Jesus de la Torre
@jesusdelatorre.bsky.social
Assistant Director for Global Migration at the Hope Border Institute. Fulbright alum. Working for justice for the US-MX border and all borders. Own views.
A new Kino Border Initiative report sheds light on Mexicans deported to Nogales between May and June 2025. More than half of the deported people had lived in the U.S. for at least six years (some >30 years), and a third of them had been initially arrested by local law enforcement.
He applied for asylum after receiving threats in Peru for his journalism. He had permission to stay and a work permit. Detained by local law enforcement for selling ceviche, he was handed over to ICE, detained in the Everglades, and now at Ft. Bliss. elpasomatters.org/2025/08/25/e...
From Alligator Alcatraz to Fort Bliss, Peruvian immigrant recounts ‘American nightmare’ - El Paso Matters
A Peruvian journalist at the ICE East Montana Detention Facility in El Paso, who had authorization to be in the U.S., talks about being transferred here from Alligator Alcatraz.“It’s better here, yes,...
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“To experience [poor treatment] in your own homeland and then to see it here and experience it here is very painful,” [San Diego Bishop] Pham said in this profile at the @washingtonpost.com. www.washingtonpost.com/nation/2025/...
He was a child refugee. Now he’s a bishop navigating Trump’s deportation push.
San Diego Bishop Michael Pham, the first U.S. bishop picked by Pope Leo, is part of a new wave of clerical leaders speaking out about migrants’ rights.
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Asylum seekers will have a silver lining to seek some humanitarian protections, but not asylum. I fear that rushed deportation procedures, the suspension of KYR programs in detention, and removals to third countries will lessen the impact of this good news. www.cbsnews.com/news/border-...
U.S. border agents directed to stop deportations under Trump's asylum ban after court order, sources say
Border agents have been directed to stop deporting migrants under President Trump's ban on asylum claims, lifting a sweeping policy that had effectively closed the U.S. asylum system to many migrants,...
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According to a @us.theguardian.com analysis with data from the Deportation Data Project, ICE has deported more than 8,100 people to countries not their own since January 20, 2025. Our monitoring also reveals that ICE often does it without proper fear screenings.
📅 Mark your calendars. We are seeking accountability for the closure of our border to the vulnerable. On July 24, we will testify before the Inter-American Commission on Human Rights, alongside a coalition of colleagues and migrants impacted by US policies. #193IACHRSessions
Good news. Proud of the El Paso community, which has secured an important victory in one of the most challenging circuits in the country against #SB4. SB4 is the law that would have allowed Texas to create its own immigration enforcement parallel system. Link below.
Unfortunately, Kilmar's testimony of the horrors at CECOT reminds us that giving a pass (when not actively being complicit in) human rights violations abroad ends up in brutality for the most vulnerable *here* and *there.* www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025...
Kilmar Ábrego García was tortured in Salvadorian prison, court filing alleges
New court documents allege physical and psychological torture at Cecot in one of first looks at conditions in prison
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True under Biden and true under Trump: "The judge said that neither immigration statutes nor the Constitution give the president power to unilaterally deny access to #asylum for people who have already entered the US, no matter how they arrived." edition.cnn.com/2025/07/02/p...
Judge blocks Trump’s rule barring migrants at US-Mexico border from claiming asylum | CNN Politics
A federal judge blocked a Trump administration policy barring migrants who cross the US-Mexico border from seeking asylum, issuing a major blow to President Donald Trump, who has sought to seal off ac...
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We’re at a turning point. This reconciliation bill will devastate entire communities, create a mass surveillance and policing state, and increase deaths in migrant detention centers and poor communities. As in the 1980s, its impacts will be felt across generations. www.osvnews.com/breaking-sen...
Senate passes Trump’s ‘Big Beautiful Bill’; measure heads to House - OSV News
Senate Republicans July 1 passed their version of the One Big Beautiful Bill Act, which would enact key goals of President Donald Trump's legislative agenda.
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Catholic Bishops President, Archbishop Broglio, says that the current immigration situation in the U.S. represents “a profound social crisis” and stands in solidarity with impacted communities and targeted Catholic service providers.
🧵 This @propublica.org investigation sheds so much light on why the Bukele regime has got even more repressive. www.propublica.org/article/buke...
“Delay, Interfere, Undermine”
President Donald Trump has praised Salvadoran President Nayib Bukele as a crime fighter, but new reporting based on interviews and documents reveals how senior Salvadoran officials have impeded a U.S....
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Pope Leo XIV today: “Where there is love, there is no room for prejudice, for “security” zones separating us from our neighbors, for the exclusionary mindset that, tragically, we now see emerging also in political nationalisms.”
#RuthNoEstáSola +700 faith leaders, organizations and congregations from Central America, Mexico and the United States stand with Ruth and all persecuted human rights defenders in El Salvador. Our full letter of solidarity and denunciation: faithinactioninternational.org/wp-content/u...
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Cristosal@cristosal.bsky.social · last yr."God and the truth are with me." Today, our colleague and human rights defender Ruth López is being brought before the courts. We stand with her in the pursuit of justice and dignity. ✊⚖️ #FreedomForRuthLópez #HaveSomeDecency
Archbishop Wester of Santa Fe is clear and explains why Catholics should oppose this reconciliation bill. "Because of its overall effects on those who are most in need, passing this budget would be a moral failure for American society as a whole." www.americamagazine.org/politics-soc...
Trump’s ‘big beautiful bill’ betrays the poor. The church must oppose it.
The church and the bishops of the United States should lead the way in speaking against this bill and calling on Catholics to work for its defeat, writes Archbishop John C. Wester of Sante Fe.
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🇸🇻 In a new strong pastoral letter, the El Salvador Bishops call "not to collaborate with the big colonizing countries in their fight against migrants" and ask the Salvadoran government not to host the "victims of the anti-immigration policies of foreign countries" as prisoners.
How big—and how harmful to the border and migrants—is the bill the House of Reps passed this morning? It's hard to convey. It's staggering. In this new piece, @wola-org.bsky.social tries to grasp the scale of this mass deportation Death Star: bit.ly/2025-05-wola... Here's the border wall part:
![Let’s consider just five items in the bill.
1. $46.5 billion for border barrier construction.
“Planned investments,” the House Homeland Security Committee reported, “include: completion of 701 miles of primary [border] wall, construction of 900 miles of river barriers, 629 miles of secondary barriers, and replacement of 141 miles of vehicle and pedestrian barriers.”
How much is $46.5 billion? Adjusted for inflation, it would be:
2.7 times what the first Trump administration spent building over 400 miles of new 30-foot-tall border wall ( $16.45 billion minus an unspent $2.2 billion 2020 dollars).
1.7 times the value of all the USAID programming that the Trump administration unlawfully canceled in 2025 ($27.7 billion).
About a quarter of the cost of the entire Apollo space program of the 1960s and 1970s ($25.4 billion in 1973 dollars).
1.2 years of operating a universal free pre-K program for all U.S. children ($351 billion, in 2022 dollars, over 10 years)
The equivalent of providing $6,300 to each migrant whom Border Patrol apprehended at the US-Mexico border during the entire Biden administration, including multiple handouts for repeat crossers (about 7.4 million apprehensions).](https://cdn.bsky.app/img/feed_thumbnail/plain/did:plc:t5hgkoxrsxpe3wfisqfeymg5/bafkreibwjlps2ksxrilh2xbvshk4jyclh77bahudt4erfdsure6x64gxny)
The US renditions of Venezuelans to El Salvador have attracted more attention to Bukele's state of exception. He is losing control over the narrative and increasing repression as a result—an example of how border externalization and the erosion of democracy go hand in hand.
We urgently need policies that advance the right to stay, migrate & return and center local projects of thriving. My Central American colleagues and I develop this argument in the latest volume of JMHS, analyzing the US Root Causes Strategy. journals.sagepub.com/doi/full/10....
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“A medida que la rueda del dolor se gira contra las personas en nuestras fronteras y en EE.UU., también lo hace la perseverancia de las personas migrantes en búsqueda de seguridad y vidas dignas para sus familias,” comenté con motivo de nuestro último reporte. laverdadjuarez.com/2025/05/14/g...
Gobierno de Donald Trump ha “redoblado la crueldad” en contra de personas migrantes y refugiadas
“Sueños cancelados” es el informe que da cuenta del retroceso y el recrudecimiento de las condiciones que enfrenta la población en movilidad humana que se encuentra en la frontera entre Estados Unidos...
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🧵I missed it, but Mexico updated its migration statistics for 2025. Quick data points: 1. Encounters in Mexico went down from January 2025 to February 2025. MX reports 63,457 encounters in January vs. 24,327 in February. Potential reason: People stopped to wait and see.
Guatemalans in the U.S. are sending more remittances back home than before, up to 20% more than last year, probably out of fear of deportation, said a Universidad Landivar report. Remittances account for around 20% of the Guatemalan GDP.
Cruel rules at the US-Mexico border came so fast and frequently that we're still seeing rulings in cases brought against the Biden administration. Yet, this one is a positive sign in favor of US asylum law, which protects persecuted people who arrive at US shores.
Kyle Cheney@kyledcheney.bsky.social · last yr.JUST IN: A federal judge has invalidated key components of a Biden-era rule on asylum claims — finalized under the Trump administration — ruling that its restrictions on asylum-seekers violated the clear language of federal law. storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.us...
🧵NEW report. In "Crushed Dreams," we document the first impacts of the Trump administration on migrants at the US-Mexico border and Mexico. Through 50+ interviews and focus groups with humanitarian workers, we shed light on six key impacts and provide urgent recommendations.
❗️As the U.S. considers deporting people to African countries, it seems a good time to hear what African migration practitioners have to say. Check their testimonies on our 2024 report 'Exporting Migrant Suffering' on US and European border externalization practices.
As I’m constantly reading the news for our #FronteraDispatch, I wanted to highlight the incredible work that many freelance journalists are doing on the immigration beat. Truly remarkable pieces often done in very precarious situations. I hope they find more stability.
"Mr. Hernández, the bakery owner who had employed Mr. Alvarado, went to an ICE office to try to find out what had happened to his employee, but got no answers. He has considered flying to El Salvador to try to negotiate his freedom." www.nytimes.com/2025/04/30/u...
Behind Trump’s Deal to Deport Venezuelans to El Salvador’s Most Feared Prison
New details deepen questions about the deportations, showing that El Salvador’s president pressed for assurances that the migrants were really members of the Tren de Aragua gang.
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"La deportación no es sólo una política abstracta o un dato estadístico: se experimenta en el cuerpo, en el trauma, en la ansiedad y en la dificultad de reinsertarse". Esencial este artículo de Nancy Landa, que parte también desde su propia experiencia. revistacomun.com/blog/deporta...
Deportación: entre la exclusión sistemática y el derecho a pertenecer
“La deportación arrebata derechos, vínculos y trayectorias, a la vez que revela con crudeza las grietas de un sistema que excluye, margina y borra.”
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Breaking my Lent social media fasting to post this must-read statement in such a dark day for the United States. No camp is justified, no torture is acceptable, and no community should be persecuted for being who they are—in the U.S. or anywhere. Period. www.solidarityis.org/solidarity-s...
Solidarity Statement - Day of Remembrance — Solidarity Is
On the 83rd anniversary of Executive Order 9066, which led to the forced removal and incarceration of more than 125,000 Japanese Americans during World War II by the United States government, Tsuru fo...
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