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Panama has carried out more than 400 deportations from the Darién Gap at a cost of over $2,000 each. Analyses of the Tren de Aragua, fentanyl, and Trump’s “mass deportations.”

Border Patrol’s count of migrant deaths: 895 in 2022, 704 in 2023, 560 in 2024 so far. Texas puts barbed wire along its border…with New Mexico.

Harris criticizes Trump’s mass-deportation plans; a poll finds 54% support for the idea. Federal checkpoints prevent undocumented people who need reproductive healthcare from exiting Texas to get it.

Border Patrol counts 171 migrant deaths this year in the El Paso Sector. 211 CBP personnel under serious misconduct investigations. Groups call for CBP One improvements.

CBP’s August data show a small increase in Border Patrol apprehensions, with San Diego leading. Fentanyl seizures are down from 2023.

Trump and Vance double down on racist claims about Haitian immigrants. Arizona advocates find that a large portion of children report abuse in Border Patrol custody.

CBP’s internal affairs office looked at the agency’s Uvalde school shooting response. WOLA calls out Texas’s often violent use of soldiers to confront migrants on US soil.

Mexico’s government sends its first bus of people with CBP One appointments. Ciudad Juárez’s municipal migrant shelter closes. Venezuela’s Tren de Aragua gang gets more attention.

Migration was a frequent topic in yesterday’s presidential debate. Texas continues going after NGOs. HRW reports on the Darién Gap.

Signs of an uptick in Darién Gap migration. Harris-Walz campaign position document upholds recent asylum restrictions.

Migration declines, for now, in the Darién Gap as deportation flights continue. Donald Trump says mass deportations will be “a bloody story.”

Two CBP officers are facing prosecution for helping move drugs through California ports of entry. A new surveillance blimp goes up in El Paso amid the region’s record migrant death toll.