Border Update

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

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

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.”

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.

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

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

Biden and Trump head to the border tomorrow. Blinken and Mayorkas meet with Mexican and Guatemalan counterparts today. Polls show immigration to be U.S. voters’ number-one concern.

Biden and Trump are both visiting the border today. Top US, Mexican, and Guatemalan officials met. Boat traffic has halted, for now, at the Darién Gap’s entrance.

Biden and Trump visited the Texas border yesterday; the president’s remarks cemented a rightward shift on border and migration issues. A judge struck down Texas’s S.B. 4.