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Break in the Pan-American Highway consisting of a large swath of undeveloped swampland and forest
There were large, unprecedented surges in Venezuelan crossings and encounters at the U.S. southern border during the Biden years — measured in the hundreds of thousands annually — but reporting and fa...
Reporting shows multiple episodes in 2025 where Venezuelan nationals were moved across borders and into third‑country prisons — most notably a U.S. deportation of 252 Venezuelans to El Salvador in Mar...
and shifts in enforcement were central levers in effort to reshape who entered and how, with parole creating limited legal channels for certain nationalities while an expanded or retained Title 42 ser...
Regional drivers in Venezuela, Haiti, and Central America were major engines of the big swings in U.S. border encounters across administrations: Venezuelan political and economic collapse fueled a sha...
Colombia remains a central node in global cocaine production and shipping: domestic growers and processors supply large volumes of cocaine that are funneled north via maritime and overland routes, oft...
Available reporting shows that Mexican and regional criminal organizations exert substantial control and influence over many migrant routes — from the Darién Gap through southern Mexico to the U.S. bo...
Multinational interdiction along the Venezuela–Central America corridor is constrained by competing legal limits on use of force, divergent regional politics, and humanitarian and migratory realities:...
The “border crisis” refers to a period of sustained, high-volume migration and enforcement strain at the U.S.–Mexico border that prompted emergency declarations, policy shifts and intense political de...