Immigrants’ Rights and Border Policy

The US Program’s immigration and border rights work uses a racial justice lens to protect basic rights, ensure families and communities thrive, and protect people from harm. We expose abuses against border communities, migrants and asylum seekers and call for policy changes to meet humanitarian needs. We advocate for fair policies that respond to migrants’ various rights-based rationales for seeking to enter the United States, including hoping for protection, responding to the effects of climate change, finding work, returning to locations where their communities have resided for many years, and reuniting with family members. We work to achieve rights-respecting immigration and border policies that welcome and regard all people with humanity and dignity.

Refugees and Migrants

January 2, 2024
Commentary
Biden Must Not Trade Away the Right to Seek Asylum

Bill Frelick

Director, Refugee and Migrant Rights Division

Published in: The Hill
Refugees and Migrants

December 21, 2023
Dispatches
Texas Governor Signs Extreme Immigration Bill

Vicki B. Gaubeca

Associate Director, US Immigration and Border Policy, US Program
Refugees and Migrants

December 15, 2023
Dispatches
Refugees in the US Shouldn’t Pay the Price for Aid to Ukraine

Bill Frelick

Director, Refugee and Migrant Rights Division

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November 27, 2023 Report

“So Much Blood on the Ground”

Dangerous and Deadly Vehicle Pursuits under Texas’ Operation Lone Star
May 31, 2022 Report

US: LGBT Asylum Seekers in Danger at the Border

Biden Should Immediately Safeguard At-Risk Groups, Restore Asylum Access
October 21, 2021 Report

“They Treat You Like You Are Worthless”

Internal DHS Reports of Abuses by US Border Officials
January 6, 2021 Report

“Like I’m Drowning”

Children and Families Sent to Harm by the US ‘Remain in Mexico’ Program