All articles filed in U.S./Mexico Border

“I present myself. I walk in a line towards the American police. When I present myself, behind me comes a person, a videographer from England filming me. When I present myself and I give the documents to the official and he sees that the videographer is filing, he leaves and does not allow his name to show, as he has on uniform — last name Reyes.”

Update June 23, 2020: ICE reported 58 positive cases among detainees inside PIDC on Monday. 34 of those detainees were under isolation or monitoring. Update June 22, 2020: Numbers published by ICE on Sunday indicated the number of positive cases among detainees inside PIDC was still at 54. The agency reported that only 36 of…

A 31-year-old man from Cuba detained at the Port Isabel Detention Center in Los Fresnos, Texas sued Immigration and Customs Enforcement this week, alleging the agency refused to release him even though he won withholding of removal from an immigration judge in November.

The number of confirmed COVID-19 cases inside the Port Isabel Detention Center has been steadily rising every few days, sending local immigration attorneys and advocates representing detainees into a frenzy as they fight for the release of clients at high risk of serious illness or death if they become infected.

Josue, an asylum seeker who has been living in a camp in Matamoros with his family since last summer, sent photos and videos over the weekend he wants people living in the United States to see.

Advocates in touch with detained immigrants inside the facility, many of whom are asylum seekers and have never committed a crime, began reporting wholly inadequate protections against COVID-19 at PIDC in March. ICE has since reported a total of four positive cases inside the facility. Three of those cases listed on ICE’s website are currently under isolation or monitoring. The ongoing transfer of detainees between detention centers, the admittance of new detainees into the facility, and a lack of testing available to potential asymptomatic carriers means that more likely than not, there is already an outbreak happening inside the facility.

U.S. Immigration and Customs enforcement (ICE) is refusing to release a diabetic asylum seeker who has been detained inside the Port Isabel Detention Center for a year and a half.

Update June 4, 2020: An asylum seeker who lives and works in the camp on Wednesday sent a video in which he described flies that swarm the banks of the river. “We’re at the shore of the [Rio Grande] in Matamoros and like you can see, there are many flies. I have been here for…

U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement on Monday confirmed that a third detainee inside the Port Isabel Detention Center (PIDC) in Los Fresnos has tested positive for COVID-19. The detainee is a 27-year-old from Guatemala. The agency declined to provide any further information on the person’s condition.

Asylum Seekers awaiting hearings under the Trump administration’s ‘Remain in Mexico’ program (Migrant Protection Protocols, MPP) in a camp along the Rio Grande in Matamoros, Tamaulipas are dealing with flooding again with the National Atmospheric and Oceanic Administration (NOAA) predicting more thunderstorms through the end of the week.