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Texas threatens El Paso’s Annunciation House with closure, while spending $1,451 per ticket to bus migrants elsewhere. The Trump campaign plans to use the military to round up migrants into “deportation camps.”

Vague signs of a Biden “executive order.” Numbers of northbound migrants are rising in the Darién Gap and Honduras.

895 migrant deaths reported for 2022. CBP’s chief medical examiner demanded “fentanyl lollipops.” Texas is building its own military base at the border.

Centrist legislators propose a bill that would expel asylum seekers and revive “Remain in Mexico.” A top Border Patrol official is suspended for misconduct.

Democrats propose leaning into harder-line border policies during the 2024 campaign. Border Patrol agents continue wide use of a slur to refer to migrants. A Darién Gap shipwreck has killed at least four migrants.

Migration dropped by half in January. The House impeached Secretary Mayorkas. “Border chaos” rhetoric failed to stop Democrats from flipping a New York House seat in a special election.

The Senate passed a borderless spending bill, but House Republican leadership rejects it without border language. 64 million people tried to use the CBP One app. Mayorkas impeachment vote could happen today.

Senate is on track to pass a “borderless” funding bill. Border wall falls injured 441 people in San Diego in 2023.