Border Update

The “Border Act” comes to a vote in the Senate today. It will fail, but most Senate Democrats will go on the record supporting a historic rollback of threatened people’s right to seek asylum. And an executive order is coming next month.

Daily migrant apprehensions plummet to 3,000. The Senate’s “Border Act,” which restricts asylum rights, may get fewer votes than it did in February.

Democrats are taking a “shutdown” of asylum access at the border to the floor of the U.S. Senate, where Republicans are likely to reject it for not going far enough. The Pope calls Texas’s attacks on El Paso’s Annunciation House shelter “madness.”

Senate Democratic leaders may bring an “asylum shutdown” to the chamber’s floor this week. A Honduran man was beaten to death at the El Paso borderline, and accompanying migrants blame Texas National Guardsmen.

10,000+ migrants in a week in San Diego. Reps. call for non-collaboration with Operation Lone Star. New reports and a video on CBP One and Title 42.

Migration is dropping in the Darién Gap. Emails show Border Patrol agents joking about beating and poisoning migrants. CBP testifies in Congress. Big new investigations about tractor-trailers, CBP One, and the 2023 Juárez detention center fire.

Biden and AMLO discuss additional measures to block migration. A team of journalists’ investigation shows how corruption enables smugglers to transport migrants across Mexico in tractor-trailers.

Large numbers of people arrive atop trains in Ciudad Juárez. Guatemala’s prosecutor raids the local offices of Save the Children, in an echo of U.S. attacks on charities assisting migrants.

Migration rises in San Diego. Centrist Democrats want to bring back “Remain in Mexico.” 400 people arrive atop a cargo train in Ciudad Juárez.