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The border will be an issue, but probably not a central one, in tonight’s State of the Union address. Migrant deaths remain very frequent in the mid-Texas border region.

Detail about February’s Border Patrol apprehensions and Mexico asylum requests. Trump and Musk mislead about the humanitarian parole program.

140,000 Border Patrol apprehensions in February. Supreme Court puts SB 4 on temporary hold. A big increase in sexual assaults in the Darién Gap. ICE deportation flights to 19 countries in February.

The Fifth Circuit keeps SB4 alive in Texas. Boats resume in the Darién Gap. Why was a uniformed general in the frame with Donald Trump in Eagle Pass?

Biden and Trump visited the Texas border yesterday; the president’s remarks cemented a rightward shift on border and migration issues. A judge struck down Texas’s S.B. 4.

Biden and Trump are both visiting the border today. Top US, Mexican, and Guatemalan officials met. Boat traffic has halted, for now, at the Darién Gap’s entrance.

Biden and Trump head to the border tomorrow. Blinken and Mayorkas meet with Mexican and Guatemalan counterparts today. Polls show immigration to be U.S. voters’ number-one concern.

Biden and Trump will visit different parts of the Texas border on February 29.

Biden’s possible executive actions, migration declines in Texas, the important role that shelters play, Darién Gap migration increases.

Progressive politicians and migrant rights advocates oppose any executive order that might limit asylum. Allies rally around Annunciation House against Texas’s legal assault. Deportation flight to Cuba.

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.”