U.S.-Mexico Border Update: January 9, 2026
The U.S. military operation to extract Nicolás Maduro has changed little for Venezuelan migrants. Updates about smuggling and stranded migrants in Mexico. Updates about new border barriers.
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Weekly U.S.-Mexico Border Update: December 12, 2025
Developments in the U.S. military’s growing role at the U.S.-Mexico border, reports of deteriorating and inhuman conditions at ICE detention facilities, and updates from Mexico.
Weekly U.S.-Mexico Border Update: November 21, 2025
CBP’s October migrant apprehensions leveled off after two months of sharper growth. The Supreme Court will review “metering.” Profiles of Chief Bovino and what he means for Border Patrol, and migration updates from around the Americas.
Weekly U.S.-Mexico Border Update: November 14, 2025
The Border Patrol contingent that carried out controversially aggressive operations in Chicago is leaving after two months. U.S. military involvement in border and migration missions has leveled off, but may increase in the U.S. interior.
Weekly U.S.-Mexico Border Update: November 7, 2025
Seizures of fentanyl plummeted, but cocaine increased, at the border in fiscal 2025. Pope Leo again voiced strong concern about migrants’ rights in the United States. Mexico’s asylum system is teetering, while Guatemala is receiving many more people deported from the U.S. interior.
Weekly U.S.-Mexico Border Update: October 31, 2025
Fiscal 2025 data show a big drop in migration amid the Trump crackdown, though numbers have risen sharply since July. Border Patrol agents will replace ICE field office directors in a “mass deportation” purge. Updates about cybersecurity and civil liberties, and human rights issues in the U.S. interior.
Weekly U.S.-Mexico Border Update: October 24, 2025
Updates from Mexico and Central America; The U.S. military role; “Mass deportation” and operations in the U.S. interior; Migrant deaths notifications on CBP’s “accountability and transparency” web page
Weekly U.S.-Mexico Border Update: October 17, 2025
DHS plans to build 230 miles of new border barriers at a cost of $4.5 billion. The migration-related human rights crisis is far from over in Mexico. Dozens of links to updates about aggressive immigration operations inside the United States and what they say about U.S. agencies’ organizational culture.
Weekly U.S.-Mexico Border Update: October 10, 2025
Border Patrol migrant apprehensions hit a 55-year low in 2025, but have been inching up. Tensions are very high amid mass deportation operations and abuses in Chicago. Apple is removing ICE-tracking apps. Law enforcement personnel are being taken off duties and made to work immigration.
Weekly U.S.-Mexico Border Update: October 3, 2025
The government shutdown will have little effect on DHS’s very active border and immigration enforcement operations. Those operations continue to generate a large number of human rights concerns, some of them quite severe. A migrant “caravan” in southern Mexico seeks only to reach Mexico City.
Weekly U.S.-Mexico Border Update: September 26, 2025
Border Patrol’s migrant apprehensions increased from July to August. A steady stream of alerts of human rights violations in the context of the Trump administration’s “mass deportations,” from Chicago to ICE’s detention facility network.
Weekly U.S.-Mexico Border Update: September 19, 2025
The past week saw many investigations and reports about miserable conditions in U.S. immigrant detention facilities, and about defense and law enforcement personnel being diverted away from their “real” jobs to support “mass deportation.”
Weekly U.S.-Mexico Border Update: September 12, 2025
The Supreme Court has upheld roving patrols and racial profiling for now in Los Angeles. Other court activity includes protection of unaccompanied children and information about imprisoning migrants in El Salvador. Migrant enforcement surges in Chicago, Boston, and Washington.
Weekly U.S.-Mexico Border Update: September 5, 2025
Courts halt the mass removal of unaccompanied Guatemalan children, use of the Alien Enemies Act, interior use of expedited removal, and use of the military alongside immigration ops in Los Angeles. Numerous updates about the administration’s “Mass Deportation” campaign.
Weekly U.S.-Mexico Border Update: August 15, 2025
CBP releases July data showing migration hitting new low at the border; Notes on “mass deportation”; Notes from Mexico
Weekly U.S.-Mexico Border Update: August 8, 2025
Freed Venezuelan men tell of what they endured in El Salvador. Notes on “mass deportation.” Events in the courts. Notes from Mexico.
U.S.-Mexico Border Update: July 11, 2025
Giant budget bill becomes law; “Mass deportation” intensifies further; lots of action In the courts.
U.S.-Mexico Border Update: June 20, 2025
Operations intensify in, and beyond, Los Angeles; Massive “reconciliation” spending bill emerges in Senate and resembles House bill; CBP reports on May migrant encounters.
Weekly U.S.-Mexico Border Update: June 13, 2025
Troops deployed to Los Angeles, as “mass deportations” trigger protests; Kilmar Abrego Garcia is back in the United States—but in a Tennessee prison; Travel ban added to list of administration crackdowns, many of which remain in court.
Weekly U.S.-Mexico Border Update: May 23, 2025
“Reconciliation” funding bill passes House, moves to Senate; Alien Enemies Act updates; The U.S. military’s growing border and migration missions; Supreme Court upholds Venezuela TPS cancellation
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