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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.”

Senate Democratic leaders may bring an “asylum shutdown” to the chamber’s floor this week. A Honduran man was beaten to death at the El Paso borderline, and accompanying migrants blame Texas National Guardsmen.

10,000+ migrants in a week in San Diego. Reps. call for non-collaboration with Operation Lone Star. New reports and a video on CBP One and Title 42.

Migration is dropping in the Darién Gap. Emails show Border Patrol agents joking about beating and poisoning migrants. CBP testifies in Congress. Big new investigations about tractor-trailers, CBP One, and the 2023 Juárez detention center fire.

Biden and AMLO discuss additional measures to block migration. A team of journalists’ investigation shows how corruption enables smugglers to transport migrants across Mexico in tractor-trailers.