Border Update

Guatemala’s president visits Washington and discusses migration. Mexico’s cooperation on U.S. border and migration priorities gets scrutiny.

Migration increased 13 percent at the border in February. The White House is still considering harsh executive actions. 101,000 have traversed the Darién Gap so far this year.

Mexico files a brief against SB4. Migrants trying to turn themselves in to Border Patrol scuffle with Texas guardsmen. Border Patrol chief calls for more “jail time.”

Details of the 2024 Homeland appropriations bill published this morning. An SB4 hearing in Texas.

Texas’s harsh S.B. 4 law is on hold after a confusing day of judicial back-and-forth. An investigation into the March 2023 Ciudad Juárez detention facility tragedy shows severe negligence.

Congress may have a deal on the 2024 DHS appropriation, averting a shutdown. Important new reports on migrant deaths. Supreme Court stays Texas’s S.B.4 law.

The Homeland Security appropriation hits a shutdown deadline on Friday. The Supreme Court will decide today whether to let Texas implement SB4. Dwindling funds mean Tucson could see “street releases” of asylum seekers.

Protests in the Darién Gap, a possible Republican about-face on tying the border to Ukraine aid, Northcom on Mexican organized crime’s use of drones.

Darién Gap migration is ahead of 2023. Traumatic border wall falls rise in San Diego.

Supreme Court delays Texas’s SB4 for a few more days. Centrist House Democrats rebel against “leftward” migration policies.