Recommendations for Addressing An Alarming Trend in Preventable Migrant Deaths in the El Paso Sector

Led by our Human Rights First colleagues, we document how officers deny asylum to people in danger at our border after Biden’s June 2024 ban. 

The Violence of U.S.-Mexico Immigration Enforcement and Texas’ Operation Lone Star against People on the Move in El Paso-Ciudad Juárez

We accompanied faith leaders during crucial presidential elections in Guatemala. We detail our findings and recommendations to support grassroots groups defending democracy in the country.

As the first flight returning Venelezuan asylum seekers has left Mexico countless others remain at the US border waiting for their opportunity to seek protection.

Learn more about the ways migrants and refugees deal with trauma and a broken immigration system to build resilience, strength and find meaning in the midst of suffering.

Remain in Mexico represents a new level of assault on migrants, our binational communities and our country’s commitment to asylum. But it is also a piece with the long legacy of racism at the border and a national history of immigrant scapegoating.

Documentation of the violations of the rights and dignity of migrants and asylum-seekers.

The US-Mexico policies are resulting in migrants disappearing and dying. We denounce it in a joint submission to the Special Rapporteur on the human rights of migrants at the United Nations. 

Asylum bans put vulnerable families at risk by curtailing essential protections. Led by our Human Rights First colleagues, we explain why in a new amicus curiae in the case against Biden’s June 2024 Asylum Ban.

Critical Reflections from the Border

We document serious challenges for people to use CBP One and how the app imperils access to asylum across the US-Mexico border.

With our Root Causes Initiative partners, we analyze the one-year implementation of the US policy to address the root causes of migration in Central America. 

Biden Administration Continues to Expel Asylum Seekers to Danger While U.S. Border Communities Stand Ready to Welcome.

In the last year we’ve witnessed a cruel strategy to break migrants and our border community - zero tolerance, family separation and now Remain Mexico. This a moment for decision. It’s now up to us to define the next chapter for our Paso del Norte community and work together for justice at the US-Mexico border.

This report details the human impacts and moral consequences of a broken immigration system and the increasingly militarized border.

The U.S. and Spain Border Externalization
Strategies in Perspective

We join our border and national colleagues in documenting the first impacts of Biden’s cruel asylum ban of June 2024.

A Proposal for a National Catholic Accompaniment System for Asylum Seekers and Paroled Persons

With our Root Causes Initiative partners, we review the US root causes policies and offer recommendations to support people in Central America working not to be forced to migrate. 

HOPE spoke to dozens of people on the move in Ciudad Juárez, Mexico and posed the question: “What led you to leave your home?” The answers revealed a confluence of natural and human-made disasters, economic structures that impoverish and state failure to protect people experiencing both generalized and gender-based violence.

Isolated from other major urban centers, the COVID-19 pandemic took its time arriving in the El Paso-Ciudad Juárez region. Once it did arrive in mid-March, it became apparent that our community was particularly vulnerable.

HOPE’s Immigration Court Watch Network is designed to help groups launch and sustain immigration court observation programs in targeted communities across the country. The program is a strong fit for advocates, organizers, university groups and faith communities committed to fight for justice.