Every week between August 7 and October 30—that is, 12 times—I threw together a script and some visuals on Tuesday afternoon, and then on Wednesday morning WOLA’s terrific communications team would set me up with a camera and a microphone to record, then edit and distribute, a 2-minute video about the U.S.-Mexico border and migration.

It was a good experience as we “learned by doing.” While they never went viral, we got much more sophisticated over those three months in communicating the message. They still look thrown together quickly, but the more recent ones look far less like “hostage proof-of-life” videos than the earlier ones.

Here is the entire YouTube playlist, and a page that WOLA has created to host some of the videos.

And below, after the jump, is each video embedded individually, in reverse chronological order.

October 30, 2024: an overview of the 2024 border numbers

October 23, 2024: “mass deportation” proposals and the U.S. military

October 16, 2024: Venezuelan migration in the Darién Gap

October 9, 2024: fact-checking claims about shelter money and disaster-relief money

October 2, 2024: the Biden administration further tightened asylum restrictions

September 25, 2024: Kamala Harris visits the border

September 18, 2024: August migration trends

September 11, 2024: responding to claims that 21 million migrants have been “allowed in”

September 4, 2024: what was actually in that “Senate border bill?”

August 28, 2024: why are migrant deaths so persistently frequent?

August 21, 2024: why we need more CBP One appointments

August 14, 2024: the Darién Gap

August 7, 2024: crackdowns reducing migration at the border, for now