Border Update

House Republicans prepare a resolution condemning Kamala Harris’s (nonexistent) border policy role. Border Patrol apprehensions dropped below 1,500 on Monday.

Republicans repeatedly and erroneously call Kamala Harris the Biden administration’s “Border Czar.” For the first time since 1997, Border Patrol agents no longer ask migrants if they fear deportation.

Border Patrol apprehensions are down to 1,650 per day. Darién Gap deportations may be voluntary. A caravan forms in Chiapas.

Many links to coverage and analyses of the new Biden administration rule curtailing asylum access. Border Patrol has counted over 300 migrant deaths since October.

Expect a White House executive order tomorrow truncating access to asylum at the border. May was the 3rd-lightest month for border migrant arrivals of the Biden administration’s 40 full months.

An asylum-curtailing executive order could come from the White House as early as Tuesday. Texas appears to be routinely shooting non-lethal ammunition at migrants south of El Paso.

House Democrats call for improved oversight of Border Patrol “critical incidents.” Georgia Sen. Jon Ossoff (D) visits El Paso and warns of terrorists crossing the border.

Texas guardsmen shoot pepper balls at migrants through the concertina wire in El Paso. Mayorkas says many asylum seekers “try to game the system.”

Tucson eclipses San Diego as the border’s busiest sector. 200 non-Mexican migrants expelled into Mexico at once from El Paso. Shuting down the Darién? Ecuadorians flying to El Salvador.

The “Border Act,” and its asylum restrictions, failed in the Senate despite many Democratic votes. Border Patrol apprehensions are down to some of the lowest levels of the Biden years.