Katy Murdza

Katy Murdza is the Advocacy Manager for the Immigration Justice Campaign at the American Immigration Council, where she focuses on legal advocacy and policy related to immigration detention across the country. She previously advocated for asylum-seeking mothers and children on issues including medical care, pregnancy, family separation, and access to counsel at the Dilley Pro Bono Project. Before earning a Master’s degree in International Policy and Development from the Middlebury Institute of International Studies, she assisted migrants on the U.S.-Mexico border with No More Deaths and served as a Peace Corps Volunteer in Panama.

Katy Murdza

Publications

The Border Patrol Is Going to Eliminate Its Secretive Critical Incident Teams

  • May 10, 2022

U.S. Customs and Border Patrol (CBP) announced in a May 6 memorandum that it would…

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I Visited Biden’s MPP Tent Courts. The Changes Since Trump Don’t Fix the Program’s Flaws.

More than two years after visiting the Trump administration’s “Migrant Protection Protocols” (MPP) tent courts…

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New Border Surveillance Technology Raises Privacy Concerns and Could Increase Deaths

  • March 4, 2022

The Department of Homeland Security (DHS) recently announced that it has been developing and testing…

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