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CBP’s August data show a small increase in Border Patrol apprehensions, with San Diego leading. Fentanyl seizures are down from 2023.

Trump and Vance double down on racist claims about Haitian immigrants. Arizona advocates find that a large portion of children report abuse in Border Patrol custody.

CBP’s internal affairs office looked at the agency’s Uvalde school shooting response. WOLA calls out Texas’s often violent use of soldiers to confront migrants on US soil.

Mexico’s government sends its first bus of people with CBP One appointments. Ciudad Juárez’s municipal migrant shelter closes. Venezuela’s Tren de Aragua gang gets more attention.

Migration was a frequent topic in yesterday’s presidential debate. Texas continues going after NGOs. HRW reports on the Darién Gap.

Signs of an uptick in Darién Gap migration. Harris-Walz campaign position document upholds recent asylum restrictions.

Migration declines, for now, in the Darién Gap as deportation flights continue. Donald Trump says mass deportations will be “a bloody story.”

Two CBP officers are facing prosecution for helping move drugs through California ports of entry. A new surveillance blimp goes up in El Paso amid the region’s record migrant death toll.

The Biden administration is considering changes to its asylum rule that would put protection further out of reach. Texas spent $1,838 per person to bus migrants to Democratic-run US cities.