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
#BorderUpdate
Weekly U.S.-Mexico Border Update: May 16, 2025
Giant spending bill advances in Congress, Administration floats a suspension of habeas corpus, Notes on El Salvador renditions, Mass deportation notes, The military at the border, Notes on human rights and accountability at CBP, Border Patrol apprehensions increased slightly from March to April.
Weekly U.S.-Mexico Border Update: May 9, 2025
Alien Enemies Act invocation dealt setbacks; More migrants charged with trespassing in “Defense Areas; Updates on third-country migrant renditions; New cases highlight the humanitarian impact of Trump administration crackdown; Congressional updates
Weekly U.S.-Mexico Border Update: May 2, 2025
Accumulating accounts of cruel and possibly unlawful removals and detentions; “Reconciliation” mega-spending bill sails through House committees; Renditions to El Salvador blocked, for now, amid new revelations; First migrants arrested for trespassing in “defense area”; Scrutinizing the administration’s first-100-day deportation claims; CBP nominee hearing refocuses attention on 2010 migrant killing; Judicial updates
Weekly U.S.-Mexico Border Update: April 25, 2025
Controversies continue over renditions to El Salvador; Notes on “mass deportation”; The U.S. military role; Notes from the migration route
Weekly U.S.-Mexico Border Update: April 18, 2025
Kilmar Abrego Garcia’s Case and Nayib Bukele’s Washington visit; The Alien Enemies Act; The Roosevelt Reservation and other military developments; March migration data show further declines; Mass deportation and the coming “reconciliation” funding bill
Weekly U.S.-Mexico Border Update: April 11, 2025
El Salvador renditions reach the Supreme Court; Evidence points to little criminality among those rushed to El Salvador’s mega-prison; A $45 billion bill for migrant detention foreseen as budget bill moves slowly through Congress; New measures to undo legal pathways and punish the undocumented; A woman dies by suicide in Border Patrol custody as internal oversight is decimated; Notes on the impact in Mexico
Weekly U.S.-Mexico Border Update: April 4, 2025
The Alien Enemies Act invocation and El Salvador renditions have days in court, Notes about deportation flights, Budget resolution to move in Senate, Notes on the U.S. military’s border and migration role, Low border numbers in March, Noem’s travel to Latin America
Weekly U.S.-Mexico Border Update: March 21, 2025
Invocation of Alien Enemies Act raises due process, democracy, and foreign relations concerns; U.S. military presence at the border continues to expand; Travel ban appears imminent; Border wall construction resuming; Notes on Congress
Weekly U.S.-Mexico Border Update: March 14, 2025
CBP publishes February border data; “Mass deportation” updates; Active-duty deployment nears 9,600 soldiers; Guantánamo base is currently empty; The impact in Panama and elsewhere; Congressional opponents grow more vocal
Weekly U.S.-Mexico Border Update: February 28, 2025
Reports of southbound migration as people abandon hope of seeking protection in the United States; Another Guantánamo flight arrives, as released detainees reveal horrific conditions; “Mass deportation” updates; “Bridge deportations” continue; The impact on Mexico; Update on CBP’s border drug seizures
Weekly U.S.-Mexico Border Update: February 21, 2025
Migration dropped in January in anticipation of Trump asylum shutoff; Darién Gap migration declines sharply; Deportation flights send third countries’ citizens to Panama and Costa Rica; Guantánamo detainees sent back to Venezuela via Honduras; Congress readies a massive border and deportation spending package; “Mass deportation” updates; Notes on the impact in Mexico
Weekly U.S.-Mexico Border Update: February 14, 2025
Migration plummeting along the U.S.-bound route as the new U.S. administration leads people to pause; Guantánamo: as planes keep bringing migrants, some are not “the worst of the worst”; “Mass deportations”: as Trump blasts their pace, Congress begins work on a giant spending measure; Venezuela sends two planes to pick up deportees; Updates about the U.S. military border deployment; Eight Latin American criminal groups to be added to the U.S. terrorist list; U.S. aid freeze affects programs designed to integrate migrants and receive deported people
Weekly U.S.-Mexico Border Update: February 7, 2025
A tariff threat and a Mexican military deployment; Reduced migration, and almost no asylum access, as groups file suit; The U.S. military at the border and in the deportation effort; First detainees taken to Guantánamo; Administration cancels TPS for Venezuelans; “Migration diplomacy” in Venezuela and Central America; Mass deportation proceeds as Congress prepares a big funding bill; Texas seeks reimbursement for “Operation Lone Star”
Weekly U.S.-Mexico Border Update: January 31, 2025
An already quiet border gets quieter; Mass deportation; The U.S. military role; Controversies about military deportation flights to the Americas; The impact on Mexico; El Salvador may receive deported migrants from other countries; Incidents reported along the border
Weekly U.S.-Mexico Border Update: January 24, 2025
CBP One appointments canceled. Shutdown of processing migrants and asylum seekers. “Remain in Mexico” restarts. Humanitarian parole programs end. Declaring that the United States is under “invasion”. Domestic use of the U.S. armed forces. Placing criminal groups on the “terrorist list”. Foreign relations. Other provisions. Reactions in Mexico and elsewhere. Initial analyses.
Weekly U.S.-Mexico Border Update: January 19, 2025
The Incoming Administration’s Likely Initial Actions. Mass Deportation. “Laken Riley” Bill Nears Passage. Migration continued to decline in December.
Weekly U.S.-Mexico Border Update: January 10, 2025
Republican-led Congress Accelerating Border and Migration Agenda; Bracing for Executive Orders and “Mass Deportation”; Migration Appears to be Declining Ahead of Inauguration
Weekly U.S.-Mexico Border Update: December 20, 2024
Signs of at least a modest pre-inauguration migration increase; Mass deportation; Auctioning unused border wall segments
Weekly U.S.-Mexico Border Update: December 13, 2024
Congressional Republicans’ hardline early-2025 border agenda coming into focus. Setting the stage for mass deportation. The impact in Mexico and elsewhere along the migration route. Personnel changes at border and migration agencies.
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