“Border and Migration 101”: A screencast recorded in March 2024
Channel: Adam Isacson
Date: 2024-03-04

An in-depth, graphical overview of what’s happening at the U.S.-Mexico border right now, from the Washington Office on Latin America’s Adam Isacson.

Download the graphics shown here as a single PDF at https://bit.ly/border-101-march-2024

Questions addressed include:

- What is new and different about the people who are coming to the border today?
- What is “asylum?”
- What are people fleeing?
- What countries are they coming from?
- What role did U.S. policy historically play in the conditions they’re fleeing?
- What is the trip to the U.S. border like? What threats to people face?
- What happens when they get to the border? How does processing, case management, and adjudication work (or fail to work)?
- What has the U.S. government done to try to “push the migration numbers down?”
- What would a better policy look like?

For more, see:

- WOLA’s weekly and (for 2024) daily border updates
wola.org/tag/weekly-border-update/
borderoversight.org/news/

- Updated stats and charts about border security and migration
borderoversight.org/wola-border-oversight-infographic-archive/
borderoversight.org/category/infographics/

- Reports, memos, and podcasts
borderoversight.org/category/reports/wola-reports/

- Our database of alleged CBP and Border Patrol abuses
borderoversight.org/database/