Border Update

Biden and Trump will visit different parts of the Texas border on February 29.

Biden’s possible executive actions, migration declines in Texas, the important role that shelters play, Darién Gap migration increases.

Progressive politicians and migrant rights advocates oppose any executive order that might limit asylum. Allies rally around Annunciation House against Texas’s legal assault. Deportation flight to Cuba.

Texas threatens El Paso’s Annunciation House with closure, while spending $1,451 per ticket to bus migrants elsewhere. The Trump campaign plans to use the military to round up migrants into “deportation camps.”

Vague signs of a Biden “executive order.” Numbers of northbound migrants are rising in the Darién Gap and Honduras.

895 migrant deaths reported for 2022. CBP’s chief medical examiner demanded “fentanyl lollipops.” Texas is building its own military base at the border.

Centrist legislators propose a bill that would expel asylum seekers and revive “Remain in Mexico.” A top Border Patrol official is suspended for misconduct.

Democrats propose leaning into harder-line border policies during the 2024 campaign. Border Patrol agents continue wide use of a slur to refer to migrants. A Darién Gap shipwreck has killed at least four migrants.

Migration dropped by half in January. The House impeached Secretary Mayorkas. “Border chaos” rhetoric failed to stop Democrats from flipping a New York House seat in a special election.