U.S.-Mexico Border Background

Reports

• Amnesty International Report: Lost in the Labyrinth: Detention of Asylum Seekers in the USA
• Human Rights Watch Report: Locked Away: Immigration Detainees in Jails in the United States
• Lawyer's Committee for Human Rights Report: Is this America?: The Denial of Due Process to Asylum Seekers in the United States

Informative sites

• The Oregonian, 2001 Pulitzer Prize Winning series on the INS: Liberty's Heavy Hand
• The Village Voice: A Dream Detained
• Amnesty International: INS Detention: The Impact on Asylum Seekers