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Congressional negotiations on migration limits for Ukraine aid drag on, with Republicans demanding caps on the presidential humanitarian parole authority. House Republicans held a hearing to impeach the Homeland Security Secretary. Numbers are down in the Darién Gap.

With migration down, border crossings are reopening. Senate negotiators are meeting again to discuss asylum restrictions in exchange for a spending package. More than 60 House Republicans are visiting the border today. A caravan in southern Mexico has ended.

CBP encountered 302,000 migrants in December. 520,000 crossed the Darién Gap in 2023. 31 migrants have been kidnapped from a bus in Tamaulipas, Mexico.

A U.S. delegation meets with Mexico’s president to discuss migration. Migration numbers have dropped a bit at the border. Mexican authorities razed a tent encampment in Matamoros. A “caravan’s” numbers are dwindling.

Border Patrol apprehensions remain above 10,000 per day as President Biden plans to dispatch top cabinet officials to Mexico just after Christmas.

Migrant apprehensions continue to exceed 10,000 per day. Two railroad bridges are temporarily closed. Congress has left Washington for the rest of the year with negotiations stalled.

Links about snarled Senate negotiations, legal challenges to a draconian new Texas immigration law, large numbers of migrants at the border, and the Darién Gap.

Developments Only 61 of 100 senators were present for a nominations vote yesterday, indicating that much of the body has…