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Migration is dropping in Tucson and steady in the Darién Gap. A federal court hearing looked at San Diego’s open-air detention sites. Eight Chinese migrants died off the coast of Oaxaca.

Reports from open-air holding sites east of San Diego, from Mexico City, and from Chiapas.

SB4 remains on hold. Migration is increasing in Ciudad Juárez. A growing number of Venezuelan migrants are stuck in Mexico. Migrants who were raped while in Mexico cannot obtain abortions in some U.S. states.

CBP data for the first 21 days of March point to a very rare springtime reduction in migration at the border since February. Stepped up interdiction in Mexico may be the reason.

Guatemala’s president visits Washington and discusses migration. Mexico’s cooperation on U.S. border and migration priorities gets scrutiny.

Migration increased 13 percent at the border in February. The White House is still considering harsh executive actions. 101,000 have traversed the Darién Gap so far this year.

Mexico files a brief against SB4. Migrants trying to turn themselves in to Border Patrol scuffle with Texas guardsmen. Border Patrol chief calls for more “jail time.”

Details of the 2024 Homeland appropriations bill published this morning. An SB4 hearing in Texas.

Texas’s harsh S.B. 4 law is on hold after a confusing day of judicial back-and-forth. An investigation into the March 2023 Ciudad Juárez detention facility tragedy shows severe negligence.

Congress may have a deal on the 2024 DHS appropriation, averting a shutdown. Important new reports on migrant deaths. Supreme Court stays Texas’s S.B.4 law.

The Homeland Security appropriation hits a shutdown deadline on Friday. The Supreme Court will decide today whether to let Texas implement SB4. Dwindling funds mean Tucson could see “street releases” of asylum seekers.