South Texas. It seeks to answer three questions: 1) Where are migrants dying in South Texas? 2) Who are these individuals? and 3) How do local agencies document and process the deaths of people who crossed the border without authorization?
Metering & COVID-19
This report by the Robert Strauss Center at The University of Texas at Austin and the Center for U.S.- Mexican Studies (USMEX) at the University of California San Diego aims to provide an update on how metering’s suspension has affected asylum seekers and metering lists along the border. It also looks at how migrant shelters…