Migration Dynamics and Conditions at the U.S.-Mexico Border: February 2026 - The Strauss Center This February 2026 migration dynamics and conditions update focuses on current U.S. asylum restrictions at ports of entry and migrants’ experiences in Mexican border cities. It draws on phone and What...

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In the Strauss Center Feb 2026 Migration Dynamics & Conditions report, Stephanie Leutert & I find:

🔒13+ months w/o access to asylum processing at U.S. border.
📈 Mexican border cities increasingly receiving third-country national removals.
🚧 New buoys/barriers in the Rio Grande Valley.

The August 2025 Strauss Center Asylum Processing report with Stephanie Leutert is out.

Asylum processing remains closed. Seven years into these quarterly reports, we estimate that roughly 6,600 migrants remain in Mexican border cities, the lowest # since 2019.

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The May 2025 @strausscenter.bsky.social Asylum Processing report with @sleutert.bsky.social is out.

This is the 7th major enforcement and asylum policy change at the U.S. southern border since 2018 and the second phase where asylum processing has been almost exclusively closed at the border.

Feliz de participar en este evento el próximo jueves, 17 de abril a las 12:00 pm (hora de Bogotá).

Estaremos platicando sobre el fenómeno de la migración inversa dentro de Panamá.

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The latest Strauss Center Asylum Processing report is out. @sleutert.bsky.social and I chronicle:

1) The cessation of asylum along the US southern border since Jan. 20
2) The effect these recent policy changes are having on asylum seekers in border cities

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Thrilled to join Marilou Sarrut for this upcoming panel on our ongoing research on mobility through the Darien Gap.

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First @bsky.app post to publish the 25th @strausscenter.bsky.social asylum processing report.

In it, we highlight:
1) CBP One's expansion into southern Mexico
2) Mexico's busing program under the 'Emerging Safe Mobility Corridor'
3) Limited medical exemption cases in some cities

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