Here (en español) is an episode of DemocraciaAbierta’s #Unboxing program, in which host Sandra Borda (of Colombia’s Universidad de los Andes) and I discuss the Biden administration’s post-Title 42 changes to immigration policy. We recorded this in late May, so it’s not razor-sharp current, but we do go into some detail that you don’t often get in a video interview.
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Promo video for this week’s U.S.-Mexico Border Update
In this week’s WOLA U.S.-Mexico Border Update:
- Migrant Apprehensions Rise, Shelters Fill
- Panama Shares Darién Gap Migration Data After a Record Month
- House Republicans Demand Border Crackdown to Avoid Government Shutdown
Promo Video for Today’s WOLA Mexico Podcast
As I noted earlier today, I recorded a great podcast yesterday with the director of WOLA’s Mexico program, Stephanie Brewer. It’s about a report they published last week about the growing power of Mexico’s armed forces, and how hard it is to hold them accountable for human rights abuse even as they confront, and arrest, thousands of people per year while carrying out policing missions.
Here’s WOLA’s podcast landing page. And here’s the podcast, embedded:
Promo video for this week’s U.S.-Mexico Border Update
In this week’s WOLA U.S.-Mexico Border Update:
- UN draws attention to mounting migrant death toll
- Reports of increased migration in transit, from Peru to Mexico
- Asylum seekers again being penned between border wall layers south of San Diego
- Texas updates
Video for September 1, 2023 WOLA Border Update
This makes four weeks in a row that I’ve tried using my new office space at “renovated WOLA” to make quick little mobile-friendly promo videos for things we’ve published. This is the first one with the teleprompter setup that I’ve jury-rigged: a fast overview of the latest Weekly Border Update.
These are “experimenting in public,” figuring out the production, the hardware, and the software as I go. They’ve performed modestly on Twitter and invisibly on Mastodon, but reasonably well on TikTok (where they reliably attract obnoxious far-right commenters) and on Instagram.
At VOA Spanish: “Política antidrogas de EEUU y el impacto de la coca en Colombia”
My thanks to Gonzalo Abarca and Voice of America’s Foro Interamericano program for inviting me to participate as a panelist on September 1. We talked about the status of counter-narcotics efforts in light of my recent mini-report on the collapse of coca markets in Colombia.