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The Trump campaign issues its first border attack ad against VP Harris. Senate appropriators won’t have a 2025 Homeland Security bill ready before August recess.

Kamala Harris’s campaign says she will keep the Biden asylum restrictions in place. Venezuela’s suspect election result could lead to increased migration.

House Republicans pass a resolution condemning VP Harris’s border-migration role. The migrant death toll in the El Paso sector now stands at 140.

10 people drowned while trying to cross the Darién Gap. A government shelter closed in Ciudad Juárez amid reduced migration. Texas’s attack on Catholic Charities suffered a judicial setback.

House Republicans prepare a resolution condemning Kamala Harris’s (nonexistent) border policy role. Border Patrol apprehensions dropped below 1,500 on Monday.

Republicans repeatedly and erroneously call Kamala Harris the Biden administration’s “Border Czar.” For the first time since 1997, Border Patrol agents no longer ask migrants if they fear deportation.

Border Patrol apprehensions are down to 1,650 per day. Darién Gap deportations may be voluntary. A caravan forms in Chiapas.

Many links to coverage and analyses of the new Biden administration rule curtailing asylum access. Border Patrol has counted over 300 migrant deaths since October.

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.