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Analysts note tougher border rhetoric at the Democratic Convention. Trump goes to the border in Arizona today. Brazil suspending some Asian visas. Darién Gap migration has fallen.

30 Colombians were deported from the Darién Gap. A record 164 migrant deaths this year in the El Paso Sector. Fentanyl seizures are down.

Democratic Convention language hails asylum ban’s initial reduction of migration. Panama starts US-backed deportation flights from the Darién Gap. Migration is falling faster in Arizona than Texas.

Border Patrol apprehensions dropped 32 percent from June to July amid the Biden administration’s asylum restrictions. Deportation flights from the Darién Gap start tomorrow.

With migration down, shelters are at low capacity and Greg Abbott’s buses to Democratic-run cities are stalled. A morgue in Eagle Pass holds over 40 remains of deceased migrants.

Long CBP One waits, facial recognition tech on migrant children, Texas’s razor wire, and the likelihood that the current drop in migration will be temporary.

CBP settles a suit with employees who suffered career reversals after becoming pregnant. June Darién Gap migration was 75% Venezuelan. More analyses of Kamala Harris’s migration policy role.

Migration is down in Ciudad Juárez, but the death toll and kidnappings are rising. Border Patrol agents voice disdain for Kamala Harris, who is promising to hire more of them.