More information about recent Homeland Security denial of asylum rights to migrants

Here is Josh Rubin explaining the latest developments: Our observations have suggested a couple of things. First, we have heard from more than one source that the rate of people being placed into MPP—that is, the policy that strands people in Mexican border cities while a long, drawn out sham legal process takes place—has slowed …

Changes in policies that affect migrants’ lives

The rules and the policies affecting the fates of the tens of thousands of asylum seekers at our southern border are constantly changing. At the Brownsville/Matamoros border, we spent eight days helping and witnessing in the tent camp where more than 2500 asylum seekers are being kept back from entering the US to make asylum …