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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.

Harris campaign statements lean into the border issue. Inspector-General finds problems with Border Patrol detention in Del Rio.

Media outlets cover the drop in migration and reduced shelter populations. 80.2 percent of border fentanyl arrests are U.S. citizens. Texas is requiring hospitals to ask patients about their immigration status.

Panama deports 28 Colombians from the Darién with U.S. support, as Southcom’s commander pays a visit. New reports about border agents’ asylum denials and humanitarian work in Reynosa.

Notes on Tim Walz’s border and migration record. CBP reports 3 border-related deaths. A Mother Jones series explores Border Patrol’s organizational culture.

The CBP One app is to begin functioning in southern Mexico. The CHNV humanitarian parole program is suspended amid sponsorship fraud suspicions. Big Atlantic report from the Darién Gap.

As crackdowns put the right to asylum out of reach for many migrants, July 2024 saw the fewest Border Patrol apprehensions of any month since September 2020.