At WOLA’s website: Trump Budget Bill Threatens Migrant Rights and Civil Liberties: Ugly Consequences of a Police State Agenda
It’s hard to grasp the scale of the $170 billion in new resources just added for the Trump administration’s border-hardening and immigration-raiding, but a new WOLA analysis attempts to visualize it.
At WOLA: $160 Billion to Detain and Deport: Congress’s “Reconciliation” Bill is a Betrayal of Priorities and Will Harm the Most Vulnerable
How big—and how harmful to the border and migrants—is the bill the House of Representatives passed this morning? It’s hard to convey. It’s staggering. Here is a new piece for WOLA that tries to grasp the scale of this mass-deportation Death Star.
#BorderSecurity #Budget #Congress #Legislation #Migration #WOLA
WOLA Podcast: “Global Drug Policy: ‘Countries are being freed up to actually speak their minds’”
Podcast: A belligerent U.S. delegation got isolated at a UN drug policy meeting in March, where there were important breakthroughs for reform.
Large mural artwork in the Wola district of Warsaw, Poland.
#poland #streetart #graffiti #history #warsaw #wola
From WOLA: Trump’s Pause of U.S. Foreign Assistance to Latin America: An “America Last” Policy
Here is a piece that WOLA published last Friday (January 31) in response to the Trump administration’s 90-day freeze on most foreign aid.
Silna wola (Stefan Lipiec)
https://tube.funil.de/videos/watch/693da0b5-979d-4e0a-8f05-c3c1accc2691
WOLA Q&A: Trump’s Threats of Tariffs as a Response to Migration and the Fentanyl Overdose Crisis
Here’s a brief piece that WOLA published yesterday about the aftermath of Donald Trump’s use of tariff threats to bully Mexico on migration and fentanyl. It’s co-authored with my WOLA colleagues Stephanie Brewer (Mexico) and John Walsh (Drug Policy). We also recorded a podcast together.
I wrote the part about migration. An excerpt is below, but I recommend reading the whole thing […]
WOLA Podcast: A Tariff Threat Foreshadows U.S.-Mexico Relations During the Second Trump Presidency
Donald Trump’s crude tariff threat against Mexico and Canada last week tells a lot about what we’ll be dealing with over the next few years.
From WOLA: Five Migration and Security Trends at the U.S.-Mexico Border
Crackdowns temporarily lowered numbers. Children and families made up 43 percent of migrants encountered. The geography of migration has undergone rapid post-pandemic shifts and moved west since the end of Title 42. Texas’s crackdown did not cause this. Migrant deaths may have declined. But deaths as a share of the migrant population have not. Fentanyl seizures dropped for the first time. It’s not clear why.
#BorderSecurity #Charts #Migration #Statistics #WOLA #Writing
Season 1 of WOLA’s “Border Update” Videos
A series of 12 videos, about 2 minutes each, about border and migration trends.
September 18, 2024 Border Video
https://vimeo.com/1010732120?share=copy
Dual crackdowns—Mexico blocking migrants, the US blocking access to its asylum system—have reduced migration at the US-Mexico border. But signs point to the big 2024 drop “bottoming out”: there’s only so much that crackdowns can do. They’re no substitute for reform.
New at WOLA – Soldiers Confronting Migrants: Texas’s Dangerous Precedent
Actions committed along the Rio Grande, which range from firing projectiles at unarmed migrants to physically pushing them back across the border, violate nearly any democratic law enforcement agency’s standards and set a dangerous precedent for civil-military relations on U.S. soil.
#BorderSecurity #CivilMilitaryRelations #HumanRights #Texas #WOLA #Writing
New Mini-Report: Fewer Migrants, Greater Danger: The Impact of 2024’s Crackdowns
Here’s a graphical mini-report about what’s happening right now at the U.S.-Mexico border and along the migration route. Summer 2024 is a moment of reduced migration, but it’s also a moment of greater endangerment for people migrating.
Heute vor 80 Jahren stürmten SS und Ordnungspolizei den Warschauer Stadtteil Wola. Bis zum 12. August ermordeten die deutschen Einheiten dabei bis zu 50.000 Zivilist:innen. Den Freiheitswillen der Aufständigen in Warschau brachen sie nicht.
Gemessen an den Opferzahlen war das Massaker von Wola das größte Kriegsverbrechen während des Zweiten Weltkriegs in Europa. Keiner der Täter wurde in Deutschland hierfür belangt.
#ZweiterWeltkrieg #DrugaWojnaSwiatowa
Deutsche #Kriegsverbrechen in #Polen: Jahrestag Massaker von #Wola vor 80 Jahren
https://www.tagesschau.de/multimedia/video/schnell_informiert/video-1366038.html
Zur Erinnerung an den Aufstand in #Warschau und das Massaker in #Wola vor 80 Jahren erscheint heute ein Artikel mit Literaturempfehlungen in unserem Blog:
https://stadtbuechereienduesseldorf.wpcomstaging.com/2024/08/01/der-vergessene-voelkermord-das-wola-massaker-in-warschau/
New Report: Migrants in Colombia: Between government absence and criminal control
WOLA has just published a report about migration to, through, and from Colombia, based largely on fieldwork that colleagues and I did in the Colombia-Ecuador and Colombia-Panama border regions in October and November 2023.
(Did I have to go on work sabbatical to find the time to finish this report and get it out the door? No comment.)
I […]
From WOLA: “The Futility of ‘Shutting Down Asylum’ by Executive Action at the U.S.-Mexico Border”
Past generations granted new rights. We’re living in an era when government is taking those rights away. Roe v. Wade (1973) got perforated two years ago by Republican judicial nominees. Now the right to asylum, enshrined in the Refugee Act of 1980, no longer applies to threatened people who came to the border to ask for protection “the wrong way” […]
