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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.

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.”