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CAMPI Director Builds Central America Migration Model
This past month, Stephanie Leutert, Director of the Central America and Mexico Policy Initiative (CAMPI), built a model to better understand current migration dynamics and to estimate total numbers of unique individuals leaving their communities in Mexico and Central America. The model focuses on unique individuals (by subtracting repeat encounters) and aims to capture populations…
CAMPI Releases August Metering Report
The Central America and Mexico Policy Initiative (CAMPI), led by our CAMPI Fellows Savitri Arvey and Caitlyn Yates, have released the quarterly Metering Update for August 2021. This report provides an update on asylum waitlists, asylum seekers, and migrant shelters along the U.S.-Mexico border amid CBP’s asylum processing suspension and the Title 42 exemption processes. It documents approximately 20,600 asylum…
CAMPI Releases May Metering Report
The Central America and Mexico Policy Initiative (CAMPI), led by our CAMPI Fellows Savitri Arvey and Caitlyn Yates, have released the quarterly Metering Update for May 2021. This report provides an update on metering lists, asylum seekers, and migrant shelters along the U.S.-Mexico border amid CBP’s asylum processing suspension. It documents approximately 18,680 asylum seekers…
Rohrbaugh Co-Authors Report on the Changing International Security Landscape
Ben Rohrbaugh, Fellow in the Central America and Mexico Policy Initiative at the Strauss Center, recently co-authored a report titled “Transnational Threats and the 2020 Election.” In it, he and his co-authors asses the changing international threat landscape, emphasizing that today’s most daunting national security threats are of non-state origin—a complication which will inevitably bedevil…
CAMPI PRP Report Featured in a Hill Op-Ed
In a recent op-ed published by The Hill, the project “Migrant Protection Protocols: Implementation and Consequences for Asylum Seekers in Mexico” was cited. This project, led by Stephanie Leutert, Director of the Strauss Center’s Central America & Mexico Policy Initiative, was the result of a year-long research endeavor undertaken by four graduate students at the…
CAMPI Fellow Publishes Book on Homeland Security
Ben Rohrbaugh, a Fellow in the Central America and Mexico Policy Initiative, recently published a book More or Less Afraid of Everything: Homeland Security, Borders, and Disasters in the Twenty-First Century. The book covers migration, borders, cybersecurity, natural disasters, and terrorism. Despite ongoing attention, these problems seem to be getting bigger even as the political…
“The Biggest Black Hole:” Leutert Comments on Investigations of Migrant Deaths
Stephanie Leutert, Director of the Central America and Mexico Policy Initiative at the Strauss Center, was recently interviewed for an article on the fatal injury of a woman just north of the border wall in New Mexico. The article poses the question: “how many migrants die and then fall through the cracks of complex bureaucracy, with far-away…
CAMPI Launches Militarization in Latin America Website
From Mexico to Chile, Latin American militaries are increasingly visible in domestic security roles, with significant implications for both security and democracy. The Militarization in Latin America website is intended to help illuminate this rapidly evolving phenomenon, as manifested in 12 key countries around the region. The website provides detailed narrative descriptions of internal military…
Beyond the Border Course Releases PRP Summaries
Professor Stephanie Leutert, Director of the Central America & Mexico Policy Initiative at the Strauss Center, recently completed a year-long Policy Research Project (PRP) with a group of graduate students at the LBJ School. The project, titled “Beyond the Border: Central American Migration and Mexico’s Migratory Policy,” took a Mexican policy perspective on Central American migration, and…
Rohrbaugh on Technology Innovation within DHS
Benjamin Rohrbaugh, Fellow in the Central America and Mexico Policy Initiative at the Strauss Center, co-authored a report for the Belfer Center at Harvard Kennedy School titled Closing Critical Gaps that Hinder Homeland Security Technology Innovation. COVID-19 has overwhelmed the response systems of the United States and clearly shown the scale of the federal government’s underinvestment in public safety…
