Border Update

Mexican officials are in Washington today. Migration is declining in January at the U.S.-Mexico border and the Darién Gap. Senate negotiators on the Ukraine adi bill appear to agree on some degree of asylum-seeker expulstions, but their agreement could fail in the Republican-majority House of Representatives.

Biden and congressional leaders talk about a Ukraine aid for asylum restrictions deal. Mexican officials are coming to Washington to talk migration. Texas is now arresting migrants in the Eagle Pass park where it is banning Border Patrol. Freezing temperatures threaten migrants stuck outdoors.

Drowning deaths in Eagle Pass, Texas, where state personnel are barring Border Patrol’s access to the Rio Grande. Overall migration numbers are lower. Negotiations over new asylum and legal migration limits continue in the Senate.

Texas seals off the riverfront park in Eagle Pass, blocking Border Patrol access. Senate negotiators say they are near a deal that may restrict asylum and other protections in exchange for a spending package.

Congressional negotiations on migration limits for Ukraine aid drag on, with Republicans demanding caps on the presidential humanitarian parole authority. House Republicans held a hearing to impeach the Homeland Security Secretary. Numbers are down in the Darién Gap.

With migration down, border crossings are reopening. Senate negotiators are meeting again to discuss asylum restrictions in exchange for a spending package. More than 60 House Republicans are visiting the border today. A caravan in southern Mexico has ended.

CBP encountered 302,000 migrants in December. 520,000 crossed the Darién Gap in 2023. 31 migrants have been kidnapped from a bus in Tamaulipas, Mexico.

A U.S. delegation meets with Mexico’s president to discuss migration. Migration numbers have dropped a bit at the border. Mexican authorities razed a tent encampment in Matamoros. A “caravan’s” numbers are dwindling.

Border Patrol apprehensions remain above 10,000 per day as President Biden plans to dispatch top cabinet officials to Mexico just after Christmas.