Border Update

The Senate won’t act this week on asylum-curbs-for-Ukraine-aid, but we might see legislative language. Texas hardliners are urging the state to defy a Supreme Court ruling on concertina wire.

Supreme Court allows Border Patrol to cut through razor wire. Senate may reveal a migration-restrictions-for-Ukraine-aid deal shortly.

U.S. and Mexican officials meet. Eagle Pass federal-state dispute simmers. Caravan dispersed in Guatemala. Migration is mostly down but may be leveling off.

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.