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Immigrants’ Rights and Border Policy
The US Program’s immigration and border rights work uses a racial justice lens to protect basic rights, ensure families and communities thrive, and protect people from harm. We expose abuses against border communities, migrants and asylum seekers and call for policy changes to meet humanitarian needs. We advocate for fair policies that respond to migrants’ various rights-based rationales for seeking to enter the United States, including hoping for protection, responding to the effects of climate change, finding work, returning to locations where their communities have resided for many years, and reuniting with family members. We work to achieve rights-respecting immigration and border policies that welcome and regard all people with humanity and dignity.
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November 27, 2023
“So Much Blood on the Ground”
Dangerous and Deadly Vehicle Pursuits under Texas’ Operation Lone Star
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May 31, 2022
US: LGBT Asylum Seekers in Danger at the Border
Biden Should Immediately Safeguard At-Risk Groups, Restore Asylum Access
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July 23, 2024
Operation Lone Star: Driver Prosecutions, Immigrants, and “Smuggling” in Texas
Fueling a Mass Incarceration Crisis
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July 15, 2024
US: Drug-Linked Deportations Soar Despite State Reforms
Hundreds of Thousands of Cases Cause Devastating Harm to Families, Communities
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June 26, 2024
US: Border Deterrence Leads to Deaths, Disappearances
Biden Administration Should Address Loss of Life
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June 13, 2024
US DOJ Civil Rights Division Complaint Regarding Allegations of Abuse at the US-Mexico Border
The US Should Swiftly Investigate and Report on Allegations of Abuse, Including the Beating of a Migrant Man to Death by US Law Enforcement Officers
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June 12, 2024
Safety in Haiti Remains a Long Way off
All Forced Returns of Haitians in the US Should be Suspended
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June 11, 2024
Human Rights Watch Testimony on Texas’ Troubled Border Security Program
Hearing on Texas' More Than $11 Billion Border Security Program
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June 5, 2024
US: Order Limiting Asylum Will Harm People Seeking Protection
Violates International Human Rights and Refugee Law
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May 1, 2024
US: Digital Metering System Exposes Migrants to Harm
Asylum Turnbacks Violate Rights and Enrich Criminal Groups
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April 9, 2024
Texas Constructing Massive Anti-Migrant Military Base
Forward Operating Base Part of Multibillion-Dollar “Operation Lone Star”
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