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There’s basically no assurance that a federal worker’s response to Musk’s “what did you do this week” email won’t be shared with a hostile foreign power.

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If you're going to terrorize communities with commando-style raids, ship non-violent people with clean criminal records to Guantánamo or the Darién jungles, and hold parents incomunicado while you tear them away from their children…you could at least be nicer about it.

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There is now an index to WOLA's 2025 Border Updates, allowing you to focus on what we've shared about a single topic so far this year. Hope it helps you wade through the sea of information about border security, migration, and related human rights issues. www.wola.org/wola-u-s-mex...

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Costa Rica human rights ombudsman on US deportation flight yesterday: "We observed a significant number of deportees, babies in arms, children, women, elderly people, issuing calls for help, especially to be able to inform their families of their whereabouts, showing and expressing their distress."

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My favorite stat in this week's Border Update: Every Border Patrol agent or soldier stationed at the U.S.-Mexico border is now apprehending 0.01 migrants per day. From www.wola.org/2025/02/week...

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In this week's @wola-org.bsky.social Border Update: - Migration fell in January - Darién Gap migration dropped - "Bridge deportations" to Panama, Costa Rica - Guantánamo detainees sent to Venezuela via Honduras - Congress readies huge #border / deport spending - Mass deportation - Impact in Mexico

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Migration through the Darién Gap in January (2,229 people) fell to its lowest level since February 2021. Chart: borderoversight.org/2025/02/20/m... Data Table: docs.google.com/spreadsheets... Source: www.migracion.gob.pa/estadisticas/

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Deported to Guantanamo, then to Honduras, and then into the arms of the dictatorship in Venezuela. We're running out of evil thresholds left to cross. A government capable of doing this is capable of doing anything to any of us.

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Faced with indefinite detention sitting on floors in a sweltering “zoo”-like jungle camp, how long can asylum seekers in Panama hold out before they give in and agree to "voluntary" repatriation despite likely torture, death, prison? IOM—the UN agency aiding returns—must be forthcoming about this.

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This table shows unaccompanied migrant children summarily expelled from the US under the "Title 42" pandemic policy. Title 42 lasted until May 2023, but you see expelled kids stopping in fiscal 2021. The Biden admin didn't expel kids. But before that? The first Trump admin was happy to expel kids.

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Gen. Pedro Sánchez seems like a decent guy, but what terrible irony that #Colombia's first leftist government is also the first in 34 years to name a non-civilian—an active-duty general—as defense minister. Gives the appearance of a weak president having to appease the armed forces.

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The US is flying 200 people from Asia—50 of them children—to #CostaRica, which will bus them "from the capital San Jose to a migrant facility some 223 miles away, near the border with Panama." They won't be able to leave. They'll be warehoused there, pending repatriation, for "4, 5, 6 weeks."

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As Darién Gap migration is down to ~70 people per day, the San Vicente reception center is quiet. So now Panama, with US funds, has made it a place to warehouse human beings while staging their IOM-assisted repatriations.

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Keep in mind that during most of that Biden-era bulge—until May 2023—the Biden administration was fully carrying out Stephen Miller's Title 42 pandemic expulsions policy. In the peak year, 2022, CBP expelled people from the border 1,079,507 times (45% of that year's encounters with migrants).

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18 1/3 years of Border Patrol apprehensions, by country. The data table, with 100+ countries listed, is here: docs.google.com/spreadsheets... The chart lives here: borderoversight.org/2024/10/24/a...

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On designating criminal groups as "terrorists," from a January @wola-org.bsky.social doc. www.wola.org/analysis/tru...

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"One family from our church said ICE pounded on their door so hard they thought it would break down. Ten people lived in that small unit, including several children. They asked to see a warrant. The officers ignored them and continued yelling in English, refusing to answer."

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From WOLA: "While a shift toward China was already underway, the most recent row between the Colombian and U.S. heads of state, compounded by the freezing of foreign aid, will likely accelerate #Colombia’s pivot towards the rival superpower."

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Why is the White House reporting data leaked to the media by someone at Border Patrol? If they want to know how many people Border Patrol apprehended since January 20, they can just ask Border Patrol. They're the _White House_. www.whitehouse.gov/articles/202...

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Along with Bukele's prison videos, this, from the White House yesterday, is one of the most dehumanizing things I've ever seen posted to a government social media account. And that includes full-blown dictatorships.

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"That tells us the border is more secure than it's ever been." No, that tells us that the right to seek asylum at the US-Mexico border has been unlawfully obliterated. For now.

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Aboard the 2 flights that deported 190 people back to Caracas last week were 2 people who'd deserted #Venezuela’s military. The Trump administration delivered them right back to the dictatorship. The feared Interior Minister says, “They are being given the appropriate treatment.” Well done, folks.

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CBP has updated its U.S.-Mexico border dataset through January. I've imported it into cbpdata.adamisacson.com, which you can use to generate tables about migration since 2020. Here's Border Patrol apprehensions by country over the past 16 months:

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Latin America-Related Events in Washington and Online This Week 5 events about Latin America this week, that I know about, that can be attended in person in Washington or online anywhere. adamisacson.com/latin-americ...

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The US has been using drones in #Mexico with government permission since at least 2009. No previous mention of Reapers, though. NYT 2011: www.nytimes.com/2011/03/16/w... WashPost 2013: www.washingtonpost.com/investigatio...

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In south Texas, 300 National Guard soldiers just got deputized to arrest migrants. Soldiers arresting civilians on US soil is super-rare. You’d do that in an emergency. But this sector is at 0.015 migrant apprehensions per soldier/agent per day. _Not_ an emergency. adamisacson.com/sending-in-s...

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I’m writing this on a device that I can use to find 1,000 times more factual, reportable information than one could ever obtain in the Oval Office or on Air Force One.

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Infrequent reminder that I still post the weekly Border Updates to my old "Daily Border Links" list, if you'd like them in your e-mail inbox. (It's a Google Group, which I know is janky, but it doesn't cost me anything.) groups.google.com/g/daily-bord...

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This week's @wola-org.bsky.social #Border Update is live. - Migration is low - Guantánamo is growing, with non-criminals - Giant spending bill in Congress - Venezuela retrieves deportees - US military deployment - Criminal groups on terrorist list - US aid freeze

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This Wall Street Journal video about the cost of military deportation flights is one of the wildest things I've seen in a while. It cost $2.8 million—with 2 in-air refuelings!—to deport 104 people to India on February 4. $27,000 per deported person. www.wsj.com/video/analys...

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In regions of #Colombia like Urabá, near the Darién Gap, virtually everyone says local police and military collude with the Gulf Clan. Now, these members of US-aided forces may become “material supporters of terrorism.” Very curious to see how this will play out. www.nytimes.com/2025/02/12/u...

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