U.S.-Mexico Border

This report covers the legal and policy context of the Biden administration’s proposed "asylum ban" and highlights nine transit countries' inability to protect asylum seekers. It also provides recommendations to the U.S. government based on its legal and moral obligations to refugees.

We submitted our analysis of the government's proposed "asylum ban" rule, which would bar from asylum most people seeking protection at the U.S. southern border. Our comment urges the agencies to withdraw the rule in its entirety.

This factsheet presents findings from a series of interviews with individuals and families in Tijuana, focused on their experiences using the U.S. government's CBP One app and awaiting an opportunity to exercise their legal right to seek asylum at the U.S. border, which the Biden administration's proposed asylum ban will greatly undermine.

A coalition of organizations requested a thematic hearing before the Inter-American Commission on Human Rights to address the link between the historical racialization in Central America, Mexico, the United States and Canada and discriminatory migration policies that imperil migrants at every sta

CGRS urges the Interagency Task Force on the Reunification of Families to review all aspects of U.S. asylum law and policy that deliberately or inadvertently lead to family separation, and to make recommendations that will put families at the center of protection.